African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) has organised a virtual dialogue to commemorate the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists. The event scheduled to take place on 2 November 2021, is organised under the theme; “Combating impunity, enhancing freed and independent media in Uganda.” ACME will also release its 2020 report on […]
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The Uganda: Civic Space Index, 2021 provides a snapshot of the state of civic space in Uganda, especially in as far as it impacts on the work of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Community Based Organizations (CBO). The findings are based on the lived experiences and perceptions of the respondents who majorly […]
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For Immediate Release 27 September 2021 Kampala—For the second year running, the world will celebrate International Day for Universal Access to Information under the cloud of the Covid-19 pandemic. This day was proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference in 2015, declaring 28 September of every year as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI). […]
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By Daniel Kalinaki in the Eastern Africa Journalism Review When 60 African journalists met in Windhoek in May 1991, they had many reasons to be optimistic about media freedom on the continent. The winds of change that had ended the Cold War and blown away the Berlin Wall had stirred a palpable sense of optimism […]
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This joint editorial, prepared by the newly-launched Uganda Media Sector Working Group, was published by several news media in commemoration of World Press Freedom Day 2021. This year’s World Press Freedom Day is dedicated to reflecting on Information as a Public Good. It is a timely moment to highlight the uniqueness and importance of ‘information’ […]
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Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University COVID-19 pushed much of the world into the digital realm for everything from schooling and work to religious worship and dating. At the same time, many governments were turning data connections off. Full or partial shutdowns of the internet and social media are increasingly common parts of the “digital authoritarian” […]
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The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that the role of African journalists in nurturing democracy through fact-based and pluralistic debate is still far from assured, a new study from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) indicates. In its 2020 World Press Freedom Index RSF notes that instead of allowing journalists to do their job of reporting the news, […]
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By David Lumu The arrest and detention of Kyadondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, the former presidential flag bearer for National Unity Platform (NUP) on November 18, 2020, found me en-route to Entebbe from Kireka. I wanted to map out my journey. But I didn’t reach. Kampala city was burning. Demonstrations and protests […]
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