African Centre for Media Excellence
Inspiring excellent journalism across Africa
This catalogue of players in Uganda’s extractive sector includes government entities, businesses, NGOs, and academic institutions. The catalogue, which doesn’t claim to be exhaustive, will be regularly updated for accuracy. …
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Who can apply: New and mid-career journalists in Kenya and Tanzania Number of courses: Five 10-day short courses Dates: Class 1 – 25 April-6 May; Class 2 – 9-20 May; …
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This report highlights the policy and advocacy hits and misses in Uganda’s oil, gas and mining (extractive) sector. The primary sources of information are documentary: reports by local and international …
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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 and reported on. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The state of media freedom report looks into the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on press freedom and the media sector in Rwanda. The study covers the period that starts in …
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