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 on early Monday, announcing he would seek the position of “flag- bearer” of the ruling National Resistance Movement later this year and the presidency in […]
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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 notwithstanding), the newsmaker-in-chief has given again, this time announcing the appointment of Justice Bart Katureebe of the Supreme Court as Chief Justice of Uganda. I […]
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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 with his name should have been trending on Twitter in our part of the world. None of this has happened of course. You see, Mr […]
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We can forgive our newspapers for not knowing who killed businessman Eria Sebunnya Bugembe, who was popularly known as Kasiwukira. We shouldn’t forgive them for not telling us how old he was. I have read several stories about the man (in The New Vision, Daily Monitor and Observer) but I am yet to find one […]
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On Wednesday, 9 July, most of the world’s newspapers covered Brazil’s humiliating 1-7 loss to Germany in the first World Cup 2014 semi-final prominently. Not our newspapers. They had moved on (or so, you would think) to the second semi-final game that would feature Argentina and Holland later that evening. Then on Thursday morning, after […]
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KAMPALA, April 17—The local media have reported some stories from the Auditor General’s annual report for the year ended June 30, 2013, which was presented to the Speaker of Parliament on 31 March. But the biggest stories in there remain untold. And they are very many. Here are a few examples of key findings that […]
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Ugandan journalists have been alarmed by a statutory instrument that Information Minister Namayanja Rose Nsereko issued last month. Under Press and Journalists (Fees) Regulations, 2014 a journalist is required to pay Shs200,000 for a practising certificate and Shs100,000 for its annual renewal. A journalist is also required to pay Shs30,000 for a certificate of enrollment […]
Continue readingMajor advertisers have become as a big a threat, if not worse, to press freedom in Uganda as political forces. How many political groups would have gotten away with the deceptive full page advertisement that appeared in both the Daily Monitor and The New Vision on Monday? The ad had an official looking red stamp […]
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