The US has cancelled a regional military exercise in Uganda, imposed visa restrictions and cut funding for a Ugandan police programme.

Officials for President Barak Obama say the tough anti gay law in Uganda flies in the face of universal human rights.

The US administration want to show it’s monitoring the situation, that it’s prepared to take measures, and that there are consequences.

Fundamentalist American evangelical groups have supported the Ugandan law punishing and first-time offenders with 14 years in jail and setting life imprisonment as the penalty for what it terms acts of aggravated homosexuality.

US officials reiterate Washington’s commitment to providing development and humanitarian support for the Ugandan people and to fighting against the Lord’s Resistance Army, an armed group of fundamentalist Christians operating in several countries in central Africa

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