ADDED ON: 02/04/2023
Ugandan authorities announced the removal of a rainbow painting from a children's park following an uproar among parents who alleged that the "satanic" design promoted homosexuality in the largely Christian country A…
ADDED ON: 02/01/2023
Anna, not her real name, sits in a chair at her home in Makindye, a suburb of Uganda's capital, Kampala. She showed DW the scars that are visible on her body, and…
ADDED ON: 01/27/2023
When Mr David Bahati fronted the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the House back in 2009, it seemed destined to cause uproar both at home and abroad. As indeed it did. In the Bill,…
ADDED ON: 12/29/2022
Annet Kezaabu, is the chairperson of the Anti-Pornographic Control Committee at the Directorate of Ethics and Integrity. It has reportedly warned that members of the LGBTQ+ community are targeting schools to “recruit,…
ADDED ON: 09/17/2022
One of East Africa’s most popular music festivals has been cleared to go ahead after members of parliament tried to ban it for “promoting gays” in the country. The Nyege Nyege festival…
ADDED ON: 08/19/2022
Human rights groups have reportedly asked the Defense Ministry to stop permitting an Israeli company to sell its phone hacking tool to Uganda, claiming it is used for rights abuses. Cellebrite has…
ADDED ON: 08/19/2022
Geoffrey Rainbo* is an LGBTQ+ refugee from Uganda (@GeoffreyRainbo). I am a Ugandan gay man living in Nairobi after being relocated from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in north-western Kenya, where I am seeking…
ADDED ON: 08/14/2022
Churches in East Africa have a necessary part to play in changing attitudes and policies concerning LGBTIQ+ rights, the international charity the Arcus Foundation has said. Last week, at the Lambeth Conference,…
ADDED ON: 08/07/2022
The Ugandan government has suspended the operations of a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) that advocates for the rights of sexual minorities, accusing it of working in the East African country illegally, according…
ADDED ON: 08/02/2022
Ugandan police have been accused of homophobic bias and “extortion” following the brutal murder last month of a gay person who had previously been arrested and victimised by the same police force.…
ADDED ON: 07/18/2022
A recent survey by the South Africa-based Ichikowitz Family Foundation that gauged the level of LGBTQ and intersex tolerance on the continent has received mixed reactions from some of Africa’s advocacy groups. The…
ADDED ON: 06/14/2022
A self-righteous Ugandan national living in the Middle East has released an excruciatingly homophobic online rant blasting Ugandans and other Africans for engaging in adult consensual same-sex intimacy in Arab countries where…
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