Africa

Pastor Stephen Langa, executive director of Uganda's Family Life Network (Photo courtesy of Daily Monitor)
Uganda: Study finds religious attitudes impeding fight against HIV
Anti-LGBTQ protest in Senegal. (File photo)
Senegal: The tale of a gay capital turned homophobic state
Alban Bagbin, speaker of Ghana's parliament
Ghana Parliament welcomes anti-LGBTQ lawmakers from Uganda
Makerere University's Main Building (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
Makerere University in Uganda suspends student over homophobic violence
Word cloud showing the names (pseudonyms) of the 56 prisoners for whom Project Not Alone has won early release.
Readers’ donations have freed a total of 56 victims of African homophobia
The Grand Mosque of Dakar (Photo courtesy of Le Monde)
Senegal police arrest 15 LGBT people who shared a WhatsApp group
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Flag of Cameroon
Ten LGBTI youth arrested in Cameroon, released for small ransom
We freed four Muslim men imprisoned when their imam called them gay
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Imprisoned gay Nigerian goes free, thanks to readers’ donations
Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, meets with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in April 2023. (Photo courtesy of X)
Anti-gay Family Watch denies ‘any role’ in Uganda’s harsh law. But it fed Uganda’s homophobia.
Ghana president pledges to sign repressive anti-LGBTQ bill
Will any Ugandan politician stand up for LGBTQ people?
The new U.S. global health plan calls for assigning staff in each U.S. foreign mission whose job would be watching for disease outbreaks and responding to them within 72 hours so they would not reach the United States.
HIV services cut back in America’s new global health strategy
Photographer recording the World Health Summit.
Lawmakers from across the globe meet to fight HIV/AIDS
Michael Kayiyatsa, executive director of the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR)
Malawi’s human rights advocates seek an end to anti-LGBT laws