{"id":26396,"date":"2022-02-15T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=26396"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T15:36:27","slug":"congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa","title":{"rendered":"Congolese refugee murdered in Kyegegwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Police in Kyegerwa District are investigating circumstances under which a 21-year-old female Congolese refugee was murdered- and her body dumped by the roadside on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police have identified the woman who was staying in Kyaka 2 refugee settlement camp as Mwavita Solanja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Monday at around 6:30am, the deceased\u2019s body was discovered after she was killed by unknown assailants,\u201d Rwenzori West police spokesperson, Mr Vincent Twesige said February 15 confirming the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Police accounts indicate that the refugee February 13 left the settlement camp for recreational purposes in Bukere trading center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was seen drinking in the morning and then again in the evening with some yet to be identified men from different bars until late in the night,\u201d Mr Twesige noted.<\/p>\n<p>Police disclosed that investigations into her murder are underway with her body at Bujubuli health center III for post-mortem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Police in Kyegerwa District are investigating circumstances under which a 21-year-old female Congolese refugee was murdered- and her body dumped by the roadside on Monday. Police have identified the woman who was staying in Kyaka 2 refugee settlement camp as Mwavita Solanja. \u201cOn Monday at around 6:30am, the deceased\u2019s body was discovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-26396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Congolese refugee murdered in Kyegegwa - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police in Kyegerwa District are investigating circumstances under which a 21-year-old female Congolese refugee was murde ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congolese refugee murdered in Kyegegwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Police in Kyegerwa District are investigating circumstances under which a 21-year-old female Congolese refugee was murde ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-15T17:25:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620bc8649b18b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Congolese refugee murdered in Kyegegwa\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-15T17:25:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa\"},\"wordCount\":156,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620bc8649b18b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/congolese-refugee-murdered-in-kyegegwa\",\"name\":\"Congolese refugee murdered in Kyegegwa - 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