The apartment of a lesbian rights activist in Cameroon was burglarized last month after a disgruntled neighbor accused her of being too masculine. Her [...]
International Nigerian gay professional model Alex Gede has released a new video addressing questions from people about his sexuality and marriage to [...]
Uganda, you promised to protect LGBTIQ people, so why arrest 125 of us?
In the wake of a raid that arrested 125 people partying at a gay-friendly bar, LGBTIQ activists are calling on Ugandan officials to make good on a rec [...]
Dozens in Uganda prison after anti-LGBTI nightclub raid
Ugandan authorities have sent 67 people to Luzira Prison to await court action related to their arrest during a Nov. 10 raid on the gay-friendly Ram b [...]
Ugandan vies for global parliament post where LGBT rights are shunned
A Ugandan has been nominated to a leadership position at the Inter-Parliamentary Union a year after Uganda persuaded the IPU never to discuss LGBT rig [...]
Uganda: Two trans women brutally attacked; one is missing
Transgender women in Uganda are living in fear after a brutal attack on two trans women Oct. 12 in Kampala, which came amid renewed calls by some of t [...]
The apartment of a lesbian rights activist in Cameroon was burglarized last month after a disgruntled neighbor accused her of being too masculine. Her [...]
Cameroon's LGBTI rights watchdog group is adding an advocacy office and getting a new logo.
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Participants in a health rights training session in Yaoundé, Cameroon, were violently assaulted late last month by anti-LGBT assailants. Police respon [...]
Gay rights activists and donors have freed the last three prisoners serving sentences for homosexuality in northern Cameroon.
From the Africa [...]
Zambia's president has made homosexuality a campaign issue to distract attention from the fact that his people are starving, millions are living in po [...]
Help us help Iheb and Rochdi, gay Tunisians imprisoned for who they are
From the African Human Rights Media Network
Welcome to the campaign to help Iheb and Rochdi, thrown in jail for lovin [...]
Anti-gay candidate leads in Tunisia’s presidential election
Anti-gay law professor Kais Saied won the most votes in the first round of Tunisia's presidential election, the Tunisian electoral commission announce [...]
LGBT Tunisia: Rift over Israel, tactics, morals of gay candidate
Eleven Tunisian LGBT rights groups have attacked gay presidential candidate Mounir Baatour and his LGBT association, Shams, criticizing them for lack [...]
Victory for gay rights in Tunisia
The Tunis Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court decision that allowed the LGBT rights group Shams to keep its official recognition as a legitima [...]
Advocates boycott African human rights conference in Egypt
Repression of LGBT rights defenders marred the recently held session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.
From the African H [...]
U.N. experts to Tunisia: Don’t shut down Shams
Four high-ranking human rights specialists at the United Nations are urging the Tunisian government not to close down the LGBT rights organization Sha [...]