In Ghana, the Supreme Court dismissed two legal challenges to a new anti-LGBTQIA legislation that would impose a three-year prison sentence for people identifying...
In Namibia, the Constitutional Court ruled as unconstitutional the law which had criminalized same-sex relationships, finding it incompatible with the constitutional rights of Namibian...
In Uganda, the president - Yoweri Museveni - signed the law that imposes the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", which includes having gay sex...
Sudan has lifted the death penalty and flogging as punishment for gay sex after approximately four decades of hardline Islamist rule. This much-needed development...
In particular, the judges stated that "a democratic society is one that embraces tolerance, diversity and open-mindedness", as well as highlighting that discrimination serves...