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  In Uganda, the  military deployed  to opposition strongholds in Kampala and the government  blocked all social media  going into Thursday’s elections. On Jan. 14, millions of Ugandans will vote in the country’s  presidential elections . To many, the day may seem like politics as usual as incumbent President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) again seeks to extend his rule. This is the first time in the past two decades that  Kizza Besigye  of the leading opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), is not challenging Museveni. Besigye has run in each of the last four presidential elections, and  claims to have been arrested 43 times  since 2000 for leading the opposition again Museveni. Patrick Oboi Amuriat is the FDC’s new candidate, but the main opposition candidate — and the primary target of surveillance and abuse by the Ugandan government’s security forces — is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known p...

  ASDA is set to become the first supermarket in the UK to offer in-store coronavirus vaccines. It will offer 250 jabs a day, seven days a week. But which Asda stores are offering the jab? Asda  has been chosen by NHS England to operate a  coronavirus  vaccination centre. The vaccination centre will appear in one of its in-store pharmacies in Birmingham and  vaccines  will be administered by qualified Asda staff. The George clothing section in the store will be transformed into a vaccination centre and will operate Monday to Sunday, 8am to 8pm.  oger Burnley, Asda CEO and President, said: “We are incredibly proud to provide this service and are keen to do all we can to help the NHS and Government accelerate the rollout of the vaccination programme ." Asda has been approved to offer the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine - the most difficult to store of the three vaccines currently approved in the UK. Also the first vaccine to be approved for use.