THIS WEEK: Medical Board approves Nambooze’s travel request amidst calls for her release Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Mukono Municipality legislator Betty Nambooze has been admitted at the government’s hospital at Kiruddu after her condition deteriorated while detained by the police. The MP had been held over what she posted …

THIS WEEK: EC responds to Achola’s court petition challenging disqualification Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Catherine Achola the former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Party candidate for Pallisa district woman MP seat on June19 petitioned the civil division of the high court challenging her disqualification from the race by the …

THIS WEEK: Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa survives bomb attack at rally Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | As Zimbabwe readies for the first polls after the departure of President Robert Mugabe, the campaigns are tense but observers say President Emmerson Mnangagwa appears to be having the majority support. However, on June23, it got …

San Francisco, United States | AFP | Twitter has been suspending more than one million fake and dubious accounts per day, according to The Washington Post, in an aggressive bid to stem the flow of false information. The social media platform has more than doubled its crackdown rate since late …

Tehran, Iran | AFP | Iran on Saturday accused US President Donald Trump of destabilising the oil market with his flurry of tweets taking aim at the OPEC cartel. “These days… the price is dependent on the behaviour of Mr. Trump,” Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on state television. …

Paris, France | AFP | The near 40-year quest for an AIDS vaccine received a hopeful boost Saturday when scientists announced that a trial drug triggered an immune response in humans and shielded monkeys from infection. Shown to be safe in humans, the candidate vaccine has now advanced to the …

Bari, Italy | AFP | Pope Francis on Saturday voiced concern that Christians will disappear from the Middle East amid “murderous indifference” as war rages on. “The Middle East has become a land of people who leave their own lands behind,” Francis said. He was addressing the leaders of almost …

Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Two explosions rocked Somalia’s internal security ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday morning, a police officer said, in the latest attack claimed by Shabaab militants. “There were two blasts targeting the internal security compound near parliament,” said Ibrahim Mohamed, a police commander, adding gunfire …

Samara, Russia | AFP | Harry Kane will seek to fire England into their first World Cup semi-final for 28 years when they face Sweden on Saturday after Brazil were dumped out in the last eight by Belgium. Gareth Southgate’s young side face the Scandinavians in Samara at 1400 GMT …

Stockholm, Sweden | AFP | What do you do when this year’s Nobel Literature Prize, the world’s most prestigious accolade of its kind, is postponed because of a sexual assault scandal? You create your own award. More than 100 Swedish intellectuals have joined forces to form a new prize-giving body …