By Peter G. Mwesige The Ugandan Cabinet’s ban on “ALL live broadcast media coverage of the activities of the ‘Defiance Campaign’ organized by Dr. Kizza Besigye and his cohorts” is as absurd as the Constitutional Court’s interim order that halted the opposition’s election protests. Gen. Jim Muhwezi, the Minister of Information and National Guidance, who […]
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The following are the closing remarks made by Dr Katebalirwe Amooti Wa Irumba, acting chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights Commission at the World Press Freedom Day colloquium hosted by African Centre for Media Excellence on 3 May 2016. xxx Representatives from Government; Representatives from the Academia; Representatives from Civil Society; Representatives from the Media; […]
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This commentary is republished with permission from the Daily Monitor where it first appeared. BY DANIEL K. KALINAKI This week was World Press Freedom Day and there was the usual wailing, gnashing of teeth, call to arms and pleas for journalists to be allowed to do their jobs unmolested. That we still refer to ‘press’ freedom […]
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