Kenya’s deputy president has said there is “no room” for homosexuality in Kenyan society, the latest comments from an African government to anger activists and likely also to annoy Western donors who say gay people are targeted on the continent.

AIBA World No. 2 ranked bantamweight Michael Conlan is an injury doubt for Northern Ireland for today’s Commonwealth Games 56kg final in Glasgow.

A Ugandan court has invalidated an anti-gay bill signed into law earlier this year, saying it was illegally passed and is therefore unconstitutional.

Ireland has one of the highest minimum wage packets on the planet, according to a global survey.

A criminal investigation is under way in Uganda following a second case of financial irregularities in the disbursement of foreign aid.

The Ugandan President signed into law on February 24 legislation that criminalises homosexuality. This new law provides for a 14-year jail term for a first offence and life imprisonment for the offence of ‘aggravated homosexuality’.

Uganda’s health minister has said gay people will not be discriminated against by medical workers despite the strengthening of criminal penalties against homosexuals.

A Ugandan newspaper published a list of what it called the country’s “200 top” homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay, one day after the president enacted a controversial anti-gay law.

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed a controversial law that will see homosexuals jailed for life, and dismissed warnings from key foreign allies and donors including the United States.

A mob armed with wooden clubs and iron bars, screaming that they were going to “cleanse” their neighbourhood of gay people, dragged 14 young men from their beds and assaulted them, human rights activists in Nigeria said today.

Listening to Colm O’Gorman and Mary McAleese dominating the airwaves last week on the subject of anti-homosexuality in places as diverse as the Catholic Church and Uganda, I would say what any Catholic could have told RTÉ: the Church’s condemnation of Uganda’s new anti-gay legislation is in no way a departure from the Church’s established position.

Rebel forces in South Sudan must accept that “taking power by force cannot work”, the country’s foreign minister said as the two sides in a bloody conflict prepared for peace talks.

Uganda has passed a long-shelved law that punishes “aggravated homosexuality” with life imprisonment.

I agree with the main point in Gordon Cunningham’s letter (Nov 8) that Ireland should not be donating large amounts of money to countries that are misusing this money.

Eamon Gilmore saying the Ugandan government won’t receive more money from the Irish government, because Uganda hasn’t jailed any of the people involved in corruption, is hypocritical.

The Department of Foreign Affairs should have been able to uncover sooner the fraudulent use of €4m of Irish aid funding in Uganda.

A BILL that stigmatises gay people and bans giving children any information about homosexuality won overwhelming approval last week in Russia’s lower house of parliament.

The Irish women’s European Cross-Country winning team will be amongst the medal favourites in the 40th edition of the IAAF World Cross-Country Championships in snow-swept Bydgoszcz, Poland tomorrow.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has said €4m of misappropriated Irish funds have been reimbursed.

The secretary general of the Department of Foreign Affairs said he felt “mugged” over the misappropriation of €4m of Irish taxpayers’ money in Uganda.

The defence minister of Uganda says he is mediating talks between Congolese officials and representatives of M23, the rebel group that last week took control of the eastern Congolese city of Goma and threatens to topple the government of President Joseph Kabila.

The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has published an audit report into the misappropriation of Irish Aid funds to Uganda.

UN attack helicopters targeted M23 rebels in eastern Congo after fighting resumed following a months long lull in violence, a local official said.

Fraud at a “very high level” in the Ugandan government resulted in €4m in emergency Irish aid disappearing, the Oireachtas was told.

Irish Aid says it will carry out a full investigation of the systems in place in countries where Ireland donates money.

The Director of Irish Aid Brendan Rogers has admitted that the organisation is not perfect after €4m worth of aid for Uganda went missing.

The Government of Uganda is to repay €4m of Irish aid funding which was transferred into unauthorised accounts.

Uganda has expressed concern at the suspension of Irish aid to the country after €4m of taxpayers’ money went missing in a suspected fraud.

Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore suspended all financial assistance channelled through the office of the Ugandan prime minister Yoweri Museveni after €4m of Irish Aid funding went missing in a suspected fraud.

Some €4m of Irish Aid funding to Uganda has gone missing in a suspected fraud, the Government has disclosed.

Rwanda is among five nations elected to the UN Security Council, amid an ongoing investigation by a UN panel of its role in neighbouring Congo’s rebellion.

Middle East: Some analysts believe Israel continues to occupy the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967, in order to ensure control over water resources.

Uganda’s Stephen Kiprotich stunned the Kenyan challenge to clinch a surprise Olympic gold medal in the marathon event today.

Alistair Cragg has missed out on a place in the final of the 5,000 metres.

The UN's top human rights body has voted overwhelmingly to condemn Syria over the slaughter of more than 100 civilians last week.

Gary Wilson’s unbeaten half-century steered Ireland to a comfortable win over Oman in their ICC World Twenty20 qualifier in Abu Dhabi.

Ireland assured themselves of a place in the play-off stages of the ICC World Twenty20 qualifiers with a big win over Uganda in Dubai.

Ireland have assured themselves of a place in the play-off stages of the ICC World Twenty20 qualifiers with a heavy win over Uganda in Dubai.

Uganda's government does not support a politician's decision to reintroduce a Bill that originally proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts, the government said in responding to renewed criticism by rights activists who oppose the Bill.

IRISH exploration company, Ormonde Mining has applied to the mining authorities in Spain for the re-activation of the La Zarza copper mine in the south of the country.

HIGHER sales volumes and a lift in commodity prices are likely to have boosted Tullow Oil’s revenues to a record level of over $1 billion in the first half of this year.

Exploration group Tullow Oil today said total revenue for the first half of 2011 is expected to be a record $1.05bn (€725m), up from $486m (€335m) for the same period last year.

TWO Irish Aid partner countries have been spending large sums of money recently, but unfortunately not on the welfare of their peoples.

Uganda has become the first country to offer Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi refuge if he chooses exile.