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Senegal
Gay - Lesbian | Health | Society
UN calls for release of convicted gay men in Senegal

afrol News - The United Nations has condemned the sentencing of nine gay activists in Senegal, saying it has no place in the response to the AIDS epidemic. The Senegalese court jailed nine men working to provide condoms and HIV treatment in Senegal to 8 years imprisonment for indecent conduct and unnatural acts last week.

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Senegal
Gay - Lesbian | Society
Gays fear for life after harsh sentencing of nine

afrol News - Gay communities have said conditions in Senegal are getting worse, after a court jailed nine men to 8 years imprisonment for indecent conduct and unnatural acts. Homosexuality is illegal in Senegal.

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Court gives Christmas present to Ugandan gays
African gays unite to demand AIDS treatment
EU "shocked" by Burundi's gay criminalisation
Burundi to criminalise homosexuality


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Somalis

Somalia
Gay - Lesbian | Society
Soul mates: The price of being gay in Somalia

afrol News - Afdhere Jama talks to a Somali gay couple that has staid together since their childhood in Mogadishu in the 1980s. Abdulle and Sakariye escaped the marriages arranged by their parents and sought freedom in the "liberal" town of Shalaamboot. But "freedom" came at a higher price than the young couple expected.

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Homosexuality and Islam

Algeria
Human rights | Gay - Lesbian | Society
Holy hatred: Homosexuality in Muslim countries

afrol News - Anissa Helie, with Algerian and French background, analyses the rights situation of gays and lesbians in the Muslim world in this article previously published in the New Internationalist.

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