Congolese refugees bound for Uganda.Photo: James Akena/Reuters

Why don’t you move to Uganda?

Patience Akumu explains that some African countries host large numbers of refugees.

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NI 489 - Humanity adrift: why refugees deserve better - January, 2016
Not doing the Lord’s work: Pastor Martin Ssempa (wearing spectacles) blesses politician David Bahati, who introduced Uganda’s notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a Private Member’s Bill in 2009. The ceremony took place at an anti-gay church service at the Christianity Focus Centre in Kampala’s biggest slum, Kisenyi. Photo: Benedicte Desrus/Alamy

The anti-gay gospel

How foreign funds amplify hate in Uganda, by Patience Akumu.

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NI 483 - Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion - June, 2015
John 'Bosco' Nyombi.

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.

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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010
Going round in circles: John ‘Bosco’ Nyombi’s fight for the right to stay in Britain was an epic battle of resistance.

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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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010

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Humanity adrift: why refugees deserve better January, 2016
Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion June, 2015
Organ trafficking May, 2014
Time to rethink disability November, 2013
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
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