Gay sex will be legal in Angola from February 2020 after the country’s National Assembly gave final approval to its new Penal Code.
Lawmakers in the southwestern African country voted in January 2019 to drop a ‘vices against nature’ law that the authorities historically used to prosecute gay sex.
But it has taken until now for the parliament to give final approval to the new Penal Code which replaces one from 1886. Meanwhile the code also significantly expands its discrimination protections – to include sexual orientation.
It now includes ‘race, color, ethnicity, place of birth, sex, sexual orientation, illness or physical disability or psychic, belief or religion, political or ideological convictions, condition or social origin or any