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Pretoria, South Africa | AFP | South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma launched his court bid Tuesday to block the publication of a potentially explosive report that resulted from a probe of his ties to a powerful family of Indian businessmen. The report investigated allegations that Zuma allowed the Gupta family …

Kampala High Court Judge Margret Oguli Oumo will on Friday give her ruling on whether Makerere University should be made a party in a case filed by a Rubaga South voter Habib Buwembo against his area MP Paul Kato Lubwama. Buwembo wants Makerere University joined as a third respondent with …

Washington, United States | AFP | The US Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide which bathrooms should be used by transgender people, a highly sensitive question with national political resonance. The case involves 17-year-old Gavin Grimm, who was born a female but identifies as a male. Grimm filed …

Rubaga South MP Paul Kato Lubwama has asked the High Court to dismiss with costs an application filed by a voter seeking to throw him out of parliament. The voter is asking court to allow him file an election petition. Kato Lubwama through his lawyers Nalukoola, Kakeeto advocates contends that petitioner …

Los Angeles, United States | AFP |  US rapper Coolio was given community service on Wednesday after admitting carrying a handgun in a backpack at Los Angeles International Airport. The weapon was discovered in the bag as a member of the 53-year-old’s entourage went through a security screening checkpoint on …

The Electoral Commission (EC) has been dragged to the Commercial Court by a company that claims it was sidelined in the award of a tender to provide voter education and display of voters registers in the February 2016 Uganda General elections. A human resource company Terp Group Ltd accuses the …

Buganda Road Court Grade One magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu will rule on November 8 whether former Old Kampala police station DPC Joram Mwesigye has an assault case to answer. Prosecution’s Patrica Cingitho says she has closed her case with seven witnesses and what is left is for court to weigh this …

Luanda, Angola | AFP |  A group of Angolan lawyers has filed a landmark petition challenging veteran leader Eduardo dos Santos’s nomination of his daughter, Africa’s richest woman, as the head of the national oil company. Isabel dos Santos was named head of troubled oil firm Sonangol in June in …

The Court of Appeal has kicked off the first steps in hearing 97 election petition appeals filed by litigants dissatisfied with decisions of  lower courts. This first step is called conferencing where  lawyers of both parties agree on issues to be determined by  court before the case file is forwarded to a panel …

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has appealed the acquittal and subsequent release of Sarah Nabikolo Ssebunya, widow to deceased  businessman Eria Ssebunya Bugembe aka Kasiwukira. In the notice filed in Court of Appeal, the  DPP says he is dissatisfied with the High Court decision that found Nabikolo innocent of her …