Despite harsh condemnation from US legislators in response to Uganda's draft bill criminalising homosexuality, the Senate passed a bill in mid-March that will prop up Uganda's government by authorising military action in the highly volatile region of Central Africa.
Introduced last May, the Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act aims to 'support stabilisation and lasting peace' in Northern Uganda - the site of conflict between the Ugandan government and the rebel group Lords Resistance Army (LRA) since 1986. The bill calls for an assessment of options through which the United States, working with regional governments, 'could help develop and support multilateral efforts to eliminate the threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army'.[1]
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