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Syria, Europe and Uganda via the Metropolitan line
A short trip on the London Underground to a suburban girls’ school makes for an uplifting visit.
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Ugandans vote tomorrow in a presidential election pitting Yoweri Museveni, who’s led the country for 35 years, against the challenger, the singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine.
He has been attacked, his supporters killed, imprisoned and abused.
We are in the capital Kampala and have been talking to the country’s president.
In this exclusive report, Channel 4 News was filming with Bobi Wine during yesterday’s campaigning and the chaos that ensued.
Turning back to the global impact of coronavirus and in one sense, Uganda is considered to have largely escaped so far the worst effects of the pandemic – with only three deaths from coronavirus, all recorded in the last week.
As a million people take to London’s streets to celebrate Pride – we talk to Aloysius Sali – who fled to the UK and claimed refugee status after being persecuted for his sexuality in his native Uganda, and now works full time with LGBT refugees here.
“We need to engage everyone” to undo opposition to homosexuality in Uganda, says Frank Mugisha, Uganda’s leading LGBT activist and a founder of Sexual Minorities Uganda.
The US government has warned its citizens in Uganda that an attack could take place at Entebbe International Airport.
Gay people in Uganda face life prison sentences after the country’s president signed a new anti-homosexual law.
After seeing the difference aid makes to the lives of disabled people in Uganda, Channel 4’s Ade Adepitan is lobbying for disability rights to be included in the UN’s millennium development goals.
In 1972, Idi Amin expelled Uganda’s Asians, many of whom were British citizens and settled in the UK. At the time, ITN visited Leicester to find out how immigrants were coping.
A British theatre producer who spent five nights in a Ugandan police cell before being deported tells Channel 4 News his treatment was a throwback to the days of dictator Idi Amin.
A short trip on the London Underground to a suburban girls’ school makes for an uplifting visit.
A court in Kampala dismisses the case against British theatre producer David Cecil, who faced two years in a Uganda jail for putting on a play about homosexuality.
Exclusive: David Cecil, who faces two years in a Ugandan prison for producing a play about homosexuality, tells Channel 4 News sending him to jail would be “quite crazy”.