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High Court has recalled the Dr. Stella Nyanzi case file from the Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court ahead of her appearance tomorrow, April 25, 2017. She faces charges of cyber harassment and offensive communication. Makerere University Researcher Dr. Nyanzi is expected to be produced back in court Tuesday to respond to an application …

Kawempe South Member of Parliament (MP) Mubarak Munyagwa Sserunga alias “Mugaati gwa Bata”  has been  released from civil prison where he was committed 2 weeks ago for failing to pay sh100 million he owes a one John Baptist Maali in a land deal. This after Munyagwa made a down payment …

Uganda Police has released the names of the 13 people that they arraigned in court Friday April 21, 2017 over the murder of Assistant Inspector of Police (AIGP) Andrew Felix Kaweesi. The accused, according to a statement, are Abdu Rashid Mbazira, Buyondo Mohammed, Higenyi Aramazan Noor Din, Mugerwa Yusuf aka Wilson, …

Three  local  security officers of Kawaala- Zone 111 in Rubaga Division have been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment each after being convicted of  mob justice by the High court in Kampala. Evidence in court showed that  Kizito Gozanga, Abdullah Kaweesi and Disan Tumwesigye on the night of April 25, 2013, …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Six Kenyans urged a court Wednesday to suspend a controversial decision by election officials to scrap a tender process and directly procure an electronic voting system for the August polls. The petition is the umpteenth disruption to already chaotic election preparations, a sensitive process in …

Two employees of the Ministry of Finance who have been in custody since March 27 on charges of corruption, have today been granted bail. John Charles Ogol, a principle finance officer, together with Turyamuhika  Geofrey, a senior economist, were first produced before the Anti-Corruption Court on April 7 and remanded to …

Government has announced an extension of the SIM-card verification exercise to May 19, 2017 from April 20. The decision to extend the deadline rendered a High Court case filed in Kampala to stop implementation of the deadline “useless”, according to court’s Assistant Registrar Joy Kabagye Bahinguza. The High Court ruling was …

Prominent female academic and activist Stella Nyanzi is “doing very well” at Luzira prison and is already involved in teaching English to inmates, her lawyer Nicholas Opiyo has said. Opiyo told BBC today that Nyanzi is teaching English in her spare time at Uganda’s Luzira Prison where she is in custody …

Uganda’s war on corruption takes new turn, minister charged Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Uganda’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday charged a government minister with graft for allegedly taking a bribe from a businessman in exchange for clearing him of sexual harassment charges. Herbert Kabafunzaki, a deputy labour minister, is accused of …

Prominent academic and activist Doctor Stella Nyanzi on Monday denied charges of cyber harassment and offensive communication that have been read out to her this afternoon. Her appeal for bail was not granted, as she was remanded to Luzira prison until April 25 for court to hear her response to the state …