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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Buganda Road Court has granted bail five people accused of causing the death of a Finnish National at Pearl of Africa Hotel in Nakasero within Kampala city. Chief Magistrate James Eremye Mawanda Tuesday granted them bail on condition that four of them each pay ten …

Luxembourg, Luxembourg | AFP | The EU’s top court on Tuesday backed the right of member states like France to ban a service by ridesharing firm Uber without notifying Brussels, in a fresh setback to the US giant. The European Court of Justice ruled in favour of France’s ban of …

Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | South Africa’s highest court has rejected Oscar Pistorius’s request to appeal against his 13-year jail term, ending the long legal battle over his killing of his girlfriend in 2013. The former Paralympic athlete, 31, had asked the Constitutional Court to review the jail term, which …

 Male wants Justice Elizabeth off age limit case over having children with minister, AG Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a Mar. 28 letter, Male Mabirizi Kiwanuka, one of the petitioners in the age limit cases wrote to the lady justice Elizabeth Musoke of the Constitutional Court requesting that she …

New Delhi, India | AFP | Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, now Prisoner 106, will have to spend at least another night in jail as he fights a five-year prison term for killing endangered wildlife. Khan, one of the world’s highest paid actors, was imprisoned Thursday after a court convicted him …

  Durban, South Africa | AFP | South African former president Jacob Zuma appeared in court Friday on corruption charges over a multi-billion dollar 1990s arms deal, with the judge adjourning the case after a 15-minute hearing. Zuma, 75, smiled broadly and gave a thumbs-up as he walked into the …

Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | Former South African president Jacob Zuma is to appear in court Friday on 16 corruption charges over a suspect arms deal that dogged much of his rule before he was ousted in February. Zuma will attend the brief preliminary hearing at the Durban High …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | A man who attacked the Bishop of Namirembe Diocese Rt. Rev Wilberforce Kityo Luwalira during the Easter celebration Service, has been charged before Mwanga 11 Magistrate Court and remanded to Luzira prison. He faced three counts, two of threatening violence against Bishop Luwalira and Rev. …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | National Medical Stores wants the High Court in Kampala, to enter Judgement against the Permanent Secretary also Secretary to the Treasury Keith Muhakanizi, for failure to explain where he gets the powers to order a Special Audit against Uganda Cancer Institute, over the supply and distribution …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | A group of Nansana Municipality voters have asked the Constitutional Court to overturn a decision of the High Court in Kampala that declared Robert Kasule Ssebunya the validly elected Member of Parliament (MP) for that Constituency. They want Court to order a by election …