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Prominent Ugandan academic, Stella Nyanzi was on Friday August 2 handed an 18 months jail sentence over a poem in which she used President Yoweri Museveni's mother’s vagina to criticise his “oppression, suppression and repression” in the country.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog –...

The Ugandan Government has made it mandatory for farmers in the country, to get birth certificates for their cows. Vincent Ssempijja, the country’s Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2xWbJai Get More Nigeria Metro News

Police in Kampala have arrested two people on human-trafficking charges after a 31-year-old woman was allegedly maimed to death in Jordan and her body repatriated to Uganda last month..... Read more via Daily Nation – https://ift.tt/2yLTep6 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Somewhere in Stella Zone in Najjanankumbi, Kampala, it is 9pm and people are planning to go to bed. A young, energetic man hides in a banana plantation and waits his chance to pounce on his prey, perhaps no one in particular. A woman in her late 30s rushes home. The young man, Charles Lutaaya...

A Bulgarian air hostess working with the Emirates Air, today, committed suicide at the Entebbe International Airport, Uganda. According to Capital FM, the deceased, identified as Elena, jumped out through the emergency exit door, shortly before take-off. She was immediately rushed to Kisubi...

A Ugandan MP has been told to apologise to victims of domestic violence after saying men should “beat” their wives. Onesimus Twinamasiko said on Ugandan television channel NTV “as a man, you need to discipline your wife READ MORE HERE

The High Court sitting in Mukono has sentenced a 63-year-old Imam for defiling a two-year-old girl. Musa Mulo, an Imam at Kibubbu Mosque in Lugazi Municipality in the neighbouring Buikwe District, was convicted upon his own plea of guilt. However at the commencement of the trial on Friday, the...

Tundu Lissu, who was shot and injured Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | A Tanzanian court on Monday handed five-month jail terms to two regime opponents, including a lawmaker, for defaming President John Magufuli, their defence counsel said. Joseph Mbilinyi, a lawmaker with main opposition party Chadema...