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  Buenos Aires, Argentina | XINHUA |  Diego Maradona’s personal doctor has denied responsibility for the death of the Argentinian football legend after police searched his house and clinic on Sunday. “I feel terrible because my friend has died,” Leopoldo Luque told reporters outside his Buenos Aires home. “I’m not the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police has said cases of domestic violence in Acholi sub-region increased between March to October this year. The report indicates that from March to October this year, a total of 1,189 cases of domestic violence were reported to police in the eight districts of Acholi …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Opposition presidential candidates have discredited a letter written by the Electoral Commission to the police on the disruption of campaign meetings by security forces. The different camps of opposition presidential candidates have expressed a total lack of confidence in the Electoral Commission to direct police …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Independent presidential candidate, John Katumba spent Thursday in running battles with police after being blocked from addressing his supporters in Iganga and Jinja districts. Katumba started with a procession along Iganga main street. However, police intercepted his vehicle and blocked him from conducting his activities. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Security Minister Gen Elly Tumwine has praised security forces for the decisiveness with which they quelled what he called a pre-mediated riots across the country last week. Over 40 people are said to have died, many of them shot by security officers, after protests …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation-ANT presidential candidate, Mugisha Muntu on Wednesday cancelled his rally in Kamwenge after disagreeing with police over the venue. According to Muntu, he had planned to have his rally at Biguli primary school playground in Biguli town council but due to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP has accused police and other security agencies for the continued arrests of their supporters in the country on accusation of being involved in protests last week. Since last week’s protests around some towns, security personnel have been carrying out operations and …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Eighty-five people were killed in Uganda in the past seven days, according to police records.  Statistics from the Criminal Investigation Directorate –CID show that 40 people were killed in criminal incidents while 45 others died in the countrywide protests following the arrest of the National …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uncoordinated operations between the police resulted in the death of 49 people during last week’s city protests, various sources have told URN. A police source says that the National Command Centre sat on Tuesday and resolved that there was a need to put a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Security, Gen Elly Tumwine has said that the police and other security personnel have a right to kill protesters if they are attacked. Speaking to reporters at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, Gen Tumwine said that he had no apologies for …