Senegalese Islamic NGO Jamra has announced plans for the creation of a national monitoring group to oppose secularism and the decriminalization of homosexuality in the West African nation.

Jamra president Imam Massamba Diop told Dakaractu.com that he planned to form a coalition with like-minded groups, including Senegalese Christian groups to ‘block the way’ for any attempt to decriminalize homosexuality.

Two gay men, one French and one Senegalese, were arrested by police and charged for having gay sex after a row broke out between them.

They are due to be prosecuted for indecency and 'acts against nature'.

It is claimed tourist Michel Coatanoan, a 47-year-old French finance inspector, arranged to meet Amadou Tidiane Sall, a 24-year-old Senegalese via an online gay dating site.

Coatanoan, was enjoying a holiday in the sea-side resort of Saly, famous for its beauty and sex-tourism, just south of Dakar,

Two gay guys from Guédiawaye, a suburb of the capital Dakar, were brutally attacked by parents of one of the men, and outed by the media.

The two, who have been outed by the Senegalese media as Mouhamadou Lamine Ndour and Pape Diop, were making love at Ndour’s home when his parents suddenly returned and caught them at the act on Thrusday (27 December).

The parents reportedly brutally attacked and beat up the two men.

Ndour has not been seen since the incident by his family and has reportedly fled elsewhere.

A man in Senegal who was jailed for four years for having gay sex is now not going to get help from human rights organizations to free him because their offers of assistance were rejected.

GSN understands it was Tamsir Jupiter Ndiaye’s family and lawyer who turned down help from human rights organizations to appeal his case.

Three human rights bodies publicly said they wanted to help Ndiaye appeal against his prison sentence.

Jupiter Tamsir Ndiaye, a famous journalist and employee of UNESCO along with Matar Diop Diagne, a 27 year-old male merchant, were accused by the public prosecutor of Senegal, on of having committed ‘acts against nature’ (ie gay sex).

The public prosecutor in addition accused Nidaye of inflicting on Diagne grievous bodily harm with an illegal weapon (knife). 

On Wednesday (17 October), a packed court room heard how Ndiaye, who is also a former esteemed professor of humanities, had gay sex with a Diagne in his office in UNESCO’s headquarters in Dakar.

A French court has overturned the Ministry of Interior’s decision to reject the asylum claim by a man who fled homophobic persecution in Senegal.

Kept in detention since 21 July, a 25-year-old gay man known as ‘Lamine’ had filed an asylum application which was rejected following a 15 minute phone interview.

National Association of Border Assistance to Foreigners (ANAFÉ) assisted Lamine in challenging the decision which it claimed had several procedural errors.

A 25-year-old gay man who fled homophobic persecution in Senegal has been denied an asylum application and is likely to be deported.

Lamine, not his real name, was arrested upon landing in Toulouse airport on Saturday for possession of false documentation. He may be deported back to Senegal as early as tomorrow 26 July.

The court's decisions and procedures are being criticised by local aslym associations.