"The United States imposed financial sanctions and visa restrictions on two Ugandan judges, a lawyer, and her associate for taking part in a fraudulent adoption scheme where 'young children were removed from their families and placed into a corrupt adoption network,'” says this article from Quartz Africa. "The sanctions come after years of troubling revelations about Uganda’s international adoption system, including one in May by the British newspaper the Guardian which chronicled the struggle of a birth mother in Uganda to get back her child adopted by a family in the United States."
