Burkina Faso’s army junta has adopted a draft legislation which places it on monitor to turn out to be the newest African nation to criminalize homosexuality. Beforehand, the West African nation was one of many few African nations that allowed same-sex relations, whereas many different international locations on the continent impose extreme penalties for homosexuality. Interim Justice Minister Edasso Rodrique Bayala introduced the draft legislation’s adoption, which now wants parliamentary approval and promulgation by interim army chief Ibrahim Traore to turn out to be legislation. Throughout his announcement, Bayala warned that homosexuality is now an offense that’s punishable beneath the nation’s legislation. Burkina Faso’s transfer follows a pattern of accelerating anti-LGBTQ laws in Africa, with Uganda and Ghana not too long ago enacting harsh anti-LGBTQ legal guidelines.
SOURCE: REUTERS