Government says it blocked foreign funding networks allegedly linked to German national and froze NGO accounts

According to unnamed senior government officials quoted by ChimpReports, authorities disrupted funding inflows, froze NGO accounts and tightened scrutiny of foreign-funded civil society, alleging that German national Tassilo von Droste channelled money to opposition-aligned groups through the EU- and German-funded Civil Society in Uganda Support Programme (CUSP). The German Embassy's website describes CUSP as a civil society capacity-building programme; ChimpReports said it could not reach von Droste for comment. An anonymous Ministry of Internal Affairs source said surveillance of NGOs and individuals suspected of working with foreign backers had been expanded.