FILE PHOTO: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni in Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Non-governmental organizations in Uganda have been told to submit financial information including budgets and donor lists to the authorities, an official told Reuters on Thursday, in a move rights groups said was another attempt to muzzle criticism.
The government of veteran leader President Yoweri Museveni, 74, has long chafed at criticism from NGOs and others of reported excesses including corruption, torture, illegal detentions and extra-judicial killings.
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