The story, Charcoal burning: A cancer eating Karamoja’s future away, by New Vision reporter DANIEL EDYEGU, was published on Thursday April 21, 2016. The feature, published with funding from ACME’s Enhanced Media Reporting for Transparency and Accountability (EMERTA) programme, explains how charcoal burning is becoming a new form of insecurity in Karamoja – a sub-region […]
Continue readingLife on Islands in Uganda, or even by the lake in general, is no mean feat. There are either no healthcare services, transport means, schools or markets. For Bugala Island, the place was once deserted, only inhabited by monkeys. Today, the island is connected with electricity; it has access roads and boats that provide transport […]
Continue readingLand ownership has become a touchy issue in Uganda. When it gets to the land tenure systems, the issue gets even more complicated for many. In a three-part series, JOHN MASAABA explores the land tenure systems and their impact on agriculture production in Uganda. In this first segment, he looks at the strengths and weakness of laws […]
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Source: Reporters Without Borders The 2016 edition of the World Press Freedom Index, which Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will publish on 20 April, shows that there has been a deep and disturbing decline in respect for media freedom at both the global and regional levels. Ever since the 2013 index, Reporters Without Borders has been calculating […]
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This article is republished with permission from The Observer. Uganda’s television industry continues to get competitive each passing day – with the opening of several new stations. Buganda Broadcasting Services (BBS) Telefayina is one of the new entrants, having gone on the airwaves in December last year. Located on Masengere building in Mengo-Bulange, the television, […]
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The African Centre for Media Excellency (ACME) invites staff of civil society organizations in Uganda to apply for a training course on media relations. During the workshop, ACME will introduce trainees to a new media relations handbook which is the result of lessons, recommendations and experiences gleaned from six years of media relations training and […]
Continue readingThe Judiciary in Uganda has been encouraging mediation as cheaper and quicker alternative to dispute resolution. However, as DERRICK KIYONGA, explains in the last of this two-part series, contempt of court is undermining the effort. The article, titled How contempt has undermined mediation programme in the Judiciary. was published in The Observer on 6 May 2016, with funding […]
Continue readingThe Judiciary in Uganda has been encouraging mediation as an alternative to dispute resolution that is cheaper and quicker in most cases. However, as DERRICK KIYONGA, the mechanism has been derailed by lack of commitment and poor funding. The series was published in The Observer on 4 May 2016 with funding from ACME’s Enhanced Media Reporting […]
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