Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mayor Kabale Municipality Emmanuel Sentaro Byamugisha is on the spot for defying the quarantine imposed on pigs and their products. Last month, veterinary authorities in Kabale and Rubanda districts imposed a quarantine following an outbreak of the African swine fever. Byamugisha who is t6he …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the nation continues to grapple with the horror of young Ugandans being enslaved in Middle East countries due to unemployment, there was temporary relief when Aviation Police and Immigration officials at Entebbe International Airport intercepted 12 girls that were being trafficked to Saudi …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu municipality have been earmarked for the installation of surveillance Close Circuit Television – CCTV security cameras to curb urban crimes. The CCTV cameras are expected to help police to capture and arrest street criminals; impersonators and motorcycle thieves who have been destabilizing Gulu …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police has arrested a man for allegedly distributing counterfeits worth one million shillings. Ali Musoke was arrested on Wednesday by police officers at Mini Price as he tried to hoodwink a mobile money operator, Shafic Amanyire. At around 10 am, Musoke approached Amanyire’s mobile money …
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London, United Kingdom | AFP | A derelict hospital, dog kennels, abandoned warehouses, suburban homes and buried shipping containers — cannabis farms dot Britain, often staffed by Vietnamese migrants-turned-growers. Some have been smuggled in voluntarily, others trafficked against their will. Here are a few high-profile busts involving Vietnamese migrants. – Bunker …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kikuube are investigating circumstances under which an employee of Hoima Sugar Limited was hacked to death. Gideon Odaga 37 a casual labourer at Hoima sugar Limited and a resident of Ajinjera village in Zombo district was hacked to death on Friday night by …
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Lublin, Poland | AFP | Walking hand-in-hand and kissing in public is something that gay couples in the conservative eastern Polish city of Lublin can do safely only once a year, at the local pride parade, albeit behind a thick cordon of heavily armed riot police. Far-right groups and conservative …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A boda boda rider Sharif Mpanga alias Shafic who allegedly ferried killers of Maria Nagirinya to her house gate has been arrested. Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga said on Monday that Mpanga was arrested over the weekend by a combined team of Chieftaincy of Military …
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Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fort Portal police are holding a mother accused of offering her neighbor her three-months-old baby to defraud her boyfriend. The suspect is Annet Kabalisa, a resident of Kagote cell in West Division Fort Portal Municipality. The Rwenzori West Region Police Spokesperson, Lydia Tumushabe, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Communities at Nangoma and Kasensero landing site in Kyotera district have asked the Marine department of the Uganda Police to establish a rescue center in the area to enable them respond to emergencies. The area is prone to water accidents that usually occur as …
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