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NBS: Police has turned its guns on the senior officers who commanded the Kiboko squad that saw supporters of Dr. Kizza Besigye beaten for two days in a row last week. The DPC for Wandegeya Nonoka Moses and the Regional Police commander for Kampala south have been charged before the …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Security agencies are killing and abducting men in north-east Kenya who they suspect of links to Islamist extremists, a rights group said Wednesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented 34 “enforced disappearances” and 11 suspected “extrajudicial killings” over two years in Garissa, Mandera and Wajir counties …

NBS TV: Following the orders by the police chief Gen Kale Kayihura to investigate the police officers that beat up Besigye supporters last week, a disciplinary court was set up and started hearing the case that saw 6 of its officers appear before it. However, many questions have been raised …

Slavery in America may have ended but the US state has reproduced it through mass incarceration of blacks and police violence in poor black communities due to its hidden economic gains  THE LAST WORD: By Andrew M. Mwenda Recent events in the United States; where police shot and killed two …

Washington, UNITED STATES | AFP | Three police officers were killed and three injured in a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday, with at least two suspects at large, police said. “Three law enforcement (officers) are confirmed dead, three others injured,” the East Baton Rouge sheriff’s office said in …

Uganda’s road conditions, traffic rules and drivers indiscipline continued in the spotlight for another weekend as three people, including a senior traffic police officer, were killed in separate accidents at the same spot on Masaka road Sunday morning. Just two weeks back, over 20 were killed on the same road …

Washington, United States | AFP | The “bomb robot” killing of a suspected Dallas shooter may be the first lethal use of an automated device by American police, and underscores the growing role of technology in law enforcement. City police chief David Brown told reporters Friday that officials “saw no …

Dallas, United States | AFP | As the deadly shooting rampage in Dallas unfolded, one man was surprised amid the chaos to find out police had identified him as a suspected attacker — and his photo was plastered all over the internet. The Dallas Police Department ignited a brief manhunt …

  City socialite Leila Kayondo is in trouble after she was found in possession of a stolen BMW. Leila made headlines thanks to her then flamboyant boyfriend SK Mbuga. The car was impounded in a security operation codenamed USALAM III. According to a press statement from Interpol, over 470 vehicles …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Hundreds of people marched through Kenya’s capital on Monday condemning “extrajudicial executions” following the murder of three men, including a lawyer who criticised police abuse. Dressed in T-shirts smeared in red paint to symbolise blood, the demonstration organised by the Kenya National Commission on Human …