Culture Country outlaws rape - in [current year]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42604496

In the past, a victim's family could force them to marry their rapist to avoid being shamed.

Rapists now stand to face at least 30 years in prison.

Somaliland declared itself independent from Somalia in 1991 but is not internationally recognised as a country. There is still no law against rape in Somalia.

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Somaliland's speaker of parliament, Bashe Mohamed Farah, told the BBC that rape cases have risen and he hoped the new law would help stop that trend.

"Nowadays we have seen even people carrying out gang rapes," he said.

"The main emphasis of the new act is to completely stop rape."

The new law has come in after years of lobbying by children and women's rights advocates.

Faisa Ali Yusuf of the Women's Agenda Forum told the BBC they have been waiting for such legislation for a very long time.

The BBC's Anne Soy explains that the new law comes within the context of the self-declared republic being keen to be seen internationally as a viable democracy with functioning institutions.

 

[CWCchange]

B-b-but it's their culture you racist imperialists!

 

[isBubba]

Everytime I feel that the West might be moving in the wrong direction Africa is there to remind me that things could be so much worse.

 

[Jaiman]

rape is finally over!

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Just let China take over Africa its for your own good.

 

[IV 445]

Just let China take over Africa its for your own good.

That’s....actually not a bad idea

 

[Rand /pol/]

Just let China take over Africa its for your own good.

That’s....actually not a bad idea

They already do

 

[CWCchange]

Africa is a powder keg of natural resources waiting to explode into WWIII with China. I suppose arming Saudi Arabia wasn't that much of a bad move, and India already has conflict at their border with China.

 

[ICametoLurk]

>Rape is legal in Somalia

Any of you interested in going on a tour in Somalia? For non-rape reasons of course.

 

[OhGoy]

tfw no 21st century cecil rhodes

 

[CWCchange]

Gee, and you wonder why Eurocucks are so baffled about why those poor Syrian child refugees from Somalia break into hospitals and rape women in labor.

 

[Ghostapplesause]

Good.

 

[Tookie]

Maybe Sweden can give it a shot next.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

They already do
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Its funny how China has basically stolen the British rule book to Imperialism when we basically fucked China hard with the Opium wars.

 

[GabeRegan]

Gee, and you wonder why Eurocucks are so baffled about why those poor Syrian child refugees from Somalia break into hospitals and rape women in labor.

This explains a lot actually.

 

[r00]

I read the headline and got scared that willie nelson and Merle haggard had been accused of some sex crimes.

 

[Rosechu Got Fat]

Hanging out for the BBC Pidgin translation.

 

[SpicyNigerian]

Almost every other country in Africa hates Somalia. They suck.

 

[Adolf Von Merkel]

I think if a self-declared indepent region in your country work harder than you in those issues , you might at least know how exceptional country you are.

 

[ES 148]

Hanging out for the BBC Pidgin translation.

"IT ALL OVA BOYOS RUN AWE BEFO THE COP-MAN COME"