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Added on: 11/06/2024

Cato Manor community rallies to find missing woman

11/05/2024

The case of 36-year-old Sihle Mchunu, who has been missing since October 28, has cast a shadow of worry and uncertainty over her family and friends in…

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Added on: 11/04/2024

Anti-LGBT surge in West Africa as Mali’s ruling council votes to make gay sex illegal

11/03/2024

The West African nation of Mali, which has been ruled by a military junta for more than three years, has voted for a new penal code that…

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Added on: 11/02/2024

Mali Transition Council Passes Anti-gay Law

11/01/2024

Mali’s de facto parliament has passed a law criminalising same-sex acts in the junta-led country, the latest in Africa to adopt legislation targeting LGBTQ rights. Until now…

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Added on: 11/02/2024

Botswana election results solidify LGBTQ rights in southern Africa

11/01/2024

A landslide election victory has set the stage for LGBTQ rights supporter Duma Boko to become the next president of Botswana, where homosexuality was decriminalized in 2019….

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Added on: 10/31/2024

As homophobic influencers peddle lies and hatred, wave of assaults hits Ivory Coast

10/30/2024

Anti-LGBT hatred is surging in the formerly somewhat safe West African nation of Ivory Coast, as this news site reported last month in the article “Ivory Coast:…

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Added on: 10/31/2024

Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law forces climate activist into exile: ‘I can’t stop now’

10/30/2024

Climate activist Nyombi Morris became outspoken about LGBTQ+ rights after his sister was outed as a lesbian and expelled from school. Last year, Uganda passed a new…

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Added on: 10/26/2024

Gay People Are Hunted Down and Beaten in a Country Once a Refuge

10/25/2024

Ivory Coast had long been a haven for L.G.B.T.Q. people, even as they faced discrimination or persecution elsewhere in West Africa. But over the past two months,…

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Added on: 10/23/2024

Uganda: Criminalization shrinks online civic space for LGBTQ people – report

10/23/2024

Online attacks against Uganda’s LGBTQ communities have drastically increased, owing to overly broad laws that criminalize various aspects of the lives of LGBTQ people and entrench discrimination,…

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Added on: 10/18/2024

New Pro-Gay Cardinal Blames ‘Foreign Cash’ for African Bishops’ Biblical Stance on Homosexuality

10/17/2024

An influential delegate at Pope Francis’s global summit has directly linked African Catholic bishops’ stand for traditional biblical values with financial coercion from American evangelicals, Russian Orthodox,…

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Added on: 10/17/2024

Liberia: Legislator seeks supporters for his harsh anti-homosexuality bill

10/16/024

A legislator in Liberia is seeking support for a harsh anti-homosexuality bill that he filed in the summer. So far, he hasn’t announced any success in attracting…

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Added on: 10/16/2024

Don’t flee from Ghana for fear of harsh anti-LGBTQ bill, human rights boss says

10/15/2024

Ghana human rights Commissioner Joseph Whittal encourages LGBTQ Ghanaians not to flee the country, despite the possibility that Parliament’s harsh anti-LGBTQ+ bill might survive a review by…

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Added on: 10/15/2024

Gay doctor’s ordeal: Struggle of queer professionals in Kenya

10/15/2024

Martin Nyambura, not his real name, is an accomplished medical doctor at a major hospital in Nairobi. He is also a gay man struggling for acceptance in…

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Added on: 10/12/2024

Ghana Supreme Court defends its slow pace on anti-LGBTQ bill

10/11/2024

Ghana’s Supreme Court is under fire from anti-LGBTQ legislators for not issuing a ruling on a harsh anti-LGBTQ bill that Parliament passed in February. But the court…

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Added on: 10/09/2024

Ugandan LGBTQI activist Clare Byarugaba wins prestigious human rights award

10/08/2024

Clare Byarugaba, a renowned Ugandan LGBTQI rights activist whose recent photo with Pope Francis went viral online, has been named by Human Rights First as the winner…

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Added on: 10/09/2024

Speed up judgment on court case against anti-LGBTQ bill – groups mount pressure on chief justice of Ghana

10/08/2024

One group wey dey call dem Arise Ghana togeda wit some religious groups don hit di streets to protest against di delay by di supreme court to…

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Added on: 10/08/2024

Hopes for LGBTQ+ asylum fade as Kenya snubs ‘those letters’

10/08/2024

The man in charge of processing hundreds of thousands of asylum applications in Kenya says sexual minorities have no special rights on his watch, heightening anxiety among…

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Added on: 10/07/2024

Ablakwa dares NAPO to prove LGBTQ curriculum claims

10/07/2024

North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has challenged to Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh (Napo) over recent claims regarding his involvement in promoting LGBTQ-related content. Mr Ablakwa, in a…

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Added on: 10/04/2024

US ‘Welcome Corps’ helps resettle LGBTQ+ refugees fleeing crackdowns against gay people

10/03/2024

A crowd surrounded his boyfriend’s house and beat him. Ngounou’s family learned of the relationship and kicked him out. So Ngounou fled — alone and with little…

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Added on: 10/03/2024

Soweto Pride Marks 20 Years Amidst Surge in LGBTIQ+ Murders

10/02/2024

Soweto Pride marked a vibrant and significant milestone as it celebrated its 20th edition on Saturday, 28 September, at the Dorothy Nyembe Park in Dobsonville. With a…

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Added on: 10/02/2024

Trans Man & Passionate Refugee Advocate: The Story of Thomars Shamuyarira

10/01/2024

Thomars Shamuyarira is proudly out trans man from Harare, Zimbabwe. Despite enduring immense adversity—including being disowned by his family and forced to flee his home country due…

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Added on: 10/01/2024

First Ugandan who faced death penalty for gay sex is out on bail

09/30/2024

The first man arrested under Uganda’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act is out on bail awaiting trial. Micheal (also known as Michael) Opolot was held for 350 days of…

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Added on: 09/29/2024

A U.S. activist allegedly accepted $300K from Russia to push anti-gay laws in Africa

09/28/2024

A wide-ranging investigation by the Wall Street Journal has uncovered evidence linking Russian cash to an anti-LGBTQ+ U.S. activist who helped promote “Kill the Gays” laws in…

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Added on: 09/29/2024

Uganda: Activists Slam World Bank’s “Façade” Plan to Resume Loans

09/28/2024

Activists are pushing back against the possibility of the World Bank resuming lending to Uganda despite the country’s continued oppression of LGBTQ+ people. In August 2023, the…

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Added on: 09/28/2024

LGBTQ advocates struggle for visibility in Eswatini

09/27/2024

Eswatini Sexual and Gender Minorities, an LGBTQ advocacy group, was denied registration by authorities in 2019, and even after seeking relief from the Supreme Court, which had…

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Added on: 09/28/2024

Formerly an anti-gay haven, Seychelles becomes a protector of its LGBTQ citizens

09/27/2024

In eight years, the tiny African islands of Seychelles have changed from a country that threatened LGBTQ people with prison into a land that protects LGBTQ people…

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Added on: 09/27/2024

World Bank Imposes Measures to Counter Uganda’s Anti-Gay Legislation Impact

09/27/2024

The World Bank announced on Thursday new measures to ensure that recipients of fresh loans to Uganda will not face discrimination due to the country’s stringent anti-gay…

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Added on: 09/26/2024

Namibia marks HIV/AIDS wins but stigma puts LGBTQ+ people at risk

09/25/2024

When Friedel Dausab tested positive for HIV in 1999, treatment was both scarce and expensive in his home country of Namibia. He found medical care a decade…

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Added on: 09/23/2024

Painful experience of being an intersex in Kenya

09/22/2024

Imagine growing up in a body that does not fit the standard norm of a girl or a boy. You were born with ambiguous genitalia – neither…

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Added on: 09/22/2024

Seychelles passes Penal Code Amendment Bill providing vital protection from violence for marginalised groups

09/21/2024

The Seychelles National Assembly yesterday passed the groundbreaking Penal Code (Amendment) Bill – the first time in the country’s history that a law has been adopted to…

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Added on: 09/21/2024

Nelson Mandela Bay Murders Reflect National Crisis of Deadly Anti-LGBTIQ+ Violence

09/20/2024

The murders of five queer individuals in less than a month in the Nelson Mandela Bay area represents a shocking surge in anti-LGBTIQ+ violence in South Africa…