Botswana election results solidify LGBTQ rights in southern Africa

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11/01/2024

A landslide election victory has set the stage for LGBTQ rights supporter Duma Boko to become the next president of Botswana, where homosexuality was decriminalized in 2019. The election was decided on economic issues, not on LGBTQ rights. In the past, as an attorney, Boko has represented the Botswanan LGBTQ rights group Legabibo in its successful fight for official govvernemt recognition. As a candidate, he has supported LGBTQ rights. Defeated incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi had also acknowledged the human rights of LGBTQ people. In 2022, he met with representatives of Legabibo, vowed to protect LGBTQ persons’ rights and to abide by the court rulings that overturned laws against same-sex intimacy between consenting adults.

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