Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Constitutional Court has ordered that city businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba together with his brother Muzamir Basajjabalaba should stand trial before the Anti-Corruption Court. The ruling comes five years after their trial had been stayed, so that they could challenge charges of conspiracy to defeat …
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Libreville, Gabon | AFP | Gabon’s government resigned on Tuesday, the day after the constitutional court dissolved the national parliament and also called for the country’s leadership to step down over election delays. Prime Minister Emmanuel Issozet Ngondet “submitted the resignation letter of his government following the decision of the constitutional …
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Libreville, Gabon | AFP | Gabon’s constitutional court on Monday dissolved the national parliament and called on the government to step down, criticising its failure to organise legislative elections as required. The court announced that President Ali Bongo Ondimba would nominate a new ministerial team answerable directly to him, …
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Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | A judge on Monday ordered the seizure of two properties linked to the wife of Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan, in the latest legal case since her husband left office. Judge Nnamdi Dimgba, sitting at the Federal High Court in Abuja, upheld a request from …
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Judgment day yet to be set as age limit hearings end Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | On the night of April.19, Deputy Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny – Dollo and other constitutional Court judges Cheborion Barishaki, Remmy Kasule, Kenneth Kakuru and Elizabeth Musoke concluded hearings into the consolidated age limit petitions promising …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Lydia Mugambe has closed a case in, which the family of a Rwandese national has been pushing for his unconditional release by the military. Claude Lyakaremye’s family petitioned High court through his lawyer, Eron Kiiza to compel the army to release him unconditionally. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Tooro Queen Mother Best Kemigisa set conditions if her and her in-laws back in Fort portal are to sit on the round table, to resolve the rift between them over Kingdom Property. Her Royal Highness says her tormentors should come out publicly and apologizes to …
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THIS WEEK: Kadaga off the hook in age limit petition Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Constitutional Court sitting in Mbale district declined to issue summons to Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of Parliament for the ongoing the age limit petition hearing. The petition is challenging the passing of the law …
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Washington, United States | AFP | The Democratic Party filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that Russia, WikiLeaks and top officials from Donald Trump’s campaign conspired to tilt the 2016 US presidential election in the Republican’s favor. The civil complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan by the Democratic National Committee alleges …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Constitutional Court sitting in Mbale Thursday concluded the hearing of the consolidated petition challenging the Constitutional Amendment removing the age limit from the Constitution and other changes to Uganda’s Constitution Parliament made last year. Deputy Chief Justice Owiny Dollo who chaired the panel of …
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