The onset of the impact of the COVID-19 containment measures by the Government of Kenya upon the declaration of the virus as a pandemic in March 2019 included increased violation of press freedom and access to information. Among the measures announced by the Government included a national lockdown of the country, mandatory putting on of […]
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African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is pleased to invite you to a virtual event in which we will release a report on media freedom and threats against journalists in East Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic. This report examines the operational environment of the media across six countries, namely Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Burundi, Tanzania, […]
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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 In December 2021, Parliament passed The Public Finance Management (Amendment) Act, a law that governs how public money and resources are mobilised or collected, stored, dispensed […]
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This report conducted by the African Centre for Media Excellence with support of the Open Society Initiative for East Africa, set out to analyse the unprecedented challenges faced by the media in Uganda in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It documents the economic fallout of the pandemic and analyses related press freedom violations. The […]
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Aditi Malik, College of the Holy Cross and Philip Onguny, Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University As Kenya heads towards elections, concerns about the outbreak of electoral violence tend to rise. Existing research has offered several explanations for the violence. These include weak political parties, perceptions that elections are high stakes for different communities, and […]
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The outbreak of COVID-19 in the world in late 2019 has led to a dramatic loss of human lives across the world and caused an unprecedented impact on world economic structures, including the media. By December 2020, over 1.9 million people had died of COVID-19, and several dilemmas ushered in by the pandemic highly affected […]
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Miriam Watsemba first encountered ACME in 2020 when she applied to attend an investigative journalism training workshop that we were conducting in Jinja. From that workshop, she took her chances and applied for a reporting grant administered by ACME. She tied together different strands of part of ACME’s work (training and story grants), which works […]
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South Sudan, recovering from years of conflict, achieved its independence in July 2011. The country’s nascent media industry is still being developed although, the relations between the media and other institutions, particularly the law enforcement agencies, are edgy at times. These relations are being ironed out through direct interactions between the parties involved. Whereas the […]
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