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The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 is an act of the Parliament of Uganda that restricts freedom of speech on LGBT topics and introduces harsher penalties for certain types of homosexual acts. On 21 March 2023, the bill was read a third time, and was then sent to President Yoweri Museveni for assent. [ 1 ]
Nearly 100 Congolese National Police officers flee to Uganda as fighting between M23 rebels and the FARDC intensifies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [11] Uganda Police arrest and charge fourteen opposition officials and lawmakers with terrorism charges for their participation in anti-government and anti-corruption protests in July. [12]
Mwanga the II ascended the throne in 1884 at the age of 17 and ruled from 1884 to 1897.He inherited a court that was sharply polarized between two different religious factions, each which stood in varying degrees of alliance with external powers vying for influence and encroaching on Buganda in the intense scramble for Africa.In 1886 Mwanga II ...
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This Act came into force in 2023, [A] [2] making Uganda the only Christian-majority country to punish some types of consensual same-sex acts with the death penalty. [6] A similar law had been passed in 2013, but was in 2014 struck down as unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Uganda on legal technicalities. [ 7 ]
Examples of Uganda's legislation include: The amendment of the constitution to remove presidential term limits. [clarification needed] The Employment Act, 2006, Act 6 of 2006 [13] The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014; The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023; The Uganda Legal Information Institute (ULII) publishes the laws of Uganda, allowing for free ...
The Ugandan government, however, has characterized the 500,000 people claim as an exaggeration designed to increase the popularity of homosexuality, and the BBC in 2009 asserted the impossibility of determining the actual number of gay people living in Uganda. [17]
The University of Cambridge has repatriated more than three dozen traditional artifacts to Uganda in a major act of restitution welcomed by the local officials who sought them. The items remain ...