The Brazilian Igarapé think tank has released an interactive map with statistics revealing places in the world where people are most likely to be murdered. Compiled using data from UNODC Homicide Statistics 2013, the Homicide Monitoring map shows that Latin America has the highest homicide rates. Within the East African Region Uganda has the third […]
City businessman Desh Kananura has been charged with murder before the City Hall Court. Kananura, the prime suspect in the murder of one Abdul Katerega, is accused of torturing to death his bar attendant at Panamera Bar in Naguru, a Kampala suburb in October last year. He has denied the charges and has been remanded […]
Hearing of the case of a UPDF soldier accused of shooting dead three people and injuring another has been adjourned till tomorrow for both prosecution and defense sides to make their final submissions. This comes after court heard from four witnesses today who included 10 year old Patience Kwagala and her mother Winnie Nakato. They […]
Hearing of the case in which a UPDF officer is accused of shooting dead three people and injuring another has been adjourned to tomorrow morning. This is after the defence lawyer Martin Muhumuza rejected evidence presented by the sixth prosecution witness. Lt Ishaka Twaha Lutanaziba attached to the military police presented quoting Arms Ammunition Returns report […]
Lawyers representing former Arua Municipality MP Godi Akbar Hussein have today asked court to acquit him on charges of murder. Lawyers led by Henry Kunya told Justices of the Court of Appeal that the High Court judge that convicted Godi, did not properly evaluate the evidence on record. He says the judge disregarded the evidence […]
The murder sentence of a former medical Trade Union leader Apollo Nyangasi has been pushed tomorrow. Nyangasi was convicted on 19th October for murdering his wife but the sentences were left pending. Today he appeared before court to receive his sentence but the matter has been adjourned to tomorrow because the trial judge was not […]
Col.Kiiza Besigye says that one day president Museveni will be tried in the international court of justice like former Liberian president, Charles Taylor. A U.N.-backed Sierra Leonecourt recently convicted Taylorof war crimes, becoming the first African former president to be found guilty by an international tribunal. Taylor was charged with murder, rape, conscripting child […]
An army man in Uganda killed his male friend because he returned home with his wife. Lieutenant Colonel John Kaye is now facing murder charges at the Court Martial in Kampala. The colonel denies the charges and asks for bail. It is said that Kaye shot dead Steven Kabuye when he turned up with […]
Uganda police have charged eight FDC supporters with the murder of an assistant inspector of police, John Boso Ariongo. Ariongo was hit with a big stone on the head and died on spot on Wednesday. The FDC supporters who have been charged with murder include Catherine Dembe, an LC5 woman councilor in Mpigi, businessman […]
Members of opposition Forum for Democratic Change have spent the whole of today in shock after the state preferred murder charges against their supporters arrested yesterday. The spokesperson of police, Judith Nabakooba says that FDC supporters are in detention over the killing of a policeman John Bosco Ariongo. Some of the FDC supporters facing […]