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Ousmane Sonko
PoliticianLean Right
Senegal's Prime Minister who introduced legislation to increase penalties for same-sex relations.
Notable Quotes
"If an act is committed with a minor, it will attract the maximum penalty."View Story →
"We can achieve the intended objectives without going so far as to elevate the acts to the level of more serious crimes."View Story →
"anyone committing an act against nature will be punished by five to 10 years' imprisonment."View Story →
"We can achieve the intended objectives without going so far as to elevate the acts to the level of more serious crimes."View Story →
"acts against nature"View Story →
""Those in the opposition who are stirring things up will go to their Western masters and say, look how bad they are. They are repressing homosexuals.""View Story →
"He said that the mines minister would announce further measures to curb government spending in the coming week."View Story →
"I have taken a number of drastic measures to restrict everything related to government spending"View Story →
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