Burkina Faso's ruling junta on Monday unanimously passed a law banning homosexuality as part of a wider reform of family and citizenship legislation. The new law, which aligns with a broadening crackdown on homosexuality across Africa, provides for sentences of up to five years in prison as punishment for being gay.
Junta-run Burkina Faso has passed a law banning homosexuality and instituting punishments of up to five years in jail, the latest in a clutch of African nations to pass anti-gay legislation.
Homosexuality is illegal in around 30 African countries but was not banned in Burkina Faso before the military seized power three years ago.
The draft law was unanimously adopted by 71 unelected members of a transitional parliament in place since two coups in 2022 in the West African nation.
"The law provides for a prison sentence of between two and five years as well as fines," Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala said on national broadcaster RTB.
"If a person is a perpetrator of homosexual or similar practices, all the bizarre behaviour, they will go before the judge," he said, adding that foreign nationals would be deported under the law.
The law is part of a wider reform of family and citizenship legislation and will be "popularised through an awareness campaign", officials said.
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250902-burkina-faso-s-junta-passes-law-banning-homosexuality
Posted by Naurgul
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Gays are too good for Burkina Faso anyway
Somehow, someway, this is France’s fault.
The French are making the Burkina Fatso’s gay and using their French gay magic to make them turn on each other. This is all part of a ploy to destroy Captain Traoré’s ketchup factory.
Disappointing. This will be a very popular talking point among Western libs that want to punish Traore for gaining independence and going economic left.
I’m sure this will help the regime liberate the half of the country under terrorist control, somehow.
Pointless cruelty that in no way benefits Burkinabe society, but unfortunately being anti-imperialist and looking good in a red beret does not a Thomas Sankara make. Really fits the 2025 vibe, having a worse version of a good thing from the past.
And still all of your favourite online leftist men will come to defend him.
That’s not gonna stop all the tankies from adulating him for posing as an anti-western che guevara.
Who cares about democracy and human rights, when all that matters is calling the West bad?
The persecution of LGBTQ people, women, ethnic and religious minorities, will steadily increase, but hey they’re now being pillaged by russian oligarchs over western ones, so that’s a win!
It still baffles me how homophobic most African countries are in general. It seems to transcend any religious divide etc. I’m sure there’s some sociological explanation… either that or a coincidence…
I lesn left politicslly speaking, but I will never get why awful any leftist support third world dictatorships over Western democracies and I have seen LGBTQ+ people and women on reddit defending this guy out of spite for Europeans.
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