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Uganda's Military Shut Down Its Largest Independent Newsroom. The Institutions Meant to Stop It Never Did

Uganda’s legal framework for regulating the media collapsed the moment a military officer’s social media post became more powerful than the country’s communications regulator. Development Diaries reports that Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, recently announced on X that NTV Uganda and the Daily Monitor would be shut down. Within hours, armed and masked soldiers had surrounded Nation Media Group Uganda’s headquarters…
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developmentdiaries.com broke the news on Monday, July 6, 2026.
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