Tanzania warns of crackdown on pro-LGBT messages on social media
Tanzania has warned local social media users to censor pro-LGBT content or face arrest.
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Ugandan vlogger’s homophobic rant puts migrant workers at risk
A self-righteous Ugandan national living in the Middle East has released an excruciatingly homophobic online rant blasting Ugandans and other Africans for engaging in adult consensual same-sex intimacy in Arab …
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LGBTQ rights in East Africa: U.S. sometimes takes an active role
FOURTH IN A SERIES: U.S. diplomats in Tanzania say they take a hands-off approach to violations of LGBTQI citizens’ rights, but those in Uganda and Kenya describe a much more …
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Update on U.S. advocacy for LGBTQI rights amid the fight against AIDS
SECOND IN A SERIES: Acting on orders from U.S. President Joe Biden, the nation’s international anti-AIDS programs have focused on the needs of sexual minorities abroad, including LGBTQI communities in …
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2021 in review: A year of arrests and harassment of LGBTQ people
Again and again in 2021, the arrests continued — 12, then 13, then 14, then 44, then 21 — all of them targeted aT suspected sexual minorities. In each case, …
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Report: Covid-19 threatens LGBTIQ+ Africans and their organisations
Covid-19 has hurt LGBTIQ+ communities in east and southern Africa while also revealing weaknesses in the region’s LGBTIQ+ advocacy organisations, according to a new report from Pan Africa ILGA (PAI).
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U.S.-funded African clinics offer secret anti-gay ‘conversion therapy’
Staff at U.S.- and internationally funded health clinics in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania offer secret “conversion therapy” that attempts to “cure” homosexuals and turn them straight, undercover reporters found. None …
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Tanzania’s new president begins making positive changes
In a hopeful sign that Tanzania is changing course, the country’s new president, Samia Hassan Suluhu, has lifted a ban on media houses closed by her homophobic predecessor. She also …
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Hope for change in Tanzania after death of homophobic president
Human rights activists expressed hope for change in Tanzania now that former vice president Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in as the country’s first female president after the death …
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Tanzania obstructed HIV fight, now rejects Covid-19 vaccines
The same government that shut down anti-HIV programs in Tanzania out of fear of homosexuality has come out against Covid-19 vaccines for fear that such Western innovations are unsafe.
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For vote when gays were abused, U.S. bars Tanzanian visas
Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used some of his last minutes in office to impose visa restrictions on Tanzanian officials “responsible for or complicit in undermining Tanzania’s October …
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Homophobic Tanzania seeks close ties to gay-friendly Joe Biden
The homophobic Tanzanian President, Dr John Magufuli, has sent a belated congratulatory message to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, seeking a continued close relationship between the …
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Criticised for LGBT repression, Tanzania leader wins re-election
Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli, whose government has been accused of repeated violations of LGBT people’s rights, today (Nov. 5) was sworn in for another term in office. From the …
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Tanzania tightens LGBT repression ahead of election
Tanzanian authorities have reportedly stepped up their restrictions on organizations working to promote the rights and health of LGBT people ahead of the country’s general elections slated for Oct. 28.
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No end in sight for Tanzania’s anti-LGBT crackdown
Four years ago, the Tanzanian government began its crackdown on its LGBTQ citizens. The repression has never stopped.
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AIDS: Tanzania’s homophobia is killing people
Message to Tanzania: Your homophobia is killing people. No one should be arrested for being LGBT – or for attending a training session to learn about preventing HIV.
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