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KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Uganda has launched a paramilitary force to enforce environmental laws and avert related crimes in the country, authorities said Friday. The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), the state-owned environmental watchdog, said that the Environment Protection Force (EPF) was formed in line with the country’s laws. …

It wants either an apartheid state or an ethnic cleansing process and both are crimes under international law COMMENT | VIJAY PRASHAD | On October 30, 2023, Israeli authorities said that they had killed “dozens” of Hamas fighters in the first days of their ground invasion. Meanwhile, Gaza’s Ministry of Health …

When no one cares, including the police, petty criminals snatching bags will go on to commit bigger crimes COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | Okira Ito. Many Ugandans do not know that name. But they need to know it. Okira Ito was a Japanese road traffic flow expert working with Kampala Capital …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF in the Forth Division Army Barracks has started a mindset change campaign among teenagers in a move to curb crimes in Gulu city and its surrounding. Through the Watoto Church Ministry in Gulu city, the military is carrying out awareness …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has instructed the Director of Traffic Police to increase deployments on roads during rush hours to eliminate emerging crimes of mob justice. The directive follows a weekend incident where a 40-year-old former driver with the United Nations-UN …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Information and Communication Technology Directorate-ICT of the Uganda Police Force has been able to investigate and complete 600 cases in the last three months, thanks to the Security Closed Circuit Television-CCTV cameras. Allan Nshimiye Rugayampuzi, the Public Relations Officer of the Directorate says that they …

The Hague, Netherlands | THE INDEPENDENT |  The International Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Chamber IX has today sentenced former Kony Ugandan rebel commander Dominic Ongwen to a total period of imprisonment of 25 years as a joint sentence for the 61 crimes of which he was found guilty. A summary …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The installation of closed-circuit television cameras has started in Kasese municipality. It is part of the countrywide plans to install surveillance cameras to curb rates of urban crimes. The cameras will be installed in suburbs and along major highways. According to the Rwenzori East …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | Hundreds of people have been killed or raped in attacks on the Hema ethnic group in eastern DR Congo’s Ituri province, in what “may amount to crimes against humanity” or even genocide, the UN said on Friday. “At least 701 people have been killed and …

Abidjan, Ivory Coast | AFP |  Former Ivory Coast political leader Charles Ble Goude faces a fresh trial by an Ivorian court, prosecutors said Thursday, after he was cleared of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court this year. Ble Goude was an aide to former Ivory Coast President Laurent …