World Bank’s Kim Halts Uganda Loan Over Anti-Gay Law
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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim delayed a $90 million loan to Uganda because of the East African nation’s crackdown on homosexuality and criticized countries for legalizing discrimination against minority groups.
The loan to strengthen health-care systems in Uganda was postponed after President Yoweri Museveni signed a bill on Feb. 24 imposing harsher penalties against homosexuals. Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said the suspension amounted to “blackmail” by the Washington-based bank and the country would find another lender, according to posts on his Twitter account.