The law decriminalising homosexuality adopted in Angola in 2019 took effect today. Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is now reprehensible and even punishable by prison.

Anew law decriminalising same-sex sexual relations in Angola has gone into effect on Wednesday.

According to reports, the new law overturned a colonial-era ban on homosexual relations which described it as "vice against nature”.

Activist Jean-Luc Romero-Michel tweeted, "The law decriminalising homosexuality adopted in Angola in 2019 took effect today. Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is now reprehensible and even punishable by prison."

He said it was “a great step forward” in the fight against state-sponsored discrimination against the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer and intersex) community.

Reacting to this development, Nigerian novelist, Elnathan John, predicts that Nigeria would likely adopt the law decriminalising homosexuality.

He wrote on his twitter handle, "So apparently the law decriminalising homosexuality in Angola goes into effect today. For those who think Nigeria is not ready, there are African countries doing this. It is possible. No decent society should have laws punishing people for their sexuality."

The changes were passed in January 2019 by Angola’s parliament, but was not signed into law by the country’s president until November 2020. The new law also prohibits discrimination based upon a person’s sexual orientation.

The changes came from the first rewriting of the country’s penal code since gaining independence in 1975. Angola had previously been a colony of Portugal, and the amended laws had been a remnant of the colonial-era rule that encouraged discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community.

According to Human Rights Watch, the previous laws on same-sex sexual relations had been rarely prosecuted, but served as a basis for undue scrutiny and discrimination. The new law includes imprisonment of up to two years for discrimination based on sexual orientation.

At the time, passage of the new law was seen as part of a broader effort strengthening the rights of LGBTQ+ people in the country. The government had given legal status in 2018 to the advocacy group, Iris Angola. The group called the move an “historic moment” in defending the rights of the community in the country.

“This is an act of sovereignty by the Angolan State which, after 134 years of being governed in the criminal and criminal fields, with a code that has been in force since 1886, from the colonial administration, now has the penal code totally inspired by political reality, legal, cultural and social Angolan,” Francisco Queiroz, minister of justice and human rights, said at the time. “Therefore it is an aspect that must be underlined, this is one of the consolidation of the national sovereignty.”

Meanwhile, SaharaReporters had earlier reported the latest memorandum signed by United States President, Joe Biden, aimed at expanding protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people worldwide, including potentially through the use of financial sanctions.

The Biden Presidency threatened "swift and meaningful" responses, including financial sanctions against countries found guilty of human rights abuses of LGBTQI+ persons

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2021/02/10/angola-decriminalises-same-sex-sexual-relationships

Ok

Change has come

Angola dey always overdo things.If you use Angola brush brush teeth that year you go know say khaki no be leather. Their brush wey dey peel gum

Say what now?

This is a welcomed development. Just yesterday, I saw a video of two adult males on Facebook, been beaten because they were caught having sex.

Why are Nigerians this backward? How is it your business what two consenting adults do with their body?

We seriously need to learn how to mind our business. Gays have come to stay, it's only a matter of time before it becomes a norm.

America you cast today was even more homophobic than Nigeria. If you think Nigeria wouldn't succumb, you're delusional.

It's just a matter of TIME.

Lawdis:
....you gays try approach me and regret being a gay based on the type of 2by2 hard wood I will use to dismantle your skull

......rubbish

Girls don't even find you attractive, and you're here fantasizing about a gay approaching you. Stop dreaming

Lawdis:
....you gays try approach me and regret being a gay based on the type of 2by2 hard wood I will use to dismantle your skull

......rubbish

You made me laugh seriously

Guys in Angola will be standing along the roads as ashawo. Click on the first link on my signature to know how you will be making profits of millions of naira from export business.

GodWrites:
The law decriminalising homosexuality adopted in Angola in 2019 took effect today. Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is now reprehensible and even punishable by prison.

Source: h tt p://saharareporters.com/2021/02/10/angola-decriminalises-same-sex-sexual-relationships

Happy Days

GodWrites:


Girls don't even find you attractive, and you're here fantasizing about a gay approaching you. Stop dreaming

Did they send you

The Biden Presidency threatened "swift and meaningful" responses, including financial sanctions against countries found guilty of human rights abuses of LGBTQI+ persons

Fear of America sanctions is the beginning of wisdom

Finally


Hopefully Nigeria will come thru soon and start acting like a sane nation cuz nobody should be discriminated fr whatever hole he/she wishes to penetrate so far its with mutual consent



Happy birthday sir

Tueh!!

Yeye country, Angola falling for american treat because of money and aid just like our girls in arab countries that opens that mouth to be defacated into by those useless idiots for money. Not until Africa stops receiving aids from western world, we wont know what we have to be harnessed for a greater Africa. God heal Africa is all i pray just like u healed Rwanda.

The fear of America

Ok

We have more pressing issues and homosexuality is not one of them

Good one

Live and let live

The beast agenda is getting fulfilled through Biden

Danhoys:
This is a welcomed development. Just yesterday, I saw a video of two adult males on Facebook, been beaten because they were caught having sex.

Why are Nigerians this backward? How is it your business what two consenting adults do with their body?

We seriously need to learn how to mind our business. Gays have come to stay, it's only a matter of time before it becomes a norm.

America you cast today was even more homophobic than Nigeria. If you think Nigeria wouldn't succumb, you're delusional.

It's just a matter of TIME.

Will u keep kwayet...can u allow ur child or children indulge in something of this nature

Lol jubril how about you?..

Are people really born gay?

They have finally bowed to pressure. May God help us.

Danhoys:
This is a welcomed development. Just yesterday, I saw a video of two adult males on Facebook, been beaten because they were caught having sex.

Why are Nigerians this backward? How is it your business what two consenting adults do with their body?

We seriously need to learn how to mind our business. Gays have come to stay, it's only a matter of time before it becomes a norm.

America you cast today was even more homophobic than Nigeria. If you think Nigeria wouldn't succumb, you're delusional.

It's just a matter of TIME.

just

Shame on them

GodWrites:


Girls don't even find you attractive, and you're here fantasizing about a gay approaching you. Stop dreaming

Are you a gay too, ...na iron me go nack any gay that approach me

Nice one....

Crazy World we are in.
Though the normal sexual orientation is straight based on nature...however humans in quest for inordinate desires and reprobate mindset are thwarting the norm in this world.
Parents are in for a great task in the nearest years.
I'm not surprised some countries already allowing their citizens marry animals and innanimates!!!!

Well they'll tag it sexuality rights.
SMH

Proactivity Leads To Productivity!!!!!

@SeniorWriter