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Nairobi, Kenya  | THE STAR KENYA |  Media Council of Kenya (MCK) claims the efforts to organize a joint media tallying centre failed because talks started too late. In a statement on Tuesday, MCK CEO David Omwoyo said that media owners and Editors Guild had agreed on the joint tallying …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo says The Daily Monitor must stand its ground in defence of the truth and quality journalism as the newspaper marks thirty years of existence. Delivering a keynote address at a dialogue commemorating the thirty years since the founding of The Monitor, in 1992, …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Abbott, a global healthcare leader, this week hosted a media round table to discuss the prevalence and impact of hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) in sub-Saharan Africa. The objective of the round table was to raise awareness around a disease that …

  Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni, the Commander in Chief of the army, has reappointed Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye as Defence and Army Spokesperson, a position he served in, between 2005- 2013. He replaces Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso who is set to attend a one-year course at National …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | The Ethiopian government on Thursday urged the U.S. government and organizations to cease spreading false information regarding the country’s current situation. The Ethiopian government has warned the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa and organizations against their continued practice of spreading false information, state-television Ethiopian …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has paid glowing tribute to the late Hope Kishande Kivengere, his first and longest serving Press Secretary (1986-2001) who passed on this week on Wednesday from Nakasero Hospital. In a message read by the Minister of the presidency Mariam Dhoka Babalanda …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Kasaija’s tax burden: How to raise money from ideas that failed THE LAST WORD Paved with good intentions: How Western interventions in African affairs, even when well intentioned, produce bad results ANALYSIS Saving …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  After their friendly football matches with the media fraternity, Uganda Peoples Forces has promised a new era of working relationship between the two sides.  The two matches; one involving senior army officers and media managers/owners and another between junior officers and journalists were held at …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | NTV Uganda journalists Raymond Mujuni and Rita Kanya are officially engaged. This happened Thursday night, with a proposal by Mujuni receiving a ‘yes’. “JUST IN: The most beautiful girl in the world said yes to my most difficult question,” said Mujuni on twitter at …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Senior Press Secretary to the President Don Wanyama has been appointed Managing Director/CEO of Vision Group. The Board Chairman of Vision Group Patrick Ayota announced the decision Tuesday. Wanyama, who has been President Yoweri Museveni’s press secretary since 2016, will replace Robert Kabushenga. The New …