US ambassador seriously angers Zambian leaders after criticising the jailing of a gay couple

Zambia’s Home Affairs minister said a US ambassador who criticised the jailing of a gay couple for 15 years had “crossed the line,” adding that the United States had responded to an official complaint by recalling him. A court in the …

Zambia’s Home Affairs minister said a US ambassador who criticised the jailing of a gay couple for 15 years had “crossed the line,” adding that the United States had responded to an official complaint by recalling him. A court in the southern African nation last month sentenced the couple under the country’s colonial-era sodomy law. […]