Uganda's Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka holds a briefcase containing the Government Budget for the year 2011/2012 at the Serena conference center in the capital Kampala, June 8, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Edward Echwalu
LONDON (Reuters) - Uganda's anti-gay law is having little impact on its ability to attract investment from Western economies and investors, its finance minister said on Tuesday.
Western donors have halted or re-directed about $118 million in aid to the east African economy since President Yoweri Museveni signed a law in February which toughened existing rules against gays and prescribed life in jail for what it called "aggravated homosexuality", such as sex with a minor.
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