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Ghana's Supreme Court has unanimously decided to dismiss two legal challenges to new anti-LGBT legislation that has been criticised by rights groups. Earlier this year, lawmakers passed a bill ...

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two preemptory challenges to a new “gay propaganda” law unanimously approved by the country’s Parliament and awaiting signature by the president.

The ruling paves the way for the president to sign into law what is one of the continent’s most restrictive pieces of ...

If it passes, the law would be among the most punitive of its kind on the African continent toward LGBT people.