How can you  invite an african to be gay?  was that  the goal of the UN after War wold II ?What an upside down world           !!!!!!!!
With  all these insanities, it will be hard to fight diehard sects such as Boko Haram which have another agenda.


BBC .co.uk
29 January 2012 Last updated at 08:31
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged African leaders to respect gay rights.

Discrimination based on intimate orientation had been ignored or even sanctioned by many states for too long, Mr Ban told an African Union summit.

Homosexuality is illegal in many African countries - a situation which has drawn increasing criticism from activists and the West.

Mr Ban also said the Arab Spring proved leaders "must listen to their people".

The two-day summit, in the AU's new building in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, is set to elect a new AU Commission chair.

South Africa has put forward long-serving minister Nkosozana Dlamini Zuma - the ex-wife of President Jacob Zuma - to challenge the incumbent, Jean Ping of Gabon, who has been in post since 2008.

If Ms Zuma wins Monday's vote, she will be the first woman to take the helm of the 54-nation bloc's executive council.

The AU has already chosen Benin President Thomas Boni Yayi to become AU chairman - replacing Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in the one-year rotating post, the AFP news agency quotes officials as saying.

Ban Ki-moon told delegates that discrimination based on intimate orientation or gender identity "prompted governments to treat people as second class citizens or even criminals".

gay acts are illegal in most African countries, including key Western allies such as Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Botswana.

Both the US and UK have recently warned they would use foreign aid to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised on the socially conservative continent.

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