Uganda

DR Congo in discussions with Uganda over use of crude pipeline
The controversial pipeline is for transporting Uganda’s crude to foreign markets when it begins production in 2025.
Published On 10 May 2023
Uganda’s Museveni says being LGBTQ should not be criminalised
Latest comments suggest president is trying to tone down proposed anti-homosexuality law, one of the world’s toughest.
Published On 27 Apr 2023
OPINION,
Uganda’s anti-gay bill preys on African exceptionalism
I was once a homophobe who bought into the lies of African leaders who blamed the West for homosexuality.
opinion by Tafi Mhaka
Published On 26 Apr 2023
Uganda’s President Museveni refuses to sign anti-LGBTQ bill
A spokesman says Museveni not opposed to bill’s punishments, but wants lawmakers to study ‘the issue of rehabilitation.’
Published On 20 Apr 2023

President Museveni has 30 days from when parliament sent him the bill to sign it, veto it or send it back for revisions.

The proposed bill to criminalise identifying as LGBTQ is already making life harder for sexual minorities in Uganda.

Ugandans on the run from their country due to the persecution of sexual minorities face discrimination in Kenya, too.

A new law passed in Uganda appears to be the first to outlaw merely identifying as LGBTQ, a rights group says.

Law could be the first to criminalise identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ): Rights Watch

Instead of curbing poverty, as its mission outlines, the bank entrenches inequality. Its US-led governance is to blame.

The outspoken army general seems intent on replacing his father, who has ruled Uganda for 37 years, as president.

Yoweri Museveni’s government has, over the years, been criticised by the opposition and activists for rights violations.

Musa Hasahya Kasera says his vast family includes 12 wives, 102 children and as many as 578 grandchildren.

Uganda discovered commercial oil reserves nearly 20 years ago but production has been delayed by lack of infrastructure.

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