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Prominent female academic and activist Stella Nyanzi is “doing very well” at Luzira prison and is already involved in teaching English to inmates, her lawyer Nicholas Opiyo has said. Opiyo told BBC today that Nyanzi is teaching English in her spare time at Uganda’s Luzira Prison where she is in custody …

Jeff Koinange, and equally combative Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda, will be guests in tonight’s NBS TV Frontline show. The Kenyan journalist and talk show host of Jeff Koinange Live will feature in what is expected to be an explosive analysis of social media, freedoms and corruption in East Africa. The one and only …

Prominent academic and activist Doctor Stella Nyanzi on Monday denied charges of cyber harassment and offensive communication that have been read out to her this afternoon. Her appeal for bail was not granted, as she was remanded to Luzira prison until April 25 for court to hear her response to the state …

Court has declined to hear Dr.Stella Nyanzi’s bail application until after disposing the state’s application demanding a mental check of the academic. Dr. Nyanzi has been remanded to April 25. Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrate James Eremye on Monday ruled that Dr.Nyanzi goes ahead to answer to the charges against …

Police have preferred cyber harassment and offensive communication charges against outspoken feminist, academic and Uganda government critic Dr Stella Nyanzi. Details of the case are being revealed right now at Buganda Road Court. She has been detained at Kira Police Station since Friday. (see related Uganda laws below) Earlier, opposition politician …

Outspoken feminist, academic and Uganda government critic Dr Stella Nyanzi is expected to be brought before court today to face various charges. Police spokesman Emilian Kayima confirmed Nyanzi was taken into custody by them on Friday and would appear in court Monday in Kampala on charges of cyber harassment and …

The First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni has posted on facebook an interview she had with NTV, in which she reacts to recent criticism by fiery Makerere University researcher Dr Stella Nyanzi. Dr Nyanzi has criticized the First Lady, for what she claims, is her failure …

Washington, United States | AFP | The US Marine Corps has revised its social media guidelines amid a scandal involving the nonconsensual online sharing of nude Marines. The scandal centers upon the revelation this month that pictures of female Marines in various states of undress had been shared in a secret …

COMMENT: By David Birungi  The slippery road to creating awareness and mandate without the benefit of a guard rail Stanbic bank’s recent announcement of their mid 2016 unaudited financial results included a declaration of a 57% growth in profitability. This comes on the heels of media frenzy about demands for …

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