TANZANIA breathed a sigh of relief when President Samia Suluhu Hassan took power.After her authoritarian predecessor President John Magufuli died in 2021, the softly-spoken Hassan was widely expected to be a less tyrannical replacement.NINTCHDBPICT001043444208Hassan, Tanzania
Following the National Prayer Breakfast on forgiveness, OPED author Franklin G. Karokora challenges Chris Rwakasisi to stop dodging his mass murder conviction and show remorse to the families of the six victims.Chris Rutimbirayo Rwakasisi CMMChris Rwakasisi was on June 30th 1988 con
The prosecution further alleges that Besigye sought surface-to-air missiles, ricin poison, counterfeit currency, and planned to use drone technology to assassinate President Yoweri Museveni. The state claims it has audio and video recordings, social media messages, immigration documents, and phon
Singapore hanged three people for drug offences last week, bringing the total number of executions to 17 this year - the highest since 2003.These come a week before a constitutional challenge against the death penalty for drug offences is due to be heard.Singapore h
Kampala Metropolitan Police have confirmed that the decomposed body recovered from Musaale Swamp in Kyampisi Subcounty belongs to Aneza Merisa, a missing student of Naalya SS Lugazi Campus, and are now treating the case as murder.According to Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson ASP Ra
Yaoundé — "If by November 26, the captors have not released Father John, I request all the priests, religious personnel from all Catholic institutions in Ndop deanery will be closed. Priests will be evacuated for their safety, and the Blessed Sacrament will be removed from the churches." This
Singer Chosen Becky is deeply in love and is proudly showing it. The “Bankuza” hitmaker, who is currently dating Abdul Sekajja, says she is enjoying the best phase of her romantic life and is grateful to have finally found the man of her dreams.Chosen Becky and Sekajja have recently be
National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has claimed credit for what he describes as a shift in how President Yoweri Museveni engages with musicians.While addressing supporters during a rally in Kawempe, Bobi Wine said that before he joined a
Lwemiyaga County MP Theodore Ssekikubo has escalated his challenge against the nomination of his rival, Brig. Gen. Emmanuel Rwashande, accusing Electoral Commission (EC) officials in Ssembabule District of clearing the National Resistance Movement (NRM) flag bearer using “forged, fraudulent and
A deaf and dumb father of 12 children who has been held at Luzira prison for over a year on allegations of using his three-year-old child to beg, is appealing for justice and release as he awaits trial in the High Court.Thirty-six-year-old&
