It is the first month of the calendar year, and the heat that comes with the season has not spared our offices in Soya-Bunga, a quiet and serious-minded neighbourhood that lies a couple of kilometres away from the shores of Lake Victoria on the south-east of Kampala. This heat seems to hint at what is […]
Continue readingPresidential pronouncements matter. It is one thing for the President to say, for example, that he will build a million boreholes in two years. It is another to declare the media enemies of Uganda as Mr Museveni did in a statement this week: “The media houses both local and international such as Al-jazeera, BBC, NTV, […]
Continue readingIf you are a journalist working for independent media in Uganda, the police have probably summoned you for questioning and possibly even charged you in the courts. If not, you know colleagues who have. Over the years, it is newspaper and radio journalists who have faced the wrath of a duplicitous government – it preaches […]
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