UAE arrests Khashoggi’s US lawyer on money laundering charges.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2309 EAT on Sunday 17th July 2022. Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have arrested an American citizen and civil rights lawyer who previously served as a lawyer for slain journalist jamal khashogi, according to an official and a United States-based rights group. A UAE government official confirmed to the…

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Pope: Canada trip ‘pilgrimage of penance’ for Indigenous abuses.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1918 EAT on Sunday 17th July 2022. Pope Francis has said an upcoming visit to Canada will be a “pilgrimage of penance” that he hopes will help to heal wounds left in Indigenous communities by Roman Catholic priests and nuns who ran abusive residential schools that sought to forcibly assimilate children….

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Police chief roots for more support to canine unit.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe 1813 EAT on Sunday 17th July 2022. Maj Gen Geoffrey Tumusiime Katsigazi, the deputy inspector general of police (DIGP), has called for the strengthening of the police canine unit in order to defeat criminality. He said this on July 14 during a tour of the unit’s headquarters at Nsambya barracks…

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ALEX NDAWULA: dynamic and memorable but a flawed genius.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1803 EAT on Sunday 17th July 2022. On July 10, renowned radio personality ALEX NDAWULA was finally laid to rest in Kyamaganda village, Nakateete parish in Lwengo district. He was 59. A peerless radio star in his heyday, Alex’s death and send-off were in many ways an anti-climax of…

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In the face of Afrigo Band is Senior Citizen Moses Matovu

Compiled by E K Benj on Sunday 17th July 2022 In our special series “Senior Citizens” today we are featuring Moses Matovu  a Ugandan musician and saxophonist. He is one of the founders of Afrigo Band, Uganda’s longest-lasting band, founded in 1975. Early childhood and education Matovu was born on 19 June 1949 in Kawempe Division, Kampala District to Abdallah…

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Togolese army admits to killing children mistaken for ‘jihadists.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1916 EAT on Friday 15th July 2022. The Togolese army has admitted to killing seven children on July 10 in a blast in the village of Margba, in Tone Prefecture, in its northernmost region Savanna region near the border with Burkina Faso. In a statement issued Thursday, the military…

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South African mobile operator MTN in talks to buy domestic rival.

Telkom’s shares jumped nearly 30 percent following the announcement, while MTN was up nearly 5 percent. Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1855 EAT on Friday 15th July 2022. South African mobile operator MTN Group Ltd is in talks to buy smaller domestic rival Telkom for a stock or a cash-and-stock deal, the two companies…

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Medical evidence, witnesses not required to prove torture – Court of Appeal.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1837 EAT on Friday 15th July 2022. The Court of Appeal has ruled that torture victims have no legal basis and requirement to produce medical evidence. The three-member panel comprising justices Fredrick Egonda-Ntende, Muzamiru Mutangula Kibeedi, and Christopher Gashirabake notes that it is rare to have direct evidence of…

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