The Observer has today, 6 December 2017, switched back to a weekly newspaper, five years after it started publishing three times a week. The Managing Director, Mr James Tumusiime, told ACME that publishing a tri-weekly was no longer financially sustainable. “It was no longer cost-effective for us to print three issues,” Mr Tumusiime said. “We […]
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Five directors and three editors of the Red Pepper publication will spend another two weeks in jail before they can learn whether they will be set free just ahead of Christmas Day. The group, held since 21 November 2017, was sent back on remand at Luzira Prison to await a bail application ruling to be […]
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), African Centre of Media Excellence (ACME), and Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) and others have demanded the immediate release of the eight Red Pepper staff and re-opening of the newspaper’s offices.
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Journalists in Uganda have been forced to embrace self-censorship as a result of government’s hostility towards independent media, John Jean Barya, a professor of law at Makerere University has said. Delivering a keynote address at the Annual Media Convention organised by the Department of Journalism and Communication, Makerere University, Prof. Barya noted that the illegalities […]
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