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Remove death penalty on gays - Clergy

afrol News - 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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Commission outraged by more Senegalese arrests

afrol News - 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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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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