Uganda's ban on social media days before presidential elections shows a rattled president flexing power over the Internet at the expense of free speech and citizen rights, digital campaigners said on ...

"If you want to take sides against the (ruling party), then that group will not operate in Uganda," President Yoweri Museveni said in a national address. AP Uganda shut down all social media in the ...

KAMPALA, Uganda-- Ugandan police used tear gas and bullets to break up a street protest Wednesday against a new tax targeting social media users. Two protesters were arrested in downtown Kampala, the ...

Today, Uganda's parliament passed a controversial "social media tax." It will consist of a daily fee of about 200 shillings (5 US cents) levied on anyone who uses social networking and messaging apps ...

The Ugandan government has this week introduced a tax on social media use. This unprecedented tax again raises questions about the relationship between multinational tech companies, governments and ...

This weekend the Ugandan government began to implement a troubling new set of tax rules requiring social media users – including of popular apps like WhatsApp, Twitter, and Facebook - to pay a daily ...

(CNN) -- The Ugandan government has imposed taxes on social media to raise money for the country and to avoid donor aid, a lawmaker told CNN. Ugandans will have to cough up 200 Ugandan shillings ...

A picture taken in Paris on May 16, 2018, shows the logo of the social network Facebook on a broken screen of a mobile phone. As of July 1, users of internet messaging services including Facebook, ...

Violent protests in Uganda has forced the government to review a controversial tax imposed on social media use in the country. Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda in a statement Wednesday said the bill ...

Uganda witnessed a total internet shut down on the afternoon of January 13, 2021, on the eve of its presidential election. Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, 76, who took power in 1986, following a ...

At midnight on July 1, Hamza Kwehangana was eating a late dinner alone in his room on the east side of Kampala, Uganda’s capital city. He decided to send a message to his buddy. He picked up his phone ...