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Ugandan government shrugs off aid cuts over anti-LGBT law (xpost from FA)
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/27/ugandan-government-shrugs-off-aid-cuts-over-anti-lgbt-law/
Ugandan government shrugs off aid cuts over anti-LGBT law
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, February 27, 2014 21:52 EST
Uganda has shrugged off foreign aid cuts and international criticism of its tough new anti-gay law, saying it could do without Western aid.
“The West can keep their ‘aid’ to Uganda over homos, we shall still develop without it,” government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said in a message on Twitter.
Hours later the World Bank stalled a $90 million loan planned to help Uganda strengthen its health care system.
“We have postponed the project for further review to ensure that the development objectives would not be adversely affected by the enactment of this new law,” a spokesman for the global poverty lender said.
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