Sexuality

Randa: A transsexual is above all a human being

Randa: A transsexual is above all a human being

Randa is an Algerian transsexual. She tells her poignant story in a book, The Memoirs of Randa the Trans, which was recently published in...
Namibia: Baby-dumping rates soar among school girls

Namibia: Baby-dumping rates soar among school girls

Female college students across Namibia have caused a stir by holding a mini summit to discuss infanticide and baby dumping amid reports that figures...
Ugandan Sex workers attack religious leaders

Ugandan Sex workers attack religious leaders

Sex workers in Uganda have lashed out at religious leaders who have condemned their trade but failed to encourage programs and projects to help...
Morocco: The loneliness of an intersex

Morocco: The loneliness of an intersex

Neither male nor female, Said, 45, was born intersex (hermaphrodite). As a result of this condition, Said has never had access to real work...
Uganda: Anti-gay minister of ethics and integrity resigns

Uganda: Anti-gay minister of ethics and integrity resigns

Resigning from his ministerial position as Uganda's minister of ethics and integrity, James Nsaba Buturo has called upon Ugandans to continue fighting against...
Anti-gay propaganda splits Uganda priests and churches

Anti-gay propaganda splits Uganda priests and churches

Christianity in Uganda has been hit by anti-gay propaganda which has led to divisions amongst followers as many Christians in the country express surprise at...
Beyond sex: South African school girls seek ‘Fashionable Pregnancies”

Beyond sex: South African school girls seek ‘Fashionable Pregnancies”

Teenage school girls in South Africa say it’s more fashionable to fall pregnant while still a student because “you are like a fool ...
11 year old girl suffers 8 month rape ordeal by 14 men

11 year old girl suffers 8 month rape ordeal by 14 men

An 11 year-old girl was raped by 14 men, including eight juveniles and six grown up men, for a period spanning eight months. Police in...
Teenage boy shocks court after raping 12yr old boy

Teenage boy shocks court after raping 12yr old boy

A Zimbabwean teenage-boy stunned a local court by boldly telling a magistrate that anal sex was “brilliant” following accusations that he forced a 12-year-old...
Ivory Coast makes sex not war

Ivory Coast makes sex not war

Condomerie, the Amsterdam-based condom shop, provided over 2,000 “little blue helmet” condoms for UN soldiers stationed in Côte d’Ivoire on February 1. The prophylactics...
Sex for grades in South Africa leads to death

Sex for grades in South Africa leads to death

Education officials in South African have shut down a high school following an incident involving an 18 year old female learner. The young student...
Homosexuality: Tension between Cameroon and European Union

Homosexuality: Tension between Cameroon and European Union

The European Union (EU) has given more than 300,000€ in funding for gay rights associations in Cameroon. Opposed to these grants, the government argues...
Uganda: Muslim women seek the use of condom

Uganda: Muslim women seek the use of condom

Some Muslim women in western Uganda are demanding that a new HIV prevention programme for Muslims include condom promotion, going against calls by local...
Uganda gays celebrate court victory

Uganda gays celebrate court victory

Gays in Uganda celebrated today, after courts ruled in their favor in a case against a newspaper which called on people to hang them. In...
Honoring the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Honoring the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

December 17th marks the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Sex workers and their allies, clustered in intimate gatherings in cities around...
Football and Sex: 2010 World Cup unsettles a myth

Football and Sex: 2010 World Cup unsettles a myth

The month long grand feast of the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 in June was viewed as having presented a money spinning platform...
Zimbabwe’s unwanted groups on anti gender violence day

Zimbabwe’s unwanted groups on anti gender violence day

Police blocked dozens of gays and sex workers from taking part in a belated launch procession commemorating 16 days of Activism Against Violence Against...
Uganda: A pastor’s quest for the blacklisting of gays

Uganda: A pastor’s quest for the blacklisting of gays

Already a sensitive issue, homosexuality in Uganda is becoming a taboo subject. In recent months, many organizations have sprung up to stop what they...
Sierra Leone youth call for an end to Female Genital Mutilation

Sierra Leone youth call for an end to Female Genital Mutilation

The perspective often missing in the debate regarding female genital mutilation (FGM), a harmful traditional practice involving the partial or total removal of the...
Senegalese traditional dance, sex or pornography?

Senegalese traditional dance, sex or pornography?

A new dance, known as the "Leumbeul", is attracting a growing number of Senegalese women who do not mind showing off their otherwise private...
Pope Benedict XVI and condoms, yes, but…

Pope Benedict XVI and condoms, yes, but…

Is the Catholic Church changing its discourse on the use of condoms as a means to fight against HIV-AIDS? Pope Benedict XVI's book, Light...
Nigerian films to undergo censorship in Uganda

Nigerian films to undergo censorship in Uganda

Uganda government is to soon come up with a law which will subject all films entering the country to censorship. Ugandan legislators have, in recent...
Mapona: An all-Black porn film to fight HIV/AIDS

Mapona: An all-Black porn film to fight HIV/AIDS

Armed with condoms and HIV prevention tools, Tau Morena, a pornographic film producer from South Africa, has decided to take his battle against AIDS...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe, the serial 86 year-old cuckold

Zimbabwe: Mugabe, the serial 86 year-old cuckold

Zimbabwe’s First Lady Grace Mugabe's inexhaustible extra-marital affairs seem to be claiming more lives with the latest being her husband bodyguard, senior police commissioner Cain...
Homophobia:  The violence of intolerance

Homophobia: The violence of intolerance

Seth Walsh was thirteen years old when he walked into the garden of the home he shared with his family in Tehachapi, California last...
Homosexual attacks rise a year after Uganda’s anti gay bill

Homosexual attacks rise a year after Uganda’s anti gay bill

Uganda's homosexual community say that their situation is worsening. Today marks one year since the introduction of an Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda's parliament that...
Shock over Zimbabwe’s hard gang-raping women

Shock over Zimbabwe’s hard gang-raping women

An unprecedented high rate of women gang-raping men in Zimbabwe has baffled the country and has forced police boss to institute full scale investigations into the...
Kenya’s Akuku Danger goes to the Polygamy Hall Of Fame

Kenya’s Akuku Danger goes to the Polygamy Hall Of Fame

Famed internationally for his practice of extreme polygamy, 94 year old Acentus Akuku, aka "Danger", kicked the bucket on October 3 in Kenya after...
Zimbabwe: Male prisoners to get condoms

Zimbabwe: Male prisoners to get condoms

People doing jail time in Zimbabwe’s overcrowded and squalid prisons may soon be receiving an array of contraceptives in a bid to prevent...
Rape in Mecca: Algerians seethe with anger

Rape in Mecca: Algerians seethe with anger

The alleged rape and murder of a young Franco-Algerian girl in Mecca has set Algerian public opinion ablaze. An investigation was opened on Thursday...