Uganda orders 'Daily Monitor' website shut

A newspaper stand with different a variety of Uganda's local dailies. The country's communications regulator has ordered the main independent newspaper Daily Monitor to shut down its website. FILE PHOTO | ISAAC KASAMANI | AFP

Uganda's communications regulator on Wednesday ordered the country's main independent newspaper the Daily Monitor to shut down its website.

In a letter to the newspaper's managing director, the head of the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), Godfrey Mutabazi, said the publication had failed to register under data communications regulations introduced in 2018.