Uganda Gay Rights

Ugandan state lawyers sought on Thursday to dismiss a petition by activists at the constitutional court seeking to overturn anti-gay legislation condemned by rights groups as draconian.

Uganda accused the World Bank of blackmail on Friday after the lender stalled a $90 million loan over the east African nation's adoption of a draconian anti-gay law.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni will sign into law a controversial bill that will see homosexuals jailed for life despite international pressure, a government spokesman said on Monday.

The British producer of a play about being gay in Uganda is in jail pending his trial on charges that he had the work performed without official authorisation.

South Africa's ambassador to Uganda, a country criticized for threatening the rights of gays, has been found guilty of hate speech for an anti-gay column he wrote before his appointment, the South African Human Rights Commission said Tuesday.Commission spokesman Vincent Moaga said a judge ruled that the 2008 newspaper column headlined "Call me name...

Ugandan state lawyers sought on Thursday to dismiss a petition by activists at the constitutional court seeking to overturn anti-gay legislation condemned by rights groups as draconian.

Uganda accused the World Bank of blackmail on Friday after the lender stalled a $90 million loan over the east African nation's adoption of a draconian anti-gay law.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni will sign into law a controversial bill that will see homosexuals jailed for life despite international pressure, a government spokesman said on Monday.

The British producer of a play about being gay in Uganda is in jail pending his trial on charges that he had the work performed without official authorisation.

South Africa's ambassador to Uganda, a country criticized for threatening the rights of gays, has been found guilty of hate speech for an anti-gay column he wrote before his appointment, the South African Human Rights Commission said Tuesday.Commission spokesman Vincent Moaga said a judge ruled that the 2008 newspaper column headlined "Call me name...