Shortage of gossip as authorities shut down social media, money transfer in Uganda again

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We have this monster called UCC in Kampala. I think it means Uganda Communication Curtailer, but they claim it means Uganda Communication Commission. It is manned by a bunch of heartless Engineers who seem to derive enormous pleasure in switching off people’s communications abruptly.

Most recently, we received text messages on our phones from the service providers stating thus: Dear customer, following a directive from UCC, all social media have been blocked.