Uganda-US relations

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US response to Uganda’s anti-gay law and persistent human rights violations

US government, at the direction of President Biden, published an account of all the actions it has taken in response to the Anti-Homosexuality Act and other human rights concerns
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel hosts an honour guard to welcome Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to the Pentagon for a meeting 27 September 2013
Politics & Policy

US sanctions prison chief over human rights abuses

Johnson Byabashaija heads an organisation that has tortured government critics and LGBTQI+ people
Johnson Byabashaija, the commissioner general of prisons. The US has imposed financial sanctions on Johnson Byabashaija, the commissioner general of prisons, in a review and expansion of its visa restriction policy targeting Ugandan officials it says are complicit in human rights abuses.
Politics & Policy

US announces visa restrictions in latest anti-gay law sanctions

US to deny visas to officials responsible for anti-gay law and policies that oppress other vulnerable groups
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers a speech on US foreign policy at the US Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 2021.
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Three years on, the events of November 2020 loom large

Opposition National Unity Platform says some of its supporters are still unaccounted for since November 2020, and continues to face intense scrutiny from security forces
Politics & Policy

Museveni strikes defiant tone on AGOA, US advisories

Recent actions by the US to dissuade American companies from investing in the country and to exclude it from a regional trade deal over its anti-gay law are rooted in a lack of respect, according to President Museveni
Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni, gestures, while smiling, and seated, in an October 2023 photo
Politics & Policy

Anti-gay law: Biden administration moves to exclude Uganda from trade pact

President Biden said that despite 'intensive engagement', Uganda had failed to address US concerns about its failure to meet AGOA eligibility criteria
The United States White House in Washington DC
Politics & Policy

US warns companies of risks of doing business in Uganda

Biden administration issues advisory warning of heightened operational risks in Uganda due to 'endemic corruption' and human rights restrictions
The main gate to the Uganda Parliament in Kampala
Politics & Policy

US sanctions Ugandan refinery over illicit gold trade

The United States has sanctioned a network of companies controlled by Alain Goetz, a Belgian businessman who owns a gold refinery in Uganda, for participating in the illicit trade of gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo
A group of people looking at gold bars