New Media Council secretary announced
By Benjamin Rukwengye This week, Mr David Kyetume Kasanga was unveiled as the new secretary of the Media Council of Uganda, by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of ICT …
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Tanzanian journalist charged with false news over WhatsApp posts
On September 7, police in the central Iringa region arrested Atilio, a former reporter for Radio Maria Tanzania and Key FM Tanzania, over his posts in the Mufindi Media Group, …
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Why Tanzania’s attacks on free speech break with Nyerere’s legacy
Nick Westcott, SOAS, University of London I visited Tanzania recently for the first time in five years, and the first time since John Magufuli was elected President. I have been …
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Tanzania’s ‘worrying decline of media freedom’
By Benjamin Rukwengye The recent arrest and arraignment of journalist Erick Kabendera is the latest in what the International Press Institute has described as the ”unprecedented crisis” in media freedom …
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Thousands of recently discovered photographs document life in Uganda during Idi Amin’s reign
Idi Amin at a press conference in Jjaja Marina, Uganda in July 1975. Courtesy of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, Author provided Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan and Richard Vokes, …
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Report shows rise in violations against Ugandan media
Incidents of violence and abuse against the media increased in 2018, according to a newly-released Press Freedom Index. The Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) in its 10th edition of …
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ACME statement – UCC must reverse its directive to media houses to suspend staff
For Immediate Release 2 May 2019 Kampala The African Centre for Media Excellence strongly condemns the directive by Uganda Communications Commission, the broadcast regulator, to seven radio and six television …
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Interview: Jimmy Adriko on his 27 years of photojournalism
Last year, New Vision photo editor Jimmy Adriko resigned. Adriko, who joined the paper in 1991 as a photographer, spoke to ACME about his 27-year photojournalism journey. What inspired your …
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