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Lots of African nations still impose strict laws governing homosexuality.
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has actually pardoned 2 guys who were jailed last year for having sex with each other.
Their 15- year sentence activated a diplomatic row, which ended in the remembering of the US ambassador.
The two men, Japhet Chataba and Steven Samba, were noted among the names of nearly 3,00 0 detainees to be pardoned to mark Africa Freedom Day, which fell on Monday.
Zambia is a deeply conservative society where homosexual acts are prohibited.
This was legislation inherited from the British colonial era.
Last November, a High Court in the capital, Lusaka, sentenced the 2 guys for having sex “against the order of nature”.
They had actually booked into a lodge, and an employee peeped through