This week read about Hakainde Hichilema wanting to change Zambia's unfavorable attitude toward LGBT people, and transgender activists claiming that the vax pass would reveal their gender identity in Italy.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) Activists say the vice president of a Cameroonian gay rights organization was arrested after his name was included on a list of presumed homosexuals given to police.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Malawian government has reaffirmed its decision to halt the arrest and prosecution of gay citizens while lawmakers review existing anti-gay laws.

AP National Writer (AP) -- Africa's gays are looking for their own Nelson Mandela -- someone who will rescue them from violence and a raft of laws that criminalize gay sex.

(WB) An LGBT and intersex rights group in Mauritius continues to work to protect LGBT and intersex people in the workplace.

(WB) Organizers of the Mr. Gay World pageant have filed a defamation lawsuit against a South African man who won the event in 2021.

The Supreme Court of Namibia has ordered a government agency to re-evaluate a same-sex couple's application for residence rights. 

Pope Francis has dismissed a question about whether condoms can be condoned in the fight against AIDS by saying there are more important issues confronting the world, like malnutrition, environmental exploitation and the lack of safe drinking water.

In certain terms, Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo said that while same-sex marriage is not on the country’s agenda as of yet, the issue is sure to be addressed in the near future.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Last month, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni met in his office with a team of U.S.-based rights activists concerned about legislation that would impose life sentences for some homosexual acts. South African retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu joined them by phone, pointing out similarities between Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill and racist laws enforced under South Africa's former apartheid government.

In a narrative changing announcement Wednesday, researchers exonerated Gaétan Dugas, a.k.a. Patient Zero, from starting the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

(WB) A group of queer Muslims in South Africa has rejected the South African Muslim Judicial Council’s new edict that condemns homosexuality as sinful and unIslamic. 

(WB) A recent survey by the South Africa-based Ichikowitz Family Foundation that gauged the level of LGBTQ and intersex tolerance on the continent has received mixed reactions from some of Africa’s advocacy groups.

(WB) An attack at a Kenya refugee camp earlier this month that left two gay men with second-degree burns has once again drawn attention to the plight of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers who live there.

A new report from the United Nations is declaring a dramatic reduction in HIV/AIDS cases among children in Africa.

DAKAR – Last month, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni met in his office with a team of U.S.-based rights activists concerned about legislation that would impose life sentences for some homosexual acts. Retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu joined them by phone, pointing out similarities between Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill and racist laws under South Africa’s former apartheid government.

Following on from her highly acclaimed debut album "Due Drop," Toya Delazy is back from traveling the world to bring us the much anticipated second album "Ascension." After gaining recognition both sides of the Atlantic, this Zulu royal is pushing boundaries which shows in the album's first single and music video, "Forbidden Fruit," a controversial and daring release in the context of the recent anti-gay laws wave in Africa.