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The National Unity Platform just lost a candidate for parliament. The electoral body blocked Resty Sarah Kyarimpa from running for the Isingiro District Woman MP seat. Officials said her nomination papers were not valid. They found that one of her supporters from the district was listed twice on...

A Kampala business owner named Andrew Muhandiki faced a judge at Buganda Road Court over a major theft case. Prosecutors say he worked with others to steal over eight hundred million shillings from a teacher's savings group. The State House Anti-Corruption Unit, along with regular police...

President Yoweri Museveni promised big road and power projects for Sembabule District during a campaign stop. Speaking as the National Resistance Movement candidate for the next national election, he told a large rally about infrastructure plans. He mentioned extending tarmac roads to connect...

Cops in Kampala are looking into how an eleven-year-old girl died. Her body was found inside a taxi at the Old Taxi Park. The police spokesperson, SP Rachael Kawala, said it happened at the Tororo Stage. The driver, Kalulu Bosco, had been given the child the day before by a guide named Asuman...

The Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, is speaking out hard against a surge in ritual murders. He focused specifically on killings targeting children. In a recent message, he said these brutal crimes are terrorizing communities and wrecking public safety. He mentioned reports of...

The Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, is calling for calm during the election season. He wants a stop to violence and for election officials to stay neutral. He mentioned specific problems like candidates and their supporters getting beaten up and blocked from reaching their own...

Vice President Jessica Alupo got an honorary doctorate from the Islamic University in Uganda. The school gave it to her at their main campus in Mbale during a graduation event. University officials said it was for her leadership, her time in the military, and her work in education, especially...

The Uganda Law Society just dropped its whole neutral act. Its president, Isaac Kimaze Ssemakadde, signed an order officially backing a bunch of opposition candidates for the upcoming national vote. They are throwing support behind Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, for...

A former top cop is directly linked to an old assassination case. Nickson Agasiirwe Karuhanga, an ex-senior superintendent of police, and another guy named Abdu Noor Ssemujju, also known as Minaana, are headed for a High Court trial. They are accused of the murder of Joan Namazzi Kagezi, a...

Mulago National Referral Hospital is finally trying to do liver transplants. The boss there, Dr. Rosemary Byanyima, spilled the details. They are teaming up with Yashoda Hospital over in India to make it happen. This would be a first for Uganda. They already have a bunch of patients from their...

Cops getting busted for taking bribes is like the oldest story ever. Three traffic officers from Murehwa just got perp-walked into a courtroom. Their names are Prosper Muchangani, Shelton Masvande, and Mercy Makarimai. Ages are thirty-six, thirty-four, and not given. They are looking at charges...

People in the Guruve district are completely freaked out. The cops are after a guy named Anymore Zvitsva, who they call Modho. He is thirty-two years old. They think he is a serial killer. There is a bounty on his head for info that gets him caught. This is all going down in Bosha Village up in...

The finance ministry is finally admitting that they froze a bunch of paycheck deductions on purpose. For the last four months, they have been holding back money meant for banks and microfinance companies that civil servants use for loans. Minister Mthuli Ncube says it was not a glitch or a cash...

The flood death toll is rising in the South. Police in Matabeleland South confirm three people have drowned in separate river incidents, with four more still stranded. Inspector Chiratidzo Dube gave the grim breakdown. In Bulilima, that group of four people who went to harvest mopane worms last...

The village drama is always next level. A guy in Rusape named Beyond Magwena got publicly humiliated when a whole crew showed up at his house with his girlfriend, causing a huge scene in front of his actual wife. The girlfriend's brother, Phibion Mutombwa, took him to the local chief's court. He...

So the bodyguard for that celebrity preacher, Walter Magaya, just walked free. Tapiwa Fellix Chikondo was on trial for trying to mess with a police investigation, specifically a rape case involving his boss. The charge was obstructing justice. A magistrate in Harare named Tapiwa Kuhudzai found...

A Chinese mining company just got booted from a local investment deal by the High Court. Ming Chang Sino Africa Investment, along with Fuel Africa and an individual named Wang Ke, have been ordered off the share register for Gwampa Mining. The court agreed with Gwampa that the shares given to...

The tourism authority is apparently cleaning house, and the staff is not happy about how it is going down. Word is the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority, under its acting CEO William Stima, has fired a bunch of senior people. This includes three directors and about a dozen other department heads and...

Well, this is a new one. A British guy just got a Zimbabwean court to greenlight the sale of a local woman's house to settle a debt from a rental dispute in the UK. Clayton Allen took Blessing Chinganga to a British county court over unpaid rent on a place in Wolverhampton. He won a judgment for...

Another horrific day of domestic violence. In Beitbridge, a thirty-five-year-old woman named Faith Dube has been arrested for murder. The police say she killed her father-in-law in Tshishala Village. The alleged motive was an ongoing conflict over his constant drinking, which she blamed for...