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Monterrey, Mexico | AFP | Authorities investigating the slaying of nine men at a house in Monterrey, Mexico said Sunday small local drug-trafficking groups appeared to be involved but not major drug cartels. The men were watching a football match on television on Saturday when armed attackers burst into the …

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 …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden | AFP | Danish prosecutors on Tuesday formally charged inventor Peter Madsen with last year’s murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, whose dismembered body parts were found at sea after she interviewed him on his homemade submarine. Madsen, who was arrested and detained shortly after Wall’s disappearance in August, …

President eulogizes Kony war peace emissary Lagony  Nwoya, Uganda | PPU | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said that the peace enjoyed by Ugandans cannot be disturbed by anyone following the great sacrifices made by the people of Uganda. The President was on Friday speaking at the memorial mass of the …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mike Chibita has withdrawn murder, robbery and kidnap charges against former Kampala Central Police Station DPC Aaron Baguma. In a letter dated December 21,  2017 presented by State Attorney Alex Ojok before High Court judge Flavia Ssenoga on …

THIS WEEK: Mbale sheikh dies mysteriously Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fears have spread in Mbale town, an area dominated by Muslims, after Sheikh Issa Wampongo, a teacher at Yusra Primary School, was found dead lying in a stream. Mbale District Police Commander, Steven Ahweera, dismissed reports that Wampongo …

Kampala,  Uganda | GODFREY SSALI |  The High Court in Kampala Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old girl to 12 years imprisonment for murdering her one-month-old baby. Justice Moses Kazibwe convicted Florence Gelaki on her own plea of guilty, after she accepted  having  drowned her baby Elvis Sande in a dam. Gelaki …

Kananga, DR Congo | AFP | A village chief believed to have ordered the killing in March of two UN experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo was arrested Saturday, a Congolese military spokesman said. Congolese authorities have from the start said the suspect, Constantin Tshidime Bulabula, was behind the …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | State employees of the Democratic Republic of Congo helped organise the mission trip of two UN experts to the central Kasai region where they were killed, according to a Reuters and Radio France Internationale (RFI) report. The revelation that “four state agents and associates” …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Director of Public Prosecution Mike Chibita has pressed new charges against three Kaweesi murder suspects, of being part of a terrorist group. The freshly charged suspects are ; Ali Mugoya, Abudallah Kala and Hibwani Sinani Zikusooka who thought were going home today having clocked …