Challenges to Press Freedom in Uganda

Edward Echwalu - Documentary Photographer

Harriet Anena, a deputy Chief sub-editor at The Daily Monitorwas in her own world of pressure from the looming masters exams when the news came through.

“Baibs….the Demons, they haunt, this time hard!!” a workmate wrote on her wall Facebook wall.1

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION:A lone female journalist with The Independent Magazine -Uganda defiantly stands right in-front of a sea of Policemen, demanding The Daily Monitor, Kfm, Dember fm and Red Pepper to be opened. The publications were closed for running a letter that was written to the Director of Internal Security Organization (ISO), asking for an inquiry into alleged assassination plot of those opposed to a purported “Muhoozi Project”. Brig. Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the son to President Yoweri Museveni. It’s been rumored that Museveni, who has been president of Uganda for the last 27 years is grooming Muhoozi to take over from him, thus, the “Muhoozi Project”-

Anena, realized…

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