The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), with support from UN Women, has launched Prosecutor Plea Guidelines. The main objective of the guidelines is to streamline the processes that prosecutors will follow in conducting plea bargains. In addition to that, they will enhance the efficiency of the criminal justice system for orderly predictable uniform consistent, and timely resolution ...

The Uganda National Volleyball team for men kicked off the 2021 Africa Nations Volleyball Championship in style. They registered a 3-1 win over West Africans Burkina Faso in Pool A at the Kigali Arena, Rwanda on Tuesday. Uganda won three of the four sets played; 25-15, 25-18 and 25-13 as the West Africans managed to take one set 26-28. The ...

Putchists in Guinea released a group of political opponents of deposed president Alpha Conde on Tuesday. This happened as a political block prepared to discuss the turmoil in the West African country. The Special forces led by Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya staged a coup in the mineral-rich but impoverished country. This happened on Sunday and consequently led to the arrest ...

There is a total of 340 international and national organizations purportedly operation in Uganda’s poorest region Karamoja. However, out of all of these NGOs, we can not trace 252(accounting for 74%) of them on the ground. In a Friday interview, Richard Omoding, the executive director of Riamiriam Civil Society Network revealed these stats. Riamiriam Civil Society is an organization that ...

Locals in Senegal have been left in the dark as singer Akon’s futuristic city he promised has failed to even start. A whole year has gone by since the singer laid the first stone of the $6 billion city he vowed to build in Senegal, but the area is still a grazing field. The stone itself sits at the bottom ...