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Day: October 15, 2020

Oct152020 by Abel kawereNo Comments
Kireka Sex Party: Suspects Convicted, Face 7 Years In Jail

Kireka Sex Party: Suspects Convicted, Face 7 Years In Jail

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By Keefa Nuwahereza Eleven of the 21 suspects who were arrested by police in Kireka for staging a sex party last weekend face seven years in jail after they were convicted by Grade One Magistrate, Joan Aciro, of Kira Chief Magistrates’ Court. The eleven were charged and convicted by Magistrate, Aciro, of Kira Chief Magistrates’ Court after they pleaded guilty on their own plea on Wednesday October 14, 2020. On Saturday 10th October 2020, 21 suspects were arrested by Kampala Metropolitan Police after being found participating in a sex party in Kireka. They were detained at Kira Division Police Station on charges of disobedience of lawful orders and doing acts that are likely to cause the spread of infectious disease, which is Coronavirus. On Wednesday 14th October, eleven of...
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Oct152020 by Abel kawereNo Comments
Police Arrest 9 Thugs, Recover 9 Boda-bodas In Criminal Bust

Police Arrest 9 Thugs, Recover 9 Boda-bodas In Criminal Bust

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By Our Reporter The Police in Kakiri have arrested nine suspects and recovered nine motor cycles from notorious criminal gang that have been robbing people in the surrounding areas. The operation to net the thugs was launched after a report of stealing two motorcycles was registered at Bukalanga Police Post under Kakiri Division, by Kiwanuka Elijah, 33, a businessman and a resident at Kikubampanga zone, Kakiri Town Council in Wakiso District. He told police that on the night of 30th September 2020 at unknown time, unknown people broke into his house and stole two motorcycles Reg. Nos. UDR 663Q and UDL 710Z both Bajaj Boxer. Police Spokesperson SP Patrick Onyango said that there after Police opened up inquiries, visited the scene of crime and relevant statements were recor...
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Oct152020 by Abel kawereNo Comments
‘Police Stole NUP Money And My Nomination Forms During Raid’-Bobi Wine

‘Police Stole NUP Money And My Nomination Forms During Raid’-Bobi Wine

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By Our Reporter Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, who is a 2021 presidential contender on the National Unity Platform (NUP), has said that the police stole his presidential nomination forms and money worth Shs23M when they raided the NUP offices in Kamwokya on Wednesday. Bobi Wine, who was arrested together with several other NUP members and supporters, although he was later freed, revealed that alleged theft in  tweet on his official twitter handle when he wrote that; “Our team has just finished assessing what has been stolen in broad daylight. Been informed that most of our forms with signatures for nominations have been taken away! They have also taken 23M ugx part of which was meant to facilitate our MP candidates with nomination fees.”...
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Oct152020 by Our ReporterNo Comments
McKinstry Pleased with Uganda’s Team Dubai trip

McKinstry Pleased with Uganda’s Team Dubai trip

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The Cecafa champions chose to take a week-long training camp in the Middle East during the international break before returning home Uganda head coach Johnathan McKinstry has explained why the Dubai training camp was more important than friendlies. The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (Fufa) decided to take the Cranes to the Middle East for a week-long training camp ahead of a November double-header against South Sudan in the African Cup of Nations qualifiers. “Overall, I am very pleased with the camp we have completed in Dubai, it has been a very worthwhile six-seven day,” McKinstry said as was quoted by repoters. “We have done a lot of good work not only on the field but also in the classroom. “And this is something you don’t often get to do during internat...
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Oct152020 by Our ReporterNo Comments
Tutsi community in DR. Congo at Risk, being targeted by anti-Rwanda hostility

Tutsi community in DR. Congo at Risk, being targeted by anti-Rwanda hostility

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Gathered in the hollow of a remote valley in eastern DR Congo, women on one side and men on the other, around 500 people attended the funeral of Bonaventure Kinyegeria, a Congolese cattle raiser murdered by militiamen. The armed attackers killed Kinyegeria near the small territory of Minembwe in the highlands of South Kivu province on October 6, making off with his cows. The daylight raid may have been over cattle, but it was also tied in with a local conflict spurred by a reawakening of deep-seated distrust of Rwanda by many in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinyegeria, 56, was one of the DRC's Banyamulenge community, which has distant origins among Rwanda's minority Tutsi people. But when it comes to their nationality, the Banyamulenge are categorical: "Congolese, and...
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Oct152020 by Our ReporterNo Comments
Unstable dollar Exchange rate making Business Operations Impossible in Juba.

Unstable dollar Exchange rate making Business Operations Impossible in Juba.

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Several small businesses in South Sudan’s capital Juba are closing as fears among traders escalate over depreciation of the local currency, the Pound, several traders in different markets in Juba told Sudans Post this evening. This afternoon, the United States Dollar’s exchange rate against the local currency risen to SSP 830, days after the government announced that it will change the currency in a bid to try to thwart the economic situation in the country. Speaking to Sudans Post in Juba’s custom market this evening, Abdalla Sherif, a Sudanese businessman who owns two shops in both Custom and Jabel, said he has closed down his small businesses until tomorrow. He said some of his colleagues have also done the same because they believes more developments in the dollar/pound chang...
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Oct152020 by Abel kawereNo Comments
Police raids NUP Headquarters in Kamokya, Election-related Documents taken.

Police raids NUP Headquarters in Kamokya, Election-related Documents taken.

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Ugandan police and military forces armed with door cutters, AK-47 guns, tear gas canisters and batons stormed offices of the National Unity Platform party in Kampala on Wednesday.   Roads leading to party offices were cut off as police parked huge trucks in front.  Security officers forced open doors and took items from inside. They later asked members of the party to sign for what was taken.  Joel Ssenyonyi, the NUP spokesperson, said the officers took items from the office of party leader Robert Kyagulanyi, better known by his stage name Bobi Wine.   "They have taken paraphernalia, that is red berets. T-shirts. They have taken documents ... we are still trying to establish exactly," Ssenyonyi said. "They also broke into honorable Kyagulanyi's ...
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