{"id":349064,"date":"2026-01-14T19:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-business\/telecom-regulation\/19613-uganda-shuts-down-internet-access-before-an-election-again.html"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:55:28","slug":"uganda-shuts-down-internet-access-before-an-election-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=349064","title":{"rendered":"Uganda shuts down internet access before an election \u2013 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/Places\/kampala_downtown_600.jpg\" alt=\"Uganda shuts down internet access before an election \u2013 again\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>For the second time in five years Uganda faces a government-sanctioned internet blackout before a nationwide vote. The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has told all service providers to suspend internet access ahead of Thursday&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in five years Uganda faces a government-sanctioned internet blackout before a nationwide vote. The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has told all service providers to suspend internet access ahead of Thursday&#8217;s presidential ele&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5365],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349066,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349064\/revisions\/349066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}