Kabushenga Appointment Bodes Ill for Free Press in Troubled Uganda

Kabushenga Appointment Bodes Ill for Free Press in Troubled Uganda

ACCRA, Ghana -- The name Robert Kabushenga probably languishes in obscurity in the West.

Knowledge of the man is limited to Ugandans and anyone, be they diplomats, aid workers or journalists, with an interest in Uganda.

That's a shame, for Kabushenga is a strident foe of the free press, not unlike Zimbabwe's disgraced, ex-information minister Jonathan Moyo.

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