Burkina Faso - July 2024

On 11 July, Burkina Faso’s military junta announced that the Cabinet has endorsed a draft family code, which would - if passed - criminalize homosexuality and ‘associated practices’ for the first time. In a statement on 10 July, Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala said the junta’s Cabinet had endorsed the amended family code draft in a weekly Council of Ministers overseen by interim leader Ibrahim Traoré. The specific penalties were not outlined. The draft law still needs to be passed by parliament and promulgated by the leader of the country’s junta, Ibrahim Traoré.

Sources: Reuters, BBC, Africa News, Barron’s