•Late Rebecca Cheptegei The man who attacked Ugandan runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died from injuries sustained when he poured petrol over the Olympic athlete, the Kenyan hospital treating him said today. Police said that Dickson Ndiema Marangach assaulted Cheptegei in her home in western Kenya on September 1. The mother-of-two sustained 80 per...
•Gunman An influential Ugandan pastor and outspoken supporter of President Yoweri Museveni was hospitalised after a shooting attack which killed his bodyguard, police said today. Aloysius Bugingo was shot yesterday evening when “unidentified assailants opened fire on (his) vehicle… before swiftly escaping the scene on a motorcycle”, said Ugand...
•Late Benjamin Kiplagat Two suspects appeared in a Kenyan court on Tuesday over the murder of Ugandan Olympic athlete Benjamin Kiplagat who was found dead at the weekend with a stab wound to his neck. The two men were ordered detained for 21 days by a magistrate’s court in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret […]
•Late Benjamin Kiplagat Ugandan athlete Benjamin Kiplagat has been found dead in Kenya, police said today, with local media reports saying he had been murdered. The Kenyan-born Kiplagat, 34, had represented Uganda internationally in the 3,000m steeplechase, including several Olympic Games and World Championships, reports AFP. His body was foun...
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