Africa
Ugandan ex-minister who pushed anti-gay laws dead at 64
5 years ago(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 22, 2019, an LGBT activist attends a court hearing in the Milimani high Court in Nairobi. - Botswana's high court is expected to rule on June 11, 2019 on whether to decriminalise gay sex in a landmark case being watched across Africa after Kenya recently upheld its own anti-homosexuality laws. (Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP)
A former Ugandan ethics minister who championed a bill to introduce the death penalty for same-sex relationships and sought to regulate what women could wear died on Saturday, officials said.