Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has pardoned two men who were jailed last year for having sex with each other.
Their 15-year sentence triggered a diplomatic row, which ended in the recalling of the US ambassador who had criticised the sentence.
Zambia is a deeply conservative society where homosexual acts are illegal.
This was legislation inherited from the British colonial era.
Last November, a High Court in the capital, Lusaka, sentenced the two men for having sex “against the order of nature”.
They had booked into a lodge, and a worker peeped through an open window and saw them having sex, the court heard.