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Uganda cracks down on media ahead of elections in 2021, watchdog says

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 9, 2020. [Reuters]

Uganda’s security forces are cracking down on authors and journalists who challenge the 34-year-old rule of President Yoweri Museveni ahead of elections next year, a watchdog told Reuters.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it documented the cases of 10 journalists and writers assaulted by security personnel, detained, or charged with offences to do with their work this year, compared to four such cases last year.

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