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Clerics lead Coast protests against Supreme Court's LGBTQ ruling

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Some of the Mombasa residents who turned up at Makadara Grounds in Mombasa County on September 15, 2023, during an anti-LGBTQ campaign. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Muslim and Christian clerics at the Coast yesterday led a demonstration in Mombasa to denounce the Supreme Court ruling upholding the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights to assemble.

The clerics also asked President William Ruto to "unequivocally denounce LGBTQ" like his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni. They alleged that Ruto "appears to sit on the fence, fearing the wrath of the Western nations".

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