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The Daily Monitor is a Ugandan independent daily newspaper. The headquarters of the Daily Monitor and the Daily Monitor Publications, as well as the printing press of the newspaper, are located at 8th Street Namuwongo Road in the Industrial Area of Kampala , Uganda's capital and largest city. The newspaper was established in [ 2 ] as The Monitor , and relaunched as the Daily Monitor in June The paper asserts that its private ownership guarantees the independence of its editors and journalists.

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The newspaper headquarters are housed in the same building that houses the other investments owned by Monitor Publications Limited, including Daily Monitor newspaper, Monitor Business Directory, Ennyanda sports newspaper in Luganda , The premises of the Daily Monitor were raided by Uganda police on 20 May This happened soon after the paper had published a letter allegedly written by army General David Sejusa , threatening that those opposing Muhoozi Kainerugaba for the presidency risked their lives.

Kainerugaba is the son of the long-standing president Yoweri Museveni. The same letter was also published by another Ugandan newspaper, Red Pepper , whose offices were also raided. The police siege ended on 30 May , and the newspaper and its radio stations As of January , the chairman of the board is Samuel Sejjaaka and the chief executive officer is Susan Nsibirwa.

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