Tag Archives: court

    COMMENT | GYAGENDA SEMAKULA ZIKUSOOKA SSAJJABBI | As a critic of Uganda’s criminal justice system, the recently concluded proceedings in the Okello Onyum matter, presided over by Alice Komuhangi Khaukha, present a compelling case study at the intersection of criminal adjudication, judicial temperament, and public confidence in the administration …

Inside a landmark case that tested Uganda’s mobile courts, judicial independence, and the legal threshold for the ultimate sentence   COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | On the morning of April 2, 2026, what began as an ordinary school day at a modest childcare centre on the southeastern outskirts of Kampala …

  New forensics facility set to strengthen evidence in Uganda’s Wildlife Court   Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | On the edge of Lake Victoria, at the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre in Entebbe, the mood on April 29 carried a quiet kind of significance. There were speeches, handshakes, and the …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The High Court Criminal Division in Kampala has adjourned the treason case against opposition politician Dr. Kizza Besigye, Obeid Lutale, and Captain Denis Oola to May 6th and 10th, 2026, for the continuation of cross-examination of Chief State Attorney Joseph Kyomuhendo. The proceedings, presided over …

Malema has vowed to challenge the judgment right up to South Africa’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, if necessary   Johannesburg, South Africa | AGENCIES | The leader of one of South Africa’s main opposition parties, Julius Malema, has been given a five-year prison term for unlawfully possessing a firearm …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Justice Geoffrey Kiryabwire of the Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court has urged internal auditors to play a more proactive role in reducing the growing backlog of court cases, warning that unresolved commercial disputes in y in the banking sector are tying up trillions of …

Mbarara, Uganda | URN | The High Court in Mbarara has dismissed an election petition filed by Mbarara City North MP candidate Robert Mwesigwa Rukaari against MP-elect Christopher Bakashaba and the Electoral Commission, after finding that Rukaari failed to properly serve the respondents with court documents. Rukaari, who contested as …

Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | The trial of Molly Katanga took a corporate turn in the High Court yesterday, as prosecutors shifted their focus from forensic evidence to the financial operations of the business empire she co-founded with her late husband, Henry Katanga. In a session dominated by balance …

Former Karamoja minister and outgoing Bududa MP jailed four years for diverting relief aid   NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | The story of Agnes Nandutu is in many ways a study in contrasts, from hardship to prominence, from the newsroom to Parliament, and ultimately from public trust to criminal …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Christopher Okello Onyum 39, the man accused in the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Day Care Center of slaughtering four toddlers in cold blood, will be tried in open court next week. According to a statement by the State Minister of Youth and Children Affairs, Balaam …