{"id":3011,"date":"2014-02-27T01:55:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T09:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2014-03-01T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T16:43:23","slug":"after-european-countries-withdraw-millions-in-aid-over-anti-gay-law-ugandans-react-with-scorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/27\/after-european-countries-withdraw-millions-in-aid-over-anti-gay-law-ugandans-react-with-scorn\/","title":{"rendered":"After European countries withdraw millions in aid over anti gay law, Ugandans react with scorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2261\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/480px-A_TransGender-Symbol_Plain3.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2261\" alt=\"Transgender symbol (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/480px-A_TransGender-Symbol_Plain3.svg_-257x300.png\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/480px-A_TransGender-Symbol_Plain3.svg_-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/480px-A_TransGender-Symbol_Plain3.svg_.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transgender symbol (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>KAMPALA, Uganda &#8211; Uganda&#8217;s government has been hit with substantial aid cuts after the president enacted a severe anti-gay measure.<\/p>\n<p>At least three European countries are withdrawing millions in direct support to Uganda&#8217;s government, which depends on donors for about 25 per cent of its budget.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands said in statement seen Thursday that it is suspending support to Uganda&#8217;s government, joining Norway and Denmark in taking such action. Norway is withdrawing $8 million, but it was not clear how much the others were withholding.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has also signalled it could cut aid to the East African country.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandans officials are reacting with scorn.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda&#8217;s president on Wednesday told African leaders attending a summit in Congo that although the matter of gay rights is &#8220;dear&#8221; to the West, &#8220;even the homosexuals need electricity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA, Uganda &#8211; Uganda&#8217;s government has been hit with substantial aid cuts after the president enacted a severe anti-gay measure. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[450,673,672],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-af","tag-gays","tag-uganda","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}