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A new penal code from Niger's military junta makes same-sex relations punishable by up to ten years in prison, with no room for judicial mercy. Rights monitors say around 40 people have already been detained.
On June 29, Senegal's National Assembly amended the constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. It passed unanimously, and it caps a brutal year for the country's LGBTQ+ people.
One LGBTQ+ Colombian killed every 32 hours in 2025. A Kenyan rights group documents systematic police violence. Sixty-four countries still criminalize same-sex relations. As IDAHOBIT lands Sunday, the global picture is harder than the headlines.
The 2026 report documents a continent-wide rollback: 'propaganda' laws, Pride bans, forced closures of NGOs, and constitutional amendments designed to erase trans people from public life.
