Uganda
Persecution | Policy
Uganda tabloid urges "hanging of homos"
afrol News, 15 October - A Ugandan tabloid has published photos of 100 allegedly homosexual men, including their addresses and workplaces, calling for their hanging. The weekly was sold freely around the country.
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Malawi
Affairs | Law | Persecution | Rights
Malawi gays released after pardon
afrol News / IPS, 1 June - Five months and a day after their arrest, the gay Malawian couple who dared to publicly declare their union with a traditional engagement party were pardoned by the President and released without conditions.
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Malawi
Law | Persecution | Policy
Malawi gay couple gets maximum sentence
afrol News, 20 May - The Blantyre court today gave a young gay couple the maximum sentence of 14 years of imprisonment over "gross indecency" and "unnatural acts". The sentence may lead to cut in donor aid to Malawi.
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Malawi
Law | Persecution | Policy
Uproar over Malawi gays' conviction
afrol News, 19 May - Yesterday's conviction of a gay couple of "gross indecency" and "unnatural acts" has caused an international uproar. Malawi's donors are disappointed and South African trade unionists prepare for protests.
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Africa
Policy | Religion
African Lutherans threaten schism over gay row
afrol News, 9 April - As the Catholics struggle with paedophilia scandals, and the Anglicans have an open north-south conflict over homosexuality, African Lutheran churches now threaten divorce with their European partners if the latter continue to perform same-sex weddings.
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Eritrea
Law | Policy | Policy | Rights
Homosexuality "against Eritrean values"
afrol News, 26 March - Eritrean government officials for the first time have answered to rights activists' questions about the country's tough anti-homosexuality laws. Legalisation was out of question, the official said.
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South Africa | Uganda
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Energy | Expression | People | Policy | Policy | Rights | Trade
SA’s business eyeing oil in Uganda
afrol News, 25 March - A huge South African business delegation arrived in Kampala today accompanying President Jacob Zuma for his two-day state visit.
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Law | Policy | Policy | Rights
Homophobia divides Africa
afrol News, 23 March - Homophobic laws in Uganda and an anti-gay court case in Malawi are only two current examples demonstrating a conservative wave regarding sexual minorities in Africa. But in other countries, in particular South Africa, gays and lesbians are enjoying increased freedom.
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Malawi
Law | Persecution | Policy | Rights
Malawi gay couple to be tried
afrol News, 22 March - The two Malawi men detained for three months over homosexual acts will face a full trial in April, a Blantyre court ruled today. The two risk prison sentences of up to 14 years.
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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Rights
Reject anti-gay bill - activists
afrol News, 2 March - Ugandan rights activists have pleaded with the parliament on Monday to reject an anti-gay bill which pronounces harsh punishment for people who would be caught practicing homosexuality.
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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | Diplomacy | Expression | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Rights
Experts urge Uganda to drop anti-homosexuality bill
afrol News, 1 March - Two independent United Nations experts today urged the leaders and government of Uganda to prevent an anti-homosexuality bill currently before Parliament from becoming law, stressing that it would be in breach of fundamental freedoms and human rights.
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Malawi
Crime | Expression | Law | People | Persecution | Policy | Policy | Rights | Violence
Gay rights activist arrested in Malawi
afrol News, 3 February - Malawian police have arrested a gay rights activist for putting up gay-rights posters in Malawi's main city Blantyre, in protest of the continued detention of a newly-wed gay couple.
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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | Diplomacy | Expression | HIV-AIDS | Law | People | Persecution | Policy | Policy | Policy | Rights | Violence
Anti-homosexuality law threat to fighting AIDS
afrol News, 22 January - The so-called ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’ under consideration by the Ugandan Parliament not only violates the fundamental human rights of Ugandans, but will also impede efforts to combat HIV, a United Nations independent expert warned today.
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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | People | Persecution | Policy | Policy | Rights
Museveni distances himself from anti gay bill
afrol News, 14 January - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has broken the silence on the controversial anti gay bill saying it goes against the government policy.
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Uganda
People
Uganda to review anti-gay bill
afrol News, 8 January - Uganda’s minister for Investment, Aston Kajara has said the country will review the proposed anti gay bill which has drawn international criticism from rights groups for its tough punishment.
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Malawi
Crime | Expression | Law | People | Persecution | Policy | Rights
Amnesty calls for release of gay couple
afrol News, 7 January - Amnesty International has appealed for the release of the first Malawian gay couple to wed in the Southern Africa state. The couple, Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjezar was arrested on 28 December in Blantyre for holding the country's first public same-sex wedding.
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Uganda
Expression | Law | People | Persecution | Policy | Policy | Religion | Rights
Clerics back government on Anti-Homosexuality Bill
afrol News, 10 December - Ugandan clerics have called on government to resist the international pressure demanding the country to scrape the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently being debated in Parliament.
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Uganda
HIV-AIDS | Law | Policy | Policy | Policy
"Uganda AIDS prevention threatened"
afrol News, 6 November - Over 50 Ugandan and international organisations are warning government that the "repressive" HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill, soon to be voted on in the Kampala parliament, could destroy Uganda's earlier successes in fighting back the pandemic.
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» 29.10.2009 - Remove death penalty on gays - Clergy
» 21.08.2009 - Commission outraged by more Senegalese arrests
» 28.05.2009 - Gays mistreated in Rwanda - AI
» 28.04.2009 - Amnesty International begs for protection of alleged gay men
» 08.04.2009 - Senegalese gay men appeal a homophobic sentence
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