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Uganda: President finally speaks out on anti-gay bill
The president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has requested Ugandans to go slow on the controversial anti-gay bill.
While addressing members of his ruling party,...
Uganda anti-gay bill author clarifies killing people over small issues
The author of the controversial anti-gay bill which was recently tabled in Uganda's parliament, David Bahati, has said that pro-gays in Uganda and the...
Uganda to withdraw anti-gay bill as economy nosedives
The controversial anti-gay bill which was recently tabled in Uganda's parliament could soon be withdrawn by Uganda's government. According to Uganda's minister of state...
Prostitution : Yasmine: Sex, Islam and White overalls
Yasmine, the head of a pornographic production company and a young actress, talks to Afrik-news.com about her porn star past and explains her choices....
Gay Uganda and the Broken Body of Christ
There is a scene in the comedy, ‘In and Out’, in which Joan Cusack, playing a bride left at the altar by her gay...
Ugandan officials say anti-homosexual law will be passed
Groups of Christians today demonstrated in Uganda's capital Kampala against first world donor countries which are against the anti-homosexual bill which was recently tabled...
Uganda anti-homosexual bill: Christians threaten MPs
Christians in Uganda are organizing nationwide demonstrations and fasting to protest US President Barack Obama and growing international opposition to a proposed anti-homosexuality bill.
They...
Africa: Dealing with human trafficking, forced sex and labour
Grim accounts of African and Asian women trafficked into wealthy countries and kept as virtual slaves are all-too-commonly headlined in Northern newspapers. But far...
South Africa 2010 World Cup: Safer sex for soccer fans
With only six months until South Africa hosts the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the nettlesome question of how to deal with sex workers looms.
"There...
Uganda: Gays, HIV+ people will be killed, sympathisers jailed
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is pushing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive gay men. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 seeks...
Uganda-United States: Should We Send Aid?
Stumbled across this blurb over on the Atlantic (which stumbled across it on The Independent Gay Forum). Writer Jamie Kirchick doesn't think aid money...
Botswana prisoners tortured and forced to have homosexual sex
Prison inmates revealed to the Gaborone Extension 2 Magistrate Court, this week, how the Gaborone Maximum Security Prison torture routines follow the notorious Guantanamo...
Congolese sex workers attacked for infecting Ugandans with HIV/AIDs
The government of Uganda is concerned about a great number of Congolese sex workers who have recently invaded Karamoja region in North eastern Uganda...
The Great Deception: The Myth of a Non-Homosexual Africa
During the recent Synod of African Bishops in Rome, it appears the issue of homosexuality in Africa assumed some major significance. Archbishop Robert Sarah,...
Author Naija Launches New Book SPANISH FLYY
In SPANISH FLYY, Dr. Raquel Howard is back again and living the glamorous life, spending money she coldly inherited after the demise of her...
Zimbabwe: PWDs demand condom packs in Braille to promote safe sex
Visually impaired people in Zimbabwe have made a bold request to
government that condom packs be written in Braille to help them engage
in “safe sex”.
Through...
Men on Men rape cases in DR Congo: The ordeal of “bush wives”
Nearly 200 000 women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have fallen victim to sex crimes since 1996. Very little is known about...
Virginity begins at the tip of the doctor’s scalpel
The majority of women who seek hymen repair in France live in constant fear that the absence of blood on the wedding night risks...
Kenya: Was the women’s sex strike a success?
Wednesday 29 April, ten women’s organisations called on Kenyan women to forsake the pleasures of the flesh in order to push the government to...
Globalization: Learning English for sex in Nigeria…
Many young people in French-speaking Benin are learning English to adapt to globalization, but some young women have another goal: to enter the thriving...
Of African women, Greeks, the art of sex and politics
May Day brought with it not only the first whiff of spring but a crop of strikes and protests – the canoodling season and...
Secret hymen repair in Morocco
A Moroccan gynecologist, who wishes to remain anonymous, has been practicing hymen repair in Casablanca, Morocco for about two years now. She returned to...
Zimbabwe Constitution: Gays fear Mugabe’s animosity
The drafting of Zimbabwe’s constitution, already faced with confrontations from interest groups, has seen the homosexual community calling for their rights to be...
Egypt: “Metro”, eroticism banned
Metro, the first graphic novel in Arabic, has become the latest cause of a loud Egyptian clamour. The cartoonist, Magdy el-Shafee, accused of violating...
Sierra Leone: Clitoris cutting now an adult only affair
In Sierra Leone village chiefs, community members and women who perform female genital cutting have signed an agreement stating that girls in northern Kambia...
Black women seeking clitoris reconstruction not a luxury
Amid high demand from victims of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) for clitoral reconstruction surgery available in Burkina Faso, the procedure remains unaffordable...
Virgin before marriage, indispensable or superfluous?
At the dawn of the XXI century, virginity is still a delicate subject. What do Africans and Afro Caribbeans think about this phenomenon? Is...
I am a dying African bestial porn actor stranded in Europe
Lolita is from Nigeria and at only 26 years of age her testimony seems almost unbelievable. Her story perfectly illustrates some of the hardships...
Rapists in northern Ivory Coast on the loose
Women in villages around Korhogo, 630 km north of Abidjan the capital of Côte d’Ivoire, dare not walk to their fields alone for fear...
Prostitute! Forced sex through Africa to Europe on a bus
Janny* just arrived in Paris. She is West African, abused, raped, exploited, she thought that her life would be much better in Europe. To...