Our regular readers will have noticed our quick return, following our decision to suspend publication for a period of time. We are delighted to be back sooner than we had envisaged, and would like to welcome you back, and thank you for your patience and loyal readership.
Some of you would like to have had a more detailed explanation for our announcement of temporary closure, and we would apologise to them, if they found our statement too brief.
Like news organisations everywhere, our financial resources were, and remain strained. When we started, we operated through a unique model, which meant we had a very small team of permanent reporters and network of collaborators. You may have noticed that some of our content had attributions of other media. They were collaborative projects, innovatively designed to diverse audiences.
The Covid-19 Pandemic made what were always scarce financial resources, even more meagre, and we wanted done breathing space while we brainstormed about raising more much needed finances. We have had to forego different things to be able to survive. We made very difficult decisions.
The answer it turned out, would take some time to find, and we did not want the suspension to be too long, and so, while we are still experiencing financial difficulties, we decided that we must soldier on, believing our role to be an important one.
And it is to that role we now turn, and take the opportunity to restate our editorial position, which we may not have made clear at our relaunch last year.
This profound change and transformation is informed by one fundamental objective; to raise the living standards of ugandans, and with their active participation, build a nation of which they can be rightly proud.
Under these circumstances, it would be perfectly natural and easy for almost all of our articles to reflect the many great achievements that are being scored, almost daily. And at times we shall indeed bring you such celebratory articles, because they inform about the country.
But in any environment, let alone one that is undergoing such profound change and transformation, there will be good, and the not so good, actually the real bad! We believe it our duty and responsibility to bring you both, to give you a more balanced picture.
Inevitably, we will not always please the subjects of our articles, in fact, it is likely that we may never please them, but we are determined to safeguard their right to expect only truth and accuracy from us.