In Uganda, Patrick Obong of Radio North and Isaac Mifumba of The Monitor newspaper received laptop computers and a commemorative plaque as prizes after winning Ugandas first award for investigative journalism last month. The award, which was launched this year by East Africa Media Institute and the Makerere University Mass Communication Department, is the countrys first ever prize for excellence in reporting on corruption and human rights. No female journalist submitted any entry.

Meanwhile in Mozambique, Marcelo Mosse was awarded the Carlos Cardoso Prize for Investigative Journalism and 4,000 euros for his work on corruption. The jury unanimously selected Mosse for a piece of work he submitted titled "Guebuza and the fight against corruption", which was published in the independent weekly "Savana" on 19 November 2004. Mosses entry was one of 12 submitted for the award. According to a spokesman for the jury, the group took into consideration the depth of the analysis, the level of investigation undertaken, and the merit of the article in identifying the institutional and legal context of corruption. The prize was set up to honour the memory of Carlos Cardoso, the country’s finest investigative journalist, who was assassinated in November 2000. Mosse was a close associate of Cardoso on the two independent newssheets that Cardoso founded, "Mediafax" and "Metical". He is also the co-author of the biography of Cardoso, entitled "Carlos Cardoso: Telling the Truth in Mozambique", published in 2003.