Cindy Ngamba is guaranteed a medal at the Paris Olympics. (Getty) Cameroonian refugee Cindy Ngamba has issued a heart-warming message after making history as the first Refugee Olympic Team member to secure a medal. Ngamba, who is based in the UK, beat France’s Davina Michel to reach the 75kg semi-finals on Sunday (4 August), guaranteeing
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Mildred Loic, also known as Shakiro, one of the trans women currently held in jail (Facebook/ Shakiro) Two trans women in the central African country of Cameroon are facing five years in prison on charges of “attempted homosexuality”. Mildred Loic and Moute Rolland were arrested for wearing women’s clothes in the country’s largest city, Douala,
Queer men are more likely to be living with HIV in African countries that criminalise gay sex than those that do not, researchers have said. Johns Hopkins University researchers found that men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan African nations where gay sex with is severely criminalised are at up to five times