Vienna, Austria | AFP |  A 19-month-old boy died in Austria after being left in a hot car by his 17-year-old mother and her boyfriend, police said Thursday. Not wanting to wake him after a long car journey, the couple left the child asleep while they want upstairs for a …

Barcelona, Spain | AFP |  Troubled Barcelona were dealt a new blow ahead of the start of the Spanish league season when Luis Suarez was ruled out for a month with a knee injury on Thursday. The Uruguayan striker suffered the injury in the second half of Wednesday night’s 2-0 …

IN THE INDEPENDENT THIS WEEK: Why are FDC big guns supporting Muntu against Besigye’s Amuriat? THE LAST WORD A new Mulago arises: The challenge the new hospital will face and what can be done to protect it from Uganda’s politics. COVER STORY Battle for FDC presidency: Why are big guns …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for advocating education for girls in her native Pakistan, announced Thursday she has won a place to study at Oxford University. “So excited to go to Oxford!!” the 20-year-old posted on Twitter, along …

  A week after the vote nearly a quarter of the 34As have still not been made public, according to an analysis of the current data seen by AFP Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Observers piled pressure on Kenya’s election commission Thursday to finish publishing results forms from every polling …

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP |  South Sudan’s brutal civil war has forced more than one million people to flee to neighbouring Uganda alone, with another million seeking refuge elsewhere in the region, the UN’s refugee agency said Thursday. The UNHCR said additional funds were desperately needed to help the refugees …

NTV confirms Aggie Konde’s departure Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nation Media Group CEO Joe Muganda has today confirmed that NTV Managing Director Aggie Asiimwe Konde is moving to Msingi East Africa. Briefing staff of  Africa Broadcasting Uganda LTD. (NTV/SPARK TV) Thursday morning, Muganda confirmed Konde had got a great offer in …

President Robert Mugabe flew out of Harare for South Africa early Wednesday for SADC summit Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP |  Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe has claimed diplomatic immunity after being accused of assaulting a 20-year-old model, South African police said Wednesday, in an incident that could test cross-border …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI |  A concerned citizen on Wednesday petitioned the office of the Inspector General of Government (IGG) asking for investigations into the wealth of a Bank of Uganda (BOU) official. Denis Nyombi a lawyer from Denis Nyombi & Co. Advocates said he is seeking the IGG’s …

Seoul, South Korea | AFP | There will be no war on the Korean peninsula, South Korean President Moon Jae-In said Thursday, saying Seoul effectively had a veto over US military action in response to the North’s nuclear and missile programmes. “All South Koreans have worked so hard together to …