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Uganda's president signs into law tough anti-gay legislation with death penalty in some cases

Uganda’s president has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad

The Independent UK

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law including death penalty

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws, including the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", drawing Western condemnation and risking sanctions from aid donors.

Reuters

Uganda confirms casualties among country's soldiers in Somali attack

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said late on Saturday there had been casualties during an attack by Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab on a military base manned by Ugandan peacekeepers in the Horn of African country on Friday.

Reuters

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Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ bill threatens tourism as well as lives

Ugandan LGBTQ rights activist Clare Byarugaba was looking forward to showing her country off to her French partner’s parents. They were interested in visiting her hometown, and she planned to take them hiking into Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, in the country’s lush southwest, to track one of the more than…

Tribune News Service

Indian national shot dead by off-duty constable in Uganda: reports

A 39-year-old Indian money lender was shot dead with a stolen AK-47 assault rifle by an off-duty police constable after the two had a misunderstanding over the amount the constable owed

The Hindu

Outrage as Uganda parliament passes bill punishing ‘aggravated homosexuality’ with death

New law retains many of its harshest anti-LGBT+ elements despite four rounds of amendments

The Independent UK

Uganda lawmakers pass new draft of harsh anti-gay bill

Uganda's parliament has passed a new draft of anti-gay legislation, retaining many draconian provisions despite President Yoweri Museveni's call to rework an earlier version of the bill following outcry from Western governments.

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Ugandan lawmakers pass new version of tough anti-gay bill

Ugandan lawmakers have passed a new version of an anti-gay bill that removes a clause which appeared to criminalize identifying as LGBTQ

The Independent UK

Uganda parliament passes harsh anti-LGBTQ bill mostly unchanged

Uganda's parliament on Tuesday passed one of the world's strictest anti-LGBTQ bills mostly unchanged, including provision for long jail terms and the death penalty, after the president requested some parts of the original legislation be toned down.

Reuters

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.

Al Jazeera

Uganda's president asks for changes to LGBT bill so identity is not criminalised

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has asked lawmakers to make clear in a proposed anti-homosexuality law that it is not criminal to merely identify as gay, as part of an attempt to tone down a bill that has drawn international condemnation.

Reuters

UK government funded anti-LGBTQ+ organisation in Uganda, says report

The Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, which is openly homophobic, has been a direct recipient of UK aid money

The Guardian - UK

Ugandan president says bill that imposes death penalty on homosexuals not harsh enough

He plans to send the Anti-Homosexuality Bill back to parliament for ‘strengthening’

Evening Standard

Uganda's Museveni wants 'rehabilitation' measures in anti-LGBTQ legislation

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said he would sign some of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation once provisions are added to "rehabilitate" gay people, vowing not to cede to international pressure.

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The Guardian - UK

Uganda’s president refuses to sign new hardline anti-LGBTQ+ bill

Yoweri Museveni sends bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality back to parliament for reconsideration

The Independent UK

Ugandan president refuses to sign LGBTQ bill, seeks changes

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has refused to sign into law a controversial new bill against homosexuality that prescribes the death penalty in some cases, requesting that it should be amended

Reuters

Uganda president to consult lawmakers about anti-LGBTQ bill

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will meet lawmakers from his party on Thursday to discuss a strict anti-LGBTQ bill ahead of a deadline to sign it, veto it or send it back to parliament for revisions.

Radio France Internationale

Ugandan activists brace for ratification of harsh anti-homosexuality bill

The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, recently called on Africa to "save the world from homosexuality", suggesting he would sign into law a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill passed by parliament last month. In Uganda and abroad, activists are mounting last-ditch efforts to try and stop the legislation.

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Reuters

Ugandan LGBTQ activist readies for the fight of his life

(This April 13 story has been corrected to remove reference to criminalising identifying as LGBTQ, a provision dropped in the draft stage, in paragraph 3)

Los Angeles Times

Proposed anti-gay law in Uganda leaves people 'almost in a panic mode'

KAMPALA, Uganda — He was in high school when he realized he was gay.

Salon

The Family tied to anti-gay Uganda bill

Christian group formally known as the Fellowship Foundation linked to anti-gay legislation in Uganda

France 24

Tweets by Uganda president’s son spark ‘concern’ over succession question

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, has attracted international attention with a range of striking tweets in recent months – starting with a veiled threat to invade Kenya in October and most recently last week, when he offered to deploy Ugandan troops to defend Moscow from “imperialists”.…

The Independent UK

South African opposition protests Uganda's anti-LGBTQ bill

More than 200 protesters in South Africa have demonstrated at the Uganda High Commission against the anti-gay bill recently passed by Ugandan lawmakers

The Guardian - UK

Ugandan president calls on Africa to ‘save the world from homosexuality’

Museveni says homosexuality is ‘danger to procreation of human race’ at Entebbe conference hosted by US anti-LGBTQ+ hate group

Reuters

South Africans protest Uganda law criminalising LGBTQ identity

South Africans took to the streets of Pretoria and Cape Town on Friday to protest against a Ugandan law passed last week that makes it a criminal offence to be openly LGBTQ.

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