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Victim or villain as 100 are killed in Kasese massacre? On Nov. 14, two police officers on guard at Queen Elizabeth National Park in Kasese district were attacked and killed by unknown assailants who grabbed their two guns and disappeared. This was just two days after Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga …

VIDEO: The King of the Rwenzururu Charles Wesley Omumbere has been remanded to an unknown place after he was charged with murder of a police officer, a case he is said to have committed in March this year. He had spent two days in Nalufeenya prison in Jinja  when he was …

The King of the Rwenzururu Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere has been charged today with a March 2016 murder in a Jinja court and remanded in prison until December 13. After his arrest in Kasese on Sunday, Mumbere appeared in public for the first time Tuesday and was charged with murder, …

The spate of killings that rocked the Rwenzururu kingdom over the weekend has prompted a group of Kasese Members of Parliament to blame the government for “failure to keep peace in Rwenzori sub region.” Sixty two people died and hundreds were injured before and after the Obusinga bwa Rwenzururu Charles Wesley …

VIDEO: Opposition members of parliament have condemned the manner in which the Omusinga of Rwenzururu Charles Wesley Mumbere was arrested Sunday afternoon. The law makers are calling for an immediate unconditional release of the king together with other arrested people. They are also demanding for an international probe team to be …

VIDEO: The man in the news. From the royal palace, hundreds of kilometers away in the south western district of Kasese where he is king to thousands, to now being detained by police in Jinja. His arrest and detention continues to make headlines locally and internationally. But who is Charles …

Kampala, Uganda | AFP | The death toll has risen to 62 from weekend clashes in a traditional kingdom in western Uganda, which pitted security forces against royal guards accused of belonging to a separatist militia, police said Monday. The streets of the western town of Kasese were empty a …

Wesley Mumbere arrested after clashes kill 55 Kampala, Uganda | AFP |  Ugandan police stormed the palace of a tribal king and arrested him Sunday after fierce clashes between security forces and a separatist militia they believe is linked to him killed 55, police said. Heavy fighting broke out Saturday …

The Omusinga of Rwenzururu Charles Wesley Mumbere has met President Yoweri Museveni who is on a four-day security assessment tour of the Rwenzori region. “I met the King this afternoon and he assured me on all issues I was hearing and I am satisfied with his explanations,” Museveni said yesterday. …

By Patrick Matsiko wa Mucoori The National Resistance Movement had no difficulty in supporting cultural revival. We had no difficulty because reviving the cultural institutions will address the following very important points’¦ It was of great significance that in the interlacustrine Bantu area, the kingdoms of Buganda, Bunyoro, Ankole and …