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Yaounde – Rights activists in Cameroon and abroad have praised the daughter of President Paul Biya for announcing that she is in a same-sex relationship. By challenging the country’s stringent anti-homosexuality laws, campaigners hope Brenda Biya’s declaration will help highlight the persecution faced by LGBTQ+ people in Cameroon. <\/em><\/p>\n Brenda Biya, 26, shared a photo on social media late last month that showed her embracing Brazilian model Layyons Valen\u00e7a.<\/p>\n The post was accompanied by the caption:…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Yaounde – Rights activists in Cameroon and abroad have praised the daughter of President Paul Biya for announcing that she is in a same-sex relationship. By challenging the country’s stringent anti-homosexuality laws, campaigners hope Brenda Biya’s declaration will help highlight the persecution faced by LGBTQ+ people in Cameroon. Brenda Biya, 26, shared a photo on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610877:34428f7b207e6bb719bc7f57789738ed:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[6008,258,256,4698,377,7796,9803,8868,257,7527,254],"class_list":["post-176605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-activists","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-change","tag-daughter","tag-hope","tag-news","tag-presidents","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610877:34428f7b207e6bb719bc7f57789738ed:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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