A Ugandan court on Friday refused to grant bail to long-time opposition figure Kizza Besigye, even though he has now been held for more than the constitutionally allowed six months without trial. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel The 69-year-old was seized by armed men in Nairobi last November …
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Ugandan human rights activist Agather Atuhaire has accused Tanzanian authorities of stripping, torturing, and assaulting her before dumping her at the Mutukula border, just hours after Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi was similarly abandoned at the Horohoro border post. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel Atuhaire described harrowing abuse, including …
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Drama unfolded in a Ugandan courtroom on Friday when opposition figure Kizza Besigye’s legal team stormed out in protest after a magistrate allowed proceedings to continue without the presence of lead counsel Martha Karua. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel Karua, who has been heading Besigye’s defense, was absent …
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Ugandan human rights advocate Agather Atuhaire has been released by Tanzanian authorities, just a day after Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi was also freed. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel According to her family and legal team, Atuhaire was dropped off near Uganda’s Mutukula border on Thursday evening. “She’s on …
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Martha Karua, leader of the People’s Liberation Party (PLP), has formally petitioned the African Union Commission (AUC), raising alarm over what she described as the worsening state of the rule of law in Tanzania. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel In a letter also sent to the East African …
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Former President Uhuru Kenyatta and fellow co-facilitators of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) peace process convened in Lomé, Togo, for a meeting with African Union (AU) Mediator President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel Uhuru stated that the meeting focused on reinforcing the need for …
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Law Society of Kenya (LSK) President Faith Odhiambo has spoken out against the detention of Kenyan lawyers, including People’s Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua, at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel Karua revealed on May 18, 2025, that she …
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Fifteen people have been killed in a head-on collision between a minibus taxi and a pick-up truck in rural South Africa, according to a transport official on Sunday. The accident occurred late on Saturday night into Sunday, near the town of Maqoma in the Eastern Cape, about 1,000 kilometers (620 …
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Police in South Africa are searching for answers after the bodies of three police officers – who had been missing for six days – were found in a river. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel Boipelo Senoge, 20, Cebekhulu Linda, 24, and Keamogetswe Buys, 30, were last seen leaving …
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A High Court in Abuja has sentenced Peter Nwachukwu, husband of popular gospel singer Osinachi, to death by hanging for murder. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel The judgment, delivered by Justice Nwosu-iheme, comes three years after Osinachi’s death which occurred on April 8, 2022. The case has attracted …
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