Category: East Africa

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Links between Ugandan and U.S. hate groups are clearer than ever

Links between Ugandan and U.S. hate groups are clearer than ever

COMMENTARY By Joto La Jiwe The propagators of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) 2023 have always claimed that the law is about protectin [...]
Uganda squirms as pressure mounts to repeal anti-gay law

Uganda squirms as pressure mounts to repeal anti-gay law

By Joto La Jiwe As human rights defenders inside and outside of Uganda await a Constitutional Court ruling on petitions challenging the Anti-Ho [...]
Protest targets Ugandan plan to praise anti-LGBT law in England

Protest targets Ugandan plan to praise anti-LGBT law in England

By Joto La Jiwe Human rights activists based in and outside Uganda have petitioned the government of the United Kingdom, urging it to cancel an [...]
Uganda risks HIV upsurge due to harsh new Anti-Homosexuality Law

Uganda risks HIV upsurge due to harsh new Anti-Homosexuality Law

New York Times reporter Apoorva Mandavilli traveled to Uganda and talked to more than 30 citizens and medical providers about the health impacts of th [...]
Amid global disputes over LGBT rights, Uganda takes Non-Aligned Movement chair

Amid global disputes over LGBT rights, Uganda takes Non-Aligned Movement chair

By Otako Ofampa Facing stiff criticism from Western countries for its harsh new anti-gay law, Uganda has taken on a three-year chairmanship of [...]
Secret LGBT-friendly church welcomes and protects Kenyan worshippers

Secret LGBT-friendly church welcomes and protects Kenyan worshippers

For the past ten years, a secret church in Kenya has been worshipping God, welcoming LGBT members and proclaiming the value of queer people's live [...]
Uganda medical researchers ordered to report homosexuals to the government

Uganda medical researchers ordered to report homosexuals to the government

Medical researchers are crying foul over a new directive from Uganda's National Council for Science and Technology requiring them to report any st [...]
Hope for HIV vaccine falters as Africa-led project ends vaccine trial

Hope for HIV vaccine falters as Africa-led project ends vaccine trial

An African-led, European-supported HIV prevention study, PrEPVacc, announced today that it is halting its tests of a potential HIV vaccine. T [...]
World Bank will not resume Uganda projects without LGBTQ safeguards

World Bank will not resume Uganda projects without LGBTQ safeguards

By Joto La Jiwe The World Bank has declared that it will insist on LGBTQ rights safeguards before new Uganda funding resumes, after it was halt [...]
Legal challenges to anti-LGBTQ laws are under way in at least 10 nations

Legal challenges to anti-LGBTQ laws are under way in at least 10 nations

Legal challenges to anti-LGBTQ laws are under way in Africa and in the Caribbean. In the map above, which shows the 66 nations with anti-homosexua [...]
Hundreds oppose LGBTQ people during slanderous Kenyan protest

Hundreds oppose LGBTQ people during slanderous Kenyan protest

Human rights organizations have condemned an anti-LGBTQ protest attended by hundreds who chanted hateful and misleading slogans in Nairobi, Kenya, [...]
Number of nations with laws against gay sex falls to 66

Number of nations with laws against gay sex falls to 66

The number of nations with laws against gay sex has fallen to 66, continuing the slow, decades-long progress toward recognition of the human right [...]
African island nation Mauritius overturns anti-sodomy law

African island nation Mauritius overturns anti-sodomy law

The Supreme Court of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius today overturned the Mauritian law against consensual sexual intercourse between [...]
Reeling from over 500 anti-LGBT abuses, Ugandan activists plead for help from West

Reeling from over 500 anti-LGBT abuses, Ugandan activists plead for help from West

Human rights activists in Uganda are appealing for a stronger response from Western nations that oppose Uganda's harsh new Anti-Homosexuality Act. [...]
Homosexuality has always been African, but the term LGBT is new and divisive

Homosexuality has always been African, but the term LGBT is new and divisive

By Steeves Winner Although homosexual practices exist everywhere on the African continent, many Africans reject the idea of a homosexual identi [...]
Violence against LGBTQ Ugandans surges after Anti-Homosexuality Act

Violence against LGBTQ Ugandans surges after Anti-Homosexuality Act

By Joto La Jiwe A new report by the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), has revealed a rapid increase in cases of violence and [...]
United front against homophobic Ugandan law? Europe says no.

United front against homophobic Ugandan law? Europe says no.

Supporters of the human rights of LGBTQ people have failed to present a united front against Uganda's harsh Anti-Homosexuality Act. Despite app [...]
Arson destroys offices of Ugandan trans organization

Arson destroys offices of Ugandan trans organization

Arsonists attacked the offices of Uganda's TranzNetwork advocacy group on Sept. 10. TranzNetwork Uganda is a network of organisations that work [...]
Ethiopian LGBTQ people fighting for their lives amid government crackdown

Ethiopian LGBTQ people fighting for their lives amid government crackdown

Authorities in Ethiopia have initiated a crackdown on the LGBTQ+ community. Rights activists have branded it a diversionary tactic in the wake of [...]
Rights defenders support World Bank suspending loans to Uganda

Rights defenders support World Bank suspending loans to Uganda

World Bank cut off new loans to Uganda over the recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Act LGBT rights activist Dr. Frank Mugisha says he support [...]
Do not discriminate against gay patients, Ugandan authorities tell health workers

Do not discriminate against gay patients, Ugandan authorities tell health workers

By Joto La Jiwe In a move that seems aimed at limiting the harms done by Uganda's newly enacted Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), the government of [...]
World Bank suspends loans to Uganda, seeks repeal of Anti-Homosexuality Law

World Bank suspends loans to Uganda, seeks repeal of Anti-Homosexuality Law

The World Bank has suspended all future loans to the Ugandan government in response to the nation's recent passage of its harsh Anti-Homosexuality [...]
Homophobia is neither Christian nor African, says Ugandan reverend

Homophobia is neither Christian nor African, says Ugandan reverend

By Joto La Jiwe The Rev. Gideon B. Byamugisha, a renowned gay rights advocate who also represents the most at risk people of faith on Uganda's [...]
Iranian President praises anti-LGBTQI+ sentiments in Uganda

Iranian President praises anti-LGBTQI+ sentiments in Uganda

By Joto La Jiwe During his recent state visit to Uganda, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi didn't  hide his homophobia as he lauded his Ugandan c [...]
Uganda health ministry says ‘Don’t discriminate’, but the law says otherwise

Uganda health ministry says ‘Don’t discriminate’, but the law says otherwise

Uganda's Ministry of Health is worried that the nation's harsh new Anti-Homosexuality Law will cripple the country's battle against HIV/AIDS. F [...]
LGBTQ+ refugees in Africa celebrate Pride safely, joyously, nutritiously

LGBTQ+ refugees in Africa celebrate Pride safely, joyously, nutritiously

Refugees in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia celebrated Pride this month with nutritious, festive meals organized by the human rights advocates of the Afr [...]
Four African nations’ battles against gay-themed films

Four African nations’ battles against gay-themed films

Officials in Cameroon, Kenya, Egypt and Uganda take different approaches   Four scenes -- among many -- of homophobic African officia [...]
Ugandan anti-gay law empties out HIV clinics, cuts legal aid

Ugandan anti-gay law empties out HIV clinics, cuts legal aid

 LGBTI patients fear to leave their homes. Advocacy of LGBTI rights on hold at Ugandan legal aid organization. As fearful HIV patients desert [...]
Emboldened by anti-gay law, Ugandans besiege the LGBTQ community

Emboldened by anti-gay law, Ugandans besiege the LGBTQ community

Now that Uganda's cruel new Anti-Homosexuality Act has taken effect, the Ugandan LGBTQ community is under siege, Human rights activist Frank Mu [...]
Cruel Ugandan anti-gay law takes effect; legal challenges pending

Cruel Ugandan anti-gay law takes effect; legal challenges pending

To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at right. Uganda's harsh new Anti-Homosexuality Act took effect [...]
Legal challenge hits Uganda’s cruel anti-gay law; U.S. weighs travel bans, funding cuts

Legal challenge hits Uganda’s cruel anti-gay law; U.S. weighs travel bans, funding cuts

To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at right. U.S. officials are preparing for possible travel rest [...]
Immediate backlash after Uganda president signs cruel anti-gay bill into law

Immediate backlash after Uganda president signs cruel anti-gay bill into law

To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at right. Uganda President Yoweri Museveni today signed the cruel, [...]
Report: Hundreds of LGBTI refugees still at risk in Kenyan refugee camps

Report: Hundreds of LGBTI refugees still at risk in Kenyan refugee camps

To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at right. Amnesty International and Kenya's non-governmental Na [...]
Appeal to Uganda president: Save lives, ‘lead from the front’ by rejecting anti-gay bill

Appeal to Uganda president: Save lives, ‘lead from the front’ by rejecting anti-gay bill

To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at right. COMMENTARY President Museveni, Please Tear Up This B [...]
African Human Rights Commission affirms intersex people’s rights

African Human Rights Commission affirms intersex people’s rights

To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at right. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, [...]
Ugandan peer educators — gay, arrested, labeled as porn actors

Ugandan peer educators — gay, arrested, labeled as porn actors

To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at right. The executive director of the non-profit African Human Rights [...]
Ugandan LGBTQ activist readies for the fight of his life

Ugandan LGBTQ activist readies for the fight of his life

To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at right. As Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni nears a decision abo [...]
U.S. Christians keep boosting homophobic backers of Ugandan ‘Kill the Gays’ bill

U.S. Christians keep boosting homophobic backers of Ugandan ‘Kill the Gays’ bill

To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at right. The TYT Network reports that the homophobic, secretive co [...]
Museveni boosts African anti-gay campaign despite inaction on Ugandan bill

Museveni boosts African anti-gay campaign despite inaction on Ugandan bill

Human race depends on gay people procreating, Uganda president claims. To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at [...]
Uganda: Mothers of LGBTQ+ children petition Museveni to block Anti-Homosexuality Bill

Uganda: Mothers of LGBTQ+ children petition Museveni to block Anti-Homosexuality Bill

Pressure mounts on President Museveni following Parliament's passage of homophobic bill. To get email notices of new articles, subscribe fo [...]
Ugandan journalist vows court challenge of anti-gay bill

Ugandan journalist vows court challenge of anti-gay bill

If the President signs it, next stop will be Constitutional Court. To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the box at rig [...]
Homophobic Catholic bishops in Kenya ignore the words of Pope Francis

Homophobic Catholic bishops in Kenya ignore the words of Pope Francis

The Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops has condemned a Supreme Court of Kenya ruling allowing the registration of organizations that seek to advoca [...]
Uganda races to adopt new ‘Jail the Gays Bill’, greeted by silence in U.S. and Europe

Uganda races to adopt new ‘Jail the Gays Bill’, greeted by silence in U.S. and Europe

Uganda's latest "Jail the Gays Bill" has not yet aroused many strong protests from American and European supporters of the human rights of LGBTQ peopl [...]
Ugandan parliament is close to approving repressive anti-gay bill

Ugandan parliament is close to approving repressive anti-gay bill

By Joto La Jiwe The Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda, Anita Among, has given Ugandan legislators the green light to bring an anti-homosexuality [...]
Uganda demands probe into ‘LGBTQ activities’ in schools

Uganda demands probe into ‘LGBTQ activities’ in schools

Amid an anti-LGBTQ outburst, the Ugandan parliament is investigating what it calls "festering" homosexual activities in schools. To get email not [...]
Rainbow park equipment in Uganda is repainted so it won’t ‘corrupt’ children

Rainbow park equipment in Uganda is repainted so it won’t ‘corrupt’ children

The mayor of Entebbe in central Uganda, Fabrice Brad Rulinda, has removed rainbow-colored coats of paint from a tower in a local children’s park follo [...]
Uganda is working to stamp out groups promoting human rights for LGBTIQ people

Uganda is working to stamp out groups promoting human rights for LGBTIQ people

The Ugandan government has announced plans to investigate 22 non-governmental organizations that work to improve the health of LGBTIQ Ugandans and to [...]
Homophobic Ugandan official takes aim at efforts to fight HIV in the LGBTQ community

Homophobic Ugandan official takes aim at efforts to fight HIV in the LGBTQ community

The deputy speaker of Uganda's Parliament has raised a homophobic challenge against a national policy aimed at protecting  the nation's LGBTQ communit [...]
U.S. honors Ugandan human rights defender Margaret Sekaggya

U.S. honors Ugandan human rights defender Margaret Sekaggya

The U.S. Mission in Uganda has recognized activist Margaret Sekaggya with the Dorothy Ngalombi Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her outsta [...]
Pope says homosexuality not a crime

Pope says homosexuality not a crime

Pope Francis this week called for the repeal of laws against homosexuality. To get email notices of new articles, subscribe for free in the b [...]
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