Rwanda

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
Veteran LGBTI rights attorney Alice Nkom remains locked in a legal dispute with Cameroonian authorities who accuse her of “financing terrorism” — a charge she vehemently denies, declaring that her principled stand is in defense of the rule of law in Cameroon.
2025 LGBTQ rights update: African activists resist growing repression
LGBT+ lives at risk in areas of Congo controlled by M23 rebels
Kenya Red Cross accused of hosting anti-LGBTQ+ ‘Platform of Hate’
Students at Bethel Church's School of Supernatural Ministry students worship enthusiastically. (Max Whittaker photo courtesy of SFGate)
Exporting conversion therapy
Woman in South Africa walks past a wall covered with ads supporting the fight against HIV/ AIDS. (Denis Farrell photo courtesy of AP / Cruxnow.com)
UN says US aid cuts are hurting global fight against AIDS
LGBT+ people in occupied Bukavu must choose: Hide or flee
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights meets in the Gambia in 2022. (Photo courtesy of the ACHPR)
A decade of failure at the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights
M23 rebels in 2022. (Photo courtesy of AP)
Helping LGBT+ refugees from armed conflict in Congo
Simon Wohlfahrt photo courtesy of DW/AFP
Trans and intersex Rwandans struggle for basic rights and equality
Congo: Victims of homophobic attacks find shelter in hospital and safe house
Anglicans derailed anti-gay vote, but 125 anti-gay bishops forge ahead
Global South churches seek vote against same-sex marriage at Anglican churches with 85 million members
Anglican archbishop urges talk, not boycott, over LGBT issues
A Ugandan man begs for his life at the hands of Uganda Police. (Photo courtesy of the Daily Monitor)
2021 in review: A year of arrests and harassment of LGBTQ people
HRW exposes LGBT human rights abuses in Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda