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At the UN LGBTI Core Group's General Assembly event, Volker Türk said persecution is escalating 'at an alarming rate.' The Netherlands and UK pledged new money to fill the hole left by US aid cuts. Washington sent no official representative.
For the first time a Senegalese public authority has acknowledged using anorectal examinations in a criminal investigation involving cisgender heterosexual women. Medical bodies have been clear for a decade that the procedure proves nothing.
Senegal's Constitutional Council struck down a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage that had passed the National Assembly unanimously — on a technicality that has nothing to do with LGBTQ+ rights.
Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Senegal have each moved to criminalize or further punish LGBTQ+ people in 2026. Rights groups say the timing and language are too similar to be coincidence.
On June 29, Senegal's National Assembly amended the constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. It passed unanimously, and it caps a brutal year for the country's LGBTQ+ people.
A court in a Dakar suburb sentenced a young man to six years in prison for 'acts against nature' — the first ruling since Senegal doubled the maximum penalty for same-sex relations in January.
From Senegal's doubled penalties to Ghana's revived criminalization bill, a worsening climate for LGBTQ+ Africans has deep roots in US evangelical influence — now turbocharged by the Trump administration.
President Faye signs sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that doubles maximum sentences to 10 years and criminalizes advocacy, drawing international condemnation.
