Uganda

World Bank President Ajay Banga (left) and Ugandan LGBTQ rights activist Pepe Onziema (right)
World Bank defends decision to resume funding to Uganda
Winnie Byanyima, a Ugandan national and the global executive director of UNAIDS, is urging the United States to continue its support of Pepfar's fight against HIV / AIDS. (Photo courtesy of Eagle News)
UNAIDS chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by U.S. cuts that will mean millions more deaths
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
The Southwest Asia and Northern Africa (SWANA) region
LGBTQ advocacy group creates online safety guide for Middle East and North 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
World Bank President Ajay Banga (Photo courtesy of AP)
World Bank ends Ugandan loan ban that sought to end LGBTQ repression
Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Chris Unger photo courtesy of Zuffa / Rolling Stone)
Following U.S. aid cuts, vulnerable Ugandans are dying, providers say
Kenya Red Cross accused of hosting anti-LGBTQ+ ‘Platform of Hate’
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
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
Astraeus O'Levin, a transgender woman living in Mombasa, Kenya, visits the the Hapa-Kenya resource centre last year in Mombasa. (Dylan Robertson photo courtesy of The Canadian Press)
LGBTQ+ Africans look to Canada for help as anti-gay laws expand
Students at Bethel Church's School of Supernatural Ministry students worship enthusiastically. (Max Whittaker photo courtesy of SFGate)
Exporting conversion therapy