A excessive court docket in Ghana has prohibited civil society teams from holding protests in Accra, citing safety issues. Organizers supposed to mobilize over two million individuals to demand motion from President Nana Akufo-Addo on corruption, residing situations, and delays in signing an anti-LGBT invoice. Nevertheless, the police filed a case that requested the court docket to ban the protests, deliberate between July 31 and August 6, as a result of insufficient personnel as officers have been deployed to supply safety at political rallies amid campaigns for the following elections. Regardless of the ban, organizer Mensah Thompson insists that youth are decided to exhibit and don’t want the authorities’ approval. The deliberate protests mirror a rising pattern throughout Africa, which started in Kenya in June and has since unfold to Uganda and Nigeria.
SOURCE: REUTERS