Ugandan opposition leader and four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, stands in the dock at the Makindye Martial Court in Kampala, Uganda Wednesday, 20 November 2024. (Keystone/AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

🤐UNAids chief says husband, Ugandan opposition figure, 'kidnapped'. Winnie Byanyima, head of UNAids, said her husband Kizza Besigye was kidnapped in Kenya last Saturday and taken back home where was being held in a military jail. Writing on social media platform X, she demanded the Ugandan government release him.

☀️Eight times more children will face extreme heatwaves by 2050s, Unicef says. The greatest increases in children experiencing extreme heatwaves are expected in east and south Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, and north, west and central Africa, Unicef said in its annual state of the world's children report.

💉WHO approves first mpox vaccine for children in a bid to control Congo outbreak. Experts at the World Health Organization hope the decision will help make immunisations more widely available to one of the hardest-hit populations during the ongoing outbreaks of the disease in Congo and elsewhere in Africa.

🗳️UK wants to see WTO chief reappointed next week. A government official said the UK wanted to see Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala "successfully reappointed" to lead the World Trade Organization for a second term at the General Council meeting next week, after no contenders came forward to challenge the incumbent.

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🦖Bad marks for Switzerland. In a long-held nightly tradition at Cop of awarding a different country "doing the most to achieve the least" on climate action, the Climate Action Network, a group of climate NGOs nominated gave Switzerland a "dishonourable mention". While narrowly escaping being named Fossil of the Day (this prestigious prize went to the European Union) the climate group reprimanded the wealthy alpine nation for being the only country that has watered down its commitment to the Glasgow statement signed at COP26.

“The famed Swiss francs are missing from the loss and damage fund and their negotiators are missing in the key discussions" on setting levels of climate finance, a spokesperson dressed for the Fossil of the Day award, said. "It is time to make polluters pay and the Swiss financial sector is responsible for emissions 18 times higher than Switzerland’s total national emissions”. Former laureates at this Cop include Russia and the UAE.