Gay and lesbian business?

Zanzibar, Tanzania – Youth homosexuality is on the rise along east Africa’s Indian Ocean coast and must be stopped, a Muslims clerics’ meeting in Tanzanian’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar said on Thursday.

Dozens of influential imams from around Tanzania said the trend which they said had been observed in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, Tanzania’s commercial capital of Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar was increasingly worrying.

“The youths involved in gay and lesbian business have been increasing in coastal areas such as Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar,” said cleric Maalim Mziwanda Ahmed.

“Although we don’t have statistics, the government in collaboration with the Mufti’s office must do something to help those already in the business,” he said.

On Zanzibar, lawmakers last April amended the penal code to specifically outlaw sexual acts between men and to impose lengthy jail terms for men convicted of seducing boys under the age of 18.

They prescribed a maximum of 25 years in prison for male partners found having sex and seven years for lesbian sexual acts.

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