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Government has warned media houses giving live coverage to the Forum for Democratic Change “defiance” campaign will have their licenses revoked. Minister of Information and National Guidance Jim Muhwezi briefed the press about the cabinet decision today. He said the defiance campaign was declared illegal by court and should be …

Washington, United States | AFP | President Barack Obama cracked jokes and poked fun at rivals Saturday in his last appearance as US leader at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, ending his performance with a mic drop and the words “Obama out.” The black-tie event — at which the …

GOLFER RONALD OTILE named Uganda Sports Personality of 2015 by USPA With the Uganda Amauteur Golfers @USPAmedia #NileSpecialUspa16 pic.twitter.com/1ybQmVNlIw — Leon Solomon (@LeonSolomon1) April 29, 2016 The Uganda Sports Press Association (USPA) annual awards  held Friday at Serena, Kampala were crowned with the announcement of golfer Ronald Otile as the …

Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP Two members of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab jihadist group were executed by firing squad Saturday for the murder of a journalist killed by a car bomb last year, a judge said. Abdirisak Mohamed Barow et Hassan Nur Ali, who admitted being Shebab members during their trial, were …

By Dr Geoffrey A Onegi-Obel An August of significant events and worldwide economic slowdown is washed out by politics The Uganda Securities Exchange All Share Index which stood at 1,852.00 at the start of week two of September gained +6.00points at the end. But to put it simply – elsewhere …

By Julius Odeke As the World commemorates the World Press Day Uganda’s practicing journalists have registered their dissatisfaction with President Yoweri Museveni’s comments that ‘minimum wage is not a priority for Ugandans’. They say, president Museveni is not mindful about the living conditions that journalists in Uganda are facing saying, …

By Ronald Musoke Much as reporting on the health sector in Uganda has made progress over the last decade, there is still room for improvement, according to Michael Wakabi, The East African’s Uganda Bureau editorial head. Wakabi, a veteran journalist, was speaking to a group of health journalists during the …

By Julius Odeke 20 journalists in Uganda have completed a training workshop on safety and personal security run by ARTICLE 19. The training sessions have been designed to provide vital skills to enable them to work more effectively in an increasingly hostile environment for journalists. “This is a timely training …

By Tracy Gwambe Police in Uganda is still the worst torturer of journalists, the 2012 Press Freedom Index launched in Kampala on Feb.6 said. The index prepared by Human Rights Network for Journalists Uganda (HRJN-Uganda) shows that in 2012 alone, the police made 42 attacks against journalists out of the …

By Julius Odeke The Uganda Journalists Union (UJU) has strongly condemned the suspension of two Parliamentary Journalists by the Speaker of Ugandan Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga. The Observer reporters, David Tash Lumu and Sulaiman Kakaire, were on January 28 suspended indefinitely after the Speaker said they published false reports on her …