Law and faith: How US Christian right is building interfaith coalition to root out same-sex relationships in Africa
The influence of US evangelical Christianity on anti-LGBTQ legislation across Africa has been extensively documented over the past two decades. In 2023, I wrote about US architectural influence on Uganda’s anti-homosexuality law, which passed weeks before the first African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family and Sovereignty in Entebbe, Uganda.
Crackdown on gay men in Senegal in wake of punitive new law criminalises HIV infection
Monitoring by the HIV Justice Network, an international organisation that tracks the criminalisation of people living with HIV worldwide, puts the total number of detentions under Article 319 since early February at more than 70, with at least 62 linked to the Diallo investigation.
