38 OUT OF 53 AFRICAN COUNTRIES CRIMINALISED GAY SEX

International by HOMOVISION on January 11, 2010 at 12:12 pm

Today’s Telegraph reports on how African governments are clamping down on homosexuality. Thirty eight out of fifty three of the continent’s nations have criminalised consensual gay sex. Human Rights Watch (HRW) says anti-gay policies are being used by politicians as a way of bringing together different groups.

Scott Long, HRW’s director for gay rights issues, says that anti-gay feelings rose fifteen years ago when Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe started to spout anti-gay sentiments as a way of distracting attention from economic and social problems.

Long adds that such policies have now spread across the continent to countries such as Nigeria where the issue as unified the Muslim north and Christian south.

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