Image by Edward Echwalu from Echwalu Photography With just two weeks left to Uganda’s presidential and parliamentary elections, the Police …
Journalists injured as police turn guns on the media
A journalist receiving treatment after he was injured by a teargas canister fired directly at him. PHOTO BY DERRICK WANDERA …
STATEMENT: Let the media freely report the 2021 general election
For Immediate Release 11 December 2020 Kampala—African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is dismayed by the 10 December directive by …
Navigating threats to journalists in this violent campaign season
The question of safety of journalists in the line of duty has returned to foreground civic discourse about the democratic …
Online attacks on female journalists are increasingly spilling into the ‘real world’ – new research
Julie Posetti, University of Oxford; Jackie Harrison, University of Sheffield, and Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University The insidious problem of …
Police named leading perpetrators of violence against journalists for the seventh year
The Uganda Police Force remains the leading perpetrator of violent crimes against journalists according to the Uganda Press Freedom Index …
Radio Simba staff charged with sectarianism over viral video
Security officials raided Radio Simba in Kampala on Friday 24 July, arresting four staff members who allegedly recorded a video …
Controls to manage fake news in Africa are affecting freedom of expression
Ashwanee Budoo, University of Pretoria Governments across the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside the mountain of related …