Ugandan 🇺🇬 officials have strongly criticized the World Bank 🏦 and Western nations for their perceived “hypocrisy” after the global lender suspended lending for projects in Uganda 🇺🇬.

The World Bank’s decision was prompted by Uganda’s enactment of a new anti-homosexuality 🏳️‍🌈 law, which the Bank cited as a violation of its values.

Uganda’s 🇺🇬 State Minister for Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem said the move by the World Bank was hypocritical.

He accused the Western entities of being quick to lecture vulnerable countries about democracy, only to turn around and punish them when they do what doesn’t suit the interests of Western powers and allied institutions.