Fatteh’s monthly round-up of LGBTQ+ news from the continent features a singer from Côte d'Ivoire, a Nigerian governor, Ethiopian asylum-seekers, and stories from Malawi, Morocco, Ghana, Benin, Tunisia, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
The landmark ruling is the first known directive of its kind in Africa, according to Kenyan advocacy group Jinsiangu which supported the trans woman petitioner...
Fatteh’s monthly round-up of LGBTQ+ news from the continent features blackmailers in Ghana, Kenyan lobbyists, agitators in Morocco, Nigerian ministers...
Revellers from Horn of Africa countries Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti and the global diaspora assembled in the Austrian capital to celebrate...
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...
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...
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...
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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...