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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Renown Jinja city artist commonly known by his stage name Top K, is in fresh trouble for using a false identity while recording a police statement. Top K is battling charges of aggravated defilement and abduction of a 13-year-old primary 5 pupil after being found …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Renowned Jinja city artist, Ronald Bamukisa alias Top K spent the night behind bars for alleged defilement. He was rounded up by attendants at Green Summer bar and lodge in Jinja City Southern division on allegations of defiling a 13-year-old girl. He however locked himself inside …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has strongly condemned the abduction of more than 50 women and girls in Burkina Faso. The AU Commission chairperson “condemns in the strongest terms, the abduction of more than 50 women and girls on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of Opposition, Mathias Mpuuga has again met the Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja over missing opposition supporters. The two met on Thursday in the office of the Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa. The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Defence, the Minister for Information …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba has rejected calls by the Deputy Inspector General of Police-DIGP, Major General Geoffrey Kastigazi Tumusiime to submit another list of people believed to have been abducted by state security agencies. Mpuuga argues that it has …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF have joined the hunt for men in military uniform who were captured on camera kidnapping a Pakistan National in Kireka. Rafik Khan, who was dumped in Kasangalabi along Kayunga-Mukono road, opened a case of abduction and robbery at Kireka police station …

Kyotera, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Victims of the 2021 electoral violence in Kyotera district are still struggling to regain their full lives a year later. Nineteen opposition sympathizers, largely youths were kidnaped from their homes in Kasaali and Kyotera town councils in Kyotera district on the night of January 8th, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Maj Gen Abel Kandiho, the commander of Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), has been personally involved in the abduction and torture of government critics. This is according to the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control-OFAC. Gen Kandiho was on Tuesday …

Kyotera, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It is ten months after the general elections were conducted in Uganda. But it is far from over to the family of George Kasumba, who continue to wait for his return after abduction on January 19th. Jane Kyomugisha, an elder sister to Kasumba narrates that …

Nabilatuk, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Suspected warriors have abducted five women from Narisai settlement camp in Nabilatuk district. The women were cutting grass for thatching huts from the thickets of Lorengedwat, some 5 kilometers away from Lorengedwat trading centre when they were kidnapped on Monday and led to an unknown …