Police review CCTV footage, arrest suspect Assimwe alias Kalungi Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police using footage from Closed Circuit Television -CCTV cameras have arrested a woman accused of dousing men in bars and lodges in Kawempe division. The suspect is Lydia Nakayizi Asiimwe alias Hope Kalungi. She was …
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Kampla, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | Private hospitals and clinics in Kampala have been urged to set up isolation units as the Ebola outbreak first announced in September, continues to ravage Uganda. Cumulative cases have now risen to 129 and by Monday, 2183 contacts of these cases were being followed up …
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IGP condemns attack on police station Busiika, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A joint security team in Luwero district has launched a manhunt for assailants who raided a police station 33km outside Kampala and shot two Policemen dead. The incident occured at Busiika Police Station in Busiika town council in …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDPENDENT | Lawyer Francesca Amony has been been remanded to Gulu Main Prison for stabbing her husband to death. She appeared before the Gulu Chief Magistrate Said Barigye on Monday afternoon. She was charged with one count of murdering her late husband Dr. Joseph Etuk contrary to sections 188 and …
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Bukwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unknown thugs are said to have made off with two guns from Riwo Hill Barracks in Bukwo district. Maj. Isaac Oware, the UPDF 3rd Division spokesperson, says that the thugs stole the firearms from the military facility on Sunday evening. He, however, declined to reveal how the …
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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tension is high among Karenga district local government officials following life-threatening leaflets listing the names of the officials to be gunned down. It comes two days after unidentified gunmen shot dead the Assistant Chief Administrative Officer, Simon Peter Omony. He was gunned down at …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have stepped up the search for five-year-old, Shafic Ssemambo, who was kidnapped from her parent’s home in Namulesa ward in Jinja City Northern division on Saturday last week. The suspected kidnapper left behind a letter instructing Ssemambo’s parents to pay them a ransom of 28 …
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IGG case collapses in court Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Magistrates Court has acquitted the former Chief Executive Officer of Uganda Airlines Cornwell Muleya on charges of disobedience of lawful orders by the Inspectorate of Government requiring him to record a statement on matters related corruption. …
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In Rwanda’s case, here was a man (Kagame) willing to impose harsh discipline on his lieutenants. They were willing to accept it because the alternative of living forever as refugees was not appealing to most of them THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M MWENDA | Post genocide Rwanda is …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Archbishop of the Province of the Church of Uganda Dr Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu has raised concern over the massive land grabbing and encroachment on Church land across the country. Dr Kaziimba says that a chunk of the Church land has been encroached on …
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