Uganda plans to make homosexuality punishable by death
Uganda’s planning to revive legislation punishing homosexuality with the death penalty. Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo says the law will curb a rise in what he calls unnatural sex in the East African country. The draconian law known locally as kill the gays was nullified five years ago on a technicality. That stopped Western […]
Tunisians go to the polls unhappily
Tunisians go to the polls on Sunday for a run-off election to decide on the successor to Beji Caid Essebsi who died in office last July. The contest is between two outsiders who beat off the heavyweight establishment figures among the two dozen other contestant. Conservative lawyer Kaïs Saïed and television mogul Nabil Karoui are […]