By Guyson Nanagayi – Kampala – (AFP)- Ugandan authorities on Thursday released two suspects Sheikh Zamir Naufal and Ugandan Dithan Peter Ntale detained on suspicion of involvement in the July 11 Kampala attacks that killed 76 people watching the World Cup final. The release comes after the prosecution entered a “nolle prosequi”, a Latin legal phrase that amounts to “do not prosecute”and Chief Magistrate Deo Ssejjemba ordered the immediate release of Pakistani national Sheikh Zamir Naufal and Ugandan Dithan Peter Ntale “Proceedings against the two accused persons are hereby dismissed as per the prayers and pleadings by the prosecution. You... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, September 24th 2010 |
By Guyson Nanagayi – Mogadishu – (AP)- The head of Somalia’s transition government President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed is travelling to Uganda for talks on security issues at a time of political upheaval in Mogadishu, Somalia’s Ministry of Information said on Friday. The visit comes a day after a rift between Ahmed and Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke over a new draft constitution boiled over. The prime minister faces a vote of confidence within two days that could see him lose his job. Somalia’s Ministry of Information said that President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed would confer with his Ugandan... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, September 19th 2010 |
By Nangayi Guyson in Kampala Uganda – Another Ugandan journalist who has been working as news presenter for the Seventh Day Adventist radio station in Uganda has been beaten and killed by an unidentified assailants. Dickson Ssentongo has been working for Prime Radio in Mukono district, central Uganda as a Luganda language news presenter but he was attacked on Monday morning on his way to work. Assailants beat Ssentongo with metal bars and dragged him into a nearby cassava field, local journalists told CPJ. He was the second journalist murdered in three days in Uganda after freelance journalist Paul Kiggundu... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, September 19th 2010 |
By Guyson Nanagayi – Kampala – (Reuters) The Ugandan army has dismissed accusations in a leaked UN draft on atrocities in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo that it committed war crimes during operations there in the 1990s and described the report as rubbish. UPDF’s spokesperson Felix Kulayigye, said the UN charges were false because they lacked detail and sound evidence. “I dismiss that report as rubbish, absolute rubbish,” he told Reuters. “We’ve been through this before with the International Criminal Court which didn’t find any evidence of war crimes against the UPDF. Secondly, we conducted our own judicial investigation which... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, September 15th 2010 |
By Nangayi Guyson – Kampala – (CPJ)–A Ugandan freelance journalist Paul Kiggundu was on Saturday evening beaten to death by Motorcycle taxi drivers , local journalists told CPJ. The drivers accused Kiggundu of working for the police, even though he had identified himself as a journalist, and attacked him while filming some of them demolishing a house of another driver, Frank Kagayi, who they accused of committing murder and robbery, a bystander told the Ugandan Human Rights Journalist Network Kiggundu received treatment at Kalisizo Government Hospital but later died of internal bleeding and was buried Sunday in a town outside... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, September 14th 2010 |
