Homosexuality has engaged the attention of the public and is, undoubtedly, one of the prime heated debates in the world and particularly in Africa. Ghana has not been spared.  >>>

Four men were jailed for 18 years each by a Cape Town court on Wednesday for stabbing and stoning 19-year-old lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana to death in 2006.  >>>

A Baptist clergyman has warned that any attempt to introduce a bill seeking to legalize same-sex marriage in Liberia by legislators will be met with stiff resistance from the Christian community.  >>>

Ugandan gay rights activists braved hostility and stigma Thursday as they gathered to commemorate the first anniversary of the murder of their fellow campaigner David Kato.  >>>

Gays and Lesbians across South Africa want King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu nation, to apologise for his reported slur against them and to retract his alleged condemnation of same-sex relationships.  >>>

Ambassador Perezi K. Kamunanwire claims that the Ugandan Parliament is not planning to reconsider a bill that would impose the death penalty for homosexual acts.  >>>

ARASA meeting to discuss human rights issues with a focus on LGBTI issues brings together defenders from Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and South Africa.  >>>

Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt for “indecent behavior,” according to reports in the Egyptian news media. But when they burst into a beauty salon in the Nile delta town of Benha this week and  >>>

One of Africa’s best-known human-rights activists, Leo Igwe, says religion is very much behind Nigeria’s recent outlawing of same-sex unions.  >>>

Freetown was the scene of a big anti-gay rights protest on Friday organised to “ward-off" the possibility of recognising same sex marriages in the country.  >>>