{"id":10383,"date":"2014-03-06T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=10383"},"modified":"2014-03-06T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T13:04:00","slug":"sweden-withdraws-10-1m-over-anti-gay-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/sweden-withdraws-10-1m-over-anti-gay-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden withdraws $10.1m over anti-gay law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ofwono-Opondo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8133\" alt=\"Ofwono Opondo\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ofwono-Opondo.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sweden has joined a growing list of foreign countries that have cut aid to Uganda over the anti-homosexuality act.<\/p>\n<p>The country has announced withdrawal of $10.1m that was meant for budget support.<\/p>\n<p>The law, which outlaws acts of homosexuality, has drawn backlash from the Western world, prompting the World Bank to suspend a 90 million dollar loan package aimed at strengthening the country&#8217;s health care system.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands has also frozen a 9 million dollar subsidy to the judicial system, while Norway has announced that it is reconsidering financial aid to Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Sweden&#8217;s Minister for International Cooperation, Hillevi Engstrom says with Uganda&#8217;s insistence to pass the legislation which is a violation of rights, it has chosen to suspend government to government payments, except for research cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Engstrom says the move is to send a clear signal to Uganda that its passing of legislation has consequences.<\/p>\n<p>However, government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo says Uganda can survive without foreign aid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden has joined a growing list of foreign countries that have cut aid to Uganda over the anti-homosexuality act. The country has announced withdrawal of $10.1m that was meant for budget support. The law, which outlaws acts of homosexuality, has drawn backlash from the Western world, prompting the World Bank to suspend a 90 million dollar loan package aimed at strengthening the country&#8217;s health care system. The Netherlands has also frozen a 9 million dollar subsidy to the judicial system, while Norway has announced that it is reconsidering financial aid to Uganda. In a statement, Sweden&#8217;s Minister for International Cooperation, Hillevi Engstrom says with Uganda&#8217;s insistence to pass the legislation which is a violation of rights, it has chosen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}