Uganda Sector 2: 2.1 The media landscape is characterised by diversity, independence and sustainability. A wide range of sources of information (print, broadcasting, internet) is available and affordable to citizens. ANALYSIS: Ugandans have different sources of information, both in print and broadcasting with radio being the most important one: 58 % of the population rely on radio. Many get their information itself by word of mouth. There are two major English dailies: the state-owned New Vision and the private Daily Monitor, with a combined circulation of less than 100,000 copies a day, each copy being read by between 5 and ten people (the population stands at 26 million). There is one other daily, The Red Pepper (a tabloid), and a local daily called Bukedde, a sister paper to The New Vision. In addition there are weekly papers: The Weekly Observer, The East African, The Weekly Message, The East African Business Week, The Sunrise, The Guardian, Etop, Orumuri and Rupiny. A copy of a daily costs 1,000 shillings (0.80 US dollars), the price of a cassava meal for a family and therefore unaffordable to the majority of the people: “To buy a paper is a sacrifice”. In any case, people in the rural areas are not really interested in print media because their main issues of coverage, those based in the capital Kampala, are not seen as affecting them. They prefer their (local) FM station. Broadcast media are widely spread. The state broadcaster’s signal covers the whole country but it is not reliable and breaks down frequently. Radio is received in all parts of the country. According to the Broadcasting Council, a statutory body in charge of licensing broadcasting media, there are 148 FM stations in Uganda with 10 African Media Barometer - Uganda 2007