Within the East African Region Uganda has the third best rates at 10.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, coming in after Burundi at 8 and Kenya with 6.4 per every 100,000. The country with the highest is the Democratic Republic of Congo with a rate of 28. 3 and a homicide estimate of 18,586 – this is followed by Rwanda (23.1) and Tanzania (12.7).

Regional Statistics

According to the report:

• 437,000 people were victims of homicides worldwide in 2012;
• El Salvador, Venezuela and Brazil are the places where murders are most common;
• 1 in 5 people murdered in the world is either a Venezuelan, Brazilian or Columbian;
• 14 out of the 20 most murderous countries in the world are from the Caribbean;
• This Latin American region holds only 8% of the world’s total population.

The African country with the lowest homicide rate is Algeria with 0.7 and a homicide count of 280; the highest are the Southern African nations of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho with 31, 33.8 and 38 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants respectively.

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Kananura, the prime suspect in the murder of one Abdul Katerega, is accused of torturing to death his bar attendant at Panamera Bar in Naguru, a Kampala suburb in October last year.

He has denied the charges and has been remanded to Luzira prison by the Grade One Magistrate Juliet Hatanga.

This after the prosecution led by Joyce Katushabe informed court that investigations are still going on.

The magistrate has however condemned the arrest of the accused person before the expiry of the criminal summons which was meant to be February 12^th.

Kananura was represented by lawyers Geoffrey Kandeebe and Nangumya Geoffrey.

He is expected to return to Court on February 12^th together with his 3 co-accused who include his brother Raymond Kananura for mention of the case.

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This comes after court heard from four witnesses today who included 10 year old Patience Kwagala and her mother Winnie Nakato. They said that on the fateful day, they saw three women fighting with an armed soldier outside a house.

They added that they then saw two men emerge from inside the house and join the fight.

And that it is at this point that they heard gun shots but it was not clear had pulled the trigger.

The division court martial sitting at Luzira Church of Uganda Primary School is chaired by Col Godfrey Kakama with the help of seven others.

Lance Corporal Herbert Rwakihembo is said to have shot dead three people and injuring on December 10^th at Luzira, a Kampala suburb.

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This is after the defence lawyer Martin Muhumuza rejected evidence presented by the sixth prosecution witness.

Lt Ishaka Twaha Lutanaziba attached to the military police presented quoting Arms Ammunition Returns report pinning the accused over the murder of the three people.

However, Muhumuza told court that it was wrong for Lutanaziba to present evidence from a document he did not author.

He asked the Chairman to adjourn the case to tomorrow to enable him table documents that support his position.

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Lawyers led by Henry Kunya told Justices of the Court of Appeal that the High Court judge that convicted Godi, did not properly evaluate the evidence on record.

He says the judge disregarded the evidence of eye witnesses and instead convicted his client on circumstantial evidence.

However prosecution led by Senior Principal State Attorney Joan Kagezi asked court to dismiss the appeal, saying the court reached a rightful decision.

Godi is challenging the 25year sentence handed to him in February 2011 by the High court in Mukono, for the murder of his 19 year old wife Rehema Ceaser.

He appeared before three justices of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Constance Byamugisha who set ruling on notice.

Rehema was murdered in December 2008 at Lukojo village in Mukono district.

Godi is dissatisfied with both the conviction and 25 year sentence the court handed him.

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Nyangasi was convicted on 19th October for murdering his wife but the sentences were left pending.

Today he appeared before court to receive his sentence but the matter has been adjourned to tomorrow because the trial judge was not available due to ill health.

Delivering her judgment last week, High Court Judge Jane Kiggundu said prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt that Nyangasi killed his wife Christine Dambio .

She disagreed with defence lawyers that the deceased died of pneumonia, arguing that one of Dambio’s relatives saw Nyangasi strangling her.

Prosecution says Nyangasi murdered Dambio at their matrimonial home in Kireka a Kampala suburb on 24^th July 2010 after a misunderstanding related to property and accusations of infidelity.

The victim was found unconscious in the bathroom and rushed to Mulago Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

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Col.Kiiza Besigye says that one day president Museveni will be tried in the international court of justice like former Liberian president, Charles Taylor.

A U.N.-backed Sierra Leonecourt recently convicted Taylorof war crimes, becoming the first African former president to be found guilty by an international tribunal.

Taylor was charged with murder, rape, conscripting child soldiers and sexual slavery during intertwined wars inLiberia andSierra Leone, in which thousands of people were killed, displaced and women rapped.

Taylorwas found guilty by Justice Richard Lussick.  Besigye says that considering the many cases of human rights abuses president Museveni has reportedly made, he will be imprisoned for over 1000 years once found guilty.

The FDC president therefore told our informers that Museveni should do a wise thing and quit politics if he doesn’t want to be likeTaylorafter his term of office.

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An army man in Uganda killed his male friend because he returned home with his wife. Lieutenant Colonel John Kaye is now facing murder charges at the Court Martial in Kampala.

The colonel denies the charges and asks for bail. It is said that Kaye shot dead Steven Kabuye when he turned up with Kaye’s wife in his car at their residence inKampala.

Prosecution alleges that Lt. Col. Kaye committed the offence in November last year. After hearing the prosecution side the court presided over by Brig. Charles Angina refused to grant him bail.

Lt. Col. Kaye is a serving army officer in UPDF. He is facing a capital offence so the court refused to grant him bail. Kaye’s case is to be heard weekly.

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Uganda police have charged eight FDC supporters with the murder of an assistant inspector of police, John Boso Ariongo. Ariongo was hit with a big stone on the head and died on spot on Wednesday.

The FDC supporters who have been charged with murder include Catherine Dembe, an LC5 woman councilor in Mpigi, businessman Yoweri Kintu, Robert Kavuma, James Kirya and Harold Kaija.

The police have also charged Col. Kiiza Besigye, Kampala lord mayor Erias Lukwago, Kampala woman MP, Nabilah Sempala, Kawempe division LC3 chairman, Mubarak Munyangwa with organising an illegal assembly.

The police spokesman, Asuman Mugenyi says that the file of the suspects is with the DPP. He says police is waiting for the reply of the DPP before it takes final action.

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Members of opposition Forum for Democratic Change have spent the whole of today in shock after the state preferred murder charges against their supporters arrested yesterday. The spokesperson of police, Judith Nabakooba says that FDC supporters are in detention over the killing of a policeman John Bosco Ariongo.

Some of the FDC supporters facing murder charges include Henry Kavuma, and George Kaija. Other FDC supporters face charges of holding unlawful assembly and disobeying lawful orders while they were with Col. Kiiza Besigye.

Late Ariongo was hit by a stone on his forehead by a suspected rioter and died as he was being taken to the hospital. The suspects in their statements have denied having had a hand in the death of Ariongo. Nabakooba says that more FDC supporters are to be arrested after investigations are complete.

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