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Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Police in Old Kampala have launched a hunt for a businessman, Robert Ssonko after one of his workers died in an underground water well. Ssonko, a resident of Lungujja, Rubaga Division, in Kampala is reportedly on the run to  explain how Majid Mubiru died in …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Namayingo district are searching for two clinical officers attached to Buyinjja health center IV over alleged theft of government drugs. The two suspects William Otheino and Cyrus Okuku have since fled their homes located in Buyinjja trading center. On Saturday the Namayingo …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Entebbe is struggling to arrest youths under a peer group “swag attackers” which had been listed as one of those terrorizing residents of Nakiwogo, Lugonjo, and Kitooro in Entebbe Division A. The swag attackers are reportedly responsible for an attack that claimed …

Conakry, Guinea | AFP |  Police in the West African state of Guinea are facing a storm of criticism over a viral video that apparently showed them using a woman as a human shield against stone-throwing protestors. The video, whose source cannot be independently verified but whose authenticity has not been …

Lamwo, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Police in Lamwo have arrested the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party district administrative secretary for alleged extortion.  David Ochieng Ocan was arrested on Wednesday by the Lamwo Resident District Commissioner James Nabinson Kidega after NRM party members petitioned his office. They alleged that Ocan received …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Police in Kampala has warned mobile money operators against the new tricks used by conmen and thugs to obtain their pin codes. Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango said that cases of conmen withdrawing money from agents’ sim cards have become common and cautioned operators …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Police in Matugga are holding a man accused of strangling his wife to death. Haruna Lukyamuzi, a resident of Buwambo zone in Wakiso district reportedly strangled his wife, Prossy Namugoya to death on Sunday night. Hussein Kato, the Buwambo Zone Defense Secretary, says the couple …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is heavy deployment of police and Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) in Rubanda town council where the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) is conducting party primaries. Rubanda is among the 55 districts that are conducting party elections to fill gaps in new administrative units. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  A Boda boda rider is in the custody of Kawempe police station for illegal possession of a Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF chain commonly known as dog tag. The suspect is Paul Mugerwa, a resident of Kiganda Zone in Kawempe Division of Kampala district. According to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Traffic came to a standstill for close to one and half hours along the Jinja-Iganga highway as police engaged Forum for Democratic Change-FDC supporters who were leading a procession to commemorate 15-years FDC. The supporters, armed with megaphones, stormed the highway in the afternoon to …