Uganda shoots down West aid cut
1 March 2014 12:01 AM GMT
Uganda has shrugged off foreign aid cuts and international criticism of its tough new anti-gay law, saying it could do without Western aid.
‘The West can keep their ‘aid’ to Uganda over homos, we shall still develop without it,’ government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said in a message on Twitter.
Hours later the World Bank stalled a $90 million loan planned to help Uganda strengthen its healthcare system.
‘We have postponed the project for further review to ensure that the development objectives would not be adversely affected by the enactment of this new law,’ a spokesman for the global poverty lender said.
The World Bank move follows action by Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway to freeze or change aid programmes for Uganda and blunt criticism from the United States and Sweden after President Yoweri Museveni signed off on Monday on one of the world’s toughest anti-gay laws.
Museveni signed a bill into law which holds that ‘repeat homosexuals’ should be jailed for life, outlaws the promotion of homosexuality and requires people to report on homosexuals.
‘The West can keep their ‘aid’ to Uganda over homos, we shall still develop without it,’ government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said in a message on Twitter.
Hours later the World Bank stalled a $90 million loan planned to help Uganda strengthen its healthcare system.
‘We have postponed the project for further review to ensure that the development objectives would not be adversely affected by the enactment of this new law,’ a spokesman for the global poverty lender said.
The World Bank move follows action by Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway to freeze or change aid programmes for Uganda and blunt criticism from the United States and Sweden after President Yoweri Museveni signed off on Monday on one of the world’s toughest anti-gay laws.
Museveni signed a bill into law which holds that ‘repeat homosexuals’ should be jailed for life, outlaws the promotion of homosexuality and requires people to report on homosexuals.
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