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Alice Nkom has faced death threats for her support for gay rights in Cameroon. A lawyer in Cameroon has been recognised for her work to promote gay rights in Africa with an award from Amnesty International. Alice Nkom has spent a decade defending people accused of practising homosexuality. Homosexual acts are illegal in Cameroon and carry a five-year prison term.

Ms Nkom described the award, which she received from the German branch of Amnesty International in Berlin on Tuesday, as a "prize of hope". From your family to the workplace to everywhere.

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The year-old lawyer became the first black gay to be called to the bar in Cameroon in She vowed to continue her work despite being sent death threats and warnings from government officials that she could face imprisonment. The campaign for gay rights in Africa has been hit in recent weeks by a new law in Uganda which allows life imprisonment for acts of "aggravated homosexuality" and also criminalises the "promotion of homosexuality".

Africa remains the continent with the toughest anti-gay lawswith homosexual acts punishable by death in Mauritania and South Sudan and parts of Nigeria and Somalia. Will author change attitudes to gay Africans? Where is it illegal to be gay? Cameroon country profile.

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