Tag: Nairobi
Roundup of 76 gay African refugees: Desperate, dangerous, confusing times
Confusion surrounds this week's heartless decision to move 76 gay refugees from Nairobi back to the often violently homophobic Kakuma refugee camp fro ...
Kenyan queer refugees win freedom; hunger strike ends
Reports from Nairobi say that the hunger strike by LGBTQ refugee advocate Mbazira Moses and his supporters has succeeded in winning authorities' promi ...
Kenyan refugee leader threatens hunger strike; 20 still in jail
Mbazira Moses, leader of the Refugee Flag Kenya advocacy group, threatened today to wage a hunger strike until 20 jailed LGBT refugees have been relea ...
LGBT refugees protest Kenya arrests and jail time
LGBT refugee activists gathered outside a Nairobi courtroom today to protest the mistreatment of 20 LGBT refugees who were arrested at an earlier prot ...
20 gay refugees protest, then are jailed in Kenya
Twenty LGBTQ refugees who fled from anti-gay violence in Uganda are being held in Nairobi-area jails after they protested against mistreatment by Keny ...
Gay refugees suffer in Kenya’s UN-enforced squalor
Living conditions for gay refugees in Kenya remain terrible after the U.N. refugee agency's decision to move about 200 of them from the Kakuma refugee ...
Gay refugees escape Kakuma’s dangers, reach Nairobi’s squalor
The U.N. refugee agency has moved more than 200 gay refugees from dangers of Kakuma refugee camp to safety in crowded, unsanitary quarters in Nairobi. ...
U.N. plan for gay refugees: same abuse, new location?
Will the U.N., Kenya, the U.S. and other Western countries stop mistreating and shunning LGBT+ refugees in Kenya now that the agency overseeing the Ka ...
Anti-gay law in Kenya might die in February
The Kenyan High Court in Nairobi has set Feb. 22, 2019, as the date when it will announce whether it will overturn the law condemning people convicted ...
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