Tanzania says no chance to comply with gay rights as donors pull cash

The government of Tanzania reveals that it is currently confronting tough financial time after donors pulled funding over its treatment of the gay community, but it says it won’t back down.

On December 14, Tanzania’s current Minister of Finance, Philip Mpango have encouraged the countrymen to tolerate homosexuality as a condition for aid. But he ensures that there is no chance to comply with it. He calls the conditions ‘intolerable’.

According to Philip Mpango, the loss of aid poses a serious challenge as the East African country struggles to fund several multi-billion-dollar projects.

Some donors pulled aid or threatened to do so after the commissioner for the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, urged Tanzanians to ‘report’ suspected homosexuals. Tanzania’s federal government later disavowed the statements, but fears of a crackdown remain as homosexuality is illegal.