Daily Monitor
Thursday February 18 2021
Mr Timothy Murungi, a photojournalist with Vision Group, publisher of the New Vision newspaper sustained a head injury after the security assault . PHOTOS/ MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI
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Ms Irene Abalo, a reporter with NMG-Uganda, writhed at the International Diagnostic Centre (IDC) Hospital on Yusuf Lule Road in Kampala yesterday where she was rushed after soldiers injured her during a crackdown on journalists.
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Dozens of soldiers yesterday beat up and injured about half-a-dozen journalists in Kampala in what the victims said was a brazen, unprovoked broad-day assault.
The attack, which the Uganda Editors’ Guild board member, Mr Alex Atuhaire, described as “intentional organised move against journalists”, and ironically happened near the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) where Opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, went to deliver a petition about a spate of abduction
The Democratic Governance Facility, DGF was on the orders of Museveni suspended for among others subverting government programmes and its questioned structure which is exclusively foreign headed.
Speaking to Kfm, the Executive Director of the Anti- Corruption Coalition Uganda Cissy Kagaba says there is no way government will be able to fight corruption if it is closing the civic space of Civil society organizations.
Kagaba says they will not be able to do research and carry out sensitization campaigns about corruption like they use to do and yet government will walk away scot free since there is no one to do the checks and balances.
Daily Monitor
Thursday February 04 2021
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Uncertainty yesterday loomed large over the future of civil society organisations in the country after President Museveni ordered that operations of Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), their principal funder, be “immediately suspended”.
President Museveni ordered the Inspector General of Government (IGG), police and State House Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate how the Ministry of Finance authorised the DGF to operate in Uganda and allegedly bankroll NGOs and government agencies to undermine him.
The DGF is financed by governments of Denmark, Ireland, Austria, UK, Sweden, Norway and the European Union, with an aim of ensuring equitable growth, poverty eradication, rule of law and long term stability in Uganda.
EC eases restrictions on media, use of camera during elections
January 10, 2021 Written by URN
The Electoral Commission (EC) has eased restrictions on use of cameras and other recording devices at polling stations on election day.
Earlier this week, the chairman of EC, Justice Simon Byabakama communicated new guidelines that would apply to the January 14 general election. Contentious among these was the directive that voters will not be allowed to remain at polling stations after voting to witness the vote counting and a ban of cameras at the polling stations.
The ban on cameras was strangely extended to journalists as well. Opposition political parties, however, questioned the legality of the directives w