A Rwandan dissident has been shot dead in Mozambique, where he had settled as a refugee after being ousted from his home country in 1994, police said on Tuesday. Unidentified gunmen intercepted Revocant Karemangingo, a former Rwandan lieutenant, as he drove into his house on Monday evening in Matola, a suburb of the capital Maputo.…
The Joint Security Agencies has noted with serious concern, a dramatic spike in aggravated robberies of bodabodas and the subsequent murders of the riders. According to Police spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed that during the week under review, a total of 6 murders, related to bodabodas occurred. “We want to urge all bodaboda riders to avoid…
Four family members in Nyaburiza village, Nyarutuntu sub-county, Ntungamo district perished in an arson attack on Monday morning. The dead are the family head, Obed Akampurira, 34, Innocent Ainamatsiko, 9, Patricia Ainembabazi, 7, and Peterson Aijuka, 18 months. Akampurira’s wife, Olivia Birungi is nursing burns at Itojo hospital. Samson Kasasira, the Rwizi Regional police spokesperson…
The Special Investigations Unit-SIU Kireka is holding three suspects on allegations of attempting to buy a two-month-old baby for a suspected South Sudanese trafficker in Kampala. The suspects are Gerald Akankwasa, a Wakiso based medical doctor, Kenneth Kayondo and Christine Nambi. Police detectives picked up the trio from Royale Motel in the City suburbs of…
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Jane Frances Abodo has withdrawn charges of money laundering against human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo. Opiyo, the Executive Director of Chapter Four Uganda, was violently arrested on 22nd December 2020 by plain-clothed law enforcement officers. He was later charged under section 3 (c) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act on…
Scuffle ensued Moroto town as police tried to arrest Chief magistrate of Kapchorwa court, Godfrey Teko on the allegations that he pulled a firearm and threatened to shoot dead one Mathew Lorika on Sunday evening. Mr Teko,a son to State minister for energy Peter Lokeris allegedly got into a brawl at Mt. Moroto Hotel. According…
Police has released a statement warning the public against a number of the widely spread threatening leaflets are alert and only intended to cause fear and panic. Following the murders in Masaka in which 26 people were killed in one month, cases of threatening leaflets being thrown have increased in various parts of the country. The…
Today, Saturday, September 11 2021 will forever remain in the family calendar of former Tooro Kingdom Prime Minister John Sanyu Katuramu Amooti as the happiest day ever. This is because, it’s the day the Tooro business magnet broke the chains of Luzira maximum prisons, and he is finally a FREE MAN after 20 years in…
President Paul Kagame has once again urged Rwandans not to travel to Uganda, as relations between the two countries remain cold. In a televised interview on Sunday on State agency, Rwanda Broadcasting Agency, President Kagame said Rwandans fear travelling to Uganda due to the alleged illegal arrests and torture they face. “There is only one…
Makindye West MP Allan Sswanyana and Kawempe North Legislator Muhammad Ssegirinya have been remanded to Kitalya prison. The two were arraigned before Masaka Magistrates’ Court over Masaka gruesome killings and were later remanded upto 15 September after being charged with 4 counts. Three are of murder and one is of attempted murder. The two were…
