Joe Biden expelled Uganda from the Agoa trade deal last week after it passed a new anti-homosexuality law.
Uganda's president has downplayed the US' decision to expel the East African country from a major trade deal.
"Some of these actors in the Western world overestimate themselves and underestimate the freedom fighters of Africa," he said on X, formerly Twitter.Agoa, introduced in 2000, gives eligible sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to the US for more than 1,800 products. Niger and Gabon - both of which are currently under military rule following coups - are ineligible for Agoa because they "have not established, or are not making continual progress toward establishing the protection of political pluralism and the rule of law", the president said.
The law, which imposes a death penalty on people found guilty of engaging in certain same-sex acts, has faced global criticism.
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