“There was drama in Nateete recently…”
This all-too-short story reads like a screenplay-in-waiting.
From this story, it sounds as if a man in Nateete, Uganda, used a community payphone to make a call. Africa is largely without any sort of landline telephone infrastructure, and a community payphone is essentially a pay-as-you-go mobile phone. Such a phone is often owned and operated by an independent business owner.
Photos of these community payphones can be seen in this picture on the Payphone Project: Benin, Africa, Community Payphone. Similarly, Tele-vendors in Cotonou, Benin, sell telephone service on a sort of “door to door” basis.
Evidently, calls made through these community payphones may be subject to the approval of the telephone owner. The caller in this story (from allAfrica.com) learned this when his abusive rant directed at the person on the other end of the phone was overheard by the community payphone operator who disapproved of his side of the conversation and thus ended it.