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Ghana Media Inflaming Violence African Countries In Financial Crisis Turn to Violence Against Gays
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
By: TB Obwoge
UTV News Ghana posted comments from a year old video to incite and inflame anger towards homosexuals. The interview was from a September 2022 interview on CNN with Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
Several other news papers in Ghana also posted articles attacking homosexuals. The attacks are coming because the economy in Ghana is so harsh and the IMF loan has yet to be approved. African countries with choking poverty and inflation have all inflamed attacks on homosexuals.
From Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Burundi, Ghana, these countries are facing some of their worst financial crisis. However Tanzania is now talking of making more laws against homosexuality in the country.
In Kenya government workers are threatening to strike because they’re not being paid.
Kenyan government broke, civil servants not paid
Several staff working in ministries, departments and agencies have been affected by the delays with most going for Easter Holidays without pay
Kenya government is facing financial constraints as it is caught between underperforming revenues and limited access to finance due to narrowing borrowing headroom.
With thousands of government employees suffering unprecedented delays in payment of their salaries, National Treasury and Economic Planning Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u warned of tough times ahead, saying, the government is in a “financial fix” with nowhere to get more funds.
Lifting the lid on the cash crunch, Prof Ndung’u said the national government is facing financial constraints as it is caught between underperforming revenues and limited access to finance due to narrowing borrowing headroom.
