Tag: africa
Pope Francis has addressed the controversy surrounding the Vatican's decision to approve blessings for same-sex couples in a recent television interview.
The declaration approving same-sex blessings, which was officially released on December 18, sparked significant debate within the Catholic Church, particularly among bishops in African countries who have expressed...
Authorities have arrested four people in Zambia after marching against gender-based violence - something local police says was “championing homosexuality.”
The four women arrested are all members of the Non-Government Organisation, the Sistah Sistah Foundation, which organised the event on the 4th of March at the Rugby Club in the...
Despite warnings of a potential terror plot against the event, thousands of people turned out to defiantly celebrate in the streets of Johannesburg for the city’s Pride parade.
The event, which took place on Saturday, the 29th of October, was the first Pride parade in the city for two years...
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) has been forced to halt all operations following a decision by Uganda’s non-government organisation regulator to shut the group down.
SMUG confirmed the shutdown, saying that they had been ordered by the National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO Bureau) to discontinue their operations effective immediately.
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Thirty LGBTQ+ people have been beaten and robbed before being arrested by Police in Ghana.
According to the LGBTQ+ rights group Rightify Ghana, Twenty-nine men and one transgender woman were arrested after a homophobic mob attacked their house party on the 26th of June.
Rightify Ghana says the party was violently...
One of Ghana's most prominent chiefs has threatened to storm the nation's parliament with 10,000 of his people to force through strict anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
Known as the 'Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021', the legislation, if passed, would criminalise everything from sex toys...
Disruptions in healthcare services due to the coronavirus pandemic could lead to an extra 500,000 AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa by next year, more than doubling the death toll in 2018.
A modelling group convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS have suggested that six months of interrupted...
