Category: Southern Africa
Botswana Court of Appeals unanimously upholds decriminalization of gay sex
In a unanimous decision, the Botswana Court of Appeals upheld the 2019 [...]
Zambia’s new president sticks tight to homophobic traditions
Zambia's new president has made clear that he will not do what LGBTI r [...]
Report: Covid-19 threatens LGBTIQ+ Africans and their organisations
Covid-19 has hurt LGBTIQ+ communities in east and southern Africa whil [...]
Namibia court bans anti-gay discrimination in child citizenship case
A Namibian court has found that the constitution bans discrimination b [...]
Botswana court delays ruling on overturned anti-gay law
Botswanan judges said yesterday that they plan to spend extra time res [...]
Anti-gay Zambians fear their new president will endorse gay rights
Homophobic Zambians fear that new President Hakainde Hichilema will es [...]
AIDS conference organisers silent as violence sweeps host South Africa
Organisers of the 2021 International Conference on AIDS and Sexually T [...]
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Namibia justice minister announces plan to decriminalize gay sex this year
Namibian Justice Minister Yvonne Dausab has announced that scrapping t [...]
UPDATE: Namibian government allows gay man’s infant daughters to come home
UPDATE May 19, 2021:
The Namibian government has issued travel docu [...]
Amplifying the voices of Eswatini’s LGBT people
Voices of Eswatini, a new project from Eswatini Sexual and Gender Mino [...]
Namibia denies residency to infant daughters of gay citizen
A Namibian court ruled Monday against a gay couple demanding the right [...]
Protesters demand gay rights in Zimbabwe
Protesters marched to the Zimbabwean consulate in Cape Town, South Af [...]
Botswana president: We’ll host 2021 AIDS conference
The president of Botswana announced on Facebook that Botswana will hos [...]
African churches: Why preach love, then imprison gays?
Why do people who preach love every Sunday want people put in prison f [...]
U.S. election: Biden pledges to act against anti-gay nations
U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden says that, if elected on Nov. 3, [...]
Zambia frees gay couple serving 15-year sentence
Zambia has freed two men who since 2018 have been serving a 15-year pr [...]
Activists fear for safety of 2 arrested Malawi dissidents
Human rights defenders fear for the safety of two prominent political [...]
Zambian women march for LGBT rights as well as women’s rights
LGBT rights, women's rights and other progressive causes were the focu [...]
Report: U.S. recalls envoy who opposed prison term for gay Zambians
The United States has quietly recalled its ambassador to Zambia after [...]
Zambia demands removal of U.S. envoy for protesting anti-gay prison sentences
The president of Zambia wants the U.S. to recall its Zambian ambassado [...]
Is Zambia ready for a gay pride march?
Behind Zambian politicians' loud public denunciations of homosexuality [...]
Why is Zambian couple in prison? Because of King Henry VIII
Zambian politicians claim that Christian values are the basis for 15-y [...]
U.S. envoy to Zambia: Act like Jesus, not like bigots, if you’re a Christian nation
Zambian officials should stop lying about their relationship with the [...]
Zambia blasts U.S. envoy who protested 15-year sentence for gay couple
The government of Zambia plans to file an official protest against U.S [...]
Zambia: 15-year prison sentences ‘shocked the world’
The 15-year prison sentences imposed this week on a gay Zambian couple [...]
Zambian men sentenced to 15 years for gay sex
A high court in Zambia has sentenced two men to 15 years in prison for [...]
Zambia must shun the anti-gay politics of disgust
Zambia's president has made homosexuality a campaign issue to distract [...]
Zambia: Motion banning pro-LGBT parties fails on technicality
A Zambian member of parliament failed in an attempt to ban political p [...]
Photos: South African gay actor Somizi Mhlongo marries his boyfriend
The Internet went wild in Africa after gay South African celebrity TV [...]
More homosexuality arrests in Zambia
Zambian police last week arrested another couple on homosexuality char [...]
Zambian farmer, youth in court on gay sex charges
A 53-year-old Zambian farmer and a 17-year-old student appeared in cou [...]
Malawi: Court releases 2 arrested activists
A Malawi court released LGBTI rights activists Gift Trapence and MacDo [...]
U.N. says ‘Sorry! Please release Malawi activists’
Apologetic U.N. officials have joined international calls for the rele [...]
Malawi police arrest 2 prominent LGBT rights activists
Police in Malawi have arrested Gift Trapence, the leader of the countr [...]
Trans woman’s naked protest roils Zambia
A Zambian trans woman stripped herself naked and walked along a busy p [...]
Botswana wants to make gay sex illegal again
The government of Botswana isn't happy with its status as the latest A [...]
Zambian hypocrisy: Fighting ‘gayism’; accepting rape and corruption
Commentary by the Rev. Kapya Kaoma exposes the hypocrisy of Zambian po [...]
Zambia bars performance by gay S. African celebrity
The Zambian government has barred Somizi Buyani Mhlongo, a gay South A [...]
Botswana: Another country strikes down its anti-gay laws
Botswana today overturned its colonial-era laws that made homosexualit [...]
S. Africa rejects Zambia refugee for saying he’s both gay and Christian
A young Zambian gay man has been denied refugee status in South Africa [...]
Botswana court hears reasons to overturn anti-gay law
Botswana's High Court heard arguments Thursday for and against overtur [...]
New online help for LGBT asylum-seekers in South Africa
Gateway Health Institute, a South African human rights organization, h [...]
Trump official’s push for gay rights focuses on Iran, not Africa
The 33 African nations with anti-gay laws seem to be a side issue for [...]
Angola’s neighbors may copy its repeal of anti-gay law
Angola's repeal of its anti-gay law last month could lead to the repea [...]
Male singer in a dress? Zambia freaks out, cracks down
Flamboyant attire and provocative behavior on a Zambian reality TV sho [...]
Angola: Another African nation drops colonial masters’ anti-gay law
Another African country has turned away from the homophobic laws origi [...]
Botswana president speaks up for LGBTI rights
There is new hope for LGBTI persons in Botswana because the new pres [...]
2019 goal: Eliminate two more countries’ anti-gay laws
Botswana and Kenya will be the next two countries to overturn their an [...]
Botswana activists deplore anti-trans attack
In Botswana, LGBTI activist group Legabibo condemned the brutal anti-t [...]
Being intersex is normal, says Zimbabwean activist
Society needs to shed its ignorance of intersex people, says Tatenda N [...]