PLE Results: Kisoro, Kampala lead districts with most withheld exams
UNEB Executive Director Dan Odongo disclosed that in some centres, scouts and invigilators were either bribed or threatened with physical harm by school directors and hea...
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Uganda: Ssemakadde's Bid for Presidential Pardon Rejected
The Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy has declined to advise the President on granting clemency to exiled president of the Uganda Law Society, Isaac Ssemakad...
Congo-Kinshasa: Conflicting Reports On the Assassination of Former President Kabila in Uvira
Kinshasa — Rumors have been circulating in recent days about the alleged assassination of former Congolese President Joseph Kabila. According to information sent t...
Uganda Prisons denies claims of female inmates getting pregnant in jail
The prison authorities described allegations from members of parliament as unfounded and impossible under the current prison system.Officials from the Uganda Prisons Serv...
Lawyers Slam ‘Defective’ Charges against Bireete, Urge Court to End Alleged Unlawful Detention
Lawyers representing human rights activist, Sarah Bireete, have filed urgent applications seeking a production warrant to have her brought before the Buganda Road Chief M...
Byanyima and Kanyamunyu Clash Over Prison, Civic Duty Ahead of Uganda Elections
A public exchange between Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International, and her nephew Matthew Kanyamunyu has ignited national debate on political repressio...
Yes, I Killed but Sought forgiveness’: Ex-Convict Kanyamunyu opens on Guilt and Redemption
Mathew Kanyamunyu, the businessman convicted over the 2016 killing of child rights activist Kenneth Akena, has for the first time publicly opened up about the incident an...
Brazil court rejects new Bolsonaro appeal against coup conviction
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Friday rejected a fresh appeal by jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro against his coup conviction, declaring it inadmissible, accord...
Africa: 127 African Women Journalists Write to Jailed Burundian Sandra Muhoza As She Returns to Court
Nairobi — On the first anniversary of the conviction of ailing Burundian journalist Sandra Muhoza, 127 African women journalists have written her a joint letter ex...
Wiz Khalifa Sentenced To 9 Months In Romanian Prison! OMG!
Wiz Khalifa, Mr. Young, Wild & Free himself, is suddenly not looking very free at all after a Romanian court slapped him with a jaw-dropping nine-month prison sentence ov...