authorities on August 20, 2021, announced without prior notification that they had halted the activities of 54 civil society groups, including human rights and election monitoring organizations, Human Rights Watch said today.
The director of the Bureau, Stephen Okello, said that 23 of the organizations were found to be operating with expired permits while 15 others had “consistently failed to file annual returns and audited books of accounts.” Another 16 groups were “operating as NGOs without registering with the NGO Bureau.”
on February 8, 2018, disabling parts of the security system, and slashing two guards with machetes, severely injuring them. The authorities have neither investigated nor identified anyone responsible for these break-ins. , an election monitoring coalition, from engaging in voter education or any election related activity. In January 2021, the authorities banned National Elections Watch – Uganda, a coalition of local organizations, from monitoring national elections scheduled for January 14.