Two Ugandan reporters, both of them Reuters Foundation alumni, have won top journalism awards. Bamuturaki Muzinguzi, of the Daily Monitor, who attended a Writing International News course in 2005, won a U.N. award while Benon Herbert Oluka (above), of the East African, was voted Uganda's best print journalist.
At a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Muzinguzi, who attended a Writing International News course in 2005, received the top print category award of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) and the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) organised by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) for an article about taking information and communications technology (ICT) to rural communities.
Meanwhile, at the annual Golden Pen Awards in Kampala, Oluka won the Journalist of the Year Award as well as the Public Affairs Journalist of the Year Award, for his front page stories about an aircraft scandal, Uganda’s health sector problems and anti-poverty plans.
In a New Year’s greeting message to the Foundation, Oluka wrote: “Thank you for your contribution in making my 2007 a memorable one through the Writing Business News course that I attended in Accra, Ghana. I believe the writing skills that I learnt from Nick (Kotch) and Alistair (Thompson) during that particular course did contribute to my achieving this award.”
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