Media Freedom industry news in East Africa

TANZANIA

Media activist Angela Quintal reported to be safe

[Louise Burgers] Media activist and former South African journalist and editor, Angela Quintal, has been interrogated in Tanzania...

Posted 5 years ago | Like

UGANDA

UJU condemns killing of Ugandan TV journo

[Walter Wafula] The Uganda Journalists Union (UJU) has condemned the shooting to death of television journalist, Amon Thembo Wa' Mupaghasya, by unknown gunmen in the Kasese district, western Uganda.

Posted 12 years ago | Like

KENYA

World Press Freedom Day: How technology impacts journalism in Kenya

[Carole Kimutai] The world has dedicated one day in a year to scribes 3rd May. This is World Press Freedom Day. According to the United Nations, it is a day that "celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession".

Posted 12 years ago | Like

UGANDA

UHRC calls for self-regulation of the media

[Walter Wafula] In the face of imminent stringent government measures aimed to control the media and journalists in Uganda, human rights activists are calling for a stronger self-regulation mechanism to promote responsible journalism in the country.

Posted 12 years ago | Like

ERITREA

Eritrea's disappeared journalists, ten years later

[Theresa Mallinson] A decade ago Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki shut down his country's independent press, and arrested 21 journalists and politicians. He's detained many more of his citizens without trial since then. With no free media left to report on their fate, news of the prisoners has been hard to come by, but the ten-year anniversary of their disappearance has brought renewed calls by international NGOs for their release.

Posted 13 years ago | Like

UGANDA

Ugandan soldier strikes photojournalist on duty

[Walter Wafula] Yusuf Kavuma, a photojournalist with Sky Magazine in Uganda has been assaulted as he tried to take pictures of a military man beating up supporters of Forum of Democratic Change (FDC) party president, Dr. Kizza Besigye.

Posted 13 years ago | Like

UGANDA

Journalists shy away from suing the army - HRN

[Walter Wafula] Ugandan journalists, who were tortured for covering protests against the high commodity prices last month, are shying away from suing officials of the Uganda People's Defense Forces, according to the Human Rights Network for Journalists (HRN). G.W. Ssebaggala programmes coordinator HRNJ-Uganda says most of the journalists who were allegedly tortured by the army and police in Masaka district are not interested in pursuing legal action against the security forces due to fear.

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UGANDA

Uganda: Journalists' rights body to sue army for brutality

[Walter Wafula] The Human Rights Network for Journalists (HRN) in Uganda is set to sue the army in Uganda over the violation of journalists' rights. "We are dragging individual commanders to court for these violations, amongst them are Col. David Muhoozi the commandant of Armored Brigade in Masaka and the military police commandant among others," said Robert Ssempala, the HRNJ-Uganda board chairman in a statement last week.

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KENYA

Kenyan Constitution enabling fundamental freedoms

[Carole Kimutai] John Sergon, ICT director at the Directorate of e-Government Kenya in the Office of the President, has lauded Kenya for making efforts towards becoming an open country through promoting citizens' rights to access information provided for in Kenya's new Constitution that came to effect on 27 August 2010.

Posted 14 years ago | Like

UGANDA

Ugandan media urge court to withdraw injunction

[Walter Wafula] The Human Rights Network for Journalists (HRNJ) is urging the government to withdraw a court order that restricts the media in Uganda from writing about police investigations into the July 11 bomb-blast that occurred in Kampala.

Posted 14 years ago | Like

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