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A community centre for a fledgling LGBT+ rights group in Ghana gutted by a brutal raid has now launched a defiant fundraiser to regroup and rebuild.
LGBT+ Rights Ghana, one of the country’s top queer campaign groups, opened its office and safe space earlier this year in an event attended by European Union officials.
But within days, the office entered the radar of a small but powerful cadre of religious conservatives, plunging its future into uncertainty.
So-called “family values” organisers urged law enforcement to arrest its members and the president to punish them.
And they came close after an unlawful raid which, according to activists, included the building’s landlord, members of the press, police and National Security, the country’s domestic security force.