Kampala, June 5, 2025 (AFP) - Uganda welcomes World Bank lifting loan freeze over anti-gay law

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2025-06-05

Uganda welcomed the World Bank's decision to resume lending that was stopped after it passed an anti-gay law in 2023, saying Thursday the initial ban was "uncalled for". Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act is one of the most severe in the world with 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, the World Bank halt......

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