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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 22-year-old Ugandan has been arrested by Rwandan security operatives for aiding smugglers. Edward Kabagambe, a resident of Mayengo village in Kiniogo ward, Katuna town council was arrested on Friday night at around 9:00 pm in Mukatokye village, Gicumbi district in Rwanda. Elly Maate, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Presidential aspirant ,General Henry Tumukunde has been arrested in Njeru municipality in Buikwe district. Tumukunde was picked up from Royal Paradise Hotel where he was meeting his campaign coordinators by police officers led by Hilary Mukiza, the officer in charge of Njeru police station. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Joint Security Task Force –JTF has arrested six traders on Nasser road for allegedly opening their shops. President Museveni on Monday banned all non-food markets and shops in a bid to contain the spread of Covid-19. Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pastor Augustine Yiga of Revival Church Kawaala has beenn uttering false information and spreading  harmful propaganda in relation to the current Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. Yiga, commonly known as ‘abizaayo’ reportedly used his Television Station to tell the public that there was …

How Museveni and his top security agencies executed the plan Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT TEAM | On March 11 President, Yoweri Museveni, called a security meeting at State House, Entebbe, consisting of all heads of intelligence, police and army including the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI). He declared that …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eight Chinese who had escaped from quarantine in Entebbe Friday, have been arrested in Goli Zombo, enroute to DRC. The Chinese, and their Ugandan collaborators, are expected to be charged in Arua High Court on Monday, a day after Uganda halted accepting any more …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) on Friday questioned Tororo County MP Annet Nyakecho, her husband Levi Otim and brother on the intent of their meeting with former Security Minister, Lt. Gen. Henry Tumukunde. The group was questioned for more than six hours today. This comes …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Police has confirmed that Lt. Gen. Henry Tumukunde will be charged with treason. The former security minister and now Presidential aspirant, was arrested Thursday night. Police said in a statement that the arrest follows “his utterances in a series of radio and television …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lt. Gen Henry Tumukunde has been arrested. He was arrested on Thursday evening from his office on Impala Avenue in Kololo by a combined team of Special Forces Command – SFC soldiers and Counter-Terrorism Unit. The security agencies were led by the CID Director …

Libreville, Gabon | AFP | The oil-rich central African state of Gabon has carried out a string of top-level arrests and reassignments as it ramps up a drive against corruption. Nearly two dozen people, some of them in the inner circle of power, have been ousted from office, arrested or …