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KAMPALA, Uganda - Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail...
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Uganda supports ENI SpA’s planned purchase of Heritage Oil Corp.’s shares in two Ugandan oil fields because the Italian company has a strong financial base, the Kampala-based New Vision newspaper reported, citing Minister of State for Mineral Development Peter Lokeris.
KAMPALA, Uganda - Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to homosexuals.
KAMPALA, Uganda (Dow Jones)—The Banyoro tribe, who occupy Uganda's oil- rich region around Lake Albert, have threatened to boycott the country's 2011 presidential and parliamentary elections, accusing the government of not resolving land ownership issues in the region, local leaders said over the weekend.
KAMPALA, Uganda — Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their families and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to homosexuals.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Eni SpA has the funds to support the development of Uganda’s oil industry, a government minister said today, indicating Italy’s biggest energy company may succeed in its $1.5 billion acquisition of Heritage Oil Plc assets.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of an anti- gay bill expected to be ready for presentation to Parliament in two weeks, James Nsaba Buturo, the minister of ethics and integrity, said.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni flew economy class from London to Entebbe to shame big-spending civil servants and counter mounting corruption allegations, his spokesman said Monday.
The reports of a possible death penalty for gays in Uganda are horrific. But since I don't know anything about Ugandan politics, I asked Andrew Rice, a friend who wrote a book about Uganda, if he...
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Coffee exports from Uganda , Africa’s largest producer of the robusta variety, may climb 0.3 percent this month following an improvement in weather conditions which hindered harvesting and drying of the crop last month, the Uganda Coffee Development Authority said.
Readers react to a bill in Uganda's parliament that would punish homosexual acts with prison or death.
As a gay man in Uganda, Frank Mugisha is used to the taunts, the slurs and the daily harassment of neighbors and friends.
KAMPALA, Uganda, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Uganda is considering legislation that would impose a death sentence for intentional or willful transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, authorities say.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Uganda won’t impose the death penalty nor life imprisonment for gay people in a refined bill that will probably be presented to Parliament in two weeks, James Nsaba Buturo, the minister of ethics and integrity, said.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- An outbreak of Hepatitis E has killed 12 people out of 210 infected in Uganda’s northeastern region of Karamoja since August, New Vision reported, citing Michael Lochiyo, the health educator of Kaabong district in the region.
KAMPALA, Uganda — Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and...
