'Public lynching': Senegal cracks down on LGBTQ+ community

Amplifying the repression, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would double the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Homosexuality has long been a hot-button issue in the Muslim majority and deeply religious West African nation. But in early February, a dozen men were arrested, including two local celebrities, accused of "acts against nature" -- a term used to describe same-sex relations. That spurred a wave of arrests...