Ghanaian police have shut a LGBT resource centre that was recently opened in the capital, Accra, following a public outcry.
Rights groups, including National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values and the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference , have been calling on the government to close the centre.
The centre was opened with a fundraiser attended by a number of EU and foreign diplomats.
Photos of the opening were widely circulated, eliciting mixed reactions.
Ghana is one of 32 countries in Africa that still criminalise same-sex relations, according to the latest report by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans and Intersex Association .
