Uganda gay bill 'will be changed'
February 5, 2010
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February 5, 2010
Uganda's controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is likely to be changed, a minister has told the BBC.
However, Deputy Foreign Minister Henry Okello Oryem did not give details of how he thought the final bill would be different to the current proposals.
Uganda has come under intense international pressure over the bill, which provides for the death penalty for some homosexual acts.
Mr Oryem was speaking after US leader Barack Obama called the bill "odious".
It has also been condemned by various European countries.
"I am sure the bill will take a different form when it is tabled on the floor in parliament," Mr Oryem told the BBC's Network Africa programme.
However, he also pointed out that it was a Private Member's Bill and so the government did not have the powers to alter it at this stage.
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