By Timothy Kalyegira The opening up of the Ugandan broadcast airwaves in 1992 came two years after the government decided to relax its decades-old control of the foreign currency market. Since independence, control of the national radio broadcaster was strictly by the government, especially considering that when military coups and guerrilla uprisings were staged, taking […]
Continue readingGen. David Sejusa’s sustained assault on President Yoweri Museveni appears to have become a ‘hot potato’ for the local media following the police siege that saw the closure of Daily Monitor and Red Pepper as well as Kfm and Ddembe FM. On Monday, Kfm, which is owned by Monitor Publications, cancelled the live ‘Hot Seat’ […]
Continue readingBy ACME Correspondent Fears that the recent closure of media houses could have a chilling effect on press freedom increased after Sunday Monitor dropped a story that singled out President Museveni’s dismal performance in a survey of African leaders for the year 2012. The lead story, “Museveni ranks low in East Africa,” had appeared in […]
Continue readingBy Unamed Source This is not about The Daily Monitor or the Red Pepper or Sejusa and his pen pals. But just to avoid any misunderstandings, I don’t believe it was an awesome thing the government did shutting down the newspapers for so long. I was not, however, going to attend any protests because, well, […]
Continue readingIn raiding two national newspapers and two radio stations on Monday, May 20, the Ugandan government launched its largest media crackdown yet. Not since the closure of several radio stations in one go in September 2009 has the Yoweri Museveni government, in power since 1986, engaged in this sort of egregious attack on media freedom. […]
Continue readingSeveral Ugandan media outlets re-opened on Thursday, May 30, 10 days after the government closed and placed them under 24-hour armed police guard. “…the Police has called off the cordon of the Monitor premises so that they resume their normal business as police continue with the search,” Mr Hillary Onek, the outgoing internal affairs minister, […]
Continue readingThe widely condemned closure of media houses in Uganda entered day nine on Tuesday, May 28, with dramatic scenes involving scuffles between the police and protesting journalists. Two WBS TV reporters, Mr Williams Ntege and Mr Mulindwa Mukasa, were arrested during the protest, which lasted about three hours outside the Daily Monitor head offices on […]
Continue readingDespite mounting condemnation, police on Thursday evening arrested five of several protestors who marched to the Daily Monitor offices in Kampala protesting the newspaper’s continued closure as security agents search for documents written by a senior military officer regarding presidential succession. Riot police, backed up by a water cannon, deployed as soon as the protestors […]
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