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Uganda: Police raid US project that assisted gays

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

FILE - In a Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 file photo, Kenyan gays and lesbians and others supporting their cause wear masks to preserve their anonymity and one holds out a wrapped condom, as they stage a rare protest, against Uganda's increasingly tough stance against homosexuality in solidarity with their counterparts there, outside the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya. President Barack Obama says in a statement provided Sunday, Feb. 15, 2014 that pending steps by Uganda to further criminalize homosexuality will complicate what he is describing as America's valued relationship with the East African nation. Museveni said Friday that he plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for what they term as &quot;aggravated&quot; homosexual acts.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Leading Kenyan MP: Gay and lesbian behavior ‘as serious as terrorism’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwamba in southern Sudan. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, Pool, File)

U.S. sends more troops, aircraft to search for Kony

By Lolita C. Baldor and Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

US eyes push against anti-gay laws worldwide

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

FILE In this Monday, March 19, 2012 file photo, Sexual Minorities Uganda program coordinator Pepe Julian Onziema speaks in an interview with The Associated Press in Kampala, Uganda. Uganda's health minister said Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 that gays will not be discriminated against by medical workers after the country's president signed a law that strengthens criminal penalties against homosexuals, but prominent gay rights activist Pepe Julian Onziema said that well-known homosexuals face constant discrimination and abuse and recalled being ignored many times by medical workers who served others as they gossiped about his sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera, File)

Uganda health minister: Gays will still get care

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signs a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, in Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Museveni on Monday signed the controversial anti-gay bill into law, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie)

Uganda president signs harsh anti-gay law

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning in central London. (AP Photo/Carl Court, Pool, File)

Uganda defends anti-gay law despite foreign pressure

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

SD nun defines trips to Africa ‘a sacred journey’

By RANDY DOCKENDORF - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning in central London. (AP Photo/Carl Court, Pool, File)

Obama: Anti-gay bill step backward for Ugandans

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

FILE - In a Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 file photo, Kenyan gays and lesbians and others supporting their cause wear masks to preserve their anonymity and one holds out a wrapped condom, as they stage a rare protest, against Uganda's increasingly tough stance against homosexuality in solidarity with their counterparts there, outside the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya. President Barack Obama says in a statement provided Sunday, Feb. 15, 2014 that pending steps by Uganda to further criminalize homosexuality will complicate what he is describing as America's valued relationship with the East African nation. Museveni said Friday that he plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for what they term as "aggravated" homosexual acts.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Obama denounces Uganda for law criminalizing gay sex

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

KU prof. to lead Ugandan newspaper

Associated Press

** FILE ** A Congolese army soldier cools down in Jomba, Congo, during the army's advance toward Bunagana through rebel-held territory. Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. The Congolese army retook one of the last remaining strongholds of the M23 rebels Wednesday, with fighters heading for the hills as the military sought to extinguish the 18-month insurrection, officials said. (AP Photo/Joseph Kay)

Official: 1,700 M23 rebels surrender to Uganda

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. Adventurer Robert Young Pelton, whose crowd-funding scheme has already drawn criticism from a pair of Africa experts, is the latest to join a line of private individuals and aid groups who are trying to corner Joseph Kony and the members of his Lord's Resistance Army. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, File, Pool)

Canadian will try to find African warlord using crowd-funded former soldiers

Associated Press

Ugandan court dismisses case against pro-gay play

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

This photo taken Friday, April 27, 2012, shows an aerial view over northern Uganda. Some locals in Gulu in northern Uganda have other concerns that complicate the military mission of forces now hunting for Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, such as the fear of reprisal attacks if they are thought to be helping the authorities find him, or concerns that troops hunting him will not be able to distinguish between the regular LRA fighters and their abducted children. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Fugitive African warlord Kony stays a step ahead of pursuers

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

M23 rebels patrol around Congo's Central Bank in Goma, Congo, on Monday Nov. 26, 2012. Regional leaders meeting in Uganda called for an end to the advance by M23 rebels toward Congo's capital, and also urged the Congolese government to sit down with rebel leaders as residents fled some towns in fear of more fighting between the rebels and army. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Rebels patrol in Congo city as deadline nears

By Melanie Gouby and Rukmini Callimachi - Associated Press

Congolese government soldiers patrol the streets of Minova under their control on Sunday. Government troops remain in Minova after a failed attack on M23 on Thursday. Regional leaders meeting in Uganda called for an end to the advance by rebels toward the capital. (Associated Press)

Congo in talks with rebel group

By Rodney Muhumuza and Pete Jones - Associated Press

People walk past as M23 rebel soldier's take positions near the Heal Africa hospital in the center of Goma, Congo, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Melanie Gouby)

M23 rebels vow to take Congo, as troops defect

By Melanie Gouby - Associated Press

A young man (left) wounded by bullets during fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels is treated at the Heal Africa hospital in Goma, Congo, on Nov. 20, 2012. (Associated Press)

Congolese rebels seize Goma, take airport

By Melanie Gouby and Rukmini Callimachi - Associated Press