The Court of Appeal has upheld a 50-year jail sentence that was handed to a man convicted of murdering his brother. On January 14, 2014, Justice Rugadya Atwooki found Mr. Sperito Ssemaganda guilty of murdering his brother Lozio Kayizzi and ordered him to spend 50 years in prison. Unhappy with […]
Kampala City Hall Court has remanded a male student of Samson Memorial High School Kyebando to Luzira prison for allegedly performing a sexual act with a 15-year-old female student, well knowing that he was HIV positive. The 21-year-old student (names withheld) appeared before grade one Magistrate Jane Tibagonzeka and charged with […]
By BRIAN ADAMS KESIIME | Monitor Court in Mpigi District has remanded an Israeli man who last month confessed to killing his lover after a DNA test revealed he is not the biological father of their baby. Court presided over by Mpigi Grade One Magistrate Ezra Solomon Okem heard that on […]
The United States (US) has issued a new travel advisory to its citizens who plan to travel to Uganda. In a statement issued on Tuesday by the US Mission in Uganda, the US government has asked its citizens to reconsider travel to Uganda due to anti-homosexuality legislation, crime, and terrorism. […]
By Olivier Mukaaya A 28-year-old man identified as Dan Wetaka from Simu sub-county in Bulambuli district is on the run after beating his wife into a coma over Parish Development Model (PDM) money. According to Stanley Bayola, the Bulambuli Resident District Commissioner, Wetaka’s wife received Shs1 million under the Parish […]
