Joto La Jiwe

Joto La Jiwe is a Ugandan correspondent for the African Human Rights Media Network. He writes under a pseudonym. Contact him at info@76crimes.com.

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Uganda's Kenneth-Mwehonge at the IAS2025 conference in Kigali, Rwanda.
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act has devastated fight against HIV
Mukami Kariuki, the World Bank's country manager for Uganda. (Photo courtesy of New Vision)
World Bank says all Ugandans must benefit from its financing
Graeme Reid, U.N. Independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity. (Photo courtesy of Arcus and YouTube)
Kenya and South Africa lone African votes to support UN expert on sexual orientation
Kenya no longer safe for Ugandan LGBTQI+ refugees
World Bank President Ajay Banga (left) and Ugandan LGBTQ rights activist Pepe Onziema (right)
World Bank defends decision to resume funding to Uganda
Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament Anita Among was a forceful advocate of the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023. She “single-handedly turned the lives of LGBTQ Ugandans into living hell when she facilitated the ‘Kll the Gays Law of 2023", said activist Sarah Mutiga. (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of Reuters/WSJ) (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of Reuters/WSJ)
Number of victims of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act keeps growing
Western anti-LGBTQ groups exert growing influence in Africa
Apako Williams (Photo courtesy of Kuchu Times)
USAID cuts push Uganda’s trans community to the brink
Uganda Supreme Court moves ahead (slowly) on LGBTQI+ rights cases
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR runs the Gorom Refugee Settlement.
LGBTQI+ refugees in South Sudan trapped between a rock and a hard place
Queer Ugandans under attack on dating apps
Children at Nikivale Refugee Settlement in southwest Uganda.
Refugee camp in Uganda plagued with anti-LGBT violence
British officials meet Ugandan and Kenyan activists to target far-right homophobia
David Kato (Photo courtesy of AP)
EU leader in Uganda pays tribute to murdered gay-rights activist David Kato
Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court, where the two SMUG activists faced assault charges, isn't always a tranquil place. This is the scene last August when the court took up the case of 36 members of Uganda's politcal opposition who were charged with terrorism.
Ugandan court dismisses assault case against LGBTQI+ activists
In 2023, a medical clinic officer examines a transgender patient at a USAID-supported anti-AIDS clinic in Uganda. (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of Reuters)
In Uganda, AIDS-fighting drop-in centers have closed, UN reports