More than 40 people, mostly students, have been killed, some of them burned alive, by rebels linked to the Islamic State group at a secondary school in Mpondwe town in western Uganda near the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
As the death toll rises beyond 17,000 with tens of thousands injured after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on 6 February, Education International has issued an urgent action appeal calling member organisations to show solidarity and financial support to education unions engaged in relief actions on the ground.