The New vision of Wednesday of Wednesday 16th June curried story that ‘‘three million Ugandans are Drunkards.’’ For a country struggling to bring down the high levels of poverty such a story is not good news to development advocates. The story even makes it sadness by indicting that it is actually the poor who consume […]
IS the ICC Europe’s Guantánamo Bay for Africa? By Dr David Hoile A new 345-page study of the International Criminal Court, ‘The International Criminal Court: Europe’s Guantánamo Bay?’, published by the Africa Research Centre to coincide with the ICC’s first ever review conference (in Kampala, Uganda, 31 May – 8 June 2010), has found the […]
By Gerald Businge Software and web-search giants Google on Monday November 1st, 2009 launched the online Google Trader pilot in Uganda to connect sellers and buyers of goods and services, including in agriculture. Google Trader online is part of the SMS-based services that the company launched in June 2009 in Uganda. The service is aimed […]
The New Vision on Thursday announced it has acquired a new state of the art printery and started a Luganda Television station in its latest “expansion” efforts. This followed recent addition of five radio stations (Vision Voice, Bukedde fm, Radio West, Etop Radio and Radio Rupiny) to its newspaper brands of The New Vision, Sunday […]
By Gerald Businge March 2010 There is currently a big debate in the US about the survival or not of traditional media like newspapers, radio and television due to the increasing popularity of online forms of news and information access. I come from a different environment in Uganda where the disruptions on traditional media and […]