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Anti-LGBTQ+ laws rising across West Africa
West African countries are increasingly enacting or strengthening anti-LGBTQ+ laws, with recent examples including Senegal's doubled prison sentences for gay sex and Niger's new criminalization of same-sex relations. Activists attribute this trend to politicians using LGBTQ+ people as convenient scapegoats to consolidate power amid local political pressures and global resistance to LGBTQ+ rights advocacy.
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