The report, released Thursday, found that the number of openly LGBTQ elected officials in the U.S. has more than doubled over the last four years, a number that could be boosted by the record number of LGBTQ candidates running for 2020 office, according to data compiled by the Victoria Institute.
According to the institute’s Out For America 2020 report, the number of openly
The sharpening political divide in Mali is worrying its West African neighbours, as second major protest erupted in Bamako on Friday.
A delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met Mali’s prime minister as well as opposition figures in Bamako on Thursday and Friday, in a bid to defuse tensions.
It called for the creation of a “consensus government of national unity.”
The delegation said a decision by the constitutional court in late April was the source of social-political tension in the country.
The court had overturned around 30 results from the elections in March and …
