Since 2020, Senegal has been debating the effectiveness of its repression of homosexuality. Abuses of all kinds against LGBT+ people are commonplace in the West African nation, which current imposes prison sentences of up to five years for consensual same-sex intimacy. A further outburst of homophobia came in June, after new Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko alleged that homosexuality is tolerated in Senegal. In the confusion that followed Sonko’s remark, MP Cheikh Abdou Bara Dolly Mbacké, an ally of Sonko, proposed a new anti-homosexuality bill that would toughen Senegal’s already-strict penalties for homosexuality.