Uganda Police

Children foraging for firewood outside Kabanga village near Mpigi town, made the grisly discovery on Monday. Police said residents told officers there were metallic boxes containing what appeared to be skulls buried in a shrine.

Six women from Uganda and Tanzania have been arrested from a village in Phagwara for allegedly looting a businessman at knifepoint and threatening him to implicate in a molestation case, police said on Sunday.

Ugandan police said Monday that 20 people had been arrested for suspected collaboration with the notorious militia group blamed for last week's attack on a school near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.

Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country's worst such attack in over a decade, army and police officials said Saturday.

At least 25 people have been killed and eight injured after a school in western Uganda was attacked by armed rebels from the Allied Democratic Force, Uganda's police said on Saturday, CNN reported.

A 39-year-old Indian money lender was shot dead with a stolen AK-47 assault rifle by an off-duty police constable in Uganda's capital city of Kampala over a 2.1 million shillings (Rs 46,000) loan, media reports said.

At least nine people died in a shopping mall crush in Uganda's capital on Sunday as revellers rang in the New Year, police said.

Two women travelling from Uganda were arrested at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport after cocaine worth Rs 28 crore was found hidden in their stomachs. The two women had hidden the cocaine in pills and swallowed them, police said.

An image circulating on social media claims to show a newly-appointed police spokesperson in Uganda hitting a news reporter with a catapult for asking "irrelevant questions".

The Pune Police on Thursday recovered drugs worth Rs 67 lakhs from six African nationals from Tanzania and Uganda and arrested them.

Ugandan police arrested today a former prime minister who wants to challenge President Yoweri Museveni for the ruling party's candidacy ahead of 2016 elections, while he was on his way to meet supporters at a town near Kenya's border.

Gunmen on Monday shot dead a top Ugandan state prosecutor whose cases include the trial of 13 men accused of involvement in Al-Shebab bomb attacks that killed 76 people in 2010, police said.

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.

Ugandan police said they had arrested 12 youths on Monday carrying a coffin "mourning" their unemployment, from the same group who in June sneaked piglets into parliament protesting corruption.

Street children in Uganda suffer from systematic abuse by the country's police and other officials, including beatings and sex attacks, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.

Children foraging for firewood outside Kabanga village near Mpigi town, made the grisly discovery on Monday. Police said residents told officers there were metallic boxes containing what appeared to be skulls buried in a shrine.

Six women from Uganda and Tanzania have been arrested from a village in Phagwara for allegedly looting a businessman at knifepoint and threatening him to implicate in a molestation case, police said on Sunday.

Ugandan police said Monday that 20 people had been arrested for suspected collaboration with the notorious militia group blamed for last week's attack on a school near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.

Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country's worst such attack in over a decade, army and police officials said Saturday.

At least 25 people have been killed and eight injured after a school in western Uganda was attacked by armed rebels from the Allied Democratic Force, Uganda's police said on Saturday, CNN reported.

A 39-year-old Indian money lender was shot dead with a stolen AK-47 assault rifle by an off-duty police constable in Uganda's capital city of Kampala over a 2.1 million shillings (Rs 46,000) loan, media reports said.

At least nine people died in a shopping mall crush in Uganda's capital on Sunday as revellers rang in the New Year, police said.

Two women travelling from Uganda were arrested at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport after cocaine worth Rs 28 crore was found hidden in their stomachs. The two women had hidden the cocaine in pills and swallowed them, police said.

An image circulating on social media claims to show a newly-appointed police spokesperson in Uganda hitting a news reporter with a catapult for asking "irrelevant questions".

The Pune Police on Thursday recovered drugs worth Rs 67 lakhs from six African nationals from Tanzania and Uganda and arrested them.

Ugandan police arrested today a former prime minister who wants to challenge President Yoweri Museveni for the ruling party's candidacy ahead of 2016 elections, while he was on his way to meet supporters at a town near Kenya's border.

Gunmen on Monday shot dead a top Ugandan state prosecutor whose cases include the trial of 13 men accused of involvement in Al-Shebab bomb attacks that killed 76 people in 2010, police said.

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.

Ugandan police said they had arrested 12 youths on Monday carrying a coffin "mourning" their unemployment, from the same group who in June sneaked piglets into parliament protesting corruption.

Street children in Uganda suffer from systematic abuse by the country's police and other officials, including beatings and sex attacks, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.