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Undercover filming shows the influence of anti-gay evangelical campaigners from the US in Uganda ...

s supporters revel in new anti-gay laws passed despite pressure from US, EU, western donors and rights groups Uganda's president hassigned a controversial law allowing those convicted of homosexuality to be imprisoned for life, defying international disapproval from western donor nations. At a public ceremony in a packed room at the State House in Entebbe, Yoweri Museveni formally initialled the anti-homosexuality...

President Yoweri Museveni will usher in draconian new laws, government says, despite pledge to delay bill two days ago ...

s proposed law against homosexuality, saying there is no scientific or moral basis ever for prejudice and discrimination – and accusing the Ugandan president of breaking a promise not to enact the law. The new law would extend the prohibitions and penalties in a country where homosexuality is already a crime, to include acts such as "suggestive touching" in public. President Yoweri Museveni had first...

s president remains on the brink of ratifying savage new anti-gay laws, our Africa Correspondent reports on a continent at war with itself Simon Lokodo cannot imagine kissing a man. "I think I shall die," he said last week. "I would not exist. It is inhuman. I would be mad. Just imagine eating your faeces." Lokodo is "ethics and integrity" minister in Uganda and a champion of the country's swingeing...

African morality' with willingness to trade anti-gay law for one more term in office Like any other dictator, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni is addicted to attention. And what better way to guarantee attention than promising an African utopia, free from homosexuals, pornography or any such moral decadence imported from the west? Museveni's apparent willingness to sign the anti-homosexuality bill – taking...

s intervention reflects the agonised debate now taking place between Africa and the west. A week ago Museveni had insisted that he would approve the legislation , prompting criticism from US president Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton. The US warned that the move would "complicate" relations with Uganda, to which it gives more than $400m (£240m) in aid annually. Uganda dismissed the threat...

my teachers are not even there, why should I waste time going there when teacher X did not attend yesterday?'" According to figures in Transparency International's global corruption report on education , published last year, teachers in Uganda were absent from their classes 27% of the time, the second-highest rate among 21 countries. The study describes the problem as one of the most serious forms...

s commitment to protect the human rights of its people. It also would represent a serious setback for anyone committed to freedom, justice and equal rights, Obama said. Obama said the United States stands for the protection of fundamental freedoms and universal human rights and believes people everywhere should be treated equally. "That is why I am so deeply disappointed that Uganda will shortly enact...

I am a homosexual, Mum', it caused a sensation – and has placed him at the heart of the African debate on gay rights Binyavanga Wainaina made his name with a short and celebrated satire called " How to Write About Africa ". It was the perfect anti-primer for any would-be "dark continent correspondent", skewering every cliche under the vast, red, setting savannah sun: "Always use the words 'Africa'...

aggravated homosexuality' Rights campaigners and health professionals have condemned Uganda's president after he said he would approve controversial anti-homosexuality laws based on the advice of "medical experts". Yoweri Museveni told members of his governing party he would sign the bill – prescribing life imprisonment for "aggravated homosexuality" – that was passed by parliament late last year,...

s new constitution outlawing discrimination against homosexuals, Thabo Mbeki, then vice-president under Nelson Mandela, declared: "I know that none dare challenge me when I say - I am an African!" But it appears that some on the continent would like to take him up on that. Recently the Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, signed into law a bill that outlawed gay marriage, public displays of same-sex...

s inhabitants are online . While mobile phone usage is widespread at 72%, this masks regional differences. Eritrea's mobile penetration rate, for example, is just 5%. The internet's limited reach is compounded further because the language of the web is English and mobile connectivity is limited as only 18% of Africa's mobiles are smartphones . Organisations need to address these barriers and some are...

s leading literary figures, outs himself in response to wave of homophobic laws across continent Read the full short story here Binyavanga Wainaina, one of Africa's leading literary figures, has responded to a wave of recent anti-gay laws on the continent by publicly outing himself in a short story. The Kenyan author and founder of the influential Nairobi-based literary journal Kwani said he would...

s roads, which are in such a poor state that the locals once fished out of the potholes in protest. Now, five years after the idea was mooted, the government is in the final stages of setting up a national agency to reduce traffic deaths and improve road safety.   And Uganda is not alone. Across sub-Saharan Africa, which has the highest road fatality rates of any global region (pdf), several countries...

t hide any more," recalls John. And so, in one of the most conservative states in Nigeria, he started holding underground meetings with other gay people. They supported each other when neighbours accused them of being "demons". Sometimes money was pooled together to pay bail or buy condoms, handed out to those who couldn't afford them. Mainly, though, they helped each other cross the lonely horizon...

s economy is the best way to deal with 'abnormality' of homosexuality The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has refused to approve a controversial bill that would see gay people jailed for life , saying there were better ways to deal with the "abnormality". In a letter to parliament, the president said homosexuality was caused by either "random breeding" or a need to make money. Lesbians, he said,...

s capital. Abigaba, 26, was unlucky last night. He lost his bet of 10,000 shillings ($4) on four English football teams. He could have won 220,000 shillings($90). "Just one team – Manchester United's loss to Everton – killed my receipt but today I will bet carefully," he says."I can lose today, but tomorrow I will win." Abigaba, a development studies graduate from Makerere University, is just outside...

s roads. Compulsory first aid training for new drivers would dramatically cut deaths The number of deaths resulting from road accidents in Africa is on the rise. The continent currently has the worst death rate for road accidents in the world – almost 250% worse than Europe – with over 151 people killed per 10,000 vehicles in Uganda alone . Road accidents are predicted to become the biggest killer...

s president, Goodluck Jonathan, signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, which provides penalties of up to 14 years in jail for a gay marriage and up to 10 years' imprisonment for membership or encouragement of gay clubs, societies and organisations. His spokesman, Reuben Abati, said: "This is a law that is in line with the people's cultural and religious inclination. So it is a law that is a...