Uganda
18 minutes ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The US government also removed Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea from the trade deal last year, after they all underwent coups US President Joe Biden has revealed plans to expel Uganda, Gabon, Niger and the Central African Republic from a special US-Africa trade programme. The countries […]
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Closing Session on Promoting Food Security and Food Systems Resilience, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S. December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — For doctoral student and agricultural educator Mia Sullivan, traveling to Uganda this past summer with Penn State’s Global Teach Ag Network will be the foundation for her studies and future career. “Teachers are the same across oceans and borders,” said Sullivan, who is studying for her doctoral degree in education, development, […]
Originally Reported by Reuters WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – The United States on Monday issued a business advisory for Uganda, saying that businesses faced potential risks in the African country, citing an anti-LGBTQ law condemned by many countries and the United Nations. The advisory . . .
The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Uganda officials after the African nation passed an anti-LGBTQ law that was condemned by many countries and the United Nations, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. The law, considered one of the harshest in the world, was enacted in May and carries the death penalty . […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says legislation, which includes the death penalty for some offences, is deeply troubling. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States may consider restricting visas for some Ugandan officials after the country adopted one of the world’s toughest anti-LGBTQ laws. Blinken said the US was “deeply troubled” by Uganda’s […]
President George W. Bush meets with President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda Friday, July 11, 2003 in Entebbe, Uganda. (Photo: georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov) Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ legislation has elicited worldwide condemnation. But that nation’s history of invading, pillaging, and killing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with U.S. blessings, is rarely discussed. The parliament of the Republic of Uganda recently […]
In March 2021, the driver of a wildlife tour company saw vultures circling over the bush in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. He wandered off track to investigate, thinking a lion must have killed something. Instead, he found six lions dead, dismembered, and decaying. They had been poisoned by poachers, who stole their body parts […]
Rwanda and Uganda continue their plunder and destabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as proxies of the United States. The European Union has sanctioned five members of different armed groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including the spokesman for the M23 militia. It did not, however, sanction Rwanda, […]
CNN — Uganda has been struggling with an Ebola outbreak for months, and although there have been no suspected or probable Ebola cases identified in the United States, federal and local health officials are working together to prepare for the possibility that the virus will spread across the Atlantic.