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Uganda defiant after World Bank halts funding over anti-LGBTQ law

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was applauded by supporters after signing an anti-homosexuality law in May [File: Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters]

President Yoweri Museveni has criticised the World Bank’s decision to suspend new funding to Uganda in response to a harsh anti-LGBTQ law and has promised to find alternative sources of credit.

Museveni, who has been in office since 1986, said in a statement on Thursday that Uganda was trying to reduce borrowing and would not give in to pressure from foreign institutions.

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