Day: 30 May 2013

In 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. […]

Several 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, […]