...to Protect Journalists has announced the five winners of its 2008 International Press Freedom Awards, one of whom is Andrew Mwenda of Uganda. The CPJ award goes to journalists who have "risked imprisonment, harassment, and, above all, their lives to report...
...expression. Anne Perkins of the Guardian UK offers a fascinating profile of controversial journalist and activist Andrew Mwenda, who in 2007 told his TEDGlobal audience that aid is poisoning African governments. Mwenda's incendiary writings, which fearlessly...
...the Independent, seizing computer documents and attempting to deliver an arrest warrant to managing editor Andrew M. Mwenda. "Unluckily, I was out of Uganda," Mr. Mwenda told us. Unluckily? "Yes. I do not want them to think I am running away" . . . . Mr. Mwenda...
...state wanted me to disappear without a trace, so I opened the car window and shouted at people along the road that ‘I was Andrew Mwenda being kidnapped by CMI.’ At this point, the security operatives pulled me back and this time handcuffed me so that I did...
... The Ugandan libertarian journalist discusses leadership on the African continent: "Only President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has attempted to banish this neo-patrimonial politics from his leadership style. He makes pledges but only of a symbolic nature. Thus, ...
...John Njoroge, according to defense lawyer Bob Kasango. "We are concerned by this raid against The Independent and Andrew Mwenda," said CPJ's Africa Program Coordinator Tom Rhodes. "Ugandan authorities have a history of prosecuting Mwenda based on his critical...
...1 May 2008 Posted to the web 1 May 2008 On the eve of World Press Freedom Day this week, Andrew Mwenda, Managing Editor of The Independent news magazine, will report to Police for the third time in one week, to be quizzed about some articles in his publication. Journalists...
...people continue to take this freedom for granted and abuse it with impunity. In his April issue of The Independent Magazine, Andrew Mwenda developed a deliberate clash between democratic and military values by believing the lies of one Lance Corporal Godfrey...
...They will hit a dead end. When I first wrote about the seer in July 2006, I was roundly criticised by my colleague Andrew Mwenda who recommended I check into a mental clinic, a view shared by Canadian journalist Murray Oliver of Canadian Television News and...
...of Military Intelligence (CMI) on the offices of privately-owned newspaper "The Independent" and the home of its publisher, Andrew Mwenda. After ransacking the two places, the CMI personnel seized various documents and press equipment including lap-top, desktop...