Kamunye

It is a sister paper to The Red Pepper, a tabloid in Uganda,^[1] and it has 74 bound volumes.^[2]

This paper has been closed on two occasions, with the first one happening during the Buganda riots in 2009. In this case, the Scene of crime law was massively applied and this led to the closure Daily Monitor and its sister radio stations, KFM and Dembe FM, plus Red Pepper and sister publications Hello and Kamunye.^[3]

In 2017, The Red Pepper was closed down in November alongside Kamunye. Their directors and editors were jailed after publishing a story alleging that President Museveni was training Rwanda rebels to topple the government of President Kagame. The president of Uganda later on gave a directive for them to be reopened after 3 months following a meeting with them at state house in Uganda.^[4]