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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Caroline Kimeu in Nairobi

US Intel executive ‘actively responsible’ for driving anti-LGBTQ+ agenda in Africa, say campaigners

Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International
Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, and her team at the Africa Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Values in Uganda in April 2023 Photograph: Handout

A group of human rights organisations in Africa renewed their calls this week for the American multinational Intel Corporation to dismiss a senior employee over his alleged involvement in fanning the growing anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment in several countries, including Kenya and Uganda.

In a change.org petition, supported by more than a dozen organisations, the rights groups claim that Greg Slater, Intel’s vice-president of global regulatory affairs, has been “actively responsible for exporting, financing, and spreading hate, homophobia” on the continent for decades, through the American conservative organisation, Family Watch International.

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