Rabat, Morocco | AFP | Hundreds protested on Thursday outside a Moroccan court in support of four journalists being tried for publishing content deemed confidential. The journalists stand accused of publishing in late 2016 excerpts of a parliamentary commission’s debates over huge deficit at the national pension fund. A member …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Eight members of the Century Boda Boda Riders Association were Wednesday charged before Mwanga 11 magistrate’s Court in Kampala, for criminal trespass at the offices of Boda Boda 2010 in Nateete-Wakaliga, leaving its property and fence destroyed. These led by their Chairman Sula Lubega also …
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THIS WEEK: Murder charges on DPP Baguma dropped Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Interdicted Central Police Commander Aaron Baguma is a free man after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) dropped murders charged against him. Principal State Attorney Alex Ojok told Court on Jan.10 that the DPP had on December …
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THIS WEEK: Court orders fresh poll in Jinja Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Court of appeal on Jan.11 ordered the Electoral Commission and Jinja East Member of Parliament Igeme Nabeta to pay Forum for Democratic Change’s Paul Mwiru all the costs he incurred both at the High Court and …
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Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | A South African court on Friday struck down a long-running effort by late president Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to claim ownership of his former rural home. The Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed her appeal against a lower court’s ruling that she was not …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Mukono High Court Judge Margret Mutonyi Wednesday ordered Uganda Christian University to pay 20 million shillings to two law students it unlawfully expelled two years back. Simon Ssemuwemba and Yasin Ssentumbwe dragged the university to Court in April 2016, accusing the University of expelling them …
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Rabat, Morocco | AFP | A Moroccan court sentenced to death a man over the murder of a member of parliament and jailed his widow, in a case involving sex and money, the government said Tuesday. Abdellatif Merdas, who was a member of the liberal Constitutional Union party, was gunned …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A man was recently ordered to pay $1 million (approx.Shs3.6 billion) to his mother in order to honour a contract that he signed growing up, in which he agrees to pay 60 percent of his net profits until he can cover the cost of …
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THIS WEEK: Arrested butcher, fish dealer arraigned before court Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some beef lovers have been forced to abandon meat after a raid on butcheries by Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) inspection team on Dec.04 revealed that at times meat is adulterated with chemicals by dealers …
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THIS WEEK: Suspended MPs to petition constitutional court Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Erias Lukwago, the lawyer of the six suspended members of parliament – Gerald Karuhanga of Ntungamo municipality, Ibrahim Semujju Nganda of Kiira municipality, Jonathan Odur of Erute County, Mubarak Munyagwa of Kawempe South, Allan Ssewanyana of …
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