Covering Museveni’s state of the nation address
By Peter G. Mwesige In a few hours, President Yoweri Museveni will deliver to Parliament an address on the “state of the nation”. It is a constitutional requirement for the …
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Ban on live media coverage of ‘defiance’ should be defied
By Peter G. Mwesige The Ugandan Cabinet’s ban on “ALL live broadcast media coverage of the activities of the ‘Defiance Campaign’ organized by Dr. Kizza Besigye and his cohorts” is …
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#UgandaDecides: More questions journalists must answer
By Peter G. Mwesige Dear friends in the Ugandan media, I salute you for your courage and diligence as you continue providing citizens and the whole world with information about …
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#Election2016: 30 questions journalists must answer
By Peter G. Mwesige Dear friends in the Ugandan media I hope you will help me and other citizens answer the following questions, and many others, as we follow the …
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Opinions polls: Looking beyond the horse race
The original version of this article has been changed to correct potential confusion over the use of the word ‘majority’ in two cases. By Peter G. Mwesige The results of …
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Give us insight, depth on Mbabazi bid
By Peter G. Mwesige For several months, the Ugandan media and political watchers have waited for the ‘big’ announcement from former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi. He did it via YouTube …
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Covering Museveni’s appointments
President Yoweri Museveni continues giving. This has been a good week for (news) copy, as my former editor would have said many years ago. After the cabinet reshuffle (the recycling …
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Ugandan media silence on ‘Access to Information’ victory a travesty
Edward Sekyewa should by now have been all over the newspapers. He should have been invited to at least seven radio talk shows and three TV talk shows. A hashtag …
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