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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New study finds evidence of organised social media manipulation in 70 countries
A new study has found evidence of organized social media manipulation campaigns in 70 countries across the world. In a report titled ‘The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of …
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Uproar over proposed law to further regulate social media in Kenya
A new Bill that seeks to regulate social media use in Kenya through a range of licensing controls has been greeted with dismay by large sections of the Kenyan public. …
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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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Needed: News managers adept at the business of media
By Ivan Okuda It is a known fact, of which we take judicial notice, that the media across the world is in crisis. In the last decade, the media landscape …
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Storm brews over UCC online and social media registration rules
By Benjamin Rukwengye In March 2018, the governments of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, as if acting in tandem, issued new rules requiring the licensing of social media and online content …
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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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Analysis across Africa shows how social media is changing politics
Maggie Dwyer, University of Edinburgh and Thomas Molony, University of Edinburgh In mid-July Chad lifted its 16-month social media ban. This ended the longest social media blockage seen in any …
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