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Mohamed and Ahmed began their usual romantic encounter behind closed doors, when, to their surprise, Ahmed's sister unexpectedly entered the room. The heat enveloped year-old Mohamed, as he zig-zagged through the alleyways of Hargeisa. For years Mohamed's family tried to make him more like other boys - tougher, more "masculine".

His oldest brother was instructed to teach him certain passages of the Koran and its companion scripture, made up of sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, the Hadith. Hargeisa is the capital of the self-declared state of Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia nearly 30 years ago. She began yelling, waking up the whole house.

Institutions designed to reform children, teenagers and young adults who are judged to have strayed from Somali values are scattered throughout Hargeisa, and the rest of Somaliland and Somalia. I have seen gays in Mogadishu, Kismaayo (where there was even a gay brothel!), and yes, Hargaysa.

He would often try on their dresses, and after being caught for the third time, his mother felt that she had to do something. When people are young they forget things quickly. They even sent him to have a female spirit driven out with hallucinogenic drugs. The courts enforce Islamic law, Sharia, which deems homosexuality illegal, so.

He's planning for you to go to hell in the afterlife," Mohamed says. And also women who make themselves look like men. Mohamed was secretly visiting his boyfriend, Ahmed, an act punishable by imprisonment and sometimes death in Somaliland. Finally, when Mohamed was 12, his mother sent him to a "rehabilitation centre".

They would discuss girls at night during pillow talk, and then pointedly ask him, "So what's your favourite part of a girl's body? HARGEISA (Somaliguardian) – Somaliland authorities have arrested at least 40 people in crackdown on people accused of homosexuality, a member of the separatist region’s House of Elders said on Saturday.

It was around noon, during the summer of The city was asleep for the daily siesta - shops, restaurants and offices were all closed - so it was a perfect time for anyone who needed to move around under the radar. Hargeisa is the capital of the self-declared state of Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia nearly 30 years ago.

Help me from God, he's burning me in hell! However, organizing to create a "gay scene" is highly unadvisable, for safety reasons. I used to wake up in the middle of the night in a sweat screaming: 'Oh help me! Mohamed gravitated towards makeup and beauty, preferring to spend time with his sisters rather than his brothers.

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They live in fear of being exposed. For a while Mohamed attempted to satisfy his family's wish to behave more like other boys. The courts there enforce Islamic law, Sharia, which deems homosexuality illegal, so LGBT+ Somalis must conceal their sexuality. The President of the Republic of Somaliland, H.E.

Muse Bihi Abdi, recently inspected the Hargeisa Club, a government hotel designated to become a national hotel following extensive renovations and . Mohamed and Ahmed lived in Hargeisa, the capital of the self-declared state of Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia nearly 30 years ago.

When he was young he shared a room with his older brothers and male cousins. Eventually, writes Layla Mahmood, they decided to kill him. For Mohamed, who says he is quite feminine, it was harder to pass as straight than for some others. Within minutes Mohamed was out of the door and hiding at a friend's home, where he received a chilling phone call from a well-wisher: "Don't come back home, they are preparing to kill you.

Shamsa and Isfahan are a lesbian couple from Hargeisa, Somaliland, who had lived together in Rome, and are back in Hargeisa living in a seven bedroom house with four other lesbian couples.