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Added on: 03/29/2023
03/28/2023
Speaker Alban Bagbin has said Ghana will not adopt Uganda’s strict legislative measure against the activities of LGBTQ in the country. Uganda has made it illegal to…

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Added on: 03/28/2023
03/27/2023
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) is a very sensitive topic to Ghanaians as some of them have taken entrenched position against the practice. Speaking at…

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Added on: 03/27/2023
03/26/2023
A popular social networking app for gays, Grindr, has issued a warning to its users in Egypt after reports emerged that police are using fake accounts to…

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Added on: 03/25/2023
3/24/2023
The Julius Malema-led Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has condemned Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed by the parliament on Tuesday. In a statement the EFF, said it condemns Uganda’s…

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Added on: 03/23/2023
Aicha Tahirou, a lesbian who was born and raised in Niger, came to the United States for a better life. What she discovered is her political voice. In…

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Added on: 03/23/2023
03/23/2023
Kenya and Uganda are moving to further curtail the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people, whose relationships are already deemed illegal in the…

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Added on: 03/23/2023
03/21/2023
Herman Shasha’s shop is not far from one of the shrines dedicated to some of the male martyrs, publicly executed in the late 1800s for refusing to have…

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Added on: 03/22/2023
03/21/2023
Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday approved some of the world’s harshest anti-gay laws, making some crimes punishable by death and imposing up to 20 years in prison for…

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Added on: 03/22/2023
Gay rights activists in Namibia are decrying a Supreme Court decision that will effectively deny citizenship to a child born through surrogacy to a same-sex couple in…

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Added on: 03/18/2023
The Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops has condemned a Supreme Court of Kenya ruling allowing the registration of organizations that seek to advocate for and support LGBT…

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Added on: 03/17/2023
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday described gay people as “deviants” and called for an investigation into homosexuality as lawmakers in the conservative East African nation prepare…

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Added on: 03/15/2023
03/14/2023
A dramatic surge in attacks on LGBTQ+ people in Uganda has been recorded by rights groups this year, as the environment for sexual minorities turns increasingly hostile….

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Added on: 03/14/2023
03/13/2023
Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma has defended his push to ban the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning asexual (LGBTQ) in Kenya. The outspoken lawmaker argues…

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Added on: 03/12/2023
Ugandan lawmakers began a new session Thursday, and lawmakers introduced an anti-homosexuality bill that would allow the jailing of LGBTQ individuals for up to 10 years for…

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Added on: 03/11/2023
03/10/2023
The Ministry of Education in Kenya has initiated a campaign to address the perceived infiltration of LGBTQ advocacy in schools. The new strategy will see the government…

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Added on: 03/11/2023
Uganda’s parliament on Thursday took up a bill that would criminalise identifying as LGBTQ, with lawmakers saying the current ban on same-sex relations does not go far…

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Added on: 03/10/2023
The arrest of four women in Zambia for holding a march against gender-based violence (GBV) that police say was used to “champion homosexuality” has sparked a wave…

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Added on: 03/09/2023
Burundian police arrested 17 men and seven women on February 23 ,2023, at a seminar in the country’s political capital Gitega hosted by MUCO Burundi, a non-profit…

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Added on: 03/09/2023
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — Zambia’s government said it will not tolerate the promotion of LGBTQ rights, saying such rights are against the country’s Christian values. The warning came a…

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Added on: 03/07/2023
03/06/2023
Ugandan lawmakers are hopeful that a new law designed to tighten restrictions on gay rights and activities will soon become a reality. A controversial anti-gay bill has…

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Added on: 03/06/2023
03/05/2023
The LGBT community continues to be condemned countrywide as First Lady Rachel Ruto on Sunday declared it a threat to the institution of the family. Mama Rachel…

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Added on: 03/05/2023
03/03/2023
Days after Uganda’s parliament ordered an investigation last month into the alleged promotion of homosexuality in schools, a video appeared online identifying Kampala resident Eric Ndawula as…

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Added on: 03/04/2023
03/03/2023
Twenty-four people have been arrested in Burundi as part of a security crackdown on “homosexual practices”, a judicial source and an activist told AFP on Friday. The…

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Added on: 03/04/2023
03/03/2023
A group of men attacked a shelter for LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa in Ariana, a northern suburb of Tunis during the night of…

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Added on: 03/03/2023
03/02/2023
The supreme court of Kenya has criticised the government for failure to register an association for LGBTQ+ people, saying the decision discriminates against the rights of the community. Although…

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Added on: 03/03/2023
03/02/2023
A Ugandan lawmaker has reintroduced an anti-LGBTQ bill that seeks harsher punishments for those who engage in same-sex relations and those who “promote” homosexuality or same-sex relations…

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Added on: 03/02/2023
From 25 to 27 November 2022, intersex activists from Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe gathered for a Southern African Intersex Capacity Strengthening meeting, convened…

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Added on: 03/02/2023
03/01/2023
Nairobi — Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot (Kericho) and his National Assembly counterpart Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu) have termed Friday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Kenya on…

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Added on: 03/01/2023
02/28/2023
A Ugandan lawmaker on Tuesday introduced draft legislation that he said seeks to prohibit homosexuality in the East African country, voicing widespread anti-gay sentiment that has peaked…

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Added on: 02/28/2023
02/27/2023
Egypt’s revolution in 2011 began on Jan. 25, a date chosen by young Egyptians to coincide with the annual Police Day as a revolt against increasing police…