The open government principles have risen on the international agenda, becoming an 'in vogue topic.' The Open government principles have roots in a civic push for greater transparency and accountability in the decades following the Second World War. The Africa Freedom of Information Centre...
Banjul/Kampala, May 4, 2015: The Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC), ARTICLE 19, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and AFIC's membership of 35 civil society organisations in 22 African countries, concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in the Republic of Burundi, have...
In January 2015 Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly magazine, was the focus of the world. Its offices were attacked by violent extremist's gunmen resulting in a massacre. It is widely believed that the attack was motivated by the magazines publication of cartoons containing satirical...
Kampala, 12th/ January/2015; a senior police officer, Joram Mwesigye the Division Police Commander (DPC) for Old Kampala police station has on the 12th January 2015, assaulted two journalists, Lwanga Andrew of Wavah Broadcasting Services (WBS) Television and Joseph Ssettimba working with the government owned Bukedde...
The vicious attack on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, where 12 people were brutally murdered and 11 people were left wounded, has reminded the world that freedom of expression and freedom of information can never be taken for granted, but that...
