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Uganda deports British producer behind LGBT-themed play
Uganda has deported a British theatre producer who last year staged a play about homosexuality, which is illegal in Uganda, the British High Commission said Tuesday. David Cecil was arrested in September on charges of disobeying orders to cancel the staging of a play whose main character was a gay…
Film exposes link between U.S. evangelicals and violent antigay Ugandan movement
Money raised by evangelical Christians in the United States is fueling a violent antigay movement in Uganda, according to the “Gospel of Intolerance” by filmmaker Roger Ross Williams. “American evangelicals are sending millions of dollars in donations to Africa to spread their message by funding Ugandan pastors and sponsoring missionaries,…
Uganda activists slam UK producer’s arrest over LGBT play
Activists on Friday slammed Uganda for arresting a British theatre producer who staged a play about a gay man in defiance of a ban by the country’s media authorities. Producer David Cecil was charged in court Thursday with two counts including one of “disobeying legal orders” and sent to prison…
Illegal act: Ugandan artists stage play tackling LGBT taboos
Friends Samson and Olu share a beer and a moment of confidence after a game of pool at a typical Ugandan bar. “Olu, you know I’m gay,” Samson confides haltingly, with the admission sparking a chain of events that tears his existence as a successful businessman apart. The scene is…
Uganda to ban NGOs that ‘promote’ homosexuality
KAMPALA — Uganda will ban 38 nongovernmental organisations for spreading homosexuality, the minister for ethics and integrity said on Wednesday. “I have investigated and established beyond reasonable doubt that these NGOs have been involved in the promotion and recruitment in terms of the [gay] issues,” Minister Simon Lokodo told AFP.…
Ugandan army captures top rebel LRA commander
ENTEBBE, Uganda — Uganda’s army has captured a top commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a spokesman said Sunday. “We are going to see a captured top commander,” army spokesman Felix Kulayigye told AFP, shortly before reporters were flown on a military aircraft to see the rebel. The…
Uganda raids gay rights workshop
A Ugandan minister Tuesday raided and shut down a workshop run by homosexual rights activists in Entebbe, the minister and Amnesty International said, days after a draconian anti-gay bill was reintroduced. The London-based rights watchdog said in a statement that Minister for Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo, who is also a priest, raided the…
Uganda government denies backing anti-gay bill
Uganda’s government has distanced itself from a controversial anti-gay bill calling for severe penalties on homosexuality after it was reintroduced in parliament this week. But in a statement released late Wednesday, the government said parliament had the right to debate the legislation, which was shelved last year after widespread condemnation.…
Uganda bill punishes homosexuality with life in prison
A Ugandan member of parliament has reintroduced a bill that increases criminal penalties for some homosexual acts, but dropped a provision that allows homosexuals to be executed by the state. Parliamentarian David Bahati on Tuesday reintroduced the so-called “kill the gays” bill that he had first introduced in 2009. It…
Wild baby gorillas groom explorer in Uganda
In a wildlife video that’s making the rounds today, an explorer treking through Uganda’s Bwindi National Park has a hair-raising encounter with a pack of wild baby gorillas as a big male Silverback watches silently.…
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