Highlights Mining and Minerals Act, 2021, repeals the Mining Act, 2003. Introduces a competitive licensing regime for brownfields (existing mining projects) and retains first come, first served model for greenfields (new mining projects). A model mining agreement for large-scale mining businesses is introduced. Prospecting, exploration, and retention licences are retained, and the location licence is […]
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This report looks into the threats to press freedom and the media sector in general during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Rwanda. It covers the period from March 2020 when the Government instituted measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 until March 2021, focusing on the fate of journalists and the media during […]
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15 March 2022 For Immediate Release Kampala — African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) demands the immediate and unconditional release of The Alternative DigiTalk TV staff who have been under state custody for nearly a week now. On 10 March 2022 security officers attached to the military raided DigiTalk’s offices at Kintu Zone in Kampala’s […]
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Franz Krüger, University of the Witwatersrand For more than a century, journalism education prepared young people for the role of full-time professionals employed by sizeable news organisations. But the advertising-based business model that sustained journalism is collapsing because of new technology, and jobs of the old kind are becoming scarce. The educational model, too, must […]
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The information landscape in Africa – as elsewhere in the world – has expanded exponentially over the last decade. The proliferation of platform media, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, has been instrumental in this expansion. This has created important new debating spaces. These platforms have now become essential for political campaigns across the continent. In […]
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