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In 2014, Jammeh known as homosexuals "vermins" by saying that "We are going to fight these vermins known as homosexuals or gays the identical way we are fighting malaria-causing mosquitoes, if not more aggressively". Within the speech given in Tallinding, Jammeh gave a "ultimate ultimatum" to any gays or lesbians in the Gambia to depart the nation. Previously, the country by no means had any laws towards consensual same-sex exercise. In the country’s Constitution's Article 629, identical-intercourse exercise is criminalized with as much as 15 years to life imprisonment. Queer Moroccan Refugees experience social discrimination, violence including rape and imprisonment. In Uganda there were recent efforts to institute the dying penalty for homosexuality till March 22, 2023, the place gay sex is punishable by the death penalty or life imprisonment. And as of March 22, 2023, Uganda passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 to make it illegal to determine as LGBT and made it punishable with life imprisonment, and imposes the dying penalty for aggravated gay sex. In one case a chief was summoned to testify about customary penalties and reported that the penalty was a positive of one cow, which was less than the penalty for adultery. Transvestitic homosexuality additionally existed amongst the Moru, Nyima, and Tira folks, and reported marriages of Korongo londo and Mesakin tubele for the bride price of 1 goat.