#yoweri museveni

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Uganda is Africa's most homophobic country. And the hatred unleashed there by the government and extremist religious groups has led to violence.

A prominent Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist is in a critical condition after he was stabbed on his way to work on Wednesday by unknown assailants on a motorbike.

Steven Kabuye, 25, suffered knife wounds and was left for dead in the assault on the outskirts of the capital Kampala before being found by local residents, police said. Human rights defenders have been warning about the risk of attacks on members of the LGBTQ+ community after Uganda last year adopted what is considered one of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world. Kabuye told detectives investigating the incident that he had been receiving death threats, according to a statement issued by police spokesperson Patrick Onyango. “According to Mr Kabuye, two unidentified individuals on a motorcycle, wearing helmets, approached him. The passenger jumped off and attacked him, specifically targeting his neck with a knife,” Onyango said. “Kabuye managed to shield his neck with his right arm, resulting in a stab wound to his hand. Despite attempting to flee, the assailants chased and stabbed him in the stomach and left him for dead,” he said, adding that local residents had found him and taken him to a medical clinic.

You can in certain instances get the death penalty for being gay in Uganda. The assailants probably felt it was their duty to try to murder Steven Kabuye.

In May last year, Uganda adopted anti-gay legislation containing provisions making “aggravated homosexuality” a potentially capital offence and setting out penalties for consensual same-sex relations of up to life in prison. Homosexuality has long been illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law criminalising sexual activity “against the order of nature”, with life imprisonment possible for a conviction. The new law added further offences and punishments. Kabuye had posted on X that he was deeply concerned about the consequences of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023. “This law violates basic human rights and sets a dangerous precedent for discrimination and persecution against the LGBTQ+ community. Let us stand together in solidarity and fight against bigotry and hate,” he wrote.

Uganda is a good place to avoid even if locals just think you are LGBTQ+.

Uganda's homophobic President Yoweri Museveni seized power in January of 1986. That's so long ago that the Space Shuttle Challenger was still intact when he began his reign as de facto president for life. According to the journal Foreign Policy, Museveni may be looking to turn Uganda into a North Korea-style monarchy without crowns.

Politics in Uganda has become a parable of dynastic decay. For 37 years, President Yoweri Museveni has ruled with a supporting cast of relatives, army officers, and hangers-on. They see themselves as the only ones capable of running the country—and have profited handsomely from doing so. Museveni has twice had the constitution rewritten to remove limits on his rule. But he is now 78, and he cannot rewrite biology. Enter his 49-year-old son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba: a hard-drinking, trash-tweeting soldier who considers himself “the most handsome General on earth.” After a rapid promotion through the army ranks, Kainerugaba says he wants to run for president at the next election in 2026.

Uganda is part of the corrupt Axis of Homophobia which includes Russia and Iran. It deserves the same opprobrium which is directed at those decrepit régimes.

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By indirectly causing instability in the locations where coltan is found in surplus in the DRC, Rwanda has managed to siphon billions of dollars worth of the valuable mineral to attract foreign investment over the years. Despite the Rwandan government denying all claims, the UN has presented conclusive evidence of the state funding the M23, and continuing to spill Congolese blood on Congolese soil without remorse.

Ruth Mudingayi in Africa Is A Country. Congo beyond the hashtags

While social media has amplified calls for social justice in long-ignored parts of the world, it should only be the beginning of our activism.

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CONGO?

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Ugandan president signs anti-LGBTQ+ law with death penalty for same-sex acts | Global development | The Guardian

On 17 April, a court in the eastern town of Jinja denied bail to six people working for healthcare organisations who had been charged with “forming part of a criminal sexual network”. Ugandan police confirmed that it conducted forced anal examinations on the six and tested them for HIV.

At the risk of offending any Ugandan supporters of this bullshit who might be here on Tumblr, fuck you.

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Bobi Wine: The People's President Against All Odds and Regimes

Imagine your own government trying to muzzle and stifle your voice for fear of change @natgeo #bobiwine #documentaries

History has proven if we don’t correct atrocities the first time, they are doomed to repeat.  Just here in America, we have seen our country go from a place of supposed liberty and justice for all to land I hardly recognize. Women and basic human rights are being challenged and some are attempting to rewrite history.  Imagine living in a country where you literally can be intimidated, beaten and…

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Uganda'da Diplomatik Çatışma: Muhoozi Kainerugaba'dan Sert Uyarı

Uganda’da Diplomatik Çatışma Uganda’nın Silahlı Kuvvetler Komutanı Muhoozi Kainerugaba, ABD’nin Uganda Büyükelçisi William Popp‘a, Uganda Cumhurbaşkanı Yoweri Museveni‘ye özür dilemesi ya da ülkeyi terk etmesi için sadece üç gün süre tanıdı. Bu durum, diplomatik ilişkilerde ciddi bir gerilime işaret ediyor. Nile Post tarafından aktarılan haberlere göre, Kainerugaba, büyükelçinin diplomatik…

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About - Julius Nyerere Leadership Centre (JNLC)

The Julius Nyerere Leadership Centre, is named after the former President of Tanzania, the late H.E. Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. It was established on the initiative of the President of the Republic of Uganda, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to honour the legacy of the late H.E. Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. Launched by HE the President on the October, 6th 2018, the Centre was set up for intergenerational dialogue on African history, the study of Africa’s revolutionary movements, and as a centre for knowledge and research.

By contextualizing problems and their solutions, the Julius Nyerere Leadership Centre draws from a wide variety of approaches, that include, innovative policy leading research, quality dialogues, youth training and mentoring, providing an important platform for distinguished African intellectuals, scholars, other accomplished Africans to share, nurture, mentor, challenge and account to the next generation of African leaders.

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‘SIGNED, SEALED’ - Museveni says Uganda won't be swayed after anti-LGBTQ law triggers aid cut threats

KAMPALA – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has defended signing one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, with punishments up to and including the death penalty, saying it was needed to prevent LGBTQ community members he said were “disoriented” from “recruiting” others. His comments were the first since he signed the bill into law, triggering widespread Western criticism including threats…

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Uganda. All participants in Human Society should be seen as equals. Anti-Gay Laws in Uganda should hurt that country’s future.

https://youtu.be/eNjF5iSSOrU

Obviously, Yoweri Museveni, is not worried about boycotts. Naked!!

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In addition to being the dictator party and the abortion police party, the GOP is becoming the "kill the gays" party.

In a little-noticed Oct. 8 speech in Uganda, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) urged that nation to stand behind its new Anti-Homosexuality Act, which includes the death penalty. Walberg’s remarks came at Uganda’s National Prayer Breakfast. His trip to attend the event was paid for by the secretive U.S. group behind the National Prayer Breakfast, congressional filings show. As the keynote speaker of the Entebbe event, Walberg advised Uganda to “stand firm” on the new law. Walberg can be seen in video of the event listening to, endorsing, and associating himself with the remarks of other speakers. Speakers called LGBTQ+ advocates “a force from the bottom of Hell” and urged government officials to adopt “Christocracy” over democracy. Walberg explicitly encouraged Uganda’s leaders to resist opposition to the law from the U.S., the UN, and other global institutions. His audience included President Yoweri Museveni, who signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act into law in May. Museveni afterwards said Walberg’s presence showed his people that there were Americans who “think like us.” Walberg justified his Uganda trip as related to his official duties in part because of his role as co-chair of the Feb. 2 U.S. National Prayer Breakfast.

Yep, Rep. Walberg went on a junket (taxpayer financed?) to the most homophobic country in Sub-Saharan Africa just to "pray" at breakfast — presumably for the death of gays. And he got to do so alongside the country's longtime authoritarian president.

Yoweri Museveni has been mis-leading his country since 26 January 1986 – the same day the Chicago Bears won Super Bowl XX. He's one of those corrupt de facto presidents for life who plague a number of countries in Africa. It's natural that Republicans would gravitate towards such a figure.

[L]ast year’s Ugandan National Prayer Breakfast also served as a rally to resist international pressure for LGBTQ+ rights. The latest version of the Anti-Homosexuality bill, commonly known as the “Kill the Gays Bill,” was introduced shortly afterwards. The law provides penalties of lengthy prison sentences and even execution for “aggravated homosexuality,” including “serial offenses.” Even advocating for LGBTQ+ rights can mean years behind bars under the new law. Just attempting to engage in same-sex conduct can draw a sentence of ten years. According to Human Rights Watch, Ugandan rights groups have seen a spike in anti-LGBTQ discrimination and persecution since the bill’s introduction. Advocates in Uganda report government crackdowns on rights organizations and, since the law was enacted in May, hundreds of individual acts of violence, discrimination, and even evictions. As recently as Dec. 11, the Biden administration reiterated its demand that Uganda repeal the law and stop its official persecution. The White House cited U.S. visa restrictions and sanctions of Ugandan officials. The U.S. has suggested further economic consequences may follow.

Walberg seemed to imply that he's not on the side of the United States of America. Well, that's not unusual of House Republicans.

Referring to himself and the Ugandans there as “we,” Walberg asked, “Whose side do we wanna be on? God’s side. Not the World Bank, not the United States of America, necessarily, not the UN. God’s side.”

Somebody should ask Rep. Walberg if he's going to introduce a "Kill the Gays Bill" in the US House. Knowing how self-hating the Log Cabin Republicans are, they'd probably lobby in favor of such a bill.

A fascist mindset permeates the Republican Party. If you support the continuation of democracy in this country, Vote Blue No Matter Who. People who claim that both parties are the same are either stupid or too lazy to pay attention.

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Pepe Onziema, human rights advocate. May 31, 2023, Democracy Now!

So, as much as I welcome President Biden’s condemnation, I think there needs to be a lot of work done back home within the United States to make sure that these, you know, exporters of hate into a country like Uganda — because Uganda seems to be geographically positioned for, you know, for these people to come into our country and to test everything negative that they want to test in our country. So, that needs to be stopped from the backyard in the United States before it comes this side.

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No. The answer is always no. If this was in any way an accepted line of thinking, then by the logic suggested by the supporters of this movement, during their five decades under communist tyranny the East Germans should've "rehabilitated" Hitler. Yeah, he was a genocidal monster, but that was in the past and there's a new dictator in the present. That's literally all this is.

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Heal The Planet President Shares Report on Concluded 2nd East Africa & Anointing Pastors Conference of Dr. Michelle Corral

Mission Accomplished- Kivumbi’s Vote of Thanks to Dr. Michelle Corral, President Museveni, First Lady Maama Janet, the Organising Committee…

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Newlywed couple killed by terror group on honeymoon in Uganda

By Associated Press, 8:10am Oct, 2023

Two tourists who were killed, along with their tour guide, in an attack near a Ugandan national park were a newlywed couple, the country's president said in a statement.

The honeymooners — a South African woman and a British man — died when unknown assailants set ablaze their tour vehicle along a road by Queen Elizabeth National Park. Their local guide was also killed.

President President Yoweri Museveni described the attack as a “cowardly act on the part of the terrorists attacking innocent civilians and tragic for the couple who were newlyweds and visiting Uganda on their honeymoon.”

Queen Elizabeth National Park is known for its abundant wildlife. (iStock)

He said the terrorists “will pay with their own wretched lives.”

Attacks within and around national parks are rare in Uganda, with specialist police units deployed there. Queen Elizabeth National Park, one of the country's most popular conservation areas, is located in a remote area of southwestern Uganda near the Congo border.

Ugandan police blamed the attack on the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, a shadowy rebel outfit with ties to the Islamic State group. Museveni asserted the ADF's responsibility, urging security agencies to ensure the group “is wiped out.”

Ugandan troops are currently hunting down the ADF deep inside Congo. Ugandan authorities say hundreds of ADF rebels have been killed in airstrikes in recent months.

According to Museveni, ”a small group of terrorists running away from our operations in Congo" attacked the tourist vehicle.

"The terrorists will be defeated like Kony was defeated," Museveni said, referencing a warlord who became international famous after a viral campaign.

Yoweri Museveni has vowed to bring justice to the people who killed a honeymooning couple and a safari guide in Uganda. (AP)

The ADF originated in Uganda but later was forced to flee to eastern Congo, where it is accused of carrying out multiple attacks targeting civilians. The group is not known to claim responsibility for attacks it carries out.

The ADF occasionally conducts cross-border attacks. In one such attack in June, the group was accused of massacring at least 41 people, most of them students, in a raid on a remote Ugandan community near the border.

The ADF has long opposed the rule of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a U.S. security ally who has held power in the East African country since 1986.

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Nobody will move us over anti-gay law, says Museveni

President Yoweri Museveni has told off the international community over its opposition to an anti-gay law signed into law this week.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has told off the international community over its opposition to an anti-gay law signed into law this week. Mr Museveni insisted the signing of the law was a done deal, defying calls to have it repealed. “The signing of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is finished, nobody will move us. We should be ready for a war,” he said in a statement after a meeting with members…

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