Senegal PM slams West’s ‘homosexual tyranny’, defends LGBTQ crackdown

Key points

• Senegal’s prime minister has condemned the West, accusing it of attempting to impose homosexuality on the West African nation.
• Ousmane Sonko made the remarks while addressing the Assembly on Friday.
• During his speech, he defended newly introduced laws targeting Senegal’s LGBTQ community as part of a broader crackdown on same-sex relations – measures that have drawn criticism from human rights activists.
• “There is a kind of tyranny.
• There are eight billion human beings in the world, but there is a small nucleus called the West which, because it has resources and controls the media, wants to impose it [homosexuality] on the rest of the world,” Sonko said.