The Daily IIJ

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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I had never felt before how it feels being addressed by the name of your President. It started when my friend Reagan (Zimbabwe) could not remember what my name was. Maybe he could not pronounce it or he found pride in addressing me by my president’s name. In the first attempt he called me Muhamiza, [...]

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