Regions / Africa / Uganda
Articles about Uganda, ordered by date. 
In the balance
Sophie Neiman reports from a stifling court in Kampala, where activists are waging a bitter legal battle to overturn Uganda’s harsh anti-gay law.
‘They want to erase us’
After the government introduced one of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world, LGBTQI+ Ugandans have been living in an increased climate of fear. Amid preparations for a landmark case challenging the law, Sophie Neiman speaks to the people who are promoting the legislation, and the human rights activists putting everything on the line to get it overturned.
The long wait of Thomas Kwoyelo
A former child soldier in the ferocious Lord’s Resistance Army has been on trial for war crimes in Uganda for 13 years. Meanwhile thousands of other fighters have been welcomed home under amnesty legislation. Sophie Neiman visits Gulu to find out how this contentious case is failing the LRA’s victims.
Fighting the fossils
Big Oil is throwing money at new fossil fuel infrastructure like there’s no tomorrow. New pipelines, refineries, wells and rigs are being built across all continents. But everywhere the industry goes, it meets resistance. Here are four profiles of groups saying enough is enough. Words by Nick Dowson.
Hall of Infamy: Yoweri Museveni
Ugandan autocrat Yoweri Museveni digs his heels in yet again.
The Interview: Betty Bigombe
The intrepid Betty Bigombe talks about her immersive way of negotiating peace with the ultra-violent Lord’s Resistance Army.
‘Let them own their country’
‘Let them think for themselves’, says the ‘ghetto president’, Bobi Wine.
Orphans in limbo
With the Ugandan government announcing it may close down hundreds of illegal orphanages, it is not clear what will happen to the children living in them.
The trauma of history
Sally Hayden writes about the Lukodi massacre museum.
Between a shark and the deep sea
Can a US chain of profit-making schools really help the poor? Patience Akumu reports on the impact of Bridge academies in Uganda.
Pride under pressure in Uganda
The Ugandan LGBT community is under shock after police raided the Ugandan Pride Week, reports Jess Worth.
Why don’t you move to Uganda?
Patience Akumu explains that some African countries host large numbers of refugees.
The anti-gay gospel
How foreign funds amplify hate in Uganda, by Patience Akumu.
John ‘Bosco’ Nyombi: flight and detention
John ‘Bosco’ Nyombi was removed from Britain to months of fear and persecution as a gay man in Uganda. Eventually, a British judge ruled his removal illegal and ordered that he be brought back. He tells Dinyar Godrej about his journey.
Deported: the man in the newspaper
John 'Bosco' Nyombi sought sanctuary in the West from persecution in Uganda – only to spend eight years struggling for his rights.
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