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Uganda
HIV-AIDS | Law | Policy | Policy | Policy

"Uganda AIDS prevention threatened"

afrol News, 6 November - Over 50 Ugandan and international organisations are warning government that the "repressive" HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill, soon to be voted on in the Kampala parliament, could destroy Uganda's earlier successes in fighting back the pandemic.

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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | Expression | Law | People | Persecution | Policy | Policy | Rights | Violence

Remove death penalty on gays - Clergy

afrol News, 29 October - The Ugandan Clergy have appealed to the government to scrape the death penalty in the Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 currently being debated in parliament. The clergy said the government should rather opt life imprisonment.

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Senegal
Affairs | Crime | Expression | Law | People | Persecution | Rights | Violence

Commission outraged by more Senegalese arrests

afrol News, 21 August - The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has expressed outrage at reports that a 17 year-old Senegalese man will stand trial on 24 August for sexual acts "against nature" and that two other men were convicted on identical charges during the week of 10 August, 2009.

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Rwanda
Expression | Law | People | Persecution | Policy | Rights

Gays mistreated in Rwanda - AI

afrol News, 28 May - Amnesty International has said Rwandan gays and lesbians face serious hostilities, harassment and intimidation in the East African state.

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Senegal
Crime | Expression | Law | People | Persecution | Policy | Rights | Violence

Amnesty International begs for protection of alleged gay men

afrol News, 28 April - Amnesty International has pleaded with the Senegalese government to protect nine men who had been acquitted on charges of homosexuality fearing the possible homophobic attacks in the Islamic dominated West African state.

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Senegal
Crime | Expression | Law | People | Persecution | Policy | Rights

Senegalese gay men appeal a homophobic sentence

afrol News, 8 April - The defence lawyers of nine Senegalese men who were sentenced to eight years in jail in January, have appealed the sentences before the Dakar Court of Appeal saying the accusations were baseless without the material and tangible prove.

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Burundi
Expression | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Rights

Burundi senators reject bill criminalising homosexuality

afrol News, 18 February - Burundi senators have voted against the amendment in the bill criminalising homosexuality in the country. Last November, the lower house of parliament passed the bill making same-sex acts punishable by between three months and two years in prison.

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Senegal
HIV-AIDS | Law | People | Persecution | Rights | Social services

UN calls for release of convicted gay men in Senegal

afrol News, 16 January - The United Nations has condemned the sentencing of nine gay activists in Senegal, saying it has no place in the response to the AIDS epidemic. The Senegalese court jailed nine men working to provide condoms and HIV treatment in Senegal to 8 years imprisonment for indecent conduct and unnatural acts last week.

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Senegal
Law | People | Rights

Gays fear for life after harsh sentencing of nine

afrol News, 8 January - Gay communities have said conditions in Senegal are getting worse, after a court jailed nine men to 8 years imprisonment for indecent conduct and unnatural acts. Homosexuality is illegal in Senegal.

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Uganda
Law | Policy | Policy | Rights

Court gives Christmas present to Ugandan gays

afrol News, 25 December - Sexual minorities in Uganda were given a surprise Christmas present by a Kampala court, which ruled that the suppression of their activist organisations is unconstitutional. Uganda is one of Africa's strongest suppressors of gays and lesbians.

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Africa
HIV-AIDS | Policy | Policy | Rights

African gays unite to demand AIDS treatment

afrol News, 5 December - A group of homosexual activist groups from more than 25 African countries has united, demanding an urgent response to the HIV pandemic affecting their communities. In some countries, the HIV prevalence among gays is more than 20 times higher than among the population average.

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Burundi
Diplomacy | Persecution | Policy | Policy

EU "shocked" by Burundi's gay criminalisation

afrol News, 27 November - The influential European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, is reported to have been "shocked" by the rushed move of the Burundian parliament to criminalise same-sex relations.

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Burundi
Law | Persecution | Policy | Policy

Burundi to criminalise homosexuality

afrol News, 24 November - In an unexpected blitz move, the parliament of Burundi has passed a law, making same-sex acts punishable by between three months and two years in prison, along with a substantial fine. Pro-gay groups are expressing outrage.

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Senegal
Law | Persecution | Policy | Rights

Senegal gay community regroups to demand rights

afrol News, 13 November - The gay and lesbian community in Senegal last year shattered last year, after the local press published private photos of a gay wedding, causing fierce reactions from the police, religious leaders and ordinary citizens. Now, the community gathers strength to start fighting for gay rights in Senegal.

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South Africa
Events | People | Rights

Joburg gay pride festival successfully completed

afrol News, 6 October - Joburg Gay Pride 2008 was celebrated by an estimated ten thousand gays, lesbians, friends and families on Rosebank streets, JOhannesburg, on Saturday morning.

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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | HIV-AIDS | Law | People | Persecution | Rights | Violence

Uganda police torture gay rights activist

afrol News, 28 July - One of Uganda's key gay rights activists who had led demonstration at an AIDS international conference in the country was arrested, tortured and dumped with bruises on his body in the capital Kampala on Saturday.

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Africa
Religion | Rights

African bishops shun conference in Canterbury

afrol News, 17 July - At least four African Anglican bishops are amongst top clergy boycotting 10-yearly Lambert conference in Canterbury, UK, that aims to avoid split in Church over consecration of gay bishops.

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Africa | Uganda
HIV-AIDS | Rights | Socio-economic

Gay activists' arrest "shows African HIV response gaps"

afrol News / Gender Links, 19 June - The arrest of three Ugandan activists protesting the exclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities from HIV/AIDS prevention efforts sparked hot debate among the 1,700 global participants of the HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting held in Kampala earlier this month.

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Uganda
HIV-AIDS | Persecution

Ugandan gay activists arrested at HIV meeting

afrol News, 5 June - Three local homosexual activists were arrested yesterday morning by the Uganda Police Force at the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting currently taking place in Kampala, Uganda. Human rights groups now fear for the safety of the three activists.

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Gambia
Law | Persecution | Policy

Gambia frees "gay" Spanish tourists

afrol News, 4 June - The two Spanish tourists arrested on Friday in The Gambia, accused of having made "dishonest propositions" to engage into homosexual relationships, yesterday were released without charges and are preparing their return to Spain.

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Gambia
Affairs | Crime | Law | People | Persecution | Religion | Rights | Violence

Gambian police arrests "gay tourists"

afrol News, 3 June - Two suspected gay Spanish tourists - Pere Joan, 56, and Juan Monpserratrusau, 54 - were arrested and detained by Gambian police in Kotu, 10 km from the capital Banjul.

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Egypt
HIV-AIDS | Persecution | Policy

Egypt court upholds HIV sentences

afrol News, 29 May - A Cairo appeals court has decided to uphold the sentences imposed on five men jailed in a crackdown on people living with HIV/AIDS. A total of nine HIV positive men have been sentenced to prison so far, the courts seeing them as a threat to the public.

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Gambia
Affairs | Crime | Law | People | Persecution | Rights

IGLHRC tackles Gambian leader

afrol News, 26 May - An international gay and lesbian rights body has got a beef with Gambian President Yahya Jammeh over his discriminatory remarks against homosexuals, ordering him to "immediately retract" his statements.

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Gambia
Affairs | Crime | Law | People | Persecution

Doom awaits gays in Gambia

afrol News, 20 May - Gambian leader has given a 24-hour ultimatum to homosexuals to leave his country before they face doom. President Yahya Jammeh, who said anti-gay laws - stricter than those in Iran - are in place in The Gambia, had threatened to "behead" gays.

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Africa
Persecution | Policy | Violence

African gays "face persecution and violence"

afrol News, 20 May - In many African countries, gay people face persecution and violence, and even in states where gay's human rights are protected by the law, social attitudes toward homosexuality have not improved. Awareness campaigns are under way all over the continent.

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» 27.02.2008 - Activists petition Morocco
» 25.02.2008 - Senegalese homosexuals flee
» 18.02.2008 - Senegalese anti-gay protesters teargased
» 13.02.2008 - Senegal urged to legalise gay

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