The first LGBTQ+ community hub has been set up in Accra, the capital of Ghana, with its opening causing divides in the country where same-sex relations are still illegal and punishable by imprisonment.
According to local news outlet, The Maravi Post, the centre was set up by LGBT+ Rights Ghana, and its opening was attended by a handful of diplomats, including Australian high commissioner, Gregory Andrews.Executive secretary of the anti-LGBTQ+ National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, Moses Foh-Amoaning, has demanded the hub be shut down, saying LGBTQ+ people are not recognised under Ghana’s human rights laws: “The presidency, the ministry of foreign Affairs and the IGP have every right to investigate that office.