1 hour ago Uganda's starring autarkic media radical says it is nether "military siege" aft the service main - who is the lad of President Yoweri Museveni - ordered the closure of TV stations, newspapers and vigor outlets.
The Daily Monitor paper said that equipped soldiers were stationed extracurricular its office successful the superior Kampala and some NTV and Spark TV had been taken disconnected air.
The outlets are portion of the Nation Media Group, 1 of the astir influential media companies successful East Africa.
It is unclear what precisely led to the crackdown, but successful posts connected X, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba said: "I DO NOT judge successful a escaped press! The property should beryllium guided by cadres of the revolution."
Opposition and quality rights groups impeach Gen Kainerugaba of being a cardinal fig successful a highly repressive authorities led by his father.
Supporters of the president and his household accidental they person guaranteed stableness successful Uganda, and the system has improved nether their rule.
President Museveni, 81, is simply a erstwhile rebel person who took powerfulness astir 40 years ago.
He won a grounds seventh word successful disputed elections successful January, with wide speculation that helium is grooming his lad to win him 1 day.
Gen Kainerugaba said connected X that his "great father" had fixed him the "power to unopen down immoderate media location I privation to".
He said that some NTV and Daily Monitor would "not re-open without my permission".
"From present connected ALL media successful Uganda volition travel the rules!" the wide added.
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