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Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Maracha District 6-April-2026. Following the 15-1-2026 general election, the two term MP for Maracha Constituency, Hon Oguzu Lee Denis has dragged to court the Winner for Maracha Constituency MP election, Uhuru Nelson as the first respondent and Election Commission as the second respondent.  📸: Copy of the court document shared in NEWS PLATFORM, one of the WhatsApp groups in WestNile region. In a document dated 1-April-2026 filed at Arua High Court, it's not yet clear which grounds the petitioner, Hon Oguzu Lee Denis has used to challenge the victory of the NRM Party candidate Uhuru Nelson.  It should be noted that, the NRM Party candidate Uhuru Nelson was declared the winner of the 15-1-2026 general election after he garnered 13,696 votes, followed by Independent candidate Obeta Moses Drakua who garnered 9,247 votes, the incumbent MP Hon Oguzu Lee Denis (FDC) fell in the third position after he got 3,290 votes, Eng. Aguta Sam (Independent) got 686...

15-3-2026. 📸: Uganda Prison Uniform and SP Collins Asea police spokesperson for North WestNile region. Courtesy Photo.  A controversial witch doctor ritual at Openzinzi Prison has left one prison warder dead and another arrested as police search for two suspects. According to Collins Asea, the North West Nile Regional Police spokesperson, the ritual was arranged to identify the person who stole a motorcycle belonging to a warder. A witch doctor identified as Emmanuel allegedly administered herbal medicine to several officers during the ritual. Police say the herbal mixture caused severe reactions among three warders. Two recovered after treatment, but Wegumba Mathaeus (30) later died. Another warder, L/CPL Kibedi Yese, has been arrested to assist with investigations. Authorities say the warder who organized the ritual and the witch doctor are currently on the run, while the body of the deceased was taken to Adjumani General Hospital for a postmortem as investigations c...

Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Yumbe District  14-3-2026. Click here https://youtu.be/ytRVWMswomA to watch the speeches from the locus visit.  📸: The community members and Yumbe district officials during the meeting. Photo by Our News Reporter.  Yumbe district security committee (DSC) members comprising of the RDC, DISO, DPC, UPDF, LC5 AND CAO together with Yumbe District Land board officials have given an ultimatum of 7 days for the elders and the community members of Kiranga Clan to sit down and solve the confusion on ownership and squatters on a land they sold to Aringa South Constituency MP Hon Alioni Yorke Odria.  Two weeks ago, Social Media was awash with unverified and one-sided breaking news allegaing MP Alioni Yorke Odria had grabbed an entire community land and even chased them out of it. 📸: Part of the land which has brought misunderstanding amongst some members of Kiranga clan. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter. The meeting took place on...

📸 : Courtesy Image of Sex Workers. Photo source, Internet.  📸: Part of Kalangala Island in Kalangala District, Uganda. Story by Ezekiel Ssekweyama Kalangala District. 12-March-2026. Kalangala district is struggling with the growing aggressiveness by commercial sex agents who are recruiting more teenage girls into prostitution. The agents operate on the different landing sites in Kalangala, where they act as main links between commercial sex workers and their prospective clients, who include local fishermen and revelers in bars and other entertainment spots operating in the area. Tadeo Luwukya, the L.C.1 Chairperson for Misonzi landing site in Bufumira sub county, confirms that they have witnessing an unprecedented rise the numbers of teenage girls, as young as fourteen getting engaged in the commercial sex work. He explains that the majority of the victims are from the other parts of the country, who are brought to Kalangala as attendants in the va...

4-March-2026. Israeli spies hacked nearly every traffic camera in  Tehran  for years in order to monitor the movements of  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei  in an  unprecedented intelligence-gathering  campaign, according to a report. Officials surveilled highly trained and  loyal security guards , bodyguards and drivers of  senior Iranian officials  to pick up on their “pattern of life”,  the  Financial Times  reported . This real-time data, including from cameras focused on Khamenei’s personal compound, was encrypted and transmitted back to servers in Tel Aviv and southern  Israel . They were able to determine where the guards would park their cars via an infiltrated security camera facing the Ayatollah’s home. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli military strike, leading to retaliatory attacks from Iran  (AP) “We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem,” one current Israeli intelligence official told the newspaper. “...

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