Uganda court dismisses first anti-gay law case
A Ugandan court has dismissed the first case brought under an anti-gay law seen as one of the harshest in the world, a lawyer told AFP on Tuesday.
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A Ugandan court has dismissed the first case brought under an anti-gay law seen as one of the harshest in the world, a lawyer told AFP on Tuesday.
Uganda’s army chief broke ties with the United States on Friday, accusing its embassy of helping missing opposition leader Bobi Wine, then reversed his stance an hour later.
Kenyans in the diaspora and the homeland, as well as friends and family, are today holding a memorial service for the three US-based siblings who died in a freak road accident while on holiday in Naivasha, Kenya.
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine told AFP Wednesday he was on the run following last week’s election, while another, Kizza Besigye, risks dying from illness in jail, his wife said.
Kiongozi wa upinzani nchini Uganda, Bobi Wine, amesema yuko mafichoni kufuatia uchaguzi wa wiki iliyopita, huku kiongozi mwingine wa upinzani, Kizza Besigye, akiwa mahututi kutokana na hali mbaya ya afya, kwa mujibu wa mke wake.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni’s son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has deleted a series of threatening posts he directed at supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and opposition leader Robert Kyangulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine.
Uganda’s army chief, who is also the son of long-serving president Yoweri Museveni, said he wants opposition leader Bobi Wine dead, days after Wine claimed he had been forced into hiding.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, fresh from winning a seventh term at age 81, said Sunday that the opposition were “terrorists” who had tried to use violence to overturn results.
Wine said Friday that he was under house arrest, and his party later wrote on X that he had been “forcibly taken” by an army helicopter from his compound.
A senior member of the Ugandan opposition told AFP on Friday that security forces stormed his home the previous day as the country held elections, shooting dead 10 members of his campaign team.