Joseph Kato, a journalist with Uganda Radio Network, URN, talks about one of the stories he covered under the Health Journalists Network under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which has contributed to international public health efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19 and its impact on human rights, in particular women’s and…
Victor Kiyimba is one of the people who will live to remember Uganda’s first Covid19 lockdown which was intended to control the spread of the contagious disease. The total lockdown that was announced by president Yoweri Museveni, in March 2020 lasted up to July of the same year and the country started operating at half scale. The total…
The closure of courts and lack of public transport during Covid19 Lockdowns delayed justice for suspected law breakers. The total lockdown that was announced by president Yoweri Museveni, in March 2020 lasted up to July of the same year and the country started operating at half scale. The total lockdown caused closure of courts while the partial lockdown…
If there are people who have everlasting memories about this Covid-19, then 29-year-old, youthful Zack Kabagambe is one of them. When president, Yoweri Museveni, announced the first lockdown intended to control the spread of Covid19, Kabagambe never thought he would be one of the first victims of security brutality enforcing the orders. As you read this, Kabagambe is…
A fortnight after police’s director for operations Assistant Inspector General of Police- AIGP Edward Ochom, issued warning to police commanders and their juniors using enforcement of Covid19 orders to extort money from civilians, six police officers have been arrested over the same vice. AIGP Ochom sent out an internal communication expressing concern over increasing cases of civilians accusing police…
Bosco Mbabazi will perhaps live to remember Uganda’s Covid19 second lockdown. Five days after president Yoweri Museveni’s address of June 18 th sending Ugandans into a second total lockdown, Mbabazi tasted the wrath of security men. Mbabazi, a resident of Makindye West III zone recounts events that show three of his teeth allegedly removed by…
It is thirteen minutes to midday, Mariam Namakula, sits down to narrate her ordeal with security men enforcing directives intended to control the spread of Covid-19. Uganda recorded her first case of Covid19 on March 21 last year and this was followed with a total local down. Namakula starts by showing scars on her both…
It is 18 months since schools were closed nationwide in a bid to curtail the spread of Corona Virus Diseases commonly known as Covid-19. Even though some children went back and completed their final years, some children particularly those in lower primary and secondary classes have not been in school since March 2020. In Karamoja…