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US National Public Radio Above the Fray fellowship

Gerald Businge — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:27:04 +0000

The Above the Fray fellowship gives a promising journalist the opportunity to cover important but under-reported stories. One fellow will be selected to report from a region lacking significant mainstream media attention. The selected individual will spend three months filing on-air and online stories for National Public Radio (NPR) in the United States.

Above the Fray fellowship is not about finding the most experienced candidate; it is about discovering the next generation of international journalists. The fellowship will support energetic, truth-seeking individuals who wish to cover under-reported regions, but who lack the means to do so.

Applicants should have at least three but no more than five years’ professional experience. Candidates must submit a bio, two recommendations, two audio or video clips, three essays and a pitch to report from an otherwise under-reported region.

Deadline for applications: July 1, 2012.

For more information and to apply, visit http://www.thejohnalexanderproject.org/apply.html

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Forum for Democratic Change party runs broke

Gerald Businge — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:55:49 +0000

We have landed on shocking information that the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) of Col. Kiiza Besigye has run broke and most of its workers have not been paid their wages and salaries for the last three months.

A source at FDC intimated to our informer that Besigye’s party has not received donor funding since March. We are told that some leading donors of opposition parties in Uganda are not happy by the way FDC performed in last February general polls. Besigye has unsuccessfully contested thrice for president.

A source sitting on FDC National Executive Committee tells us that the money the party has been basing on to run its activities has been coming from Besigye as an individual.

It further explains that some of the donors give Besigye money as an individual and he is free to divert it to party activities or not. One of the leading FDC sponsors is conservative parties in US and Europe.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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Egypt sponsors operation on Uganda’s conjoined twins

Gerald Businge — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:53:13 +0000

The Egyptian government is to pay all costs for the operation of a set of conjoined twins at Mulago hospital.

The twins who were born early this year have been at Mulago for over three months and were expected to be operated on from there.

However, Mulago’s Deputy Executive Director, Dr. Doreen Birabwa says the plans changed after the Egyptian government decided to provide financial support, as well as carry out the operation for free.

Dr. Birabwa says the support will cater for transportation of the parents of the babies and a doctor to accompany them

She reveals that the team will leave for Cairo on Sunday this week.

Ultimate Media

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