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New Uganda Law Could Force LGBTQI+ Community To Live a Lie

In East African countries, people with diverse sexual orientations live in constant fear. Anti-LGBTQI+ rhetoric is on the rise in the region, writes Isaac Kaledzi for Deutsche Welle.

In Uganda, human rights activists have welcomed a move by President Yoweri Museveni to return a draft of an anti-homosexuality bill to parliament for review, saying it provides them with more time to fight it. Voice of America reports that on April 20, 2023, Museveni congratulated lawmakers on passing the bill in March. Museveni said that while he agrees with the bill, legislators needed to make changes so as not to frighten someone who, in his words, needed rehabilitation.

Meanwhile in Namibia, gay rights activists are decrying a Supreme Court decision that effectively denies citizenship to a child born through surrogacy to a same-sex couple in South Africa. The case has ignited public debate in Namibia on what constitutes a family, Vitalio Angula reports for Voice of America. The ruling overturned a High Court decision in 2022 to allow citizenship for the child.

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