Lydia Namubiru

The coun­try al­ready hosts more than one mil­lion refugees as more peo­ple es­cap­ing vi­o­lence in the DRC ar­rive.

Au­thor­i­ties say the move is to stop ex­ploita­tion of chil­dren but peo­ple say pover­ty has forced them into beg­ging.

Reg­u­la­tor di­rect­ed 13 me­dia or­gan­i­sa­tions to sus­pend 39 jour­nal­ists af­ter cov­er­age of politi­cian tak­en to prison.