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An analysis of data from 38 African countries predicts that few, if any, are on track to reach key UNAIDS targets for HIV testing and condom use by 2030. The study, presented by Phuong Nguyen of St. Luke’s International University, is based on 114 nationally-representative datasets representing more than 1.4 million sexually active people. Results […]
Tags: Africa, AIDS, HIV
29 Jan 2021 /
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A group of LGBTIQ+ Ugandans have come together to take legal action against those in power, alleging they were tortured after being arrested during COVID-19 lockdown. The Guardian has reported that a group of four trans women, two bisexual men and 14 gay men near capital city Kampala were held in custody for over 50 […]
Tags: Africa, criminalisation, Homosexuality, HRAPF, Uganda
24 Jul 2020 |
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A vote to decriminalise homosexual activity has passed the Senate in the African nation of Gabon, with an overwhelming 59 votes in favour, 17 against and 4 abstaining. The Senate vote follows a successful lower house vote on the legislation back in June, ending a short-lived ban on same-gender relations enacted just last year. Unlike […]
Tags: Africa, discrimination, gabon, law
8 Jul 2020 |
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A new campaign from Human Rights Watch is telling the stories of LGBTI+ people living in North Africa and the Middle East. The #NoLongerAlone series was created in partnership with the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality and released alongside Audacity in Adversity: LGBT Activism in the Middle East and North Africa – a report from the […]
Tags: Africa, arabic, audacity in adversity, Human Rights Watch, Middle East, north africa
20 Apr 2018 |
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Boxer Anthony Mundine has described gay people as being confusing to society, and will says gays will be judged by God. The latest series of Channel Ten’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here commenced on Sunday night with nine celebrities dropped into the African jungle. At the end of the show hosts Julia Morris […]
Tags: Africa, Anthony Mundine, Chris Brown, Homophobia, I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here, Julia Moris
28 Jan 2018 |
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Kenya’s ‘moral policeman’ Ezekial Mutua has expressed concern about two male lions who were observed having sex in the Masai Mara game reserve and suggested that the should be separated. Ezekial Mutua, the chief executive of the Kenya Film Classification Board, said the pair must have been influenced after they viewed a human same sex couple […]
Tags: Africa, ekekial mutua, gay lions, Kenya, lions, nairobi news
5 Nov 2017 |
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The Deputy Health Minister of Tanzania says he is preparing to release a list of gay men’s names in an attempt to strengthen the nation’s anti-homosexuality laws. MP Hamisi Kigwangalla revealed on Twitter that his government is looking into what he describes as a “homosexuality syndicate”, and will arrest men who are actively seeking sex […]
Tags: Africa, east africa, kigwangalla, Tanzania
23 Feb 2017 |
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The African nation Chad has approved a new criminal code for the country, among the many new laws is one that makes homosexuality illegal. The new laws were passed by 111 members of parliament who voted in favour of the new penal code, only one politician voted against the wide ranging laws, while four others […]
Tags: Africa, Chad, Hamid Mahamat Dahalob, Homosexuality, Idriss Déby, illegal, Marriage
16 Dec 2016 |
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The leader of a Nigerian Christian Group has called on all world leaders to reverse their laws allowing marriage equality. George Ogurie, President of Nigeria’s Family Federation for World Peace Unification (FFWPU) claims that allowing gay couples to wed will affect the survival of the human race. “It is unfortunate that such people will do […]
Tags: Africa, end of the human race, Family Federation for World Peace Unification, gay, George Ogurie, Islam, marriage equality, Nigeria, Sharia, Sun Myung Moon
20 Aug 2016 |
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Police stormed a LGBTI rights event in the suburbs of Kampala on Thursday night and arrested a dozen people for promoting homosexuality according to Ugandan activists. Witnesses have described police scuffling with people, dragging them out of the club, beating them and stripping them naked to ascertain their gender. There have been unconfirmed reports […]
Tags: Africa, brutality, Clare Byarugaba, death penalty, Deborah Malac, gay, Intersex, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Pepe Onziema, Polly Namaye, queer, Sexual Minorities Uganda, Simon Lokodo, trans*, transgender, Uganda
7 Aug 2016 |
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