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Burkin -fos transitional Parliament passed a bill to ban homosexual actions, just over a year after the draft of the supplemented family code, which criminled homosexuality was adopted by the country’s cabinet.
The new measure unanimously voted on Monday, imposing a sentence of up to five years in prison and became part of wider repression on same -sex relations throughout the continent.
Edas Rodrigo’s Justice Minister Bug announced further State media This “law provides for a prison term from two to five years, as well as fines.”
He added that foreign nationals have caught a violation of the law, will also be deported.
The next stage of the legislation is the signature of the country’s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore, Reuters reports.
Captain Traior seized power in 2022, after forcing another military leader, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henry Damiba, from office.
Earlier, the Sahel nation was among only 22 of 54 African countries, which allowed same -sex relations that were punishable by death or prolonged imprisonment.
Following independence from France in 1960, Burkina Faso did not inherited the laws on anti-mosmess, unlike the former UK colonies on the continent.
The country is socially conservative and religious, less than 10% of people thought they did not follow the faith.
Burkin -fos’s new law corresponds to an increase in the LGBT relations on the continent.
Last year, the neighboring Mali, the Burkin -fos ally, and also ruled the junta, adopted the legislation that criminalizes homosexuality.
In recent years, a significant reaction and criticism against the countries that strengthened their anti-gay paragraph, including the World Bank, which imposed a ban on loan in Uganda due to their anti-LGBT position have emerged.
The ban has since been lifted.
Nigeria is also among the continent countries that have passed laws that prohibit homosexuality. Ghana’s Parliament passed a bill on anti -mosmess last year, but then the president did not sign it into the law.
From all countries, Uganda has adopted the most violent provisions, given that it describes as “exacerbation of homosexuality” by capital offense and a lifetime term for consensus same -sex relations.
