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Serikali ya Sweden imesitisha rasmi kutoa misaada ya maendeleo kwa Uganda. Sweden ilikuwa inatoa mamilioni ya dollar kuisaidia Uganda.
Misaada imefutwa kufuatia Uganda kupitisha sheria kali kwa mashoga. Kuna nchi nyingine pia za ulaya zimesema zitafuta misaada kwa Uganda .
Je Uganda itaweza kujimudu bila misaada kama Museveni anavyosema hawaitaji misaada?
Misaada imefutwa kufuatia Uganda kupitisha sheria kali kwa mashoga. Kuna nchi nyingine pia za ulaya zimesema zitafuta misaada kwa Uganda .
Je Uganda itaweza kujimudu bila misaada kama Museveni anavyosema hawaitaji misaada?
Sweden said Wednesday it would stop development aid payments to Uganda "because of the anti-gay legislation" passed in late February.
"The government reaffirms its strong condemnation of the Ugandan legislation that violates the fundamental rights of homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people," Minister for International Development Cooperation Hillevi Engstroem said.
"Swedish aid is not unconditional. That's why the government has decided to withhold state-to-state payments," she added without specifying the amount involved.
Other European nations, namely Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, announced on the very same day that they would freeze their aid to the Ugandan state or redirect it towards private sector initiatives, aid agencies and rights organisations.
Sweden said it would also maintain subsidies to civil society organisations.
"We want to support homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people in Uganda through Swedish aid via other channels," Engstroem said.
Sweden's subsidies to Uganda in 2012 amounted to 26.5 million euros ($34.1 million), 42 percent of which were intended to promote democracy, human rights and gender equality.
SOURCE:.nation.co.ke/business