Senegal

“Homosexuality will not be accepted,” one attacker yelled as another screamed, “Let us kill him before the police arrive!”

Police dispersed demonstrators and arrested some because the protest wasn’t authorized.

Gambia’s parliament has passed a bill banning female genital mutilation and setting strict penalties for offenders

Residents in the Senegalese town of Kaolack say police have arrested 11 people accused of homosexual acts.

Djamil Bangoura, president of gay rights group Prudence, said Friday that Senegal must stop condemning people who are different.

DAKAR, Senegal — Police in a city outside Senegal’s capital have arrested four young men accused of carrying out attacks in a bid to rid their neighborhood of gay people.

DAKAR, Senegal — A judge in Senegal sentenced two men to six months’ jail in a rare conviction of a gay couple on criminal charges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal’s new Justice Minister says the country’s law criminalizing homosexuality is here to remain, despite previously leading a campaign for LGBT rights.

DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal President Macky Sall is defending his refusal to decriminalize homosexuality one day after publicly clashing with President Barack Obama on the issue at a joint press conference.

DAKAR, Senegal — President Barack Obama on Thursday praised the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage as a “victory for American democracy” but clashed with his African host over gay rights in a sign of how far the movement has to go internationally.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa next month may result in a stark juxtaposition between the growing power of the gay rights movement in the U.S. and the criminalization of homosexuality throughout the African continent.