Africa

Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum legal aid clinic in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in Uganda in 2020.
Anti-LGBTIQ violence in Uganda continues to worsen, report says
Anglophone regions of Cameroon. (Map courtesy of AFP)
As Cameroon election approaches, LGBTQ+ people face increasing violence
Location of Burkina Faso in West Africa. (Map courtesy of Google)
Burkina Faso’s LGBTQ community fears ‘witch hunt’
Pastor Martin Ssempa (Photo courtesy of the Monitor)
Ugandan anti-LGBTQ pastor uses Charlie Kirk murder to sell books
Two Tanzanian men with rainbow flags. (Photo courtesy of LGBT Voice Tanzania)
Report shows impact of anti-LGBT laws on queer Tanzanians
Winnie Byanyima with here son, Anselm Besigye. (Photo courtesy of Winnie Byanyima via X/Twitter)
UN anti-AIDS leader tells off Ugandan homophobes trolling her son online
Brenda Biya (Olivier Corsan photo courtesy of Le Parisien)
Cameroon president’s lesbian daughter refuses to vote for him
‘No legal prescription’: How trans women in Cameroon access hormones
The world cannot afford to lose UNAIDS
Illustration from the cover of the Rightify Ghana report "Weaponising Homophobia in Ghana’s 2024 Elections".
Ghana politicians fomented anti-LGBTQ violence during election, report says
llustration by Rex Opara shows a young man wearing a red HIV awareness ribbon. In the background is shattered glass with a bright white light showing in  the cracks.
Secret health care: A way queer Nigerians get tested for HIV
Bob doing construction work shortly after his release. (Photo by Steeves Winner)
Betrayed by gay lover, then imprisoned, Bob has finally been set free
Flag of Cameroon
Rape of minor reveals how unprepared Cameroon is for male-on-male crime
Ugandan police arrest serial blackmailer of LGBTQI+ people
Shieys Chepkosgei (Photo courtesy of The Star)
Transgender Kenyans win a major court victory
‘This isn’t home for me anymore’: A decade under Nigeria’s anti-gay law