Junta-led Burkina Faso has adopted a plan to ban homosexuality, becoming the latest African nation to do so despite international condemnation. A cabinet meeting on Wednesday approved the plan that “bans homosexuality,” the presidency said in a statement. “Henceforth homosexuality and associated practices will be punished by the law,” Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala said, without spelling out what the punishments would be. It will become law once approved by deputies in a transitional parliament in place since two 2022 coups in the West African nation. In August, the country’s media watchdog decided to ban “television channels promoting homosexuality”. Homosexuality

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