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KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education has prohibited schools, media outlets, and other personnel from publishing student’s examination results and photos citing the violation of data protection and privacy laws. For years, schools, parents, and the media have advocated for the publication of candidate’s results, particularly those …

London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | Prince Harry has accepted an apology from the publisher of the Sun, News Group Newspapers (NGN), for intrusion into his private life – alongside currently undisclosed but “substantial” damages. He has now settled his high court legal action against the publisher. The case, brought by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Road safety experts and activists have asked newsroom editors to prioritize stories that can cause road behaviour change in order to curb the ever-increasing fatalities and injuries. Road safety experts and advocates under their umbrella body Road Safety Advocacy Coalition Uganda (ROSACU) said many times …

Amuria, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The day of burial for former presidential press secretary Onapito Ekomoloit is expected to be a public holiday in his home town. A member of the burial organizing committee has disclosed that there will be no work in Wera Town Council on November …

COMMENT | STEPHEN SACKUR | Today BBC News has announced plans to close @BBCHARDtalk after three decades holding the world’s politicians and powerbrokers to account. This is sad news for me personally, but much more important, I think it’s depressing news for the BBC and all who believe in the importance of …

Authorities dismiss rumours of ill health as ‘pure fantasy’, set up ‘monitoring cells’ to track online debate ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Cameroon has banned the media from discussing the health of 91-year-old President Paul Biya, who has not been seen in public since early September. Interior Minister Paul Atanga Nji this …

MOSCOW | Xinhua |  Over 60 BRICS media leaders from more than 40 countries joined the BRICS Media Summit opened here on Saturday, discussing the role of BRICS media in promoting a multipolar world. Fu Hua, president of Xinhua News Agency and executive chairman of the BRICS Media Forum, said …

The decline of the media is taking a crucial tool that was once its calling card, its soul, down with it COMMMENT | JACK SHAFER | Wounded and limping, doubting its own future, American journalism seems to be losing a quality that carried it through a century and a half of …

Why the masters of the digital revolution’s attention game typically produce more noise than enlightenment COMMENT | CARSTEN BROSDA | Sometimes, the fulfillment of a promise feels like punishment. When the radio was invented more than 100 years ago, the German playwright Bertolt Brecht observed that its full potential could be …

Airtel – Kabaka Birthday Run set to take place on Sunday, 7th April 2024 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Airtel Uganda has today called on the media to spearhead conversations in their spaces that will aid in the fight towards ending the spread of HIV/AIDs by 2030 by participating in …