The United States imposed sanctions on Uganda Thursday over the East African nation’s anti-gay law, which can see homosexuals jailed for life.
The U.S. government said it was cancelling a military exercise and cutting funds to a number of programmes it is running with the Ugandan authorities.
Tougher measures will also follow.
“The Department of State is taking measures to prevent entry into the United States by certain Ugandan officials involved in serious human rights abuses, including against LGBT individuals,” said National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden Hayden in a written statement.”
The US will also discontinue or redirect funds for certain programmes involving the Ugandan Police Force, National Public Health Institute and Ministry of Health, and has cancelled plans to conduct a US military-sponsored aviation exercise.
The White House said the Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act is “counter to universal human rights”.
A spokesperson for the Ugandan government, Ofwono Opondo, dismissed the sanctions.
Mr. Opondo said the contentious law will be implemented except it is amended or nullified by court following a petition in Uganda’s constitutional court by a group of gay rights activist, the country’s Daily Monitor reported Friday.
“These measures by the US government do not diminish our resolve to obtain and exercise full sovereignty. Mr Obama has more on his plate [with the war] in Syria and Iraq, and could be diverting domestic attention for a while,” he was quoted as saying.
The United States provides about $740 million to Uganda annually in development assistance, with much of the money going to agriculture and health- mostly for supply of anti-retroviral drugs.
Mr. Opondo said the new sanctions will be inconsequential as the U.S. had already withdrawn much of its direct support to the government preferring to channel its assistance through non-governmental organisations.
The U.S. threatened punishment over the legislation since it was signed into law in February by President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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It is even a worst human right abuse to withdraw aid from a dying aids patient. This is the hight of slavery.
ReplyDeleteThis US self: what did they call themselves. God? Because Uganda has refused abominations, degenerations and Godlessness which have taken root in US, they want to stop their aid? This is a challenge to God who distributes wealth. Let the Ugandans rise up and call on the Lord God of Elijah for divine wealth. He answers prayer and He will answer. Very soon, father will be marrying daughter and son marrying mother in America, US is our present day Sodom and Gomora. Am sure few of them that still know God know that the fury and judgement of God is imminent. By the way what are the living churches in US doing. Are they at peace with these abominations? That this is happening in US is absurd and unthinkable. I am sorry for the American?
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DeleteThe first American homosexual president, Barack Obama will do anything to promote his degenerate lifestyle. It is left to Africans to stand up to this dog that wants every human being to turn to his ideology. President George W. Bush placed $15b to fight HIV/AIDS to the ground without any preconditions and we are witnesses to the results across much of Africa where the scourge has drastically been reduced to something like malaria that can be managed without immediately leading to death. But what did this bastard son of a no-religion, godless mother started doing immediately he became president; telling Africans we must be homosexuals like him or else he'll stop what he didn't have any hand in instituting. Stopping the work of an African friendly president in order to make us all homosexuals. That's the way of bastards, but we should show the bastard how to treat his kind in African style.
ReplyDeleteLet America go to hell with their rotten money, they cant spoil Africa with their sodomy
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