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Op-ed – UCC’s latest directive on online content producer registration arrives with a shadow

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 - by ACME team - Leave a Comment

By Raymond Mpubani and Clare Muhindo The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has doubled down on the registration of news websites and online broadcasters, requiring all providers of such services to register by …

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Defamation: What journalists need to know

February 12, 2015June 8, 2020 - by Paul Kimumwe - Leave a Comment

Defamation is probably the easiest charge that can be leveled against a journalist. It is pertinent therefore that every media practitioner is aware of the offence of defamation. According to …

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Journalist fees: media not seeing the forest for the trees

March 24, 2014December 29, 2014 - by Peter G. Mwesige - Leave a Comment

Ugandan journalists have been alarmed by a statutory instrument that Information Minister Namayanja Rose Nsereko issued last month. Under Press and Journalists (Fees) Regulations, 2014 a journalist is required to …

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Groups file petition challenging the Press and Journalists Act

March 21, 2014December 29, 2014 - by ACME Admin - Leave a Comment

PRESS RELEASE On Friday, the Centre for Public Interest Law (CEPIL), in cooperation with the Human Rights Network for Journalists and the Eastern Africa Media Institute, a tripartite initiative known …

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Proposed changes to Ugandan media law: Media, rights groups push back

July 29, 2010December 29, 2014 - by Grace Natabaalo - Leave a Comment

The first half of 2010 has been a period of heightened activity amongst media practitioners in Uganda. It is all because of the government’s proposed changes to the law that …

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Did the Amendment of Public Finance Management Act 2015 Erode Uganda’s Fiscal Discipline in Oil and Gas Sector
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In December 2021, Parliament passed The Public Finance Management (Amendment) Act, a law that governs how public money and resources are mobilised or collected, stored, dispensed and reported on

Did the Amendment of Public Finance Management Act 2015 Erode Uganda’s Fiscal Discipline in Oil and Gas Sector
Did the Amendment of Public Finance Management Act 2015 Erode Uganda’s Fiscal Discipline in Oil and Gas Sector
March 30, 2022
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