Laws

Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has backed a controversial bill with some of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but will pass it back to parliament to include provisions for gay people to be rehabilitated. However, at a…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Kaduna state, North-West Nigeria, Senator Uba Sani, has advocated the need to update the nation's laws on firearms to meet recent realities in tackling insecurity. He stated…

Thousands of people demonstrated in Dakar demand a strengthening of the repression of homosexuality in Senegal after the recent rejection by the Parliament of a text hardening the laws on the matter. "No to homosexuality," chanted the…

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law. Working from home in five days quarantine as required by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 after returning from London on Friday, August 13,…