The Department of Journalism and Communication (DJC) has won NORHED funding for a project titled: Strengthening Media in Post-Conflict societies through Education and Research: Bridging Gaps, Building Futures in Uganda, Norway, South Sudan and Nepal. It is a Five year project to be implemented in partnership with Norway, Nepal and South Sudan. The selection of the DJC proposal was as a result of a competitive process of which 173 applications were received by NORHED for funding and out of these ony 46 have been recommended for support.
Over three million Africans cannot feed themselves and the number could increase to six million within a decade if global terms of trade are not changed to suit African farmers, Jimmy Pittchar has disclosed.
Pittchar, a researcher from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology based in Nairobi noted that Western countries have put high tariffs for agricultural imports coupled with stringent health measures, which makes it hard for African farmers to compete in the global market place.
Milly Dowler a 14- year old British girl on her way to school in Walton -on- Thames on 21st March 2011 was murdered.
Dowler’s murder featured most in the investigation in the News of the World phone scandal and it was revealed in 2011 that News of the world reporters had accessed her voice mail while she was reported missing. There was a public outcry in Britain questioning the standards of the media in handling issues. This prompted the Prime Minister David Cameroon to set a committee led by Lord Justice Leveson to investigate the media conduct.
n intense scandal that happened in the United Kingdom, 9,867 km from Uganda, sent waves across the journalism world with effects that are to be far reaching. The News International phone-hacking scandal was one involving News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation.
The BBC World Service team has held a meeting with Journalism and Communication student voluteers in preparation for the first ever Science festival in Africa to be hosted by Makerere University at the Freedom square from Sunday 24th to Thursday 28th March 2013.
