Ugandan MPs have officially passed the strictest anti-LGBTQ legislation in Africa. The new law makes it a criminal offence to identify as a homosexual or transgender person and cracks down on charities and media organisations that promote gay rights. The bill’s provisions will come into force unless vetoed by President Museveni. African Arguments provides important context about the domestic and international actors on either side of the bill.

Protests in Tunisia, Kenya, South Africa, and Nigeria this week share common concerns around the rising cost of living, government mismanagement, and electoral power grabs. Read about them in Quartz and World Politics Review.

• Who is MC Oluomo? The Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers has long been a controversial figure in Lagos, with a history of extortion and electoral intimidation. But how did the NURTW and its leader become so powerful?
• The trial of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been postponed following widespread protests. Sonko was arrested in 2021 for alleged rape, but his defenders argue that President Macky Sall is trying to neutralize him to clear the way for a 3rd term.

Image: The Parliament of the Republic of Uganda. Creative Commons. 20 May 2010. Photo credit: Andrew Regan.