KAMPALA, JULY 24, 2023 The Uganda Editors’ Guild (UEG) vehemently protests the arbitrary and unconstitutional directive issued by President Yoweri Museveni on March 6, 2023, and further reinforced by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance on July 10, 2023. This directive mandates all government advertising to be channeled solely through the Uganda Broadcasting […]
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Issue: Media freedom violation Date: 12 January 2023 Location: Kampala No. of people affected: One Profession of affected person(s): Journalist Perpetrator(s): Police WHAT HAPPENED Francis Isano, a Ugandan photojournalist, was on January 12, 2023, briefly arrested by authorities who accused him of “illegally” taking pictures outside the Central Police Station (CPS) where he’d been deployed. […]
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Issue: Freedom of assembly, Denial of access Date: 30 December 2022 Location: Kampala No. of people affected: Unspecified Profession of affected person(s): Politicians Perpetrator(s): Police WHAT HAPPENED Police in Kampala blocked a prayer meeting of members from the United Forces of Change in Nsambya. Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango says the planned end-of-year prayer […]
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NEWS RELEASE 29 July 2020, Kampala African Centre for Media Excellence condemns the spiralling threats to media practitioners and artistes in Uganda. Over the last six days, at least eight people have been arrested, interrogated and/or detained on charges including offensive communication, promoting sectarianism, and inciting violence. On Thursday, 23 July 2020, security forces arrested Twahir […]
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The following paper on Media and Elections in Uganda was presented by Dr Livingstone Sewanyana, Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative at the World Press Freedom Day 2019 Uganda conference. The conference organised by the African Centre for Media Excellence, CIPESA, Uganda Human Rights Commission, Freedom House and several other media development […]
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Uganda’s broadcast regulator has instructed NTV Uganda to stop featuring in its programming the crude language of commentator Frank Gashumba, or else be found in breach of minimum broadcasting standards. In a 10 October 2016 directive that came to light this week via social media, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) says that it had received repeated […]
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