Ghana parliament reconvenes, approves World Bank loan and appointees
GHANA'S parliament, which had been adjourned since March following a dispute between the speaker and the president over an anti-LGBT bill, reconvened and approved ministerial appointees and a World Bank loan. Majority leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin said in a statement that the urgent recall was "in good faith to enable the government to discharge its constitutional and democratic obligations to the people." Lawmakers in February unanimously passed one of Africa's most restrictive anti-LGBT bills, but President Nana Akufo-Addo has not yet signed it into law. His office said it would wait for the outcome of two legal challenges to the bill…
