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After a 2014 failure to pass a law that kills homosexuals in Uganda, the government in Uganda in his latest announcement has said it will bring back the law that will allow for the death penalty in Uganda. The east Africa nation said this new law will prevent the rise in "unnatural sex", which is also not part of the country culture.

                        

According to Simon Lokodo, country’s ethics and integrity minister said that;

Homosexuality is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recruitment by gay people in schools, and especially among the youth, where they are promoting the falsehood that people are born like that. 

Our current penal law is limited. It only criminalises the act. We want it made clear that anyone who is even involved in promotion and recruitment has to be criminalised. Those that do grave acts will be given the death sentence.

The country in 2014 introduced the law, and received backlash and sanctions from different countries, which includes, Visa restrictions from the US and cancelling its military exercises, The World Bank, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands also suspended or redirected aid.

Lokodo said the country will not be deterred in its determination to support the country's president in its resolve to pass the law before the end of the year.

Reacting to the latest development is Pepe Julian Onziema Sexual Minorities Uganda, an alliance of LGBTQ+, condemned the latest development and said the law will not only affect gays in Uganda, but also criminalizes folks like himself that advocates for the rights of LGBTQ+. 

Onziema also reported that three gay men and transgender woman had recently been killed.

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Germany Parliament has said "Ja" to same-sex marriage in a snap vote. The bill passed 393 to 226, with the German vice-chancellor, Angela Merkel voting against the bill, however, more than 70 conservative bloc members of Merkel vote in favour of the bill.

    

   Volker Beck of the Green party, who is also an open gay person celebrated the new bill on his lasy day in parliament.

Explaining while she voted No on the bill, Angela Merkel said that she understood marriage to be an institution between a man and a woman, however, she said she believes the new bill will help promote "more social peace."

Merkel also said that she has come to the conclusion that same-sex couple should be able to adopt children, which is something the new bill legalizes.

Volker Beck of the Green party, who also had been a strong voice in approving same-sex marriage called the vote "a success for democracy."

80% of Germans are in support of allowing homosexuals couples to marry and adopt children.

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Enugu, Nigeria: 2 Christian church leaders, a pastor and Apostle have been arrested and detained in Ngwo community in Enugu, after they were caught having sex in the middle of the night. 

 

              

According to local media, around 1:00am, a vigilante group monitoring activity in the area apprehended a pastor and apostles who had been previously reported to be in a gay relationship. The two were caught and detained by the vigilante group who had kept a tab on the pastor after he was reported to have molested a twelve year old boy, and ejaculated in his mouth.

He had previously ever having anything to do with the young boy, but after he was exposed and asked about the act, he said "I only masturbated him and kissed him"

Homosexuality is an act that is frown upon in Nigeria and other African countries, and anybody caught in gay relationship or caught having sex with same gender can face a minimum of 14 years in prison.

There is no gay rights in Nigeria.

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