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Gays fear for life after harsh sentencing of nine

afrol News - 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
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Court gives Christmas present to Ugandan gays

afrol News - 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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Somalis
Somalia
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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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Algeria
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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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