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                Uganda Urged to Allow Private Radio to Broadcast

   by VOA News

   An American media watchdog group is urging Ugandan authorities to allow
   a privately owned radio station in the country to resume broadcasts.

   The Committee to Protect Journalists said Endigyito FM was forced off
   the air last week when officials revoked the station's license and
   confiscated its broadcasting equipment.

   An employee at the station said the move came a day after the station
   aired an interview with opposition presidential candidate Amama
   Mbabazi.  Uganda is scheduled to hold presidential elections on
   February 18.

   "It is absolutely vital that Ugandan citizens can get information from
   a range of sources, particularly ahead of elections," the CPJ's Africa
   Program Coordinator Sue Valentine said in a statement released
   Thursday.

   The CPJ has documented several cases of Ugandan journalists being
   harassed this month. Police on January 8 released two newspaper editors
   they had held for 24 hours without allowing them contact with the
   outside world, according to news reports.
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