There will be no Daily Monitor or Red Pepper on the streets on Tuesday. Neither are Ugandans able to listen to Nation Media owned Kfm and Dembe fm radio stations. These media houses were today shut down. Journalists and human rights activists have today condemned the action by the government to close down two newspapers and […]
Three top commanders of security organs have been sued for holding radio Rhino presenter Augustine Okello a.k.a. Rouks incommunicado. Okello disappeared on July 13th in Lira, in northern Uganda after holding meetings with security chiefs in the area including Lira’s district internal security officer (DISO), Steven Eryaku. Eryaku according to sources allegedly phoned Okello and […]
Journalists and media practitioners in Uganda on Tuesday joined their colleagues all over the world to mark the World Press Freedom Day. As part of the events to mark the WPFD, a press freedom day panel discussion has been organised to discuss issues pertaining to press freedom and new media in Uganda. The panel discussion […]
The United Nations special rapoteur on Human Rights Margret Sekaggya says she is going to advice the United Nations to send special rapoteurs to visit Uganda and observe press freedom in the country. Sekaggya made the call during celebrations at the centenary park in Kampala to mark world press freedom day scheduled for Tuesday May […]