Angola has decriminalised homosexuality, lifting an archaic ban on same-sex relationships and introducing anti-discrimination protections.
A new law overturned a ban on same-sex relationships which was inherited from when the country was a Portuguese colony. The ban described same-sex relationships as a “vice against nature”.
Activist Jean-Luc Romero-Michel tweeted that the law was a “great step forward” in the fight against state-sponsored discrimination against the LGBT+ community in the Southern African nation.
He wrote: “The law decriminalising homosexuality adopted in Angola in 2019 took effect today.
“Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is now reprehensible and even punishable by prison.