Kampala, Uganda (AP) – Uganda is one of the at least four African nations agreed to accept immigrants deported from the US.
The US deported five men with criminal origin to the Kingdom of South Africa Eswatini and sent eight others to South Sudan. Rwanda said they would receive up to 250 migrants deported from the US
Now, according to US officials, Uganda is going to accept the nobleman Abrego Garcia, a construction worker who became the face of US President Donald Trump’s hard -line immigration policy when he was illegally deported to the famous prison of his native Salvador in March. He was returned to the US in June, just to face allegations of people’s smuggling. He did not admit to guilty.
Abrego Garcia was detained on Monday, and homeland security officials said he was later recycled to transfer to Uganda, a country with which she had no cultural relationship. Some Ugandans responded with unreliability for an impending high -ranking detentioner deportation under an agreement that has not yet been made public. Ugandan officials only said they wanted to admit individuals from Africa and without criminal origin.
Here he looks briefly to Uganda, a country of East Africa, with 45 million people living.
An authoritarian leader
Uganda negotiators who participated in the negotiations with the US are believed to have directly informed President Yoweri Museveni, an authorization managing since 1986. The ruling party controls the National Assembly, which is widely regarded as weak and subordinate to the President. 2017 Legislers have abolished the constitutional limit of the Presidential Age, leaving a 80 -year -old museveni, who needs as long as he wants.
Museveni is preparing to re -election of the President’s vote provided for in 2026. January One of his long -term opponents, Kizza, is born in November. He was imprisoned for betrayal of betrayal, which his supporters say he was politically motivated. His other opponent, an entertainer known as Bobi Wine, says he is harassed and unable to campaign across the country. Some critics say that an agreement with the US is a blessing of Museveni, which has recently been under pressure from the international community for violations of rights and other issues.
Museveni says that criticism of his long stay in power is unjustified because it is re -elected every five years. It is noteworthy that it has a great tracking in rural areas where Uganda cites relative peace and security between reasons to maintain it in power.
Young inhabitants
According to the UN Children’s Agency, Uganda has a second younger population in the world, with more than three -quarters of people less than 35 years old. The results of the national census made last year show that 50.5% of Uganda is 17 years and younger and 18-30 – 22.7% of the population. Many Ugandans migrate from rural areas to seek educational and work opportunities in the capital Kampala, overcrowded by 3 million in the city, where the main form of public transport is passenger motorcycles known as “Boda-Bod”. The development of public infrastructure, including hospitals, kept behind the growing population.
The lush nation is once described as a “African gem”
After 1907 In Uganda, Winston Churchill loudly named the country “African pearl”, tribute to its natural beauty and to the abundance of wildlife.
Most of this abundance has been lost in several decades, but the country remains an attractive place for Safari visitors who come to see, especially the endangered mountain gorillas. Uganda lives about half of the rest of the world
Rolex to eat
The popular Ugandos Street snack Rolex is an omelet, wrapped in Chapati, this type of pan. Although the snack was a favorite among Ugandans, he became a fascination with foreigners, some of them wrote about their Rolex eating.
Rolex manufacturers can be found in every city of Uganda, usually for men who would otherwise be unemployed if they did not use such an occasion. Their stands, illuminated by red charcoal, rising from the stoves, illuminated by the streets and dark alleys in Kampala at night.
Homosexuality is taboo
2023 Ugandan lawmakers adopted a draft law on long prison conditions for the same sex relations, which reflected popular moods but received international criticism from the US and the World Bank. “Congratulations,” said Anita, Chairwoman of the Parliament, after the bill adopted. “Whatever we do, we do it for people of Uganda.” A few months later, there were high -level Uganda residents for sanctions of the Biden Administration.
The same sex has long been punished for imprisonment of life under the laws of the colonial era, but there was a strict new law necessary for discouraging what they described as homosexuality promoters. They had the support of the president.
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