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		<title>Uganda&#039;s president claims that gays are &#039;recruiting&#039;</title>
		<link>http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/23/ugandas-president-warns-that-gays-are-recruiting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, has warned that European gays are "recruiting" Ugandan citizens. Speaking at the Young Achievers Awards ceremony on Saturday at the Kampala Serena Hotel, he said: "I hear European homosexuals are recruiting in Africa."]]></description>
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		<title>Argentinian judge permits gay couple to marry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gay couple in Argentina have been given permission to marry by a judge. Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Di Bello were granted the right by Judge Gabriela Seijas in Buenos Aires.]]></description>
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		<title>Calls grow for Uganda to reject anti-gay bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bill in Uganda which would see gay people being executed has led to protests and public calls for it to be rejected. A demonstration was held on Saturday outside the country's embassy in London.]]></description>
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		<title>UK government &#039;concerned&#039; about Uganda&#039;s anti-gay law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK government has released a statement on the proposals in Uganda to execute people who have gay sex following condemnation of the bill from France and America. ]]></description>
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		<title>France condemns Uganda&#039;s proposed anti-gay law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French foreign ministry has attacked a bill in Uganda which would see gay people facing the death penalty or life imprisonment.]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya to conduct census of gays</title>
		<link>http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/2009/10/29/kenya-to-conduct-census-of-gays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya is to conduct a census of gay people in an attempt to control the spread of HIV. The confidential survey will be carried out by the National AIDS/STD Control Programme, starting in January or February next year.]]></description>
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		<title>Human rights groups oppose Uganda&#039;s proposed death penalty for homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventeen human rights groups have called for proposed new laws on homosexuality in Uganda to be scrapped immediately. The proposals could see gay people being executed.]]></description>
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		<title>Ugandan MP proposes that gays should be executed</title>
		<link>http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/2009/10/15/ugandan-mp-proposes-that-gays-should-be-executed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Ugandan MP has proposed that lawmakers should create a new crime of "aggravated homosexuality", which would be punishable by death.]]></description>
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		<title>Man jailed for life over murder and rape of lesbian footballer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man was jailed for life today for the murder and rape of a lesbian South African footballer. Eudy Simelane, a player for Banyana Banyana and prominent South African gay rights activist, was stabbed to death in April 2008.]]></description>
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		<title>Gay men &#039;can be outed by their Facebook profiles&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gay men can be outed by looking at their Facebook friends, a study has found. According to researchers, the information can be found despite discretion and privacy settings.]]></description>
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		<title>Report claims South African runner is intersex</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caster Semenya, the South African runner whose gender has come under scrutiny, is intersex, an Australian newspaper has claimed.]]></description>
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		<title>Caster Semenya unveils glamorous look as she learns she&#039;ll keep gold medal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South African athlete Caster Semenya has learned that she will be entitled to retain her 800-metre gold medal regardless of the results of tests to ascertain whether she is really a man or a woman. She has also taken part in a glamorous magazine shoot.
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		<title>VIDEO: Athlete at centre of gender row given hero&#039;s welcome in South Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 3,000 people were at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg yesterday to welcome home athlete Caster Semenya.]]></description>
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		<title>17-year-old faces homosexuality trial in Senegal</title>
		<link>http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13753.html/</link>
		<comments>http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13753.html/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 17-year-old boy is due to face trial for "acts against nature" in Senegal next week, according to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
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		<title>Gender tests on South African gold medallist sprinter Caster Semenya</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South African sprinter Caster Semenya might have won the 800m in 1min 55.45sec but all eyes are now on whether she is indeed a woman.]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;50-50 chance&#039; of Zimbabwe constitution protecting gays</title>
		<link>http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13628.html/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gay rights campaigners in Zimbabwe believe they have a 50-50 chance of having gay, lesbian and bisexual people protected under the country's new constitution.]]></description>
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		<title>Appeal for Burundi to end criminalisation of homosexuality</title>
		<link>http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13503.html/</link>
		<comments>http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13503.html/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramsey Dehani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Human Rights Watch (HRC) has called on Burundi to reverse its law criminalising gay sex.]]></description>
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		<title>Trial resumes on rape and murder of lesbian sportswoman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protestors gathered outside the Delmas circuit court in South Africa on Wednesday as the trial of three men accused of murdering lesbian soccer player Eudy Simelane resumed. ]]></description>
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		<title>Homophobia blamed for high levels of HIV in African gay men</title>
		<link>http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13334.html/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Geen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research has suggested that HIV rates for gay men in sub-Saharan Africa are ten times higher than the average rate for the general male population.]]></description>
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		<title>British minister condemns Burundi over law criminalising gay sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Development minister Ivan Lewis has attacked the recent decision by the government of Burundi to criminalise gay sex.]]></description>
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