Police in Nigeria have detained at least 67 people celebrating a gay wedding, in what is being reported as one of the country’s largest arrests targeting outlawed homosexuality.
Police in Nigeria have detained at least 67 people celebrating a gay wedding, in what is being reported as one of the country’s largest arrests targeting outlawed homosexuality.
All but two of Uganda’s 389 MPs have passed a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which introduces capital and life imprisonment sentences for gay sex and the “recruitment, promotion and funding” of same-sex “activities”.
Lawmakers in Senegal, West Africa have drafted a law that would enforce even harsher punishments for the country’s repressed LGBTQ+ community.
Bostwana’s Court of Appeal has officially rejected a bid to reinstate a colonial-era law that criminalises same-sex relations.
An anti-LGBTQ+ bill is gaining traction in Ghana after being described as the “toughest anti-gay law” in the world.
Three LGBTQ+ people have been murdered in South Africa during Pride month.
Namibia is due to become the next country to abolish a law that outlaws same-sex relations between men.
Cameroon residents Njeuken Loic and Mouthe Roland have been jailed for five years.
Uganda recently passed the so-called Sexual Offences Bill which implements harsher punishments for LGBTQ+ citizens.
Two trans women in the central African country of Cameroon are facing five years in prison.
