Uganda National Roads Authority (Unra) has reopened Katonga Bridge for some vehicles as reconstruction works continue.
Kasese District Local Government has passed a Shs91bn budget for the 2023-2024 financial year. The budget has increased by shillings 3,805,304,074 compared to the previous budget for the year 2022-2023 which was at shillings 88,096,977,700.
A group of Ugandan university students marched to the country’s Parliament building in the capital Kampala in a peaceful demonstration meant to tell US President Joe Biden and his government that the impoverished East African nation would do without aid conditioned on gay rights.
In what is being seen by some as something similar to the biblical Saul-Paul conversion, a leading Ugandan Pentecostal pastor who was previously known for his vehement criticism of the LGBTQI community has made some sort of U-turn and rubbished the country’s newly assented to Anti-Homosexuality Act.
Police in Kampala have confirmed the murder of a Kampala Capital City based lawyer as a wave of gun crime continues to shake the country. The lawyer was shot dead shortly after returning to his home.
Given her work in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Winnie Byanyima, the UNAIDS Executive Director and wife to Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye, is a fearless activist for the LGBTQI community. But Ugandans online are not happy with her views on gays and the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which the country’s president Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni recently assented to.
In a 447-word response in which he claimed to know what majority of Ugandans want and in which he misused the word ‘many,’ US President Joe Biden – like the neo-colonial master he is – has sent a clear warning to Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, Speaker Anita Among, the MPs and all citizens after the country’s leader assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, effectively making it an Act of Parliament.
In what is being interpreted as a punishment for steering the Ugandan Parliament to pass the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, twice, the US Government has revoked Speaker Anita Annet Magogo Among’s visa, a legislator close to the head of the country’s legislature has revealed.
Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023, State House has confirmed, making it clear that the piece of legislation has now become law: The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023.