Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | A British journalist working for The Times of London newspaper said Friday he was being deported from Kenya after being detained for more than a day at the airport without explanation or charge. Jerome Starkey, 35, was locked in a cell overnight after arriving …
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VIDEO: The Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs has summoned the IGP Kale Kaihura and the Army commander Gen. Katumba Wamala to answer queries regarding the Kasese attacks that led to the deaths of over 80 people. Parliament wants them to explain the deaths that followed the arrest of the Omusinga Charles …
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The trial of Former Old Kampala Division Police Commander Joram Mwesigye resumed on Wednesday with the accused telling Buganda Road Court that all the charges that were preferred against him in relation to assaulting WBS Journalist Andrew Lwanga, are false. Mwesigye also denied the allegation that he is the one …
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Buganda Road Court will on Wednesday hear the defence of former Old Kampala DPC Joram Mwesigye, accused of assaulting a WBS TV journalist Andrew Lwanga. Lwanga sustained spinal injuries from the said assault and he is walking on crutches. Last month Grade One Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu ruled that Mwesigye had a …
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Victim or villain as 100 are killed in Kasese massacre? On Nov. 14, two police officers on guard at Queen Elizabeth National Park in Kasese district were attacked and killed by unknown assailants who grabbed their two guns and disappeared. This was just two days after Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga …
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Police officers in Kampala spent the better part of Friday morning and afternoon, arresting prominent opposition members who were planning to hold a fundraising campaign to raise money for the re-opening of Makerere University. The planned activities were scheduled to take place at the university’s freedom square. Former presidential candidate …
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VIDEO: Kasese remains tense as Police confirm the death of 63 including 49 insurgents and 14 police officers in the ongoing clashes. Police also say 139 militia have been arrested with several weapons and ammunition recovered. This morning, lorries carried suspects from Rwenzori east regional headquarters to different detention centers, …
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Nusa Dua, Indonesia | AFP | A Chinese security official was elected president of Interpol Thursday for the first time, sparking criticism from activists who say Beijing uses the agency to track down dissidents abroad. Vice Minister of Public Security Meng Hongwei was chosen as the new head of the …
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Women parliamentarians across Africa have called for increased vigilance by all governments to curb the trafficking of women and children on the continent. The legislators under the Committee of Women Parliamentarians of the African Parliamentary Union (APU) in a resolution stated that human trafficking affects more than two million people …
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Chicago, United States | AFP | Police quickly apprehended a 46-year-old white male in the shooting death of two police officers who were “ambushed” in separate attacks in the US state of Iowa early Wednesday, authorities said. Scott Michael Greene from Urbandale — a suburb of state capital Des Moines …
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