The Malta Independent 25 August 2026, Tuesday
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Foreign Press was unfair with Uganda’s CHOGM

Malta Independent Sunday, 9 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting came and went but most of the international coverage of the event was deeply biased, a writer has claimed.

Kani Twehamye wrote in The Sunday Vision, a Uganda paper, that most of the British TV reporters were busy reporting from places like slums.

“They transmitted very sad stories, you would think they had gone to Uganda to cover a funeral.

“The war in the north was one of the main features, like they’ve suddenly realised there’s a war going on there.”

“I am sure prospective investors decided to continue spending their money in Malta instead, because there were beautiful images of the Queen’s visit there before she boarded her plane to the heart of the ‘doomed dark continent’,” the writer concluded.

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