Gay group in touba, senegal
Map of Senegal shows Touba and Dakar. (Map courtesy of AFP) Manoel, who is a volunteer journalist for the Erasing 76 Crimes and 76 Crimes en français news sites, worked with Colin Stewart, the sites’ editor/publisher, to publish articles about what had happened.
Gay rights campaigners in Africa want to see homosexual acts decriminalised across the continent. Seven men have been jailed for six months in Senegal, after they were found guilty of homosexual acts. A court in Dakar heard police caught the men having sex during a raid.
In an interview, Souleymane Diouf (a pseudonym) recounts the difficult, dangerous work of his small LGBTQ group known as the FREE Collective, which comforts the victims of anti-gay religious militia in the city of Touba in the Diourbel region of Senegal. Touba is considered holy by followers of Mouridism, a Sufi Islamic movement that is popular in Senegal. At last count, of 11 young gay men.
From the African Human Rights Media Network. Their lack of will power first went on display on Sept. The articles led to international financial support for the FREE Collective that allowed the 10 gay men to leave the country.
In an interview, Souleymane Diouf (a pseudonym) recounts the difficult, dangerous work of his small LGBTQ group known as the FREE Collective, which comforts the victims of anti-gay religious militia in the city of Touba in the Diourbel region of Senegal. Touba is considered holy by followers of Mouridism, a Sufi Islamic movement that is popular in Senegal. At last count, of 11 young gay men.
Both men and women are criminalised under this law. In , Senegal officially gained independence from France, which had long since decriminalised same-sex sexual activity. As such the criminalising law is of local origin, having been adopted in the Penal Code.
Last Sunday, ten gay men were arrested during a raid in Touba, the second largest city in Senegal. The raid was motivated by the opening of a new Safiyatoul Amal militia headquarters. For the followers of the Sufi Islamic movement of Mouridism, Touba is a holy city because it is home to the tomb of Shaikh Ahmadou Bàmba Mbàcke, the founder of Mouridism.
Richard Ammon. The government of Senegal has made it clear that homosexuality is un-African. Indeed, homosexuality has been a visible and well-known part of Wolof traditions, and only moralist opinions of the colonialists, later adopted by an increasingly dominant Muslim clergy, led to the suppression of this culture.