Kassanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police and the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces-UPDF, have been deployed in Kisita gold mining area, Kassanda district. More than 30,000 people, among them artisanal miners had occupied the gold mining area in the last four years and had declined to vacate the area claiming legal …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Head of the European Union (EU) delegation in Uganda, Ambassador Attilio Pacifici says he has called for sanctions for perpetrators who attack journalists. Pacifici was speaking during the EU-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) event in commemoration of the International day to …
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Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security is holding 58 Congolese fishermen in Uganda for alleged violation of the borders at Lake Edward. According to Josué Mukura, the Executive Secretary of the Federation of Individual Fishermen of Lake Edward (FECOPEILE) in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Six staff of Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO) are currently detained at Kira Police Station. They include Dickens Kamugisha, the Chief Executive Officer, Rachael Amongin, the Assistant Communications Officer and Catherine Twongyeirwe, Finance and AdminIstration Assistant. Also Mercy Nuwamanya, a Front desk officer, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 50 vehicles without number plates on the roads have been impounded in Kawempe Division on the first day of the operation no numberless vehicle on the road. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire said that the crackdown follows increasing vehicles without …
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Long list of former convicts who have killed Ugandans soon after being released Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The effectiveness of a country’s prisons system, otherwise called reformatory or correctional facilities in some jurisdictions, is measured by the incidence or percentage of repeat offenders. Uganda Prisons Services Service’ record …
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COMMENT | Samson Tinka | In 2017 and 2018 as well as in the recent past, the machete (bijambiya) threat and killings put Uganda security teams on tenterhooks. The abduction and killing of women sometime back also threw the country into fear. A number of people died, others were assaulted and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over a dozen Nansana Division officials in Nansana Municipality in Wakiso district spent Friday night in police cells for violating the nighttime curfew. Key among the suspects are Joseph Matovu, the Nansana Division LC III chairperson, Nasif Najja, the Division Speaker, Division …
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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Boda boda leaders in Kitgum municipality in collaboration with the police have launched operations against errant members violating curfew guidelines. The maiden operation conducted on Wednesday night saw 19 motorcycles impounded from various areas within Kitgum municipality. Patrick Ociti Laboke, the Speaker Kitgum Active Boda Boda …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of motorcycles are still parked at various police stations in the Kampala metropolitan area, two weeks after a presidential directive for the release of all motorcycles impounded for flouting curfew guidelines. Uganda has had nighttime curfew restrictions since last year when the country …
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