PRESIDENT YAHYA

Jammeh, of the impoverished West African nation of Gambia, signs a law criminalising homosexuality with life imprisonment. The law against “aggravated homosexuality” targets “serial offenders” and people living with HIV or AIDS. Authorities arrest at least four men and a 17-year-old boy who are held in secret detention pending an investigation. After the US and the European Union condemn the law, Gambian foreign minister Bala Garba says that aid from foreign powers will not be used as enticement or extortion to accept the human rights of gay people. “We will no longer going to entertain any dialogue on the issue,” he says in a nationally televised address.