Malawi's president vows to repeal gay ban

President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to abolition Malawi's laws adjoin homosexual acts, traveling adjoin a trend in Africa in which gays are getting more singled out for prosecution.Banda, who affected the admiral in April if her antecedent died, fabricated the advertisement in her aboriginal accompaniment of the nation address. Indecency and aberrant acts laws shall be repealed," she said. But repealing a law requires a aldermanic vote, and it is cryptic how abundant political abutment Banda would accept for across-the-board changes in this bankrupt and bourgeois nation in southern Africa.Malawi had faced all-embracing accusation for the confidence and 14-year bastille sentences accustomed in 2010 to two men who were arrested afterwards adulatory their assurance and were answerable with aberrant acts and gross indecency.Then President Bingu wa Mutharika pardoned the brace on "humanitarian area only" while insisting they had "committed a abomination adjoin our culture, adjoin our religion, and adjoin our laws.