She was accused of laundering money for her son serving a prison sentence in Cambodia on drug trafficking chargesA court in South Korea sentenced a 90-year-old grandmother to a year in prison for aiding her jailed son in laundering profits from drug trafficking.The Incheon District
In a ruling delivered on Monday, April 13, 2026, by Lady Justice Sarah Birungi Kalibbala rejected Mugerwa’s plea bargain in which he had pleaded guilty to all charges on February 24, 2026 and asked the court to hand him only 30 years in prison. The judge described the offence as grave, premedit
Nearly five years after first being summoned over a controversial story, The Observer newspaper finds itself back before Uganda’s Media Council, this time, not just to answer old questions, but to revisit a case it believed was already closed.The latest summons, delivered on April 8, 202
Shock and grief have engulfed residents of Katwe Cell in Nakawuka Parish, Kajjansi Town Council, Wakiso District after a one-year-old baby girl was allegedly poisoned to death by her caretaker.The deceased has been identified as Balisala Promise, aged one year.According to police, t
In a ruling delivered on Monday, April 13, 2026, by Lady Justice Sarah Birungi Kalibbala rejected Mugerwa’s plea bargain in which he had pleaded guilty to all charges on February 24, 2026 and asked the court to hand him only 30 years in prison. The judge described the offence as grave, premedit
The trial of Christopher Okello Onyum, the prime suspect in the killing of four children at Ggaba Early Childhood Development Centre, commenced on Monday during a High Court session held at the scene of the crime in Makindye Division, Kampala.Okello Onyum faces four counts of murder in con
Police have arrested 11 suspects in connection with the aggravated robbery and fatal shooting of Soroti City businesswoman Kokunda Patricia.The 36-year-old mobile money operator was shot dead on April 3 at about 4:40 AM near Goalman Supermarket along Station Road. Her attackers fled the sc
Kenyan court has sentenced Samuel Kamau Karanja to seven years in prison over the 2016 building collapse in Huruma’s Ngei II Estate, Nairobi, which claimed 52 lives.Karanja, who owned the apartment block, was convicted of manslaughter, illegal construction on riparian land, building with
In a significant breakthrough in the Soroti City murder case, police in the East Kyoga region have arrested a fifth suspect and retrieved a weapon believed to be used in the killing. This follows the tragic shooting of mobile money operator and businesswoman Patricia Kokunda, 32, last week.
Kampala, Uganda: The NRM Revolutionary Network (NRN), an umbrella body for youthful revolutionary cadres in the ruling party, has called for equal and comprehensive accountability in the Karamoja iron sheets scandal, warning against selective justice, which downplays the core principles of the Mo
