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Check up cameroon apparently it has new laws towards homesexual behavior and same sex marriage.

Mayotte & Reunion

Can somebody add them in dark blue, plz ?

São Tomé, Tanzania, and Somalia

Three things:

• São Tomé: the pinkpaper.com link says the new criminal code "should be in place within four months". Is there any reference that says that it now is? The ILGA State Homophobia 2011 report (from May) still says it's illegal.
• Tanzania: the ILGA report quotes the law which says the penalty is from 30 years to life; should it not be coloured as a "life imprisonment" country?
• Somalia: ILGA says that the Islamic courts in the South impose the death penalty, while Somaliland in the north follows the penal code and imposes imprisonment. But w:en:LGBT rights in Somaliland says that Somaliland also uses the death penalty. And no-one says what happens in Puntland. I would say, color the whole thing as death penalty.

Thoughts? - Htonl (talk) 00:09, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Ceuta y Melilla.

The Canary Islands are a European (Spain) region in Africa, and like african territory are signalated in the map. There are in the map Madeira Island too, and even salvajes Islands (Portugal). But there are not the spanish citis in the north of Africa of Ceuta and Melilla. Both cities are not only two spanish cities, they are two autonomous jurisdictions in the spanish territorial distribution. For this arguments I believe that both should be appear in the map. Thank you. -- FOBOS | algo que decirme 23:57, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Mauritania

Death penalty in Mauritania is not enforced. Please see http://ilga.org/downloads/02_ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2016_ENG_WEB_150516.pdf pag. 11 and update map accordingly. --Baronedimare (talk)

Seychelles

Legalising: In 2016, Seychelles legalized homosexual acts. So in map Seychelles should no longer marked in orange colour. It should be now in grey colour.

• PinkNews: Seychelles repeals colonial-era law banning gay sex --92.76.110.191 13:09, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Tschad

Update of File:African homosexuality laws.svg and

African state Tchad should be marked in orange. Since 2016, homosexual acts are now illegal with up to 10 to 15 years in prison. --188.96.191.159 13:37, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

I second this. Chad should be orange.

Changes so this and the world map match

Checking on where this and the world map disagree.

• Mauritania -- no enforcement of death penalty, no mention of life, so >> orange
• Algeria -- no reason given for change to yellow, so >> orange
• Somaliland -- WP-en says 'could be death' but gives no evidence, so >> orange
• Zambia -- WP-en says 'few if any prosecutions', so >> yellow
• Comoros -- news article 'no known cases', so >> yellow
• Mauritius -- law being revisited, talk of human rights, so >> yellow

If any of these are wrong, please let us know here for the record, so future editors know why they were changed. I checked only a couple other countries. They should probably all be reviewed.

Kwamikagami (talk) 21:32, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

• Ghana - 'not actively enforced'? so >> yellow
• Swaziland - 'in practice unenforced', so >> yellow

Kwamikagami (talk) 22:05, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

• Sudan - 'the death penalty has not been enforced'[1] >> orange
• Libya - militias executing ppl >> striped brown/orange (might as well do same w Somalia, since boundaries are in flux. But no evidence at WP-en for death in Somaliland.)

Libya

ISIS carried out executions, but they no longer control territory. Do any of the militias that do? Kwamikagami (talk) 09:13, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Jubaland

Added to the map, as death is on the books. But has it been carried out? Kwamikagami (talk) 09:13, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Nigeria

Are the northern states executing people, or is this just on the book? Kwamikagami (talk) 09:18, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Gabon

Should the country be orange or yellow? Kwamikagami (talk) 09:26, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Ethiopia

[copied from my talk page]

A few days ago, the UN Human Rights Committee (https://www.ungeneva.org/en/news-media/meeting-summary/2022/10/dialogue-ethiopia-experts-human-rights-committee-commend-efforts) wrote, concerning Ethiopia: "The Committee had received disturbing reports of at least nine criminal convictions of adults who had had sexual relations with persons of the same sex." Would this make switch the country's colour from yellow to orange on the African homosexuality laws map? 178.197.201.154 15:09, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

It would seem to. It doesn't actually say that they were convicted for being gay, only that some gays had been convicted, convicted for being gay being implied. I'll change the map, but if anyone thinks it's SYNTH to draw that conclusion, please rv me or comment here. Kwamikagami (talk) 19:13, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Uganda

Since this week Uganda also has a death penalty for homosexuality in its laws. (See Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023) Joe vom Titan (talk) 20:57, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Done. Kwamikagami (talk) 12:52, 2 June 2023 (UTC)