A 35-year-old South African mother and two accomplices have been sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping and trafficking of her own six-year-old daughter Joshlin Smith an act that has shocked the nation and left...
The Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court has declined to grant mandatory bail to opposition leader Col (Rtd) Dr. Kizza Besigye, Hajji Obeid Lutale, and Capt. Denis Oola, citing lack of jurisdiction.
Presiding magistrate Christine Nantege ruled on Wednesday...
The State Minister for Youth and Children Affairs, Balaam Barugahara, committed to engaging the government to have all the political prisoners released, and last week, 18 of them, including Olivia Lutaaya, pleaded guilty and are yet to serve a light sentence of four months and then after will be released after spending over four years in prison.
The State Minister for Gender, Labour, and Social Development in charge of Children and Youth Affairs, Balaam Barugahara, has said that rapists and defilers should never be given bail once arrested.
The Ugandan government has failed in the skyrocketing youth unemployment with over 70%, delivering on promised programs like youth livelihood, exploitation by politicians, suppression of freedom of expression and association, entrenchment of corruption, and nepotism, among others.