Wednesday, 7 June 2023
Stephen Kafeero is an investigative journalist from Entebbe, Uganda currently completing a Masters in Journalism at Wits University.
He has written for a variety of publications and has interests in good governance, democracy, human rights, media, politics and the law.
He is an Open Society Foundation Scholar.
There have been teething issues with the rollout of phase two of the vaccinations, but the people who recently received their jabs were happy with their newfound freedom and peace of mind.
Despite the government moratorium on evictions during the Covid-19 pandemic, local authorities continue to drive people from their homes, often helped by private companies.
Free education is their right, say students who feel the pressures of financial exclusion, and it is high time the court intervenes to make it a reality.
The continental body has been neither consistent nor effective in living up to its various charters and stated aspirations for promoting democracy, peace and good governance.
The International Criminal Court has found a Ugandan warlord guilty of horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity, but the ruling has brought scant relief to his victims.
A colonial-era practice and archaic laws are keeping offenders with mental health impairments in prison indefinitely, sometimes for longer than their sentence would have been.
The Bobi Wine-led revolution in Uganda might have been streamed live, but Uganda’s president relied on tried-and-tested strategies to prevail in the election.