Valletta, Malta | AFP | Two men armed with a grenade and at least one gun hijacked a Libyan plane with 117 people on board Friday and diverted it to Malta before releasing everyone and surrendering, officials said. The Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 was en route from Sabha in southern …
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The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | Child soldier-turned-warlord Dominic Ongwen denied 70 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity on Tuesday when he became the first member of Uganda’s brutal Lord’s Resistance Army to ever go on trial. Ongwen, 41, is also the first former child soldier to be …
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Washington, United States | AFP | After an exhausting, wild, bitter, and sometimes sordid campaign, Americans finally began voting Tuesday for a new president: either the billionaire populist Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, seeking to become the first woman to win the White House. Early-rising voters in nine states mainly …
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The situation in South Sudan and Burundi will be top of the agenda as the 17th Extra-Ordinary Meeting of the Summit of the EAC Heads of State takes place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Thursday. The two day extraordinary summit of the East African Community (EAC) will also consider the …
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Women activists under their umbrella body the Uganda Women Network (UWONET) have demanded the resignation of State Minister for Water Ronald Kibuule for allegedly assaulting a bank female security officer who attempted to search him. Ronald Kibuule has denied the allegations, saying that all he did was caution the guard. He …
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The Makindye Magistrate’s Court has today formally stayed criminal prosecution of the IGP Kale Kayihura and seven senior police commanders over torture charges. This follows last Friday’s Constitutional Court order. Presiding Grade one magistrate Juliet Nakitende ruled that the proceedings against Kayihura be halted until the lower court receives further …
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Thousands of Crime Preventers brought Ggaba in Makindye Division, Kampala to standstill on Sunday by engaging in community service and a celebratory march. The Crime Preventers, a group of youth mainly recruited in the past year to help in community policing, converged at St.Dennis Ssebugwawo SS Ggaba from all over the country. They started …
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The week in Uganda’s parliament ended dramatically on Thursday, with a bill seeking an increase in the retirement age of judges being given the green light and the security minister (Rtd) Lt.General Henry Tumukunde promising to support a former aide of Dr. Kiiza Besigye Sam Mugumya who is detained in DRC. …
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The High court in Kampala has today reduced the punishment of nine death row convicts following the 2003 Constitutional petition of Susan Kigula & 417 others that challenged the death penalty. Justice Wilson Masalu Musene revised the death penalty passed against the said convicts aged between 40 -60 years whose …
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Government has condemned the shameful demos last week when supporters purportedly acting in the interest of the Inspector General of Police besieged Makindye Court and disrupted business there. The IGP Kale Kayihura had been scheduled to make a court appearance following summons to answer charges relating to police brutality. Addressing …
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