US sanctions five Ugandan officials over graft, right abuses claims

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00:00 And now let's head to Uganda where the United States has imposed a new wave of sanctions on prominent political figures

00:06 including the Speaker of Parliament. They accused five high-ranking dignitaries of corruption and human rights violations.

00:14 Clement Diorama reports from neighboring Rwanda's capital Kigali.

00:24 Ugandan Parliament and four other senior officials will no longer be able to travel to the US following a new series of sanctions

00:31 announced by Washington this week. Anita Among is a close associate of President Yoweri Museveni and is suspected of misusing state resources

00:39 intended for communities in need. She's also at the center of a local corruption investigation.

00:44 Amon claims to be the victim of a witch hunt since her stance in favor of an anti-homosexuality law,

00:50 one of the most repressive in the world enforced by authorities last year.

00:54 Since then NGOs have reported hundreds of cases of LGBTQ+ rights violations.

00:59 Washington had already announced at the beginning of the year the suspension of a trade agreement with Uganda because of this law.

01:06 Also a sanction by the US is the former deputy chief of the Ugandan army accused of extrajudicial

01:13 executions in 2016 during a military operation.

01:17 The Ugandan government asserts that the American decision is unfair and reminds that the officials are presumed innocent until

01:25 potentially convicted in their country.

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