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Somalia
I think Somalia should be changed to Orange. Thankfully I have found no evidence that suggests it punishes LGBT people with death.

South Sudan
South Sudan is a sovereign nation as of today. It split from Sudan and has its own legal code, which does not prescribe capital punishment for homosexuality. Please change the map. Thanks. 03:24, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Benin
Benin it is marked orange (severe penalty). For a long time Benin was listed among those African countries with sodomy laws in many publications; however, this was based on an error. The source cited was a publication of the "Université du Benin", which has its name from the geographical notion Benin (covering the whole region like in "gulf of Benin") and is acutally situated in Togo. The penal code referred to in this publicaiton of 1990ies is the togolese penal code. In Benin, however, the penal code is still the colonial "code Bouvenet" of 1877, which (like French legislation since the Code Napoleon) contains no provisions explicitly directed against homosexual acts (http://www.fluechtlingshilfe.ch/herkunftslaender/africa/benin/benin-situation-von-homosexuellen; cf. also the latest ILGA-report). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.208.26.165 (talk) 05:48, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Reunion and Mayotte
All of France's overseas territories have gay marriage along with the mainland, and should be dark blue. Hihellowhatsup (talk) 14:42, 18 May 2013 (UTC)