It was unclear whether Kato’s killing was linked to his gay rights activism or a front-page story in a Ugandan tabloid that reignited anti-gay sentiments late last year. The story included a list of “top 100 homosexuals” with their photos, addresses and a banner with the words “Hang Them.” Kato’s name and picture were on [...]
The Colony is a new documentary from Al Jazeera. The past decade has seen Chinese economic growth explode across the world and the Chinese economic miracle seems to reach into every imaginable area of manufacturing and natural resources. Filmmakers Brent Huffman and Xiaoli Zhou traveled to Senegal in West Africa to explore the onslaught of Chinese [...]
Medical officials in the UK say the number of women who’ve been subjected to genital mutilation is on the rise. Although the practice is illegal in the country, thousands are considered to be at risk annually — and no one has ever been convicted of the crime.
Correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Uganda, where many question whether the growing influence of American religious groups has led to a movement to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death. As an anti-gay movement spreads across the continent, gay Africans and their families face an increasingly uncertain future of isolation, imprisonment or even execution. [...]
The HIV/Aids epidemic is a huge problem in Africa and it is one that some appear to be taking advantage of. Growing and unregulated Christian evangelical movements are preaching unconventional ways to get rid of numerous terminal illnesses including HIV and cancer. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Awad reports from Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, on how some of [...]
