...could neither stand serious public scrutiny nor weather the heat should political vultures and mafiosi choose to bite. Andrew Mwenda has argued that "procedural defects should not blind us to the strategic value of NSSF's investment in Temangalo." But this...
...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...
...Press, Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad both of Pajhwok Afghan News, Afghanistan's leading independent news agency, Andrew Mwenda founder and managing editor of Uganda's news magazine The Independent, and Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez of Cuba are the five journalists...
...it hijacked and made complicated by those who wish to settle personal vendettas or otherwise. And clearly, reading through Andrew Mwenda's piece in the New Vision last Friday, he showed he had fallen to that bait by accusing Daily Monitor's journalists and...
...has also given examples of other land sales in the same area showing that his price is below the market price. Writers like Andrew Mwenda have argued, with examples, that the price wasn't inflated. It has also emerged that NSSF didn't follow procurement procedures. They...
...September 2008 In his "last word" titled "NSSF hostage to past deals," which was published in his newsletter of August 29, Andrew Mwenda postulated himself above other "reporters and journalists who make key decisions to these maters yet they are ignorant...
...celebrated when Nation Media Group exiled Charles Onyango Obbo to Nairobi, and later Conrad Nkutu, both from The Daily Monitor. Andrew Mwenda was also hounded out of The Daily Monitor. You still remember the suspension of two talk shows; Tooro Twerwaneho and...
...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...
...Or do you save the business by censoring some individuals and comments? Like Kfm earlier, Capital Radio recently asked Andrew Mwenda to stay away from the 'Capital Gang' talk show. William Pike had been asked to choose between his business and Mwenda. He chose...
...Margaret Muhanga (NRM) said her heart bled at the way the Government was doing things. She said her brother, journalist Andrew Mwenda, was picked "like a chicken thief" by soldiers. She also noted that the Government was making Nambooze, who was a simple person,...