This is the second part of this blog, the first, “The Demons That Torment African Journalists; To Run Or Stand And Fight (Part I)” was published earlier: (http://nakedchiefs.com/2013/05/16/the-demons-that-torment-african-journalists-to-run-or-stand-and-fight-part-i/). The Monitor, Uganda’s main independent daily paper, was closed for 10 days over the “helicopter story”.Among other things, we had been charged with “aiding an enemy of […]
May 16, 2013
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My friend Kiflu Hussain, a decent man and good Ethiopian journalist who lives in exile in the Uganda capital Kampala, is angry with the Africa Media Initiative for holding its next convention in Addis Ababa. Why? Because the Ethiopian regime is a dictatorship that torments journalists. And he is also unhappy with me, because he […]
May 16, 2013
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Yesterday I tried to buy an Economy class seat for a quick dash to Uganda, and return on Sunday to catch the Election Day action on Monday March 4. There were no seats on any of the flights. Well, I am still waiting for something to open up. Oh, I was told there were two […]
February 27, 2013
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Let’s remind ourselves. One of the big news stories of 2012 was “Kony 2012”, the short documentary video by the American children rights group Invisible Children. “Kony 2012”, which chronicled the atrocities of indicted Uganda war criminal and Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader Joseph Kony, became the most viral video in history. It notched more […]
January 11, 2013
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One of the Elders associated with Nation Media Group (NMG) is extremely well-travelled and from all over the world he soaks in several lessons about media. His knowledge of the media business can be disarming. In one meeting, he reflected on what he considered the “unfortunate” tendency that has invaded African media too, of filling […]
December 13, 2012
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One of the things that most undermines African democracy is election theft. If you look at many bouts of violence and guerilla wars in several countries in Africa – from Yoweri Museveni’s war that started in February 1981, the Algeria civil war that began in 1992 after the military-dominated government cancelled elections set to be […]
October 23, 2012
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First published in The East African, Sept. 1-7, 2012 NAIROBI: Somalia’s long transition ended on August 20, with its war-battered capital Mogadishu more peaceful than it has been in 20 years. However, the African Union peacekeeping mission, Amisom, which can claim credit for the change in Somalia, is not holding a victory parade yet. In often […]
September 2, 2012
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So, as we reported in “How Guns And Bombs Dramatically Redrew The Economic And Political Map Of East Africa”, (http://nakedchiefs.com/2012/06/12/how-guns-and-bombs-dramatically-redrew-the-economic-and-political-map-of-east-africa-and-the-horn/), after 1998, nothing would be the same in East Africa, the Great Lakes Region, or the Horn of Africa. The decision by Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila, seen as a lackey, to expel […]
June 18, 2012
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There are many other roads in Uganda that are worse than the Tororo-Mbale one that I just endured a few days ago. I saw a report on one of the Ugandan TVs in April on such roads. Still, I would recommend the Tororo-Mbale road to the courts. Instead of sentencing someone to life imprisonment, the […]
June 13, 2012
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