Uganda, Nov. 29 -- This year's Uganda National Journalism Awards will be held on December 14, its organiser, the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), has announced, ending months of anxious wait for qualifying journalists.

The new ACME Executive Director, Dr George Lugalambi, said they received 322 entries from 188 print, online and broadcast journalists across the country.

He attributed the delay in holding the annual awards to the government's sudden freezing of the operations, and eventual winding up, of the Democratic Facility Grant (DGF), which was the principal sponsor.

ACME then turned to the private sector, civil society and parastatals, hooking up telecom giant MTN, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), the Collabor...