DFK MPANGA
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GEN. MUGISHA MUNTU
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HON SALAMU MUSUMBA
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ANDREW MWENDA
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Documentaries
'Release our people' - wives & mothers of political victims cry out
Since the 2021 elections, hundreds of opposition supporters have been detained, disappeared, and even killed. Some are facing trial before the Military Court Martial. The whereabouts of others remain unknown. Their mothers and wives have demanded their release. Or their bodies. But in vain. In this film, they voice their untold suffering.
NEW! @openDemocracy sits down with Ugandan journalist @AAgather, the team leader at @AgoraCFR, and Kenyan journalist @johnallannamu, a co-founder of @Afuncensored, to discuss the impact of âforeign agentâ attacks by governments in their countries.
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African journalists on impact of attacks by own governments
John-Allan Namu and Agather Atuhaire tell openDemocracy about receiving death threats and fearing being monitored
www.opendemocracy.net
Great is the nation that makes its garbage and potholes together
Appearing before a parliamentary committee, Oryem said rather than whining about the countryâs bad roads and atrocious potholes in the capital Kampala, Ugandans should wake up to the commercialâĶ
www.monitor.co.ug
Agora and the crisis of digital media
New communication technology-enabled activist journalism needs empirical frameworks of accountability COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE |Â The recent public flaying of Agather Atuhaire, Godwin Toko and Jimmy Spire Ssentongo should be a top discussion issue for anyone involved in news media. It is discouraging that most discussion so far has centred on whether or not their organisation; âĶ
www.independent.co.ug
How a new generation of female activists are countering digital threats
ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME |Â Safina Virani, a Ugandan feminist and activist, recalls a pivotal moment from about a year ago when her tweet against child marriage in the Middle East went viral. âI got bullied from all sides; Christians, Muslims, Arabsâthey were like, âOh, you westernized people, you American,â because they had the assumption that âĶ
www.independent.co.ug
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