Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has been sentenced to death in absentia for war crimes and treason. The charges concern accusations that Kabila has been supporting the M23, a rebel group who have wreaked devastation across the country’s eastern…
By Bondry Kilenga The Kotido Grade One Magistrate Rashid Katende, has sentenced three people to lengthy jail terms and remanded eight others to Kotido Prison on separate cases. In the first case Katende sentenced Charles Lokech, a resident of Kotido town to…
BBC AFRICAN NEWS: A court in Zambia has sentenced two men to two years in prison for attempting to use witchcraft to kill President Hakainde Hichilema. Zambian Leonard Phiri and Mozambican Jasten Mabulesse Candunde were convicted under the Witchcraft Act after being…
The Executive Director of the Judicial Training Institute Andrew Khaukha, has disclosed that 99 per cent of civil cases in Uganda can be settle through mediation either in or out of court. He described resolving disputes through mediation is an efficient strategy…
By Bondry Kilenga Former Jie County Member of Parliament Moses Adome Bildad has listed 11 grounds for nullification of the incumbent Member of Parliament of Kotido Municipality, Ismail Lomwar’s election as the NRM party flag bearer. Lomwar was on July 18, 2025,…
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Election Disputes Tribunal has released a cause list for the first batch of petitions arising from the party’s parliamentary primary elections, with 56 cases set for hearing on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. The hearings will take place…
By Alexander Mackey Okori Eleven petitions from Karamoja sub-region are among over 380 petitions challenging the outcome of the NRM Party Primary Elections for Parliamentary flag bearers in 211 constituencies that the party’s Election Dispute Tribunal has gazetted for hearing, starting Tuesday,…
President Yoweri Museveni has signed the controversial Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (Amendment) Act, 2025, into law, granting military courts the powers to try civilians, a decision critics argue defies a Supreme Court ruling delivered on January 31, 2025. In May of this…