Updated: 16 January 2026

• ➡️ Uganda elections chief says he faces threats over vote outcome - africanews.com 🆕
  Uganda elections chief says he faces threats over vote outcome  africanews.comUganda election chief says he has had threats over results declaration  BBCSecurity, EC officials say all is set for polls across country  Daily MonitorByabakama: Polling station results restricted to District tally centre  Nilepost NewsUgandaelections2026: Do not vote disqualified candidates, EC  New Vision Ug
  
  
• ➡️ Polling Officials, Police Officers Injured in Road Accident - Uganda Radionetwork 🆕
  Polling Officials, Police Officers Injured in Road Accident  Uganda Radionetwork
  
  
• ➡️ Tallying in Jinja city kicked off at Midnight - Uganda Radionetwork 🆕
  Tallying in Jinja city kicked off at Midnight  Uganda Radionetwork
  
  
• ➡️ Medics at UPDF National Referral Hospital urged to uph - New Vision Ug 🆕
  Medics at UPDF National Referral Hospital urged to uph  New Vision Ug
  
  
• ➡️ Voting Delays Reported at Various Polling Stations - Uganda Radionetwork 🆕
  Voting Delays Reported at Various Polling Stations  Uganda Radionetwork
  
  
• ➡️ Ubos data shows Uganda’s lower middle income status firming up - Daily Monitor 🆕
  Ubos data shows Uganda’s lower middle income status firming up  Daily MonitorBlogs: Building Uganda's industrial future: Case study of Ka  New Vision UgUganda – Trade and Industrialization : 5-6% GDP spike in last decade  Africa24 TVIndustry, agriculture sector drive Uganda's economic growth - UBOS  Daily MonitorBlogs: How Uganda leverages multi-dimensional industrial gro  New Vision Ug
  
  
• ➡️ The corruption is the point - The Independent Uganda 🆕
  The corruption is the point  The Independent UgandaCharles O. Miller letter: Donald Trump should be held accountable  West Central TribuneThe Startling Reversal of U.S. Global Anti-Corruption Policy  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  
  
• ➡️ Uganda’s autocratic political system is failing its people – and threatens the region - The Conversation 🆕
  Uganda’s autocratic political system is failing its people – and threatens the region  The ConversationThe making and breaking of Uganda: an interview with scholar Mahmood Mamdani  The Conversation'It's like a road closure' - Uganda's president on shutting down the internet as his country votes  Sky NewsHow to find balance between a descent past and uncertain future  Daily MonitorWhat to expect from Museveni + Africa Hydrogen Report 2026  Table.Briefings
  
  
• ➡️ EAC deploys 61 election observers - Daily Monitor 🆕
  EAC deploys 61 election observers  Daily MonitorNigeria's Goodluck Jonathan Confident of Credibility of Thursday Polls  Nilepost NewsMukabagwiza leads EAC observers for Ugandan elections| The New Times  The New TimesGoodluck Jonathan in Uganda to Lead AU-IGAD-COMESA Election Observers  ChimpReportsUgandaelections2026: UGANDA DECIDES: I,655 election observer  New Vision Ug
  
  
• ➡️ Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts - The Conversation 🆕
  Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts  The ConversationSpotting misinformation and defusing disinformation | Ron Colone  Santa Maria TimesProtecting yourself from misinformation: What to know and how to spot it  MPR NewsLetters to The EDITOR: Fake news and misinformation on social media  The Sentinel - of this Land, for its People
  
  
• ➡️ Multicountry Mpox Situation Report #10 Summary of Preparedness and Response for Africa - Overall Duration June 2024—September 2025 - ReliefWeb 🆕
  Multicountry Mpox Situation Report #10 Summary of Preparedness and Response for Africa - Overall Duration June 2024—September 2025  ReliefWebAfrica CDC Weekly Brief | 5 – 11 January 2026  Africa CDCEmergent BioSolutions, PANTHER Partner to Advance Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)-Led MpOx Study  Africa24 TVEmergent BioSolutions and PANTHER Announce Agreement to Support the Continuation of the Africa CDC-led MpOx Study in Africa  marketscreener.comEmergent BioSolutions partners with PANTHER on mpox treatment trial  Investing.com
  
  
• ➡️ Microsoft president Brad Smith has a message for Donald Trump: Chinese government is helping China win AI - Times of India 🆕
  Microsoft president Brad Smith has a message for Donald Trump: Chinese government is helping China win AI  Times of IndiaGlobal AI Adoption in 2025 – AI Economy Institute  MicrosoftArtificial intelligence grows but creates more and more inequality  Il Sole 24 OREAdoption of GenAI : Tunisia 8th in Africa in 2025  African ManagerMicrosoft: Just 1 in 10 Moroccans Uses Generative AI  Morocco World News
  
  
• ➡️ Fiscal threats lurk in the undergrowth for Japan - Financial Times 🆕
  Fiscal threats lurk in the undergrowth for Japan  Financial TimesOnce an Economic Giant, Japan Now Tests a New Fiscal Path — and the World Is Watching  Fair Observer
  
  
• ➡️ Trump's Fed fight looks like something from another country - BBC 🆕
  Trump's Fed fight looks like something from another country  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
  
• ➡️ Cisco Patches Zero-Day RCE Exploited by China-Linked APT in Secure Email Gateways - The Hacker News 🆕
  Cisco Patches Zero-Day RCE Exploited by China-Linked APT in Secure Email Gateways  The Hacker News
  
  
• ➡️ Apple Picks Gemini For Siri, More Meta VR Cuts, Higgsfield AI Snares $130 Million, Xreal Grabs $100 Million - Forbes 🆕
  Apple Picks Gemini For Siri, More Meta VR Cuts, Higgsfield AI Snares $130 Million, Xreal Grabs $100 Million  ForbesApple sits out AI arms race to play kingmaker between Google and OpenAI  Financial TimesApple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year  CNBCHow Apple is Using Gemini to Give ChatGPT-Like Answers  The InformationApple, Google strike Gemini deal for revamped Siri in major win for Alphabet  Reuters
  
  
• ➡️ Voyis Secures ISO 9001 Certification for Subsea Sensor Design & Manufacturing - Unmanned Systems Technology 🆕
  Voyis Secures ISO 9001 Certification for Subsea Sensor Design & Manufacturing  Unmanned Systems Technology
  
  
• ➡️ Guernsey students share climate change concerns at annual event - BBC 🆕
  Guernsey students share climate change concerns at annual event  BBC
  
  
• ➡️ Olivia Dean & Little Simz Lead Nominees for 2026 MOBO Awards: Full List - Billboard 🆕
  Olivia Dean & Little Simz Lead Nominees for 2026 MOBO Awards: Full List  BillboardYung Bredda: Sole non-Jamaican nominee for MOBO’s Best Caribbean Music Act 2026  Caribbean National WeeklyLittle Simz and Olivia Dean lead Mobo Award nominations  Herald SeriesMOBO Awards 2026: Ugandan singer Joshua Baraka receives nomination  mbu.ugMOBO Awards 2026: Nominations Revealed [Central Cee, Little Simz, FLO, Tyla, Olivia Dean,& Ayra Starr...  That Grape Juice.net
  
  
• ➡️ TV tonight: David Baddiel gives cats the television show they deserve - The Guardian 🆕
  TV tonight: David Baddiel gives cats the television show they deserve  The GuardianModern-day cat worshippin­g  PressReaderComedian David Baddiel visited RSPCA's animal centre in Halifax for Channel 4 series  Halifax CourierWhat’s on TV tonight: David Baddiel: Catman, Amanda & Alan’s Greek Job, and more  The Telegraph
  
  
• ➡️ Pubs in the south hope The Traitors can help save 'dying' trade - BBC 🆕
  Pubs in the south hope The Traitors can help save 'dying' trade  BBC
  
  
• ➡️ EXCLUSIVE: Louis Vuitton Taps Jennifer Connelly for Spring 2026 Campaign - WWD 🆕
  EXCLUSIVE: Louis Vuitton Taps Jennifer Connelly for Spring 2026 Campaign  WWD
  
  
• ➡️ 'Great business' - fans on 'fascinating signing' Mato - Yahoo Sports 🆕
  'Great business' - fans on 'fascinating signing' Mato  Yahoo SportsFrom Arua to Edinburgh: Mato walks Obua’s path  Daily MonitorJosh McPake: St Johnstone star's move to Hearts official as winger focuses on 'leaving as a hero'  thecourier.co.ukHearts reveal what Rogers Mato told them, Cammy Devlin and Stephen Kingsley update, Beni Baningime tears  Edinburgh NewsJosh McPake to join Hearts from St Johnstone this summer  BBC
  
  
• ➡️ Is Morocco the New Giant of African Football? - beIN SPORTS 🆕
  Is Morocco the New Giant of African Football?  beIN SPORTSSports: Morocco ushers in Africa’s digital football era  New Vision UgAfrica Cup of Nations 2025: Geopolitical Stakes, Sport Power and Morocco’s Ambitions  IRIS - Institut de relations internationales et stratégiquesTourism Leaders Applaud Morocco’s Hosting of AFCON, ONMT’s Tourism Approach  Barlaman TodayDAVID ISABIRYE: It is Belief, Belief & Belief theme for Morocco all the way to the grand finale | My AFCON 2025 Notes  Kawowo Sports
  
  
• ➡️ Burkina Faso fires coach Brama Traoré after disappointing Africa Cup - FOX Sports 🆕
  Burkina Faso fires coach Brama Traoré after disappointing Africa Cup  FOX SportsSports: Burkina Faso sack coach Traore after AFCON exit  New Vision UgAFCON 2025: FBF sacks Brama Traoré after elimination  Powers of AfricaBurkina Faso football chiefs sack coach Traor for failure at Cup of Nations  RFIFootball: Brama Traoré is no longer the coach of Burkina Faso  Sport News Africa
  
  
• ➡️ Ghana land Cameroon, Mali and Cape Verde in 2026 Women's AFCON group - Xinhua 🆕
  Ghana land Cameroon, Mali and Cape Verde in 2026 Women's AFCON group  XinhuaWATCH LIVE: TotalEnergies CAF Women's Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026 Final Draw  Confédération Africaine de FootballWAFCON 2026: Black Queens to face Cameroon, Mali and Cape Verde  Flashscore.comBanyana get Wafcon draw  supersport.comSuper Falcons to Open WAFCON Defence against Zambia, Egypt  THISDAYLIVE
  
  
• ➡️ Blooming Seas Around the Chatham Islands - NASA Science (.gov) 🆕
  Blooming Seas Around the Chatham Islands  NASA Science (.gov)
  
  
• ➡️ Scientists “resurrect” ancient cannabis enzymes with medical promise - ScienceDaily 🆕
  Scientists “resurrect” ancient cannabis enzymes with medical promise  ScienceDailyScientists Resurrected Extinct Cannabis Enzymes And Traced The Drug's Origins  ScienceAlertHow Cannabis Makes THC, CBD, and CBC, Explained  VICEHow cannabis evolved THC - long before humans  greenstate.comCannabis Did Not Always Produce THC and a New Study Shows How Evolution Figured It Out  ZME Science
  
  
• ➡️ Update: China's giant radio telescope observations unravel origin of cosmic enigmatic flashes - Xinhua 🆕
  Update: China's giant radio telescope observations unravel origin of cosmic enigmatic flashes  XinhuaRepeating fast radio burst shows diverse activity and hints at magnetar origin  Phys.orgChina's giant radio telescope observations unravel origin of cosmic enigmatic flashes  Global Times
  
  
• ➡️ Astronauts splash down to Earth after medical evacuation from space station - Nilepost News 🆕
  Astronauts splash down to Earth after medical evacuation from space station  Nilepost NewsNASA, in a rare move, cuts space station mission short after an astronaut’s medical issue  AP NewsSenators Shaheen and Durbin Meet Venezuelan Opposition Leader Machado  C-SPANJapanese Astronaut Yui Returns to Earth from ISS  nippon.comWhat happens in space during a medical emergency?  BBC
  
  
• ➡️ CATIE: Large and long French study explores changes in cancer risk among people with HIV - European AIDS Treatment Group 🆕
  CATIE: Large and long French study explores changes in cancer risk among people with HIV  European AIDS Treatment Group
  
  
• ➡️ Cloth wraps treated with ‘dirt cheap’ insecticide cut malaria cases in babies - The Guardian 🆕
  Cloth wraps treated with ‘dirt cheap’ insecticide cut malaria cases in babies  The Guardian
  
  
• ➡️ Uganda: Health Gains in 2025 Despite Wars, Funding Cuts - allAfrica.com 🆕
  Uganda: Health Gains in 2025 Despite Wars, Funding Cuts  allAfrica.com
  
  
• ➡️ What's behind this country's dramatic drop in the number of new orphans? - NPR 🆕
  What's behind this country's dramatic drop in the number of new orphans?  NPRView Full coverage on Google News