...
President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...on Wednesday defied international calls to rescind an anti-gay law seen as one of the world's harshest, including a potential death penalty
for "aggravated homosexuality".
"The signing of the bill is finished, no one will move us," Museveni said in a statement after a meeting with members of his National Resistance® Movement party.
"The NRM has never had two languages, what we tell you during the day is what we shall tell you during the night," he said.
Ugandan activists have called on international donors to impose sanctions against the east African country's leaders over the law.
In a joint statement on Monday after the law was signed, the rights groups denounced a "dangerous and discriminatory" law would further crimp freedoms for civil society under Museveni, whose rule has become increasingly authoritarian since he took power in 1986.
US President Joe
The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
as well as the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and UN chief António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
have also slammed the legislation, warning that foreign aid and investment for Uganda could be jeopardised unless the law is repealed.
In 2014, international donors slashed aid to Uganda after Museveni approved a bill that sought to impose life imprisonment for homosexual relations, which was later overturned.
But the latest anti-gay law has enjoyed broad support in the conservative country, where politicians have defended the measures as a necessary bulwark against Western immorality.
"President Museveni urged Ugandans to remain firm, pointing out that the issue of homosexuality is a serious one that concerns the human race," his office said in the statement.