Uganda
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings in Uganda’s capital Kampala. At least three people were killed and 33 wounded, police said, after three attackers on motorcycles blew themselves up near the country’s parliament and the city’s police headquarters. The death toll is expected to rise and grisly footage from the scene showed body parts strewn across the street. ISIS issued its statement through its Telegram channel, which is recognized as legitimate, and via its Amaq News Agency propaganda wing. The group has only recently become active in Uganda and in 2019 formed an alliance with local rebels, the Allied Democratic Forces.
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Brazil
Elon Musk, the mercurial head of Tesla and the world’s richest person, is reported to be in talks with Brazil’s government about the possibility of providing satellite technology to monitor the Amazon rainforest. Brazil’s communications minister, Fabio Faria, met with Musk in Texas and said afterwards that up to 4,500 satellites orbitting at low altitude could police deforestation and illegal fires.
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Haiti
Turkish authorities have detained a man accused by Haiti of involvement in the July assassination of the country’s President Jovenel Moïse. Businessman Samir Handal was arrested in Istanbul airport as he was transiting from the US to Jordan. Haiti has increasingly descended into chaos since Moïse was killed when a group of armed men attacked his home, shooting him dead and wounding his wife. The Haitian government has given no specifics on Handal’s alleged involvement in the killing.
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