A Precarious End to Uganda’s Anti-Gay Act BY ALEXIS OKEOWO, The New Yorker August 5, 2014   Late last week, Uganda’s constitutional court struck down the country’s anti-homosexuality act, a law that mandates severe sentences—including, in some cases, life imprisonment—for homosexual behavior. On Friday, at the court house in Kampala, a swell of press and lawyers and activists from Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania awaited the judgment. Martin

Uganda: Program for Male Rape Victims Threatened by Antigay Law   BY THOM SENZEE, Advocate.com   July 29, 2014   Ironically, the same Ugandan police forces expressing willingness to help male victims of rape overcome stigma have been accused as perpetrators of assault against LGBT Ugandans. Men of Hope Refugee Association in Uganda (MOHRAU) is a program of Makerere University Law School's Refugee Law Project that helps men and boys

By The Associated Press The New York Times 6 July 2014 KAMPALA, Uganda — More than 50 people were killed in clashes betweenUganda’s security forces and a tribal militia near the country’s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, in what appeared to be coordinated attacks against police posts and military barracks in three districts, military and police officials said Sunday. Ugandan troops killed at least 41 assailants, said a Ugandan

By Anna Yukhananov 1 July 2014 Reuters The United States on Tuesday blacklisted a Ugandan Islamic group, the Allied Democratic Forces, for targeting children in armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The move, which freezes the group's assets in the United States and blocks U.S. firms from dealing with it, follows a U.N. Security Council committee decision on Monday to blacklist the same group. The U.S. Treasury said the ADF launched

By Elia Biryabarema and Crispni Dembassa-Kette Reuters 1 July 2014 Uganda's army said on Tuesday the mainly Muslim Seleka group in Central African Republic was now its enemy as the fighters were "in bed" with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels they are hunting there. A spokesman for the Ugandan army said its forces in CAR had clashed for the first time with Seleka, killing 12 and suffering one casualty. A Seleka official told Reuters on Monday

By Elias Biryabarema Reuters 1 July 2014 Uganda said on Tuesday its forces in Central African Republic (CAR) had clashed for the first time with fighters from Seleka, a mainly Muslim rebel force, killing 12, and would pursue them as part of a campaign against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). "Seleka had never tasted our fire, I think it was important that they taste our fire so that they are careful… they are in bed with LRA and we shall treat

By Associated Press in Kampala 19 June 2014 The Guardian Ugandan politicians have passed an anti-gay law that punishes "aggravated homosexuality" with life imprisonment. The bill drew wide condemnation when it was first introduced in 2010 and included the death penalty, but that was removed from the revised version passed by parliament. Although a provision for the death penalty was removed from the original bill, the law passed on Friday sets life

U.S. sends Osprey aircraft, more Special Operations forces to hunt Ugandan warlord The Washington Post, by Karen DeYoung March 23, 2014 President Obama has ordered a sharp increase in U.S. Special Operations forces deployed to Uganda and sent U.S. military aircraft there for the first time in the ongoing effort to hunt down warlord Joseph Kony across a broad swath of central Africa. The CV-22 Osprey aircraft will arrive in Uganda by midweek, along

By Genocide Watch 1 August 2012The Republic of Uganda is divided along ethnic and linguistic lines with Bantu groups occupying the southeast region and the Acholi-Nilotic groups in the North.  The groups are mirrored in other countries to the south, where Hutu/Bantus and Tutsi/Nilotics have had many conflicts.  In Uganda, this ethnic divide has resulted in two recent genocides.In 1962 Uganda gained its independence from the British and joined the