Nigeria moves to outlaw gay sex
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A first public hearing is held in Nigeria's House of Representatives on a new bill seeking to outlaw gay relations.
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South Africa's National Assembly approves a controversial law  aimed at stopping mercenary activity.
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A British colonial era law in India   that criminalizes homosexuality is "not acceptable" and   scrapping it is "fundamental" to the fight against AIDS, the   country's top official leading efforts to end the disease said.
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Conservative Anglican bishops largely   drawn from developing countries are expected to agree on a pact   condemning the ordination of gay clergy, Nigeria's archbishop   said on Wednesday.
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Italy's left is seeking to "eradicate" the traditional family with its plan for a law that would give unmarried couples, including gays, some of the same rights as married couples, the Vatican newspaper said ...Comment
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Sierra Leone MPs pass a bill, which bans under-age weddings but drop a clause to outlaw female circumcision.
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&quot;No Rubba no Hubba Hubba&quot; is the message being pushed in a campaign launched at Parliament today to try and stem the high rate of sexually transmitted infections.
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Australia is to ban alcohol and pornography in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal areas in a bid to curb child sex abuse.
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The Nigerian senate passes a bill  to curb the power of the trade unions, but amends the no-strike clause.
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Egypt has abolished the life-threatening practice of female circumcision, its health ministry says.
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Nigeria said on Monday that it had banned the awarding of government contracts to Halliburton, the oil services company, as a result of the theft of two radioactive devices from its Nigerian subsidiary.
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African governments are  denying access to HIV prevention, counseling, testing and  treatment to gay, bisexuals and transgender people, according  to a new report.
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Nigeria on Saturday suspended a deal by a previous government allowing the private sector to run the country&#39;s federal government-owned &quot;unity&quot; schools.
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by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff. (Kampala) The government of Uganda has has issued a warning to the UN joint program on HIV/AIDS that it risks being thrown out of the country if it offers AIDS education to gays.
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Zimbabwe's parliament passes a controversial bill banning international rights groups from working in the country.
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Gay men remain banned for life from donating blood, the government said Wednesday, leaving in place &#151; for now &#151; a 1983 prohibition meant to prevent the spread of HIV through transfusions.
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The new government in Sierra Leone has vowed to outlaw female circumcision, a common practice in the West African country, the social welfare minister said Monday.