Gay rights
Botswana top court hears homosexuality appeal
The country's High Court in 2019 ruled in favour of campaigners seeking to strike down prison sentences for same-sex relationships, declaring them...
South Africa is often a destination for LGBTI+ people fleeing discrimination in other African countries. This factsheet looks at laws affecting these communities across the continent.
Crimes against the LBGTQI+ community continue to rise in South Africa, with more people being killed because of their sexual orientation. This year alone, 10 people have already been killed for being queer. Activists are calling on government to pass the Hate Crimes Bill into law, saying that it will help protect the LGBTQI+ community against homophobic attacks. Eyewitness News sat down with activists and couple, Jade Madingwane and Mangaka Molaqa, to find out what living as a queer couple in South Africa was like.
The newborn twins are daughters of a Namibian-Mexican gay couple, and the Namibian authorities have dragged their feet on issuing documents for the girls born to a South African surrogate mother to travel to Windhoek.
In a fresh report, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) found 'considerable progress' in legal protections for LGBTI people worldwide.
Gender-based violence is widespread and entrenched in South Africa with President Cyril Ramaphosa recently describing it as our second pandemic.
Family spokesperson Nombuso Cele said despite the murder taking place in full view of the public, the family was worried that the accused may be released due to a lack of witnesses willing to testify.
In a statement dated Friday, the US said the sanctions on Paul Christian Makonda, the Regional Commissioner of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's economic capital, come amid Washington's growing concerns about basic freedoms in the East African nation.
What Pride has become, and where it’s going, sometimes feels like it's not in line with its original aim of being inclusionary, writes Bonga Dlulane.
Pinki Khatun was elected as vice chair of a town council in the country's west on Monday after beating her nearest rival by more than 4,000 votes, local police chief Mahbubul Alam said.
Four teenage boys aged between 15 and 18 were arrested on Friday on suspicion of robbery and aggravated grievous bodily harm.
In a remark prompting gasps and mutters from the packed courtroom, presiding judge Roselyne Aburili said there was 'no conclusive scientific proof that LGBTQ people are born that way'.
The 48-year-old passed away in a Nairobi hospital last night after a short illness.
Graphic showing places where gay marriage and civil unions are legal.
Observers say it is hard to know the size of the LGBT community in the country of about 400,000 people.
Botswana’s High Court is considering a challenge to the provisions of the penal code criminalising consensual same-sex relations in the country.
The country of 260 million is in the grip of a moral panic, with critics saying the vulnerable LGBT minority is being used as a political punching bag in the run-up to 2019 elections.
A few dozen activists gathered at Palace Square on Saturday afternoon, defying a ban to hold the rally.
The'Livin' La Vida Loca' hitmaker married his partner Jwan Yosef earlier this month.