Fatteh’s monthly round-up of LGBTQ+ news from the continent features blackmailers in Ghana, Kenyan lobbyists, agitators in Morocco, Nigerian ministers and stories from Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Uganda.
Revellers from Horn of Africa countries Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti and the global diaspora assembled in the Austrian capital to celebrate their own special pride event.
The majority of the 47 countries on the UNHRC voted in favour of keeping an expert focused on the protection of LGBTQ people. However, 15 countries voted against it including nine in Africa.
Friedel Dausab, who successfully led a legal case against the criminalisation of gay
men in Namibia last year, is joining the Kaleidoscope Trust’s new commission.
Brenda Biya, the daughter of Cameroon’s president Paul Biya, came out as lesbian
last year despite the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people in the central African nation.
Palomino Jama was sworn in on June 17 during International Pride Month in a
positive step for LGBTQ+ representation in African politics.
The military government of the West African nation said it has adopted the draft of an
amended family code that outlaws same-sex relations.
Local activists Movimento Eu Sou Trans Angola and Íris Angola Association say anti-LGBTQ campaigners are preparing to “exclude and erase” LGBTQ people.
Fatteh’s monthly round-up of LGBTQ+ news from the continent features controversy in Senegal, religion in Nigeria, diplomacy in Madagascar, exiles from Guinea and stories from Uganda, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Tunisia, Morocco and South Africa.
