Africa

LGBTI Rights in Africa


Paul Canary Kanyamu – Human Rights Defender in Kenya

Paul Canary Kanyamu is a humanitarian volunteer, refugee rights advocate, and human rights defender. He is 26 years old and originally from Uganda. Paul lives in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya…

ADDED ON: 01/04/2023

Simon Nkoli’s fight for queer rights in South Africa is finally being celebrated – 24 years after he died

Born in 1957, Simon Tseko Nkoli had just turned 41 when he died, in 1998, of an AIDS-related illness. In his short life, the South African activist fought against different forms of…

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ADDED ON: 01/02/2023

LGBTQ Group Pushes For Workplace ‘Protection’ In Mauritius

Collectif Arc-en-Ciel, an LGBTQ Group in Mauritius is aggressively pushing for protection for its members. It is also fighting for similar rights as its heterosexual counterparts in the workplace and issued an…

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ADDED ON: 01/01/2023

Archbishop Hezekiah warns world leaders against promoting LGBT, abortion

The Founder and Archbishop of Living Christ Mission Inc Church, Prof Daddy Hezekiah, has warned the international community to desist from the promotion of abominable, immoral and very unnatural LGBT practices, reckless…

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ADDED ON: 01/01/2023

Mamba’s 21 most-read queer stories of 2022

The year that was 2022, thankfully, saw a decline in the number of reported LGBTIQ+ hate crimes in South Africa, compared to 2021. There were nonetheless still several deadly attacks against queer…

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ADDED ON: 12/30/2022

Mauritius LGBT, Intersex Rights Group Pushes for Workplace Protections

An LGBT and intersex rights group in Mauritius continues to work to protect LGBT and intersex people in the workplace. Although there is an LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination law in Mauritius, Collectif Arc-en-Ciel insists…

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ADDED ON: 12/29/2022

Uganda: Claims that LGBTQ+ people are “recruiting” schoolchildren

Annet Kezaabu, is the chairperson of the Anti-Pornographic Control Committee at the Directorate of Ethics and Integrity. It has reportedly warned that members of the LGBTQ+ community are targeting schools to “recruit,…

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ADDED ON: 12/29/2022

Moroccan director wants ‘healthy’ debate on gay rights

Moroccan director Maryam Touzani hopes her latest film, shortlisted for an Oscar, will provoke “a healthy, much-needed debate” around LGBTQ rights and challenge taboos in the conservative country. “The Blue Caftan” tells…

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ADDED ON: 12/28/2022

Niger Lawmakers want the criminalization of gay relationships

As reported by the BBC, a group of lawmakers in Niger has supported a motion seeking to criminalize same-sex relationships in the country.

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ADDED ON: 12/24/2022

19 arrested after police raid same-sex wedding in Nigeria

The Islamic police force, known as Hisbah, recently raided a same-sex wedding in northern Nigeria and arrested 19 people for attending. In the virulently anti-LGBTQ+ country, homosexuality is illegal based on both…

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ADDED ON: 12/24/2022

Tunisia: Activists seek to block anti-gay sportscaster from visiting Europe

The LGBTQ rights group ADHEOS is seeking to block a sportscaster and former Tunisian official from traveling in Europe because of his violently homophobic comments on a Qatari sports channel during the…

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ADDED ON: 12/22/2022

Senegal: LGBTI activists sue in France to punish anti-gay group JAMRA

JAMRA has initiated numerous marches and demonstrations in Senegal over the past two years to pressure lawmakers to increase the nation’s criminal penalties for homosexual activity. Under current Senegalese law, people convicted of…

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