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Gay rights activist arrested in Malawi

afrol News - Malawian police have arrested a gay rights activist for putting up gay-rights posters in Malawi's main city Blantyre, in protest of the continued detention of a newly-wed gay couple.

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High court denies gay couple bail

afrol News - A High court in Malawi has upheld the ruling the lower court by denying bail to the country's first and newly-wed gay couple, citing concerns over their safety.

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Soul mates: The price of being gay in Somalia

afrol News - Afdhere Jama talks to a Somali gay couple that has staid together since their childhood in Mogadishu in the 1980s. Abdulle and Sakariye escaped the marriages arranged by their parents and sought freedom in the "liberal" town of Shalaamboot. But "freedom" came at a higher price than the young couple expected.

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Holy hatred: Homosexuality in Muslim countries

afrol News - Anissa Helie, with Algerian and French background, analyses the rights situation of gays and lesbians in the Muslim world in this article previously published in the New Internationalist.

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