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Senegal judge frees women accused of violating law banning homosexual acts
DAKAR, Senegal — A judge in Senegal says there is insufficient evidence to convict four women accused of violating the country’s law banning homosexual acts.
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Uganda trial on published images of gay U.K. man having sex is postponed
ENTEBBE, Uganda — The trial in Uganda of a British man arrested after images of him having gay sex were published has been postponed until December.
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U.K. man in Uganda court after stolen gay sex images published
KAMPALA, Uganda — A British man faces a court hearing in Uganda on Monday following the publication of images from his stolen laptop of him having sex with another man.
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Prominent Ugandan LGBT activist charged with sodomy, held without bail
KAMPALA, Uganda– Samuel Ganafa, the executive director of Spectrum Uganda Initiatives and board chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), was arrested earlier this week on charges that he had sodomized another man and infected him with HIV.
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Five women charged under Senegal’s anti-gay law
DAKAR, Senegal — A prosecutor in Senegal says five women have been charged under the country’s anti-gay law that imposes prison sentences of up to five years for homosexual acts.
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Five women arrested under Senegal’s anti-gay law
DAKAR, Senegal — Senegalese police detained five women accused of violating the country’s anti-gay law, highlighting increased pressure on suspected lesbians in the deeply conservative West African nation, an activist group said Tuesday.
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In rare move, Uganda president publicly tests for HIV
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s president tested for HIV in public on Friday to encourage millions of untested people to check their status, a critical step to stemming the spread of the virus in the East African country.
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Gambia gays face discrimination in exile
Alhaji, a 21-year-old gay man, knew there was trouble when he heard that an uninvited guest was snapping photos in the middle of his poolside birthday party in Gambia’s capital. That photographer turned out to be a member of Gambia’s feared National Intelligence Agency, and accused Alhaji of throwing “a gay party” in violation of Gambian law.
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Gays hit the catwalk at drag queen contest in Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe — And the winner is … Ezmerald Kim Kardashian. That was the stage name for a young man who won the title of Miss Jacaranda at a drag queen pageant in Zimbabwe.
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LGBT History Month profile: South African activist Simon Nkoli
Simon Nkoli was a South African anti-apartheid, gay rights and AIDS activist. He is recognized as the founder of South Africa’s black gay movement.