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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won a decisive re-election victory on Saturday, elections officials said, but his main rival Bobi Wine alleged widespread fraud and said citizens should reject the result. Museveni won 5.85 million votes, or 58.6 percent, while main opposition candidate, Bobi Wine had 3.48 million votes (34.8 percent), the electoral commission said at a news conference on the final results from Thursday’s election. The United States and an African election monitoring group complained of election irregularities and Wine, a 38-year-old singer-turned-lawmaker who had rallied young Ugandans behind his call for political change, called the results a “complete fraud”. “It’s an election that was…

Ice cream has been found to have been contaminated with COVID-19 in China after three samples tested positive for the virus. Anti-epidemic authorities in north China’s Tianjin Municipality are tracing people who may have been in contact with the batches, which were produced by Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Company. All of the products produced by the firm have been sealed and contained after the samples it sent to the municipal centre for disease control this week tested positive for coronavirus. Initial epidemiological investigations indicate the company produced the batch of ice cream using raw materials, including milk powder imported from New Zealand and…

A doctor treating COVID-19 patients says the stream of admissions is “relentless” and those affected are younger than last year. David Parrott is just 19 years old and he sits in isolation wearing an oxygen mask that help his COVID-ravaged lungs to breathe. “I’m only 19 – it shows you that anyone can get it. You can see by the seriousness I’m having to be on oxygen,” the drama student says. “I’ve been on oxygen since the time I’ve been here. I haven’t had any medical conditions really and all of sudden I can be like this in a bed,…

The Trump administration has carried out its 13th federal execution since July – the most of any presidency in more than 100 years. Dustin Higgs was convicted of murdering three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996. The 48-year-old was the third inmate to receive a lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, this week. He was pronounced dead at 1.23am local time (6.23am UK time) on Saturday. The justice department resumed federal executions last year following a 17-year hiatus. Trump impeached for inciting US Capitol riots No president in more than 120 years has overseen…

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have been asked to drop their ambitions to vie for the presidency of Nigeria in 2023. A body, Pan Nigeria Presidency of Igbo Extraction Coalition, PANPIEC, gave the warning in a statement by its Director of Planning and Strategy, Chief Pat Anyanwu, on Saturday, after a meeting between the Coalition and a northern group, Arewa Power Shift Movement, in Port Harcourt Rivers State. The Coalition noted that power shifting to Igbo land in 2023 will end the wounds of the civil…

Mason Mount finally broke the resistance of 10-man Fulham as Chelsea laboured their way to only a second Premier League win in seven games. Antonee Robinson was sent off late in the first half for Fulham for a dangerous tackle on Cesar Azpilicueta. Ten different players had shots for Chelsea, but they were wasteful in front of goal. Their biggest chance before the goal was when Mount crashed a shot off the crossbar. The England midfielder eventually proved the match-winner with a half-volley after Alphonse Areola flapped at Ben Chilwell’s cross. The win takes Chelsea up to seventh, while Fulham…

To understand the new politics stance and other pro nationals of recent times, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. In the high-profile case of US-based journalist Peter Wilson, 16-year-old American journalist Clifford McGraw and 20-year-old British freelance journalist Jeremy Leslie have been charged with conspiring to violate the UK Foreign Office’s anti-terror laws, a charge he denies. On Monday, UK attorney Andy McDonald revealed that he had spoken. “Few worry about catching Covid anymore, as it’s just a matter of time before they do,” says Tea, a teacher at a school for…

A Nigerian political group has knocked Punch Newspaper for promoting sensationalism over facts in a report on the mobilization of corp members for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), describing the news report as divisive and heinous. The Initiative to Save Democracy (ISD) in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday said a Punch Newspaper story titled, “COVID-19: Again, FG snubs Osinbajo report, mobilises corpers to camps” was written to cause disharmony in the Buhari administration. According to the President of ISD, Mr Sunday James Akinloye, the report by the Punch Newspaper did not capture the true conversation but rather…

Paris Saint-Germain coach Mauricio Pochettino has tested positive for Covid-19, the French champions said Friday, just two weeks after taking up his job. The 48-year-old Argentine will “respect isolation and is subject to the appropriate health protocols”, PSG said on Twitter. His assistants Jesus Perez and Miguel D’Agostino will take charge of the team for Saturday’s trip to Angers. Three PSG players had already tested positive for the virus in the last week — Brazilian Rafinha, German player Thilo Kehrer and French youth international Colin Dagba. Former Tottenham coach Pochettino has overseen three PSG games so far, notably winning the…

WhatsApp on Friday postponed a data-sharing change as users concerned about privacy fled the Facebook-owned messaging service and flocked to rivals Telegram and Signal. Signal has had a meteoric rise in the number of downloads since Elon Musk tweeted about the app. They are currently on 50,000,000 downloads. Whatsapp, which was a huge hit across the world, canceled its February 8 deadline for accepting an update to its terms concerning sharing data with Facebook, saying it would use the pause to clear up misinformation around privacy and security. “We’ve heard from so many people how much confusion there is around…