Soldiers ringed Uganda's largest newsroom and Kenya's president feuds with a media group: a documented pre-election clampdown on the press across East Africa.

Independent media group, NMG, said it was under a "military siege" after Muhoozi Kainerugaba shutdown its newspapers, TV station, and radio outlets.

Nation Media Group Uganda (NMG-U) has announced that its offices in Kampala have been rendered inaccessible after what it described as an overnight military raid that disrupted…