KAMPALA, May 19 (Reuters) - Uganda's parliament has approved the government's plan to raise spending by 10% to 52.73 trillion shillings ($14 billion) in the 2023/24 fiscal year, the Finance Ministry ...

(Bloomberg) -- The UK said it imposed sanctions on Uganda’s speaker of parliament for being involved in corruption, but the legislature says the lawmaker is being punished for supporting anti-LGBTQ ...

Deputy speaker Thomas Tayebwa has directed the parliament’s health committee to conduct a comprehensive review of a $2.3 ...

The sweeping legislation would criminalize "the offence of homosexuality." LONDON -- In the days after Ugandan Parliament passed one of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ bills, members of the country's ...

Uganda’s parliament on Thursday took up a bill that would criminalize identifying as LGBTQ, with lawmakers saying the current ban on same-sex relations does not go far enough. Anti-LGBTQ sentiment is ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Uganda's parliamentary speaker, her husband and several other officials over corruption and serious abuses of human rights.

In this April 4, 2023, file photo, activists hold placards during their picket against Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill at the Ugandan High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa. Uganda's president ...

Ugandan lawmakers will reconsider the nation’s 2024-25 spending plan after President Yoweri Museveni declined to sign it into law. The move is a rare one for Museveni, who usually assents to budget ...

Ugandan lawmakers stand as they pass the Anti-Homosexuality Bill at a session inside the Parliament buildings in Kampala, Uganda, on May 2, 2023. [VOA] Ugandan lawmakers have passed a harsh anti-LGBTQ ...

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The ban on Nation Media Group from both State House and Parliament is the latest episode in Uganda's long-running hostility toward critical journalism. This statement was originally published on ...