Pakistan, Rwanda, Sudan.

Today's three stories you should know.

May 04, 2023

Apologies for the lack of Proximities recently. I’ve been on vacation.

Barry.

Pakistan

At least eight teachers have been shot dead in northwest Pakistan. Six of the teachers were killed when gunmen stormed a school in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and an eighth, who taught in the same school, was killed on the street earlier in the day. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks but they took place in a part of Pakistan that has experienced violence between Sunni and Shia tribes. A local Taliban group has in the past attacked members of the Shia community, and six of the seven teachers were Shia, according to local reports. Abid Hussaini, a local police official, told Al Jazeera that police were still working on establishing a motive.

Rwanda

The death toll from flash flooding in western Rwanda has risen to a horrific 127, the president’s office has said. Rescue operations are continuing in an attempt to reach people who have been stranded by torrential rains. Flooding and landslides swept people away and destroyed scores of homes. Six people were killed in neighboring Uganda. The Rwanda Meteorology Agency has warned that more rain is coming.

Sudan

Civilians are still caught in the middle in Sudan. Heavy shelling got in the way of another effort to get aid to people in desperate need as fighting between government forces and a powerful paramilitary group nears its third week. The UN’s top aid official, Martin Griffiths, today said the "will to end the fight still was not there" after he spoke to the warring generals leading the two sides. Griffiths said it was hard to get around the "the rigid existential fact that those at war are keen to keep it going."