Category: East Africa

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New project aims to document Pride flags all over the world

New project aims to document Pride flags all over the world

A global educational project called "Flag in the Map" will document how LGBT people display the Pride flag all over the world. ReportOUT and the Gilbe [...]
African rights commission hears appeal to halt repression of LGBTI Ugandans

African rights commission hears appeal to halt repression of LGBTI Ugandans

The government of Uganda has been urged to repeal provisions of the law criminalising consensual same-sex relations because they provide legal cover f [...]
Ugandan transgender community marks Trans Day of Remembrance

Ugandan transgender community marks Trans Day of Remembrance

The LGBTQI+ community and human rights defenders in Uganda joined the International community on Nov 20 to commemorate the 22nd Transgender Day of Rem [...]
Gay man survives homophobic attack in eastern Uganda

Gay man survives homophobic attack in eastern Uganda

A member of the LGBT community in eastern Uganda was attacked at home on Nov. 25 by men brandishing machetes and chanting homophobic slurs. F [...]
Mauritius: Island nation’s Supreme Court weighs sodomy law

Mauritius: Island nation’s Supreme Court weighs sodomy law

The Supreme Court of the island nation of Mauritius, off the east coast of Africa, is deliberating whether to overturn the country's law that provides [...]
Biden is silent when a loud message on global LGBT rights is needed

Biden is silent when a loud message on global LGBT rights is needed

COMMENTARY: The United States has missed important opportunities to send a strong, clear, much-needed message about the nation's commitment to global [...]
Sudan LGBT organizations condemn military coup

Sudan LGBT organizations condemn military coup

A trio of Sudanese LGBT human rights organizations released a statement condemning the recent coup in the northeast African country and calling for in [...]
Report pleads: Improve grim living conditions of LGBT refugees in Kenya

Report pleads: Improve grim living conditions of LGBT refugees in Kenya

A new report highlights the difficult living conditions faced by hundreds of LGBT asylum seekers living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya. [...]
Stella Nyanzi: In memoriam for my intersex son

Stella Nyanzi: In memoriam for my intersex son

Grace was born intersex, with both male and female sexual characteristics -- a variation from traditional gender norms that his parents tried to corre [...]
Uganda issues corrected national ID document for trans woman

Uganda issues corrected national ID document for trans woman

The Ugandan government has issued a national Identification document to Cleopatra Kambugu, a transgender woman, clearly identifying her as a woman, in [...]
Activists want Kenyan gays’ rights on agenda when Biden meets Kenyatta

Activists want Kenyan gays’ rights on agenda when Biden meets Kenyatta

A section of Kenyan human rights defenders want US President Joe Biden to raise the issue of safety and security of homosexuals in Kenya when the two [...]
Uganda, US faith leaders discuss LGBTQI rights in Africa

Uganda, US faith leaders discuss LGBTQI rights in Africa

Faith leaders from the United States and Uganda called upon churches in Africa to open their doors to LGBTQI persons at a virtual conference organised [...]
Introducing 7 African LGBTQ+ activists working for change

Introducing 7 African LGBTQ+ activists working for change

Vogue Magazine published an article last month profiling seven outstanding activists fighting to improve LGBTQ+ rights across Africa The articl [...]
Uganda’s Constitutional Court begins hearing challenge to HIV criminalization law

Uganda’s Constitutional Court begins hearing challenge to HIV criminalization law

The Constitutional Court of Uganda has begun hearing a landmark case on the right to health, in which LGBT and human rights defenders sued the state f [...]
Ugandan President sends new anti-gay bill back to Parliament

Ugandan President sends new anti-gay bill back to Parliament

Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni has declined to assent to the Sexual Offences Bill (2021) passed by Parliament in May, which included stiffer pena [...]
COVID-19 complicates access to TB, HIV services for Uganda MSM

COVID-19 complicates access to TB, HIV services for Uganda MSM

Activists in Uganda are saying that men who have sex with men face increased difficulties in accessing essential health services like tuberculosis (TB [...]
Senior Uganda government health rights ally Prof. Anthony Mbonye has died

Senior Uganda government health rights ally Prof. Anthony Mbonye has died

Prof. Anthony Mbonye, the former Director General of Uganda's Health Services who has been instrumental in advocating for healthcare access for homose [...]
Times are changing in Uganda: Parliament gets a progressive clerk

Times are changing in Uganda: Parliament gets a progressive clerk

In what appears to be a positive shift in state policy thinking, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Adolf Mwesige, a liberal and progress [...]
Trans Ugandans issue desperate food appeal as lockdown bites harder

Trans Ugandans issue desperate food appeal as lockdown bites harder

Transgender rights defenders in Uganda have issued a desperate appeal for food for the transgender community amid the ongoing COVID-19 countrywide loc [...]
AIDS conference organisers silent as violence sweeps host South Africa

AIDS conference organisers silent as violence sweeps host South Africa

Organisers of the 2021 International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) have remained silent about prospects for [...]
Ugandan clinic denies using donor funds to offer ‘conversion therapy’ to gays

Ugandan clinic denies using donor funds to offer ‘conversion therapy’ to gays

A Ugandan clinic at the center of accusations of covertly using donor funds to offer "conversion therapy" to turn homosexuals straight has issued a st [...]
Uganda lockdown hampers rural LGBT access to life-saving HIV/AIDS drugs

Uganda lockdown hampers rural LGBT access to life-saving HIV/AIDS drugs

Gay rights activists in Uganda are reporting difficulty in delivering life-saving anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive community members during the o [...]
Anti-gay “conversion therapy” at African clinics run by aid-funded groups

Anti-gay “conversion therapy” at African clinics run by aid-funded groups

Staff at health clinics funded by the US and international donors in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania offer secret "conversion therapy" that attempts to "c [...]
Gay Ugandans warned to abide by Covid-19 restrictions

Gay Ugandans warned to abide by Covid-19 restrictions

Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), the umbrella LGBTIQ+ entity in Uganda, wants its community members to protect themselves from Covid-19 by following a [...]
Uganda court OKs bail for 42 arrestees

Uganda court OKs bail for 42 arrestees

A Ugandan magistrate yesterday approved release on bail for 42 people arrested May 31 at a party that police thought was a gay wedding. Get [...]
IDAHOT 2021: Foreign missions express solidarity with LGBTQI+ Ugandans

IDAHOT 2021: Foreign missions express solidarity with LGBTQI+ Ugandans

Diplomatic missions of the European Union, the United States and the United Nations came out strongly in support of LGBTQI+ people as Uganda and the i [...]
Uganda police arrest 44 at alleged gay wedding

Uganda police arrest 44 at alleged gay wedding

Responding to a report of an alleged gay wedding under way yesterday, police in Kampala, Uganda, raided a party at the Happy Family youth shelter [...]
Uganda: LGBTQI access to health services remains problematic

Uganda: LGBTQI access to health services remains problematic

A study by Uganda's Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) has revealed that LGBTQI persons in Uganda continue to face barriers in accessi [...]
Homophobic leader Rebecca Kadaga dropped by Uganda Parliament

Homophobic leader Rebecca Kadaga dropped by Uganda Parliament

The homophobic Speaker of Ugandan Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has been dropped by her ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) Party and replaced by [...]
Activists endorse tactics for fighting Uganda’s new anti-gay bill

Activists endorse tactics for fighting Uganda’s new anti-gay bill

Gay rights activists in Uganda have issued an advisory on how local and international supporters of LGBTQ+ rights should work to blunt the effects of [...]
U.K. plans global conference to fight anti-gay bias worldwide

U.K. plans global conference to fight anti-gay bias worldwide

The United Kingdom has scheduled a global conference for next year to "tackle" inequality facing LGBT people around the world. The conference chair sa [...]
Ugandan President Museveni hints he may not sign new anti-gay bill

Ugandan President Museveni hints he may not sign new anti-gay bill

Amid pressure from the United States and the United Nations, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has reportedly hinted that he may reject the recently p [...]
Convicted homosexuals to be included in Uganda sex offender registry

Convicted homosexuals to be included in Uganda sex offender registry

Ugandans convicted of having sex with people of the same sex would be included in a new sex offender registry, following the passage by Parliament of [...]
Uganda gay activists urge president to reject new anti-gay bill

Uganda gay activists urge president to reject new anti-gay bill

LGBT human rights defenders in Uganda want President Yoweri Museveni  to refuse to sign into law the Sexual Offences Bill 2019, which Parliament passe [...]
Parliament  of Uganda passes new anti-gay bill

Parliament of Uganda passes new anti-gay bill

Uganda's parliament has passed a new bill aimed at restricting Ugandans' sexual activity. Get a free subscription: Keep informed and support [...]
Meet the trans Ugandan activist fighting for rights on social media

Meet the trans Ugandan activist fighting for rights on social media

“If you want to know that [Keem] is a man, just snatch away his phone and run,” taunted an Internet troll under Keem Love Black’s new profile picture [...]
Ugandan church launches ‘All Are Equal Before God’ campaign

Ugandan church launches ‘All Are Equal Before God’ campaign

Adonai International Ministries, a Uganda-based LGBTQI-led church, has launched a campaign dubbed “All Are Equal Before God". Get a free su [...]
Trans Ugandans react to new UNAIDS film about tolerance

Trans Ugandans react to new UNAIDS film about tolerance

A new short film released by UNAIDS to promote tolerance and acceptance of transgender identities is earning high praise from trans Ugandans. [...]
Retired homophobic archbishop Ntagali apologises for adultery

Retired homophobic archbishop Ntagali apologises for adultery

The retired homophobic archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Henry Ntagali, has publicly apologised for committing adultery, addressing his remarks to C [...]
Kenya: Anger and horror over death of LGBTQ+ arson victim

Kenya: Anger and horror over death of LGBTQ+ arson victim

Activists and U.N. officials are mourning the death of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugee Chriton "Trinidad" Atuhwera, who died April 12 from burns he suffered a [...]
Uganda: Pop star Akon misses ‘200% opportunity’ to boost gay rights

Uganda: Pop star Akon misses ‘200% opportunity’ to boost gay rights

Prominent Senegalese-American pop star Akon missed an opportunity to raise the issue of persecution and discrimination against LGBT people in Africa w [...]
Uganda: ‘LBQ Womxn’ need equal access to health

Uganda: ‘LBQ Womxn’ need equal access to health

Freedom and Roam Uganda, a lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) organisation, is about to publish a book urging Ugandan human rights and health-care righ [...]
In documentary, Ugandan religious leaders preach  love for LGBTQI people

In documentary, Ugandan religious leaders preach love for LGBTQI people

The activist Ugandans at East Africa Visual Artists (EAVA Artists) have unveiled a video documentary featuring clerics from different faith traditions [...]
Human rights violations against queer and trans Ugandans on the increase

Human rights violations against queer and trans Ugandans on the increase

Violence, discrimination and other human rights violations against sex workers and queer and transgender people in Uganda increased in 2019, the lates [...]
Church of Uganda Bishop Senyonjo reflects on 20 years of LGBT rights advocacy

Church of Uganda Bishop Senyonjo reflects on 20 years of LGBT rights advocacy

In 2000, Church of Uganda Bishop Christopher Senyonjo took in two LGBT youths who had been rejected by their own families, schools and communities bec [...]
Break-in at offices of Ugandan LGBT ally lawyer Nicholas Opiyo

Break-in at offices of Ugandan LGBT ally lawyer Nicholas Opiyo

Unknown people on Thursday, March 18, broke into the offices of Chapter Four Uganda and prominent gay rights ally Nicholas Opiyo, who leads that human [...]
Kenya: Victims of Kakuma arson attack airlifted to Nairobi hospital

Kenya: Victims of Kakuma arson attack airlifted to Nairobi hospital

In a rare change of heart, the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has airlifted the victims of a March 15 homophobic fire attac [...]
Hope for change in Tanzania after death of homophobic president

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 fir [...]
EU calls for urgent revision of Uganda’s anti-LGBTQI laws

EU calls for urgent revision of Uganda’s anti-LGBTQI laws

The European Union strongly criticized Uganda’s harsh laws against homosexuality, calling for their urgent revision and a strategy to combat discrimin [...]
At Kakuma Camp, Kenya offers to guard LGBTQ+ refugees, but …

At Kakuma Camp, Kenya offers to guard LGBTQ+ refugees, but …

Officials of Kenya's refugee agency promised to deploy guards to protect LGBTQ+ refugees at Kakuma Refugee Camp after a meeting on Feb. 19 at which re [...]
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