Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Godfrey Kavuma, an accountant for a Kanyanya-based Non-Governmental Organization, has been remanded to Luzira prison on charges of aggravated homosexuality involving a 16-year-old boy. Kavuma allegedly lured the boy into the act with promises of a job. Kavuma appeared before the Kasangati Chief Magistrates Court …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Constitutional Court has today ruled that Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality law was properly passed by parliament and largely complies with the constitution. On May 26th 2023, the President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni assented to the Anti Homosexuality Bill of 2023 thereby turning it into law. …
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On May 26th 2023, the President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni assented to the Anti Homosexuality Bill of 2023 thereby turning it into law Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Constitutional Court has fixed tomorrow April 3rd 2024 to deliver its long waited judgement in the case in which …
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Court Concludes Hearing Anti Homosexuality Case, to Deliver Judgement on Notice Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A panel of five Constitutional Court Justices in Kampala has concluded the hearing of four consolidated petitions challenging the Anti Homosexuality Law and promised to deliver its verdict on notice. The panel comprised Deputy …
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AG Asks Court to Dismiss Applications in Anti Homosexuality Case Over Bias Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Constitutional Court has admitted Pastors Langa and Martin Ssempa as co-respondents with the Attorney General in the ongoing case challenging the Anti-homosexuality Act. They are expected to file written submission to the court …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine, the leader of the National Unity Platform-NUP has said his comments on the Anti-homosexuality Act were taken out of context by what he called NRM propagandists. Speaking to the media at the NUP party headquarters at Makerere Kavule, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Constitutional Court has constituted a panel of five Justices who will hear four consolidated petitions challenging the legality of the Anti-Homosexuality Law. The panel which has been constituted comprises Deputy Chief Justice Richard Buteera, Geoffrey Kiryabwire, Monica Mugenyi Muzamiru Mutangula Kibeedi, and Christopher …
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COMMENT | FRANK MUGIMBA | Homosexuality refers to a situation where one human being is sexually attracted to another human of the same sex. If not revealed, no one will ever know that you have a liking for another human of your same sex. For example, if an idea crossed …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said the provocations by the World Bank and the “thought-less homo-sexual lobby”, should not provoke Uganda and Africa into being, automatically, anti-Western. In his latest missive on the World Bank decision to cut future loans because of Uganda’s stand on homosexuality, …
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Disowned by their families, evicted by their landlords, and persecuted by the state, LGBTQ Ugandans have fewer and fewer places to turn Kampala, Uganda | Nakisanze Segawa & Beatrice Lamwaka – Global Press Journal Uganda | Just two days after the Ugandan Parliament passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act in March, Sam, a lesbian, …
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