By Stanley Ebele A palpable sense of frustration and despair is growing among residents in Kotido district as they implore the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) to accelerate adjudication of long-pending human rights cases, emphasizing the urgent need for justice within their…
Former members of UK Special Forces have broken years of silence to give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged war crimes committed by colleagues in Iraq and Afghanistan. Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described seeing members of…
By Bondry Kilenga The local leaders in Karamoja sub-region, in collaboration with security operatives have rejuvenated operations to crack whip on the individuals involved child trafficking. This is in response to the escalating cases of child trafficking across the region. As a…
By Stanley Ebele Uganda Human Rights Commission Officer in charge of Kotido Field Office, Santos Lomongin has raised a red flag over the rising spate of mob justice in the area, urging the public to respect the rule of law and allow…
Agencies. The continuous influx of refugees fleeing conflict in South Sudan into Kenya is piling pressure on the already overstretched Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in Garissa and Turkana, respectively. Prime Cabinet Secretary (CS) and CS for Foreign Affairs Musalia Mudavadi told Senate…
By Stanley Ebele Fredrick Alaba is stranded in Kotido after he was rejected by the family that he has been searching for, for years. The 27- year- old from Hoima City found himself in a mix after his desperate attempts to find…
BBC AFRICAN NEWS A US court awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas $18m (£14m) in damages, after a jury said he was defamed by former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong. The case stems from comments Agyapong made about Anas after his BBC investigation…
By Staff Writer Residents of Acomia trading centre, Kateta Sub County in Serere district have banished a woman who threw her newborn baby in a pit latrine. Gloria Icoris, who has been a teacher at Acomia Community Nursery School located in Acomia…