The Daily IIJ

A lot is being said about CNN relaying unverified videos of an Iranian woman Neda posted on you tube and twitter who was shot by Basij, a paramilitary allegedly sponsored by Iran government.
The situation in Iran is so tense, Journalists for some international media houses have been expelled, the remaining have been ordered to [...]

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There is a serious war that has erupted between NRM heavy weights (NRM is the ruling political party in Uganda resulting from what is perceived as an internal fight.
The Inspector General of Government (IGG) Justice Faith Mwondah has bitterly attacked the speaker of Parliament Hon. Edward Ssekandi, Deputy Speaker Hon. Rebecca Kadaga, the minister of [...]

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Dear IIJ colleagues
Find my piece alongside other pieces of ’US of A’ on the BBC website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7872381.stm
Lauben

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African leaders are still locked up in a summit where the main issue on the agenda is African Unity. Establishing a one country for Africa and also over coming economic challenges on the African land
As much as African leaders view this as a ‘Ghadafi thing’ because of the letter that he circulated before the summit [...]

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It was a day of smiles, a day to remember the tough hard days and all that we went through as the Dean of the Faculty of Development Studies read out the 320 names of those who graduated from the Faculty of Development Studies at Mbarara University with degrees in Development Studies.

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I felt pity this morning for the people of Zimbabwe after learning that the death toll for the Cholera victims has reached more than 500.  It took me back to the past years here in Uganda where thousands of people died as a result of an armed struggle the rebel leader Joseph Kony waged against the [...]

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Unlike in USA, Britain, Iceland and probably German where the talk is about economic depression and how to best handle the crisis situation, in Africa it is the same old story Fighting for leadership, wars and poverty. However it has been punctuated with a new slogan, “He has betrayed us.”

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Today I was in a workshop which started yesterday organized by Vision Group in Uganda; the theme of the workshop was Health Journalism. Every thing seemed to go well with every facilitator since the opening,  until today afternoon when Dr. Byaruhanga from the Psychiatry department at Mbarara Referral Hospital came in to take us through [...]

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In Uganda today, some members of the historical members of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) who actively risked their lives and participated in the five year struggle to liberate the country are up in arms to finish one another. The reason is that one of the most feared and flamboyant Minister of security Hon [...]

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This morning, I had a discussion from one of the senior editors at a prominent Radio station here in Uganda. The discussion was about whether journalists should be neutral or not. I was basing my self on one of the newspaper editors in Germany who insisted that journalists are not supposed to be neutral. As [...]

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