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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Western Uganda has lost yet another journalist, bringing the total number of those who have died in a space of one year to six.<\/p>\n

Enid Basiime, an employee of the Mbarara-based Ankole Diocese Revival Radio, passed on at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital on Friday.<\/p>\n

Basiime\u2019s death comes only days after a budding NBS television south-western Uganda bureau chief, Sheila Nakabuye, died only hours after giving birth to a baby girl.<\/p>\n

After Nakabuye\u2019s death, another reporter, Charles Muhindo Brinto, who had been working with Light FM in Kasese, also perished in a motorcycle accident on his way from Bunyangabu District, barely two weeks after a radio presenter, Dennis Mumbere from the same area also died in another accident.<\/p>\n

Other journalists who have died since May 2020 include Allan Mandela Mateeka from Hunter Radio. He was allegedly stabbed in a crime of passion in February 2021.<\/p>\n

Another journalist, Francis Mutazindwa, a former Revival Radio Ankole Diocese manager, succumbed to pneumonia in May 2020.<\/p>\n

Journalists play public watchdog roles as they provide information, education, and communication to different media platforms.<\/p>\n

Mr Micheal Tumwakiire, the western Uganda coordinator in Human Rights Network for Journalists, said: \u201cWe are shocked because this is not normal. It is unfortunate that the eyes of the public are dying one by one in a short time.\u201d He added: \u201cIt is so because when a journalist dies, many people lose considering that we are the eyes of the public and sources of information.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Enid Ninsiima, a Daily Monitor journalist in Kasese District, said the media fraternity in the region has suffered a big blow following the death of colleagues.<\/p>\n

She said in Kasese, they have lost two colleagues in road accidents.<\/p>\n

Ms Ninsiima, who is also the chairperson of the Kasese Media Practitioners Association, said the fraternity have started a road safety campaign.<\/p>\n

Mr Alex Ashaba, a journalist, said the campaign will involve road users, the media, security and civil society organisations to preach safe road usage to the public to reduce accidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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