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In December 2022, 19 people were arrested on similar charges. None of these cases have resulted in a conviction. [21] In August 2023, 69 people were arrested in Warri for allegedly participating in a same-sex marriage. The police livestreamed the arrest on their Facebook page, a practice the Federal High Court had ruled illegal in 2022. [22]
In Réunion and Madagascar, intermarriage between Chinese men of Cantonese origin and African women is not uncommon. [220] Many Chinese men working in Africa have married Black African women in Angola, South Africa, Gabon, Tanzania, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Lagos in Nigeria, Congo & Ethiopia and fathered children with them. [221] [222]
Marcus Brandon becomes first gay African-American male state legislator to be elected to office (North Carolina General Assembly). [40] The Bahamas decriminalizes homosexuality. June 5 – Minneapolis woman CeCe McDonald is arrested for the stabbing death of a man in purported self-defense after McDonald and her friends were assaulted outside a ...
A Nigerian man was arrested in Texas 11 months after he was indicted in connection with an alleged romance fraud scheme that netted more than $3.3 million.
In 1958, the Lovings married in Washington, D.C. to evade Virginia's anti-miscegenation law (the Racial Integrity Act). On their return to Virginia, they were arrested in their bedroom for living together as an interracial couple. The judge suspended their sentence on the condition that the Lovings leave Virginia and not return for 25 years.
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
A Nigerian senator and his wife were remanded in custody in London on Thursday charged with plotting to have a 15-year-old boy brought into the United Kingdom to harvest his organs, the BBC and ...
A wealthy Nigerian couple plotted to bring a poor street trader to the UK to harvest his kidney for their daughter in exchange for up to £7,000 and the promise of a better life, a court has heard.