Uganda, March 21 -- By

A High Court judge has ruled that denial of conjugal rights in marriage amounts to cruelty.

Justice Celia Nagawa of the Family Division of the High Court also ruled that substance abuse, especially one that puts one's spouse in danger and extends to their livelihood and source of income, also constitute cruelty.

The court order followed the dissolution of a 10-year-old marriage between Mr Nick Chiles Muramira, a senior foreign service officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, based in Egypt, and his wife, Ms Harriet Generosa, an employee of Emirates, based in Dubai.

"In this case, the respondent [Muramira] brought drugs to the petitioner's [Generosa] place of employment. Infecting the petitioner with sexually ...