Uganda-US relations
Trade over Aid
Uganda pitches $1.2bn pipeline as first entry in US Trade Over Aid library
A $1.2bn pipeline of Ugandan tourism, coffee and infrastructure projects awaits US financing approval and government confirmation
Uganda-US relations
Uganda joins Trump administration’s Trade over Aid talks in New York
What Washington's Trade over Aid initiative asks of Uganda, and why Kampala's delegation is at Friday's high-level talks in New York
US response to Uganda’s anti-gay law and persistent human rights violations
US government, at the direction of President Biden, published an account of all the actions it has taken in response to the Anti-Homosexuality Act and other human rights concerns
US sanctions prison chief over human rights abuses
Johnson Byabashaija heads an organisation that has tortured government critics and LGBTQI+ people
US announces visa restrictions in latest anti-gay law sanctions
US to deny visas to officials responsible for anti-gay law and policies that oppress other vulnerable groups
Three years on, the events of November 2020 loom large
Opposition National Unity Platform says some of its supporters are still unaccounted for since November 2020, and continues to face intense scrutiny from security forces
Museveni strikes defiant tone on AGOA, US advisories
Recent actions by the US to dissuade American companies from investing in the country and to exclude it from a regional trade deal over its anti-gay law are rooted in a lack of respect, according to President Museveni
AGOA
Anti-gay law: Biden administration moves to exclude Uganda from trade pact
President Biden said that despite 'intensive engagement', Uganda had failed to address US concerns about its failure to meet AGOA eligibility criteria
US warns companies of risks of doing business in Uganda
Biden administration issues advisory warning of heightened operational risks in Uganda due to 'endemic corruption' and human rights restrictionsMore Uganda-US relations
21 March 2022
US sanctions Ugandan refinery over illicit gold trade
The United States has sanctioned a network of companies controlled by Alain Goetz, a Belgian businessman who owns a gold refinery in Uganda, for participating in the illicit trade of gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo