The London Evening Post

By Nkonge Ismail Kaggwa in Kampala Uganda has denied it forced the closure of two of the country’s media houses last Monday which has left many journalists jobless and business stalled. Appearing before the country’s national assembly, the Ugandan Minister of Internal Affairs, Hillary Onek, told members of parliament that the police was acting legally when hundreds of heavily armed policemen, some of them dressed in anti-riot uniforms, raided the offices of the country’s leading independent English daily, the Daily Monitor, laying siege to its premises and doing the same to a mostly tabloid English daily, the Red Pepper. Both media houses were until this morning still cordoned off and … Continue reading →

By Henry D Gombya The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) yesterday “vigorously condemned the clamp down on the media in Uganda” after the country’s leading national daily, The Daily Monitor and a daily tabloid the Red Pepper were besieged by heavily armed police on the pretext of looking for a letter that the two newspaper had published the previous week. In a statement, Gabriel Baglo, IFJ Africa Director said: “This is a real affront on media freedom. Uganda is definitely becoming a country where press freedom abuses and violations are widely perpetrated by the police with total impunity. This must stop immediately.” As we went this online newspaper went to … Continue reading →

By Henry D Gombya Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni today stands accused of dragging Uganda back to the old bad days of Dictator Idi Amin after he ordered security forces to ransack the offices off one of the country’s leading daily, the Daily Monitor, forcing it to halt its publication work after security men entered the building and disabled the paper’s plant. People of Uganda are now walking the streets in fear of being arrested for placing posters of any kind on trees or electricity lamp posts, saying anything critical of the government or walking to work in protest of high taxi fares. Surprisingly, no journalist is safe from harassment by … Continue reading →