Nairobi, June 4, 2025 (AFP) - World Bank lifts lending freeze over Uganda anti-LGBTQ law

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2025-06-04

The World Bank is lifting a freeze on lending to Uganda it put in place in response to a 2023 law criminalising homosexuality, after taking steps to counter discrimination, it said Wednesday. Uganda's anti-LGBTQ law, one of the most severe in the world, provides for harsh sentences for same-sex relations or "promoting" homosexuality, including the death penalty in some cases. After longtime President Yoweri Museveni signed it into law in May 2023......

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