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Ugandan police on Monday, arrested our people for allegedly engaging in same-sex activity, three months after the introduction of draconian anti-gay legislation sparked international outrage.
The law contains provisions making aggravated homosexuality a potential capital offence and penalties for consensual same-sex relations of up to life in prison.
The United Nations, foreign governments including the United States, and global rights groups have condemned the new law, which was signed in May.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has accused the World Bank of using money to try to coerce the government to drop the controversial legislation.
A member of the House of Representatives Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has resigned from his membership of the lower chamber of the National Assembly. Tunji-Ojo, who represented the Akoko North-East/North-West Federal Constituency of Ondo State in the House of Representatives, was among the ministers-designate of the president, Bola Tinubu. His resignation came some hours before the swearing-in of the ministers-designate coming up today.
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