Uganda’s New Anti-LGBTQ Law and How the Nation is Responding

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Uganda is known as The Pearl of Africa, but in recent months people who identify as LGBTQ are living in fear of harsh penalties under Uganda’s new anti-homosexuality law. Prosecutors have charged two people under the law, and both men face the death penalty. For more VOA’s Esther Githui-Ewart spoke to Dalton Kaweesa, a television news producer with Kampala-based NBS TV.