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KIGALI, Rwanda — Friends of Albert Nabonibo, a well-known gospel singer in Rwanda who recently came out as a gay man, do not want their names revealed. It is too shameful, one says. Another says he is anguished because his family knows he often used to socialize with Nabonibo. Nabonibo shocked many Rwandans in August when he revealed in an interview with a Christian YouTube channel that he is gay in a country where such a public assertion of homosexuality is unheard of.

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Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer LGBTQ community in Rwanda have expressed concern over their safety due to increasing cases of violence against them. While this week neighboring Uganda passed a law that make it illegal for one to identify as gay, lesbian, or transgender Rwandan laws are silent on homosexuality with members of the community opting to quietly. However, there is concern that the ongoing debate on social media networks across the region is beginning to fuel homophobia in a country that has largely been safe for the LG- BTQ community. Rwanda Investigations Bureau RIB says it has not received any cases of violence related to sexual orientation, but members of the community told Rwanda Today that there are increasingly concerned about their safety.

Nairobi — Rwandan authorities rounded up and arbitrarily detained over a dozen gay and transgender people, sex workers, street children, and others in the months before a planned June high-profile international conference, Human Rights Watch said. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting CHOGM , first scheduled for June and rescheduled for June , was eventually postponed indefinitely in May. Between April and June , Human Rights Watch interviewed via telephone 17 former detainees from Gikondo. Interviews with nine people who identified as transgender or homosexual, three women who were detained with their babies, four men who worked as street vendors at local markets, and a year-old boy living on the streets in Kigali, confirmed that patterns of abuse that Human Rights Watch documented previously are ongoing.