[2][3] According to Muhame, the paper's title was derived from the local word enkurungu: "It's a metaphor for something that strikes with lightning speed, that can kill someone if it is thrown at them.
[3] It suspended publication in November 2010 after the High Court ruled that it had violated the fundamental rights of LGBT Ugandans by attempting to out them and calling for their deaths.
[4] On 9 October 2010, the newspaper published a front-page article – titled "100 Pictures of Uganda's Top Homos Leak" – that listed the names, photographs and addresses of 100 homosexuals alongside a yellow banner that read "Hang Them".
[2] Following a second published edition listing the identities and addresses of alleged homosexuals, the gay rights organization Sexual Minorities Uganda petitioned the Ugandan High Court against the newspaper.
"[15] The International Press Institute sent a letter to Muhame condemning his actions after his paper was shut down by the country's Constitutional Court.
"[16] Sexual Minorities Uganda leader David Kato, one of the activists outed in the article and a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit, was murdered in his home by an intruder who struck him twice on the head with a hammer.
[17] The American magazine Rolling Stone,[11] The New York Times[18] and other news sources[citation needed] suggested that the murder was linked to Kato's high-profile outing in the Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone, and Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International both called for an investigation into the case and protection for other gay activists.
"[22] The newspaper was the subject of a play of the same title by British playwright Chris Urch, which premiered in Manchester in 2015 [23] and was produced in New York City off-Broadway in 2019.