Members of a Ugandan rights group criticised parliament yesterday for considering a draft bill that foresees the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” - defined as acts in which one of the participants is a minor, disabled or is infected with the HIV virus.

Monitor (Kampala)-The endless squabbles between Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) executive director Jennifer Musisi and Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago must be brought to an immediate end if constructive development is to be realised in the city.

[Monitor] Kampala - The Global Fund to fight HIV, TB and Malaria has given Uganda the least amount of funding compare to other East African member states because of corruption and earlier mismanagement of the fund.

Outside the burns ward of Kampala's Mulago hospital, Darlison Kobusingye gingerly adjusts the headscarf she uses to cover the worst of the scars patterning the right side of her face.

"I want people of the world to know that people like me come from Bwaise. I know you know about the floods, about the poverty, about the sex work. But I want you to know that there are also inspired, committed young people!"

Women and children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army guerrilla group are suffering from hunger because the wanted band of fighters has stopped stealing food from villages to avoid being detected by a military manhunt, Ugandan military officials said Monday.

New Vision (Kampala)-A revised stability clause that allows re-negotiations when Uganda enacts new laws or policies that could reduce the oil investors' profits has been adopted in the draft production sharing agreement, a compromise that could unlock the $2.9b oil deal deadlock.

China last month sent a senior official to symbolically hand over the keys to a nine-story twin tower to house Uganda's president and prime minister, a gift from Beijing.

Until a new anti-homosexuality bill caused a wave of homophobia in Uganda, John and Paul could hold hands in the streets of the capital Kampala and kiss in night clubs.

[Monitor] Kampala - There was drama at Imperial Resort Beach Hotel in Entebbe yesterday when State Minister for Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo broke up a secret gay rights activists conference.