Police is holding four Somali nationals who were arrested with a suspected bomb. Police spokesperson CP Fred Enanga told media on Monday that the suspects were trying to access Speke Resort Hotel Munyonyo. The device was found hidden in their car Toyota Wish Reg No. UBF 158C. The special hire driver of the vehicle was…
Police have reiterated that the arrested persons are not targeted for their beliefs, ideology, religion, because that would make them, appear biased. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed that public should know that as long any individual or groups partakes in, engages or conspires to engage in, facilitates the engagement of acts of violence, or commit…
There is no such a thing as Human rights when it comes to governments, they will do anything to secure deals and keep diplomatic ties. A case in question is a Ugandan-born asylum seeker facing deportation to his place where homosexuality is punishable by life imprisonment. It should be remembered that Kampala Sun, a Ugandan…
Yesterday marked a year since Ugandan security forces brutally clamped down on people protesting the arrest of opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi wine, killing 54 people, and injuring scores more. Just before noon on November 18, 2020, two months ahead of Uganda’s general elections, security forces arrested Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, as…
The High Court in Kasese district has rejected the bail application of five National Unity Platform-NUP supporters facing treason charges and remanded further until next week. The five members are; Bryan Basisa, the NUP Kasese district chairperson, Geoffrey Bwambale, the NUP coordinator for Bundibugyo, Atanazio Isande from Ntoroko district, Isaac Mumbere, the former NUP candidate…
Parliament has called off today’s sitting and any other businesses at the house following multiple explosions in the city centre. Security personnel have cordoned off at least two areas in the heart of Kampala where two explosions happened this morning. One of them went off at Raja Chambers, along Parliament Avenue in Kampala, just a…
Police CCTV footage has emerged showing how a suicide blew himself in a bomb blast that hit the city center near the Central Police Station in Kampala and Parliament Avenue on Tuesday morning. The video which first leaked on social media shows a thin tall man carrying a heavy bag on his back who walked…
Two Ugandan soldiers accused of killing seven Somali civilians in August while serving under the African Union peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) have been sentenced to death while three others to 39 years each in jail after being found guilty by a court-martial. AMISOM said the Court Martial which sat from November 1-12 in the Somali capital…
Court in Makindye has remanded three people to Kitalya Prison for allegedly attempting to transfer ownership of prime land belonging to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) in Lubowa to themselves. The Capital Times has learnt that the trio, that were charged are Mr. Mohammed Lubowa, 48, a resident of Ndejje Rubugumu, Makindye Division; Mr.…
By Phil Hazlewood Meghan Markle has apologised to a UK court after admitting being involved in a favourable biography of her short tenure as a frontline royal in Britain, despite having previously denied it. The apology came as part of a British newspaper group’s appeal against a High Court ruling that it breached the Duchess…
