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Court has found senior police officer Joram Mwesigye guilty of assaulting WBS TV journalist Andrew Lwanga in a January 2015 incident. Buganda Road Grade One Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu on Friday fined the former Old Kampala district police commander  sh1 million for causing bodily harm to the journalist, and ordered him …

Düsseldorf, Germany | AFP | German police said Friday an axe-wielding attacker who went on the rampage wounding nine at a railway station was mentally ill and may have hoped police would shoot him dead. The 36-year-old Kosovan national had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic with a history of …

VIDEO: Uganda Police force has summoned Makerere researcher Dr. Stella Nyanzi to appear before the Criminal Investigations Directorate in Kibuli over cyber crimes. The embattled Makerere university research fellow is required to present herself for alleged sedition, libel and blackmail. The Police states that Nyanzi is wanted to valuable information in …

Kigali, Rwanda | AFP |  The wife of a member of Rwanda’s opposition in exile who went missing in the central African country two weeks ago, is in police custody accused of ties to a criminal network, her husband said Friday. The Rwandan authorities “have acknowledged that they have Vilette …

VIDEO: The man caught on camera on Monday wielding a stick and blocking the Lord Mayor and Councilors from visiting Park Yard market opens up to NBS TV, and says he works for peace. About three men were captured Monday afternoon wielding sticks, and at some point blocking traders from accessing …

Frankfurt am Main, Germany | AFP |  Three people were hurt Saturday when a car ploughed into pedestrians in the southern German city of Heidelberg, said police, who shot and wounded the driver. After the crash, which injured one person seriously, the driver escaped on foot armed with a knife …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  A woman will become Britain’s most senior police officer for the first time, the government announced on Wednesday, a controversial move due to her involvement in a fatal London shooting. Cressida Dick, 56, will succeed Bernard Hogan-Howe as commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, returning …

VIDEO: Police suspects that an officer who killed his wife before shooting himself dead at Nsambya barracks in Kampala could have planned his death. This follows the discovery of a handwritten will just days before Thursday’s incident. It is reported that the police constable signed for a gun, returned to …

Frankfurt am Main, Germany | AFP | Six teenagers were found dead Sunday after holding a party in a garden shed, said police in Germany who suggested carbon monoxide poisoning may have been the cause. The youths, five young men and a young woman. were found by the owner of …

VIDEO: Police in Kampala on Saturday night arrested scores of revelers accused of smoking the banned shisha. The operation conducted in the City’s major high end bars targeted smokers and sellers of the addictive tobacco. Share on: WhatsApp