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President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa next month may result in a stark juxtaposition between the growing power of the gay rights movement in the U.S. and the criminalization of homosexuality throughout the African continent.

A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation.

Suspected homosexuals in Cameroon say they have been tortured and raped in prison, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch and three local organizations.

According to a gay group in the East African country of Somalia, a gay teen was stoned to death there by a group connected to Al Qaeda because of his perceived sexual orientation, but a gay website disputes the account.

LGBT activists may be raising concern over Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, who a leading candidate to replace Pope Benedict XVI, as he’s voiced his support for anti-gay bills in Africa.

The Canadian government is reviewing humanitarian funding for an evangelical group that works in Uganda and has described homosexuality as perverted and sinful.

French military were able to free two Mali men before they were executed for allegedly having gay sex.

Transgender sex workers in Ivory Coast have been subjected to horrific abuses by the country’s armed forces, including being sodomized with rifles, according to interviews with victims.

The Ugandan lawmaker who originally authored an anti-gay bill proposing death for some homosexual acts said Friday that a new version of the proposed legislation doesn’t contain the death penalty.

The 938 children village of Nyumbani all saw their parents die. The 97 grandparents saw their middle-aged children die. But put together, the bookend generations take care of one another.