Crime

Opposition leader Kizza Besigye has decried the killings over the weekend in western town of Kasese in the Rwenzori region. In a tweet that was too disturbing for us to link to here until now,...

Police in the restive Kasese District have recovered at least 25 more bodies from Maliba and Bugoye Sub Counties, even as President Museveni reviewed the situation and appealed for calm with the hope that no...

Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere, currently being held at Nalufenya Police Station in Jinja district has offered support and sympathy to the families of those killed and arrested. “I express my solidarity at this sad time...

Amnesty International on Monday accused Uganda of carrying out extrajudicial executions as authorities in the east African country said 65 people had died in clashes between a tribal militia and security forces in a restive...

The Rwenzururu kingdom is a traditional monarchy around the mountains of Rwenzori – 340km (210 miles) west of the Kampala. Its people - the Bakonzo - straddle both Uganda and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of...

Uganda’s leading opposition party FDC party President Rtd Gen Mugisha Muntu has strongly condemned the nasty happenings in Kasese as heartless and uncalled for. Addressing journalists on Monday, the former army commander called ‘inhumane’ the...

Kenyan based news anchor and reporter Joy Doreen Biira and four others have been charged with 'abetting terrorism' according to police bond as tweeted by her lawyer Nicholas Opiyo. Joy had a long chat after...

International attention is now turning to Uganda. The government of Uganda has done it before, and it still has authority to disconnect commercial and private wireless networks—affecting both cellphones and the internet—in the event of...

As the death toll of Muslim clerics continues to rise, Muslim clerics have vowed to return the police officers given to them by Inspector General of police Gen Kale Kayihura arguing that there is no...

Eighteen years down the road, some of the survivors of the Kichwamba massacre have never forgiven Sheik Maj. Mohammed Kiggundu and his fellow Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels. Commanded by Maj. Kiggundu among others, on...