Uganda has imposed a 21-day quarantine on citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and will bar most travellers who have been in DR Congo from transiting through the country. The move comes amid Ebola concerns, with Kampala saying Uganda is Ebola-free while Swiss authorities believe a woman diagnosed in Nigeria was infected in Uganda.
BBC News – World Uganda will also not allow most travellers who have been in DR Congo to transit through the country.
BBC News – World Uganda will also not allow most travellers who have been in DR Congo to transit through the country.
NYTimes – World Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returned to Caracas after nearly 10 months in exile, reportedly having fled the country on a speedboat in late 2025. Thousands of supporters lined the streets to welcome her. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate said she returned to press for new elections and challenge leaders who had sidelined her from democratic-transition negotiations.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term in a tight runoff against Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, official results showed. Lula took 51.7% of the vote to Bolsonaro's 48.2%. Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, has refused to accept the result and said he would seek to annul the vote. Lula now faces a divided country, an unfriendly Congress and strained public finances.
NYTimes – World Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat in parliamentary elections to a student-led opposition movement, the Student List, after nearly two years of protests against perceived corruption and authoritarianism. The snap election saw near-70% turnout, the highest since the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992. Vucic, who had held virtually absolute power for 14 years, said, "It is clear that we have lost these elections."
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