Uganda announced plans on Thursday for a bill that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals, saying the legislation would curb a rise in "unnatural sex" in the east African nation. The bill, colloquially known as "Kill the Gays" in Uganda, was nullified five years ago on a technicality and the government said it plans to resurrect it within weeks.

"Homosexuality is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recruitment by gay people in schools, and especially among the youth, where they are promoting the falsehood that people are born like that," Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"Our current penal law is limited. It only criminalises the act. We want it made clear that anyone who is even involved in promotion and recruitment has to be criminalised. Those that do grave acts will be given the death sentence." African countries have some of the world's most prohibitive laws governing homosexuality. Same-sex relationships are considered taboo and gay sex is a crime across most of continent, with punishments ranging from imprisonment to death.

Earlier this week it was announced that an LGBT+ activist was murdered in his own house. He would have been attacked with a machete. Homosexuality is already punishable in Uganda at the moment and there is a great deal of social taboo on it. So now the government wants to go one step further by introducing the death penalty.