Politics and society

Ugandan lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation to Parliament that proposes tough new penalties for same-sex relations in a country where homosexuality is already illegal, defying criticism from human rights groups. Ms Anita Among, the speaker of Parliament, referred the Bill to a House committee for scrutiny, the first step in …

Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, said the anti-gay bill would be tabled and dealt with quickly at “whatever the cost”. Ms Among made the remarks after the architect of the Bill, Mr Asuman Basalirwa, was unable to table the Bill for first reading yesterday because the Ministry of Finance …

The United States took a significant step on Tuesday towards a ban on the popular TikTok app via a White House-backed bill, amid growing Western distrust of the Chinese social network. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement that he “welcomed” a bill tabled the same day …

“At the current rate, UN Women is setting gender equality 300 years from now, as it is moving further and further away,” denounced Antonio Guterres in a speech at the opening of two weeks of debates in New York of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and two …

The number of pregnant women and nursing mothers suffering from acute malnutrition has increased by 25% since 2020 in 12 countries at the “epicenter” of the world food crisis, UNICEF alerted in a report this Monday, underlining the deleterious consequences on their children. The report, based on analysis of data …

Kenya’s First Lady Rachel Ruto has declared national prayers against homosexuality in the country, saying the family unit was under attack. Mrs Ruto said the country cannot condone the Supreme Court ruling last month that upheld the LGBTQ community’s right of association. “We should not even try to talk about …

The parents of an obese British teenager who died aged 16 at the family home in particularly squalid conditions were sentenced on Wednesday to more than six years in prison for manslaughter by gross negligence. Kaylea Titford, 16, was found in conditions described in court as “unbecoming of any animal”, …

Bulgarian justice went on Wednesday against a judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) by refusing to issue a birth certificate to the stateless daughter of a lesbian couple. The Supreme Court overturned the decision of the Administrative Court of Sofia dated May 2022, which obliged the …

Beijing said on Wednesday that the FBI was undermining its credibility after comments by its director saying that a laboratory accident in the Chinese city of Wuhan is “very likely” at the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. FBI boss Christopher Wray’s statements to Fox News on Tuesday came two days …

Billionaire Elon Musk called the American media “racist” on Sunday after several newspapers decided to stop the publication of the comic strip “Dilbert”, the author of which compared in a video the black population to a “group of hate”. “For a very long time the American media was racist towards …