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Kampala city is home
to about a million and a half people most of whom are manual laborers
tending to the huge food markets, driving worn buses, cementing new
structures together or demolishing old ones with sledge hammers. It
is a workers'
city that hardly sleeps; it is ambitious in commerce, eager in education,
aggressivein HIV prevention, connected by cell phones--and yet much
of the population is poor and lives in dilapidated quarters. The city's
middle class is growing slowly; SUVs are status symbols and fine houses
are built behind tall walls with electric fences.
And the government
of president Yoweri Museveni has held power since 1986 and has questionably
improved Ugandan life for some, certainly
for those on the inner circles
of power--but not for LGBT citizens. (See Gay
Human Rights report)
Read the story about gay
Uganda
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