This explainer is part of ACME’s continuous efforts to provide journalists, media professionals, and stakeholders with valuable information aimed at improving reporting and investigation within Uganda’s extractive industries. Highlights Parliament passed the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Special Provisions) Bill 2021 on 9 December to formalise the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Company. It […]
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Jamie Medhurst, Aberystwyth University UK culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, recently announced that the BBC’s licence fee is to be frozen for two years and that a new funding mechanism for the corporation will follow after 2027. This statement created shockwaves within the media industry and beyond. Many accused the government’s move of being sheer cultural […]
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By Judith Kukunda | URN Ugandan Novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has been granted bail. Kakwenza was arrested on December 28, 2021, from his home in Kisaasi, a Kampala suburb and held incommunicado until January 11, 2022, when he was produced in court on two cases of offensive communication. According to the Prosecutors, Kakwenza used his Twitter […]
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Introduction The African Centre for Media Excellence, with support of the Global Road Safety Partnership, is calling for applications from journalists in Uganda interested in covering road safety issues in the country. Why now? Well, Uganda predominantly relies on the road to move goods and people. However, this dominant mode of transport is unsafe. According to […]
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By Ivan Okuda The East African Center for Investigative Reporting (EACIR), the publisher of the not-for-profit online publication, www.voxpopuli.ug is appalled by the continued detention and reported torture of writer and political activist, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. In no uncertain terms, we contend that kidnap, torture and inhumane treatment of a citizen of Uganda on account of […]
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