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Read more from Reality Check. Send us your questions. Follow us on Twitter. Skip to content. Homosexuality: The countries where it is illegal to be gay. Share Save. Getty Images. Where is homosexuality still outlawed? And in some countries, efforts to get the laws removed have failed.

Where does Africa stand on homosexuality?

Time for change "Politicians probably noticed it was time to change the penal code and update it to reflect our times," Neela Ghoshal of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch HRW told DW. What's Africa's stance? Curtis Human rights organizations in other African nations such as Kenya and Botswana are currently fighting against the legal discrimination of homosexuals in court.

Angolan TV producers apologise over gays kissing

The programme was produced by a firm owned by the president's son. Jose Eduardo Paulino dos Santos, a leading artist better known by his stage name Coreon Du, has been accused of promoting homosexuality in Angola, where many people hold conservative religious and social values.

Richard Ammon. To cover their truth, many Angolan gays use heterosexual marriage as a way of avoiding harm: so gay life in Angola is mostly hidden by heterosexual masks. But of course once married many continue to have occasional or ongoing same-sex with others; long-term relationships exist but are kept very secret.