The Central African nation of Gabon is divided over the Senate’s backing of a pro-gay law which leaves presidential assent as the final leg of what has become a controversial last few weeks in the country.
For a large majority of the cultural and religious polity, they continue to express disgust over a law which they claim the country does not need in the first place decrying its future consequences.
“We need life in Gabon and we know that homosexuality is a gateway to aids, it’s another pandemic, and in the midst of the pandemic, there were other emergencies to deal with than making a spectacle of ourselves in front of the whole of humanity.
The criminalisation of homosexuality went almost unnoticed in this country of less than two million inhabitants when it was adopted last year.
Homosexuality is widely criminalised in sub-Saharan Africa, with more than half of its countries banning homosexual relations – in a few places, with the threat of the death penalty.
