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A travel advisory to Uganda is now in order as the forces fail to guarantee security for persons and property COMMENT | MORRIS KOMAKECH | The chilling kidnap and murder of Suzan Magara has dented the faith of Ugandans in the security of this country. This crime was at another level …

Washington, United States | AFP | The United States formally concluded Tuesday that North Korea murdered Kim Jong Un’s half-brother with the banned VX nerve agent, blasting Pyongyang for deploying a chemical weapon in a packed international airport. Kim Jong Nam died in February last year, shortly after two women …

Bratislava, Slovakia | AFP | Slovak police on Saturday said they had released seven Italian businessmen detained after they were named by murdered journalist Jan Kuciak in an explosive report on alleged high-level political corruption linked to the mafia. “The investigator has, within the legal timeframe (48 hours) at his …

Bratislava, Slovakia | AFP | A global media watchdog on Friday warned EU leaders against undermining the security of journalists in the wake of the murder of a Slovak investigative reporter gunned down in his home. Jan Kuciak, who had been probing alleged high-level political corruption in Slovakia linked to …

Bratislava, Slovakia | AFP | Thousands flocked to candlelit anti-corruption protests and memorials held across Slovakia on Friday for murdered journalist Jan Kuciak, killed as he was about to publish an explosive report on alleged high-level political corruption linked to the Italian mafia. Organisers estimated that around 25,000 people gathered …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | John Fitzgerald Magara has narrated the ordeal the family went through in the search for their daughter Suzan Magara, who was found dead on Tuesday. “We’ve had difficult days from the 7th of February when we started looking for Susan,” he told mourners at the requiem …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Police have discovered a body believed to be of missing cashier, Suzan Magara. A Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed the discovery of the body they believe is hers, off the Kampala Southern Bypass, near Kigo. Magara, 28, a cashier at the Bwendero Dairy …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Pine Car Bond Proprietor Muhammad Ssebuufu and his accomplices were of sound mind during the alleged commission of the offence of murder of business woman Donah Betty Katusabe. Katusabe was allegedly tortured to death for failure to pay a Sh9m debt after a car …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Godfrey ‘Troy’ Wamala was Wednesday arraigned before Entebbe Magistrates Court and remanded to Kigo Prison on Ugandan musician Moses Ssekibogo aka Mowzey Radio murder charges. Troy is a businessman and a resident of Kyengera LC1, Nsangi Town council in Wakiso district, the same place where security operatives …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The murder trial of Pine car bond Proprietor Muhammad Ssebuufu kicked off Monday before the High court’s Criminal Division in Kampala. Ssebuufu is accused of torturing to death business woman Donah Betty Katusabe over failure to clear a nine million shillings debt, which was …