Six children were killed and five others injured in northwest Uganda after an old explosive they found in the bushes detonated as they played with it, police said Thursday. Three children died instantly while three others succumbed to injuries on their way to hospital in Adjumani, a district of the …
Read More »Uganda: soldiers jailed for assaulting journalists
According to a statement of the Ugandan military, seven soldiers have been given jail sentences by a disciplinary committee for beating up journalists outside the United Nations Human rights office on Wednesday. They were given sentences of between two to three months at a military detention facility. The trial of …
Read More »The chief of the Ugandan army apologises for beating reporters
Gen David Muhoozi, Uganda’s army chief says the beating of journalists by military was neither sanctioned nor justified, and promise the army would pay their medical bills. The incident occurred outside the UN Human Rights office where the opposition MP and musician Bobi Wine was delivering a petition over human …
Read More »Assault of journalists by Uganda military condemned by United Nations
The UN has condemned an attack by the Ugandan security forces that left several journalists injured as they were reporting on the opposition MP the opposition leader Bobi Wine who was highlighting allegations of human rights abuses in the country. The police said security personnel were dispersing an uncontrolled crowd …
Read More »Ugandan reporters covering rights petition badly beaten
The security forces in Uganda have injured several journalists who were reporting on pop star-turned politician Bobi Wine delivering a petition to the UN highlighting human rights abuses in the country. Eyewitnesses said soldiers arrived in trucks outside the UN Human Rights Office in the capital, Kampala, and started beating …
Read More »Bobi Wine wants Uganda Chief Justice off poll petition
Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, wants the chief justice to recuse himself from hearing a petition challenging the re-election of President Yoweri Museveni. Bobi Wine accuses Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo of bias because of his close association to the president. The opposition politician also wants two …
Read More »Former LRA leader Dominic Ongwen to appeal ICC ruling, claims mental disability
Ongwen’s defence lawyer, Krispus Ayena Odongo argued that he (Ongwen) was a victim who was abducted when he was 9 years old and forcibly conscripted along the LRA ranks raising questions about his mental abilities. Ayena wants to challenge various components of the ruling like for instance, the court did …
Read More »British company pays to victims of rape and rights abuses in Malawi, Kenya
A UK company, Camellia Group, agreed to settle legal claims from a number of Kenyan and Malawian women over gross human rights abuses and rape allegations. The firm’s guards have been accused of committing atrocities ranging from killings, rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence. The Macadamia, tea …
Read More »Rwanda: the vaccination program start with healths workers
In a statetement said on Sunday, the Rwandan health ministry said the country has started immunising its healthcare workers against the cornavirus pandemic. An official in the ministry said immunisation with the Pfizer vaccine started last week in a few hospitals in the capital, Kigali. In a tweet, the ministry …
Read More »Ethiopia’s Tigray region is ‘one step from famine’ – EU
The European Commission on Thursday warned that the Tigray region of Ethiopia could be approaching a famine, as the country’s three-month-long conflict continued. The European Commission on Thursday warned that the Tigray region of Ethiopia could be approaching a famine, as the country’s three-month-long conflict continued. The region is largely …
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