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Albania. Wednesday 8- October-2025. 📸:  The shooting occurred during a hearing at Tirana's Court of Appeals on Monday 6-October-2025. Judge Astrit Kalaja died en route to hospital, officials said, while two others involved in the hearing over a property dispute - a father and son - were shot but sustained injuries that were not life-threatening. Police said they had arrested a 30-year-old male suspect who they identified by the initials "E Sh", but Albanian media have named as Elvis Shkëmbi. Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama offered his condolences to Judge Kalaja's family, adding: "The criminal aggression against the judge undoubtedly requires the most extreme legal response toward the aggressor." He also called for stricter security within the country's courts and harsher punishments for the illegal possession of weapons. Sali Berisha, leader of the opposition Democratic Party, said Judge Kalaja's murder was the first time in 35 years a judge ...

                                            1AM Tuesday 7-October-2025.                                                        📸: The Truck that overturned around 11PM  after knocking the two people on a motorcycle. 📸: Other road users stood on to help as the motorcycle wreckage and body of the victims lied on the road. Two people riding on a motorcycle have been knocked dead by a speeding truck after the driver reportedly attempted to dodge a pothole on the Mbarara-Bushenyi Road in Kitwe-Rwentuuha town council, Bushenyi District. The driver of the truck is said to have fled the scene after the Monday night crash. 📸: Daily Monitor.

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Arua City. 6-October-2025. 📸: The New Poster with Candle as a Symbol for Samanya Daphine Draza contesting as Independent Candidate for Arua City Woman MP Position 2026 - 2031. Following the 17-7-2025 NRM Party primary election for Parliamentary positions, which produced the results as follows; Hon Osoru Mourine the winner garnered 26,041 votes, Samanya Daphine Draza came in the second position after she garnered 14,000 votes, and Princess Sheila Obia was the third candidate with 9,520 votes out of three contestants, Samanya Daphine Draza this time made a surprising comeback to tussle again as an independent candidate, this time with Candle as her symbol in the race for Arua City woman MP position in the upcoming January 2026 general election. Her return journey into Uganda comes at a time when some politicians generated allegations that, she had bowed out of Arua City woman MP election and that is why she went abroad. 📸: Some of the Supporters of Daphine Samany...

6-October-2025.                                               📸: Illustration Photo. Many men think they can chase women and chase success at the same time. Big mistake. If you cannot say NO to pleasure, money will say NO to you. Look around—men who are always chasing women never go far in life. Here’s why sexual discipline is directly connected to wealth, power, and respect: 1. PLEASURE DESTROYS FOCUS Every hour spent chasing women is an hour stolen from your goals. Texting, dating, and planning hotel visits might feel exciting, but it distracts you from learning, hustling, and building wealth. Lesson: Energy spent on pleasure is energy stolen from your future. 2. EMOTIONAL WEAKNESS LEADS TO FINANCIAL WEAKNESS Men who cannot control desire are easily manipulated. Women, business partners, and even friends can sense your lack of discipline. You lose respect, influence, and...

                                                    📸: Courtesy Photo. 6-October-2025. WHO IS THAT PERSON SITTING NEXT TO THE MAGISTRATE, ACTING SERIOUS AND TALKING ALL THE TIME? Jessie, a Law university internship student, accompanied a partner at a law firm he works with to the magistrate's court in Nakawa for a case as part of his clerkship learning journey to learn how the court system works. He was supposed to narrate his learning experience and ask where needed. The thing that caught his attention while in a court session was the person who sat next to the magistrate as they presided over the cases.  WHO IS THIS PERSON? This person is known as a magistrate court clerk or court clerk. He or she has a variety of roles they play in court, for example, calling the cases and announcing the parties, recording proceedings, managing court files, administe...

6-October-2025.                                                   📸: Courtesy Photo. Moses hired a smart Kampala lawyer to handle his father’s land case. The case had been in court for almost 6 years, and Moses decided to change Advocates and close the case. Upon hiring the new lawyer, he was disappointed that no progress was made for a whole year. Every time they go to court, they are told it has been “adjourned” to another day. He suspects that the lawyers have been bribed; otherwise, why is the case not being heard? WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? You have probably heard the word adjournment, and you may wonder what it means. In law, adjournment is the temporary suspension or postponement of a court proceeding, hearing, or trial to a later time or date. It is a formal pause in the legal process, often granted for reasons such as a party needing more time to prepare evi...

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 3-October-2025. 📸: Maracha District Council in Session on Wednesday 1-Oct.2025. Photo by Our News Reporter. What You Need to Know: Maracha District council approved 36 billion  Shs for the 2025 / 2026 financial year budget. Despite shrinking service delivery due to inadequate revenue source and also funding from the central government, the council allocated 2m Shs for T-shirts and 6m Shs for capacity building and tours in the 2025 / 2026 financial year budget. The district council on 29-5-2025 didn’t approve the 2m Shs for service award after a news update over it which immediately attracted abuses and criticism from the public before the council ended. Click here  https://www.youtube.com/live/OkKIafYl2Ss  to watch the previous Council sitting of 29-5-2025 where the proposal and debate started from. Councilors of Maracha District council have on Wednesday 1-October-2025 unanimously agreed and passed 2m Shs voted from the 36 billion...

  DRC Congo. 3-October-2025. 📸: Joseph Kabila, the Former President for The Democratic Republic of Congo. Courtesy Photo. A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced former President Joseph Kabila to death in absentia. Lieutenant General Joseph Mutombo Katalayi, who presided over the military tribunal, said on Tuesday 30-9-2025 that Kabila was convicted of various crimes, including treason, crimes against humanity, murder, sexual assault, torture and insurrection. “In applying Article 7 of the Military Penal Code, it imposes a single sentence, namely the most severe one, which is the death penalty,” Katalayi said while delivering the verdict. Kabila, who served as president from 2001 to 2019, had left the DRC in 2023, but recently visited Goma in the east of the country, an area controlled by the M23 rebel group. The former president went on trial in absentia in July for his alleged support for the Rwanda-backed rebels, who seized large swaths of t...

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 2-October-2025. 📸: Some of the elders and crowd that attended and participated in the clan meeting on Tuesday 30-9-2025. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter. Amidst an alarming rate in the theft of Chicken, Goats, Sheep and Food crops from the garden by thieves, the Elders, Youths, Men and Women in Lamila Poo clan have come up with stringent resolutions to flog and put fines on any thief who will be caught ready-handed in the act of stealing any property in Lamila Poo clan with a population estimated to be over 1000 people, and with 5 sub-clans. The by-law which gives powers to Youth leaders in clan to arrest and beat such a thief with not more than 10 strokes of sticks and fine not exceeding 200,000 Shs, was passed during a community baraza meeting held in Lamila Clan on Tuesday 30-9-2025 where majority of the members in the meeting unanimously agreed to penalize thieves caught with evidence of theft within the clan. 📸: One of the elders i...

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Arua City. 29-9-2025. 📸: The Remandies. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: ● The 4 suspects were detained by Police in Yumbe for 11 days, contrary to Article 23, 4 (b) of the 1995 Constitution. ● Despite Article 23, 6 (a), (b) and ( c) of the same Constitution, the 4 suspects have been on remand in Arua prison for One year now. Arrested from Yumbe District on 28-8-2024 and few days later remanded to Prison upto date, the High Court sitting in Arua City has delayed to produce the 4 Suspects in Court for bail hearing or to kickstart their trial case in regards to alleged murder crimes they were arrested of from Bolomoni village, Odravu West Sub-county in Yumbe District, despite having spent One year now in prison. Having been charged with Murder, under case file number,  YUMBE CRB 419/2024 which arose from Criminal Case YBE-CO-618-2024, and they have so far spent One year on remand without trial or bail, the suspects inc...

By Oguzu Lee 23-9-2025.  As 2026 elections approach and party loyalists assemble to celebrate yet another architecture of false achievements, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) will unveil a manifesto that boldly proposes to "protect gains" that exist primarily in the alternative universe of political propaganda. While the ruling party's narrative of progress and prosperity grows increasingly detached from the daily experiences of ordinary Ugandans, it is crucial to examine the underlying causes of these disconnects and explore potential solutions by critically looking at sectors that matter. Protecting the Gains is nothing else except attempt to whitewash failure framed as success.  For instance under health sector, what gain will the NRM be protecting exactly? The chasm between promise and reality is visible even for the blind can see. The NRM manifesto is said to prioritize "a well-educated, skilled and healthy population as essential i...