As Uganda’s parliament begins discussions once more on an antihomosexuality bill, the Ugandan minister of ethics has accompanied police to shut down a workshop in Entebbe for gay rights activists and to arrest its organizer.

Officials in Uganda say they have seized nearly 360 pounds (162 kilograms) of ivory and other animal parts and products that were being smuggled in and out of the country.

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A cabinet minister in Uganda, where homosexual acts are illegal, raids a workshop for gay activists and tries to arrest the organiser.

THEY NEED HELP TOO — Most persons with deaf-blindness are not totally blind or deaf. Some need assistance like these participants of the 9th Helen Keller World Conference held in Uganda in 2009.   MANILA, Philippines — All five major senses — sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch — work together to enable the body to function properly. To lose just one function is already extremely difficult ...

Uganda is facing international scrutiny again as legislators again consider an anti-homosexuality bill, according to AFP. If approved by Uganda's parliament, the bill would criminalize gay sex, public discussion of homosexuality and jail time for anyone renting property to a homosexual or for family members who fail to report an individual is gay of up to seven years.

A workshop run by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists has been raided by Uganda's ethics minister. February 14, 2012 International A Ugandan cabinet minister on Tuesday raided a workshop run by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists in Entebbe, prompting Amnesty International to call on the government to end its outrageous harassment of people involved in lawful ...

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.

A gay activist in Uganda says that the country's ethics minister, accompanied by police, broke up a meeting of gay participants.

[Monitor] ELEVEN-year-old Cheyech Lima of Doo village in Nakapipirit District died on July 9, 2010, in the bush due to over bleeding-a common FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) complication. According to the "surgeon", one Cheptchai, he was not only cutting for the first time, but hurriedly for fear of the law. "My grand father used to be a 'surgeon'. So elders asked me to start because we needed ...