Tanzania, July 18 -- Entebbe. President Yoweri Museveni on Friday, July 17, 2026 held talks with Tanzanian businessman Rostam Azizi, the incoming majority shareholder of Nation Media Group (NMG), in the clearest indication yet that Uganda's highest political leadership is directly engaged in efforts to resolve the closure of the Daily Monitor and NTV Uganda.

Museveni announced the meeting in a post on X, writing: "Today at State House, Entebbe, I met Mr Rostam Azizi, Chairman of the Taifa Group of Companies."

Photographs released by the Presidency showed Azizi accompanied by Georgia Mutagaywa, Chief of Staff at Taarifa Limited, the company through which he is acquiring a controlling stake in Nation Media Group. A senior company represen...