Uganda Court

A court in Uganda has sentenced an ivory trader to life in prison, the longest sentence for such crimes in the country's history.

A woman passenger from Uganda, who was detained on charges of smuggling drugs in the form of capsules in her stomach, was on Tuesday produced before a court here and was sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

Under a sea of rainbow flags, hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of New York on Sunday for the annual Gay Pride March, celebrating the US Supreme Court's landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

The trial of 13 men accused of taking part in the 2010 Shebab bombings, which killed 76 people in Uganda's capital Kampala, resumed today without the lead prosecutor, who was murdered in March.

Delhi Police today told a court here that it has charge sheeted former city law minister and AAP leader Somnath Bharti for molestation and other offences in a case pertaining to his purported midnight raid on a house where some African women were residing.

Rising violence from brutal Islamist groups in Africa will be a key issue at an Africa summit US President Barack Obama is hosting in Washington this week.

Uganda's constitutional court struck down on Friday an anti-homosexuality law that punishes gay sex with long jail sentences, citing procedural irregularities in the way the legislation was enacted.

Ugandan state lawyers sought on Thursday to dismiss a petition by activists at the constitutional court seeking to overturn anti-gay legislation condemned by rights groups as draconian.

Two Ugandan men who sneaked piglets into the east African nation's parliament to protest against corruption have been sent to prison awaiting trial, and the animals impounded as evidence, relatives said on Friday.

A court in Uganda on Monday jailed a HIV-infected nurse for three years for criminal negligence, after she inserted a needle into a two-year-old child after first pricking herself.

A First Information Report (FIR) is likely to be registered against Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti by this evening, sources have told NDTV, following a complaint by a Ugandan woman.

The Mumbai Police today was castigated by the Supreme Court in a case of extortion that it had registered against three citizens of Uganda including a parliamentarian.

A court in Uganda has sentenced an ivory trader to life in prison, the longest sentence for such crimes in the country's history.

A woman passenger from Uganda, who was detained on charges of smuggling drugs in the form of capsules in her stomach, was on Tuesday produced before a court here and was sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

Under a sea of rainbow flags, hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of New York on Sunday for the annual Gay Pride March, celebrating the US Supreme Court's landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

The trial of 13 men accused of taking part in the 2010 Shebab bombings, which killed 76 people in Uganda's capital Kampala, resumed today without the lead prosecutor, who was murdered in March.

Delhi Police today told a court here that it has charge sheeted former city law minister and AAP leader Somnath Bharti for molestation and other offences in a case pertaining to his purported midnight raid on a house where some African women were residing.

Rising violence from brutal Islamist groups in Africa will be a key issue at an Africa summit US President Barack Obama is hosting in Washington this week.

Uganda's constitutional court struck down on Friday an anti-homosexuality law that punishes gay sex with long jail sentences, citing procedural irregularities in the way the legislation was enacted.

Ugandan state lawyers sought on Thursday to dismiss a petition by activists at the constitutional court seeking to overturn anti-gay legislation condemned by rights groups as draconian.

Two Ugandan men who sneaked piglets into the east African nation's parliament to protest against corruption have been sent to prison awaiting trial, and the animals impounded as evidence, relatives said on Friday.

A court in Uganda on Monday jailed a HIV-infected nurse for three years for criminal negligence, after she inserted a needle into a two-year-old child after first pricking herself.

A First Information Report (FIR) is likely to be registered against Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti by this evening, sources have told NDTV, following a complaint by a Ugandan woman.

The Mumbai Police today was castigated by the Supreme Court in a case of extortion that it had registered against three citizens of Uganda including a parliamentarian.