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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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
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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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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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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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