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Death toll one of heaviest since pro-government forces launched offensive against jihadists last AugustFifty-four Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has sa…
Antony Blinken says he’s looking to ‘promote accountability’ for Ugandan officials who have violated rights of LGBTQ+ peopleThe US may restrict visas issued to Ugandan officials in its latest condemnation to the African country’s enactment of stringent…
The new law prescribes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” and has been widely condemned by activists at home and abroad.
The British government said Monday it was “appalled” by the Ugandan law, adding it remained firmly opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances.
Global outcry over Museveni’s assent to draconian new anti-gay law, condemned as a ‘permission slip for hate and dehumanisation’Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has signed into law the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which allows the death penal…
President Yoweri Museveni has dismissed widespread criticism and signed the legislation, one of the world’s most restrictive anti-gay measures.
Many reported dead in Rwanda and Uganda, as heavy rain also devastates western regions of continentMay is the end of the rainy season for many parts of east Africa. However, this does not mean the devastation has ended.Last week heavy rainfall, which s…
While some paid tribute to the British monarch, the presence in London of certain guests proved less than welcomeIn South Africa, as across the African Commonwealth countries, Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III prompted mixed reactions.There was…
Bill retains harshest measures of legislation adopted in March, including death penalty for certain same-sex actsUganda’s parliament has passed a mostly unchanged version of one of the world’s strictest anti-LGBTQ bills after President Yoweri Museveni …
Yoweri Museveni sends bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality back to parliament for reconsiderationUganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has refused to sign into law a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill that imposes the death penalty for homosexualit…