{"id":922,"date":"2015-03-23T20:11:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T20:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsnewundergroundrailroad.org\/?p=922"},"modified":"2015-05-01T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T17:47:09","slug":"news-government-spent-over-600m-on-pr-campaign-over-anti-gay-law-and-from-last-october-tough-sell-marketing-uganda-to-gay-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/news-government-spent-over-600m-on-pr-campaign-over-anti-gay-law-and-from-last-october-tough-sell-marketing-uganda-to-gay-travellers\/","title":{"rendered":"News: &#8220;Government spent over 600M on PR campaign over anti-gay law&#8221; AND from last October, &#8220;Tough sell marketing Uganda to gay travellers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #34783d;\"><strong>Government spent over 600M on PR campaign over anti-gay law<\/strong> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>March 19, 2015 | NTV<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Government used over Shs600 million to clear Uganda\u2019s image in the US congressional caucus after the controversy raised by the endorsement of the anti-gay law.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntv.co.ug\/news\/local\/19\/mar\/2015\/government-spent-over-600m-pr-campaign-over-anti-gay-law-5011\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ntv.co.ug\/news\/local\/19\/mar\/2015\/government-spent-over-600m-pr-campaign-over-anti-gay-law-5011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[fruitful_sep]And this one from last October that we hadn&#8217;t seen before:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #34783d;\"><strong>Tough sell marketing Uganda to gay travellers<\/strong> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>October 19. 2015 | NTV | By AFP<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Uganda is probably the last place a gay holidaymaker would want to visit, but tourism bosses in the east African nation are nevertheless trying to achieve the seemingly impossible. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Selling Uganda to gays is one of several curious initiatives the Ugandan Tourism Board has come up with this year as it tries to counter a drop in tourism &#8212; a key earner for impoverished Uganda that accounts for 8.4 per cent of GDP.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntv.co.ug\/news\/lifestyle\/01\/oct\/2014\/tough-sell-marketing-uganda-gay-travellers\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ntv.co.ug\/news\/lifestyle\/01\/oct\/2014\/tough-sell-marketing-uganda-gay-travellers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government spent over 600M on PR campaign over anti-gay law March 19, 2015 | NTV &#8220;Government used over Shs600 million to clear Uganda\u2019s image in the US congressional caucus after the controversy raised by the endorsement of the anti-gay law.&#8221; See: http:\/\/www.ntv.co.ug\/news\/local\/19\/mar\/2015\/government-spent-over-600m-pr-campaign-over-anti-gay-law-5011 [fruitful_sep]And this one from last October that we hadn&#8217;t seen before: Tough sell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}