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February 17, 2014

Ugandan President to Sign Anti-Gay Bill; Anti-Gay Mob Attacks 14 in Nigeria 
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has indicated he will sign a bill
punishing repeated homosexual acts with terms of up to life in prison.
U.S. evangelicals have helped spur anti-LGBT fervor in Uganda, with some
even reportedly helping to draft the new law. President Obama has warned
Museveni that signing the law could "complicate" relations with the
United States. A similar law recently passed in Nigeria, where an
anti-gay mob attacked 14 men on Saturday in the capital Abuja.

 

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