New York, June 29, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for Ugandan authorities to swiftly and unreservedly remove security forces from the premises of the privately owned Nation Media Group-Uganda (NMG-U), permit the company to operate freely, and ensure Managing Director Susan Nsibirwa can work without concern that she may be arrested or attacked.
In the early hours of June 28, Ugandan security forces
arrived
at the NMG-U headquarters in the Namuwongo district of Kampala and its broadcast centers at the Kampala Serena International Conference Centre,
blocking access
and
shutting down
the company’s ability to print newspapers or conduct standard radio and TV
broadcasts
.
“Nothing much has changed,” Nsibirwa told CPJ at around 6 p.m. local time on June 29. “Our websites are active, our social media handles are active, and pretty much that’s how we’re doing our work, until the situation should change. So we’re just digital now.”
“Laying siege to the Nation Media Group in Uganda, the largest independent media house in east and central Africa, at the whim of military chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba offers yet another indication of the country’s deepening authoritarianism,” said Angela Quintal, CPJ’s Africa director.
“No military officer should be able to intimidate or silence an independent media house because he dislikes its reporting or rejects the universal right to press freedom. President Yoweri Museveni must hold his son accountable for this egregious abuse of power and ensure that the NMG and its journalists can continue to operate freely in Uganda without fear of arbitrary censorship,” said Quintal.
In a June 29 update
published online
, Daily Monitor, which is an NMG company, noted that in Uganda the media group also owns NTV Uganda, The East African, Spark TV, 93.3 KFM, 90.4 Dembe FM, Ennyanda newspaper, and the Nation Courier.
Nsibirwa said that the security forces detained a technical team and a driver as they took control of
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