Catholic News Service reports that several Catholic-run radio stations in northern Uganda were illegally ordered to halt election coverage in the days leading up to last week's presidential and parliamentary elections in Uganda by armed policemen and representatives of the ruling National Resistance Movement party.

Also, the Mail and Guardian reports that the online edition of Uganda's largest independent newspaper, the Monitor, and its sister radio station, KFM, were disabled last week as election results began to trickle in, temporarily preventing independent reporting of the partial election results. Although the Monitor did not directly accuse the Ugandan government of disabling their operations, they did say the government warned them to stop reporting the results.

Uganda's Electoral Commission has declared incumbent Yoweri Museveni the winner of the presidential elections, and the "overall results" have been endorsed by the EU and US. However, Kizza Besigye, the runner-up, and at least one other election monitoring group have declared the election a fraud due to voter intimidation and other widespread irregularities.