Africa

Ugandan parliament reportedly adjourns, no action on anti-gay bill

By Natasha Barsotti • December 14, 2012 11:28 am EDT

BY NATASHA BARSOTTI — News coming out of Uganda indicates that the country’s parliament will adjourn today, Dec 14, without action on the anti-homosexuality bill.

Ugandan gay rights activist Frank Mugisha tweeted the news, noting that parliament will adjourn until February 2013.

The website wthrockmorton.com includes a link to the Dec 14 parliamentary order paper that lists the anti-homosexuality bill in the “notice of business to follow” section at item seven.

For more, visit xtra.ca.

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Natasha Barsotti is originally from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. She had high aspirations of representing her country in Olympic Games sprint events, but after a while the firing of the starting gun proved too much for her nerves. So she went off to university instead. Her first professional love has always been journalism. After pursuing a Master of Journalism at UBC , she began freelancing at Xtra West — now Xtra Vancouver — in 2006, becoming a full-time reporter there in 2008.

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