Nigeria has voted to criminalise gay marriages — instituting prison terms of more than a decade for violations — which has been widely supported.
The gay couple in Malawi, who were spared a prison sentence by a pardon, said on Tuesday they have split nearly six months after the wedding.
A Malawian gay couple who received a presidential pardon for sodomy have called President Bingu wa Mutharika a "caring father".
A gay couple from Malawi have kept out of the public eye after being pardoned and freed, in what a relative said was a deliberate decision.
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Saturday pardoned a gay couple sentenced to 14 years in jail after he held a meeting with the UN’s Ban Ki-moon.
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/ 16 February 2010
Police in Malawi say they have arrested a 60-year-old man in what they describe as a sweep against homosexuals.
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/ 12 January 2010
Two gay men and two lesbians challenging a ban on marriage said their relationships had lasted for years but they felt like third-class citizens.
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/ 11 January 2010
Pope Benedict XVI called laws ignoring the difference between the sexes an "attack" on creation days after Portugal moved to legalise gay marriage.
"Oh, I don’t have a problem with them, as long as they stay out of my face," said a male friend of mine in reply to a discussion on same-sex marriage.
A court in Malawi on Monday denied bail to two men arrested after becoming the first gay couple to marry in the conservative African country.
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/ 28 December 2009
Two Malawian men became the first gay couple to publicly tie the knot, the Nation newspaper reported on Monday.
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/ 12 October 2009
Barrack Obama reaffirmed an "unwavering" commitment to end discrimination against gay people, including the ban on openly serving in the military.
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/ 21 February 2009
Michigan courts can oversee a dispute between lesbian parents who adopted in Illinois even though Michigan doesn’t recognise gay relationships.
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/ 11 October 2008
A sharply divided Connecticut Supreme Court ruled on Friday that gay couples have the right to get married.
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/ 11 October 2008
Portugal’s Parliament voted by a large majority against proposals to allow same-sex marriages in the mostly Roman Catholic country.
Same-sex couples across California exchanged vows and wedding bands on the first weekend since the state began allowing gays and lesbians to marry.
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