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Radio Pacis Finance Boss is dead, fear of superstition grips entire staff

October 11th, 2011 · No Comments

By agencies in West Nile,
Anxiety, sorrow and fear of superstition have griped the management and the entire staff of Radio Pacis in Arua-Uganda following the mysterious death of the finance administrator Mr. Bayo Justo at Arua Regional Referral Hospital on the 30th of September after a short illness.
Shocking revelations
Shockingly, during the funeral service on Sunday [...]

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Tags: Crime · Uncategorized

Former Arua LC 5 chairman jailed over unpaid 25-Million debt

June 21st, 2011 · No Comments

By Ronald Batre and Stephen Candia
Arua
Former Arua district LC 5 chairman Andama Richard Ferua has been arrested and subsequently jailed for failing to pay 25 million shillings rent arrears that accumulated during his first term of office.

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Man Butchers wife to death with a machete

January 27th, 2011 · No Comments

Stephen Candia and Amacha Goli, West Nile
Shock gripped the local residents of Ajiforo village in Adjumani district in Northern Uganda after a beastly man decided to butcher his wife.

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Tags: Crime · Uncategorized

High Court in Arua Resumes after 4-months of recess

October 11th, 2010 · No Comments

By Stephen Candia -Arua
About seventy fresh cases will be handled in Arua High Court when the new session resumes, on the 14th of this month. The session is expected to be presided over by High Court judge, Justice Wilson Kwesiga. All case backlogs had been cleared in the last session.

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Ugandan Al-Shabaab suspect arrested in Kenya

August 6th, 2010 · No Comments

By Richard Ekotu Kampala Uganda
A Ugandan man suspected to have links with the Al-Shabaab terrorist group  arrested in Kenya.
Fred Opolot, executive director of the Media Center, told a news conference in Kampala that Ali Issa Senkumba was arrested a week before the attack that rocked the city on Sunday 11 July 2010.
He did not say [...]

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Man poisons himself and son to death

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

By Sarah Adong
GULU- A man identified as Komakech Patrick has poisoned himself and his son Bongomin Daniel (3) to death.

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‘International Criminal Court not balanced’

August 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments

By Gloria Laker Aciro
GULU- The International Criminal Court has come under critism by the Gulu based Human Rights Focus, a local human rights non-governmental organisation over what they say is not balanced in its work.

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Tags: Crime · News from Northern Uganda

Defiler sentenced to twenty years in jail

August 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

 By Okaka Samuel 
APAC- the High Court in Apac has sentenced a man to 20 years imprisonment after he proved guilty of defiling a 10-year-old girl.

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Woman arrested in Lira over impersonation

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

 By Omara Elem
LIRA- Police in Lira are holding a woman whose real identification has not been properly being established to answer various charges against her. 

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Two guns recovered from former Amuka Militias

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

 By Okaka Samuel, 
APAC-Two AK 47 guns and three hundred and forty four rounds of ammunitions have been recovered from former Amuka militias in Apac district. 

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Tags: Crime