Why are Kenya and Uganda cracking down on LGBTQ rights?

A new law passed in Uganda appears to be the first to outlaw merely identifying as LGBTQ, a rights group says.

Al Jazeera

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Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp not yet safe for LGBTI asylum seekers

LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees living in one of Kenya’s biggest refugee camps routinely suffer hate crimes, violence, including rape, and other serious human rights abuses.

Amnesty International
Homophobia in Uganda is a horrifying demonstration of colonialism and evangelism at work

The Global North brought homophobia to Africa first through brutal European colonisation, and later through American evangelism

Canary