Burundi President Ndayishimiye calls for stoning of gay couples
Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye launched a virulent anti-gay tirade on Friday, saying same-sex couples should be publicly stoned. However, homosexuality in Burundi, a conservative Christian country in East Africa, has been criminalized since 2009, with prison terms of up to two years for consensual same-sex acts. Ndayishimiye, a Catholic, described marriage between same-sex couples as…
