AFP's deputy bureau chief for East Africa, based in Nairobi, Previously correspondent in Paris, Dakar and Johannesburg.
May 24, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Kenya's high court has refused to decriminalise homosexuality, fearing this would lead to same-sex union, and adding that science was 'inconclusive' on whether LGBTQ people were 'born that way' #Repeal162
The presiding judge noted that countries like India and others had voted to decriminalise homosexuality, arguments that were "persuasive, but not binding on this country", in a ruling laden with reference to cultural and family values
