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President John Dramani Mahama speaks at Temple University Center for Anti-Racism on March 27. (Click the image to see video of his remarks, courtesy of Rightify Ghana)
Ghana’s president plays a double game on anti-LGBTQ bill
Billboard on a street in Lusaka, Zambia, celebrates the nation's mineral wealth . (Arlette Bashizi photo courtesy of The New York Times)
U.S. to halt HIV aid if Zambia won’t share mining wealth?
Illustration shows two cracked restroom symbols with a flow of blood between them. (Rex Opara illustration courtesy of Minority Africa)
‘I thought I was bleeding to death’ — intersex life in Kenya
Ghana's parliament (Photo courtesy of ISSAfrica.org)
UNAIDS and faith leaders oppose anti-gay bills in Senegal and Ghana
Arthur Schaper, the California Mass Resistance field director, speaks in opposition to a California high school's Wellness Center in 2023, claiming that it would encourage students to change their gender.(Vincent Medina photo courtesy of Norwalk Patriot)
Mass.-based U.S. ‘pro-family’ group pushed Senegal’s anti-LGBTQ+ law
Ibtissam (Betty) Lachgar wore her "Allah is lesbian shirt in in a 2022 Facebook post as an act of solidarity with two LGBTQ activists in Iran who were sentenced to death after being accused of promoting homosexuality, promoting Christianity, and communicating with media hostile to the Islamic Republic. (Photo courtesy of Ibtissam Lachgar)
Moroccan activist jailed for ‘Allah Is a Lesbian’ shirt may lose arm
Uganda releases two women arrested for kissing
Archbishop Laurent Mbanda of Rwanda now leads the anti-gay church coalition Gafcon, the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. (Photo courtesy of AFP/Getty/BBC)
Anti-gay Anglicans ease off their challenge to female archbishop
A U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight operates out of a Seattle airport in August 2025. (Lindsey Wasson photo courtesy of AP)
U.S. deports lesbian asylum-seeker to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal
Ugandan police arrest 2 women for kissing in public
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of Reuters)
Uganda: Don’t see good news in latest election results
Red ribbon logo in the fight against HIV/AIDS
U.S. retreat from WHO harms global health and the HIV response
Illuatration shows Ugandan police breaking up a Pride celebration. East Africa Visual Artists used this artwork as an illustration of its article about the court ruling on the ban of the 2014 LGBTQ rights workshop.
Uganda court upholds ban on LGBTQI+ advocacy workshop
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Edward Mwebaza, executive director of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), addresses the media. (Photo courtesy of HRAPF)
Uganda drops the first case brought under its Anti-Homosexuality Act
Kenya court overturns ban on lesbian love story