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Ghana's reporting on sexual abuse…

Accra · Tuesday, 22 September 2026

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After Bole SHS, Ghana went after the child. The law never did.

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Bridget Mensah, editor-in-chief of Gender Lens Africa
Gender is not a beat we visit on occasion. It is the lens we report every story through.
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