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The Court of Appeal has upheld a 32-year prison sentence handed to Siraj Masolo, who was convicted of aggravated defilement of an eight-month-old baby girl in 2015.In a judgment delivered during the Court of Appeal criminal session sitting in Mbale, justices Hellen Obura, Eva Luswata and Florence Nakacwa dismissed Masolo’s appeal, which had challenged both the conviction and sentence handed …

Kampala– The Constitutional Court of Uganda has dismissed a petition challenging the cooperation agreement between the Democratic Party (DP) and the National Resistance Movement (NRM), ruling that the agreement does not contravene the Constitution or undermine democratic governance. Democratic Party President, Hon Nobert Mao (Courtesy photo) In a detailed judgment delivered in Constitutional Petition No. 026 of 2022, the court …