Tag Archives: Africa

New Yorkers Turn Out For David Kato Vigil And Protest At Uganda’s UN Mission

Despite the bone-chilling temperatures, a large crowd of LGBT activists, allies, and local politicians stood in the slush and snow tonight near the United Nations to memorialize slain Ugandan activist David Kato, who now stands accused being responsible for his own murder by the Ugandan police. Speakers included the head of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, gay …

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Anderson Cooper Attacked In Cairo

He’s OK but things are rapidly devolving as pro-Mubarak forces have arrived en masse and are attacking the previously peaceful protesters.

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History Unfolding In Cairo

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Photo Of The Day – Cairo Protest

A crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands flooded Cairo’s Tahrir Square this morning in the eighth straight day of widespread unrest. As protests continue to spread to other nations in the region, this morning Jordan’s King Abdullah fired his entire cabinet.

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EGYPT: Foreigners Begin Evacuation

The United States and many other nations have begun evacuating their embassy staffers and other citizens from Egypt as unrest continues. Americans will be airlifted to “safe haven” countries in the region, from where they must make their own arrangements to get home. The United States planned to begin charter flights to help Americans leave the country Monday. Other governments …

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Obama Speaks On Egyptian Unrest

Not exactly the resounding calling-out of Mubarak that many had hoped for, but still some strong words.

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Mubarak: I Won’t Step Down

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak just held a press conference to announce that he will not step down. But he will dissolve the government. Specifically, Mubarak said that the current government will be forced to resign and he would appoint a new one on Saturday. He gave no indications he himself planned to step down, despite increasing calls for him to …

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Hillary Clinton Calls For Calm In Egypt, Backs Right Of Protesters To Gather

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EGYPT: Police Battle Protesters With Tear Gas On Bridge Over Nile

UPDATE: In an interesting development since the above video was made, protesters are now embracing and welcoming the Egyptian army, which has just been deployed. This underscores the possibility of the military taking over the government.

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Riots Worsen In Egypt

The Egyptian government has cut off internet access in Cairo as unrest worsens on the third straight day of rioting.

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Rioting Continues In Eygpt

Police are retaliating against protesters with fire hoses, tear gas, and batons tonight as Cairo is roiled by its second day of anti-government rioting.

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Anti-Government Riots Rock Egypt

Russia Today reports: Thousands of anti-government protesters, some hurling rocks and climbing on top of an armoured police truck, clashed with riot police on Tuesday in the centre of Cairo in a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30 years in power. Police responded with blasts from a water cannon and set upon crowds with batons …

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UGANDA: Pastor Martin “Eat Da Poo Poo” Ssempa Charged With Blackmail

Uganda’s notorious Pastor Martin Ssempa, who infamously tells national audiences that the preferred sexual practice of gay men is eating human feces, has been charged with attempting to blackmail another pastor. Ssempa is accused of offering to pay another man to say that he had “been sodomized” by Pastor Robert Kayanja. A total of eight anti-gay Christian activists have been …

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U.S. To Attempt To Restore United Nations Resolution Against Gay Executions

Last month a coalition of African and Arabic nations forced the deletion of “sexual orientation” from a United Nations resolution condemning the “extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions” of certain classes of people. Next week the United States will attempt to have that phrase restored. Speaking at a panel on Human Rights Day, US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said …

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Rachel Maddow Vs. Uganda’s “Kill The Gays” Bill Author David Bahati

Tonight the author of Uganda’s “Kill The Gays” bill, David Behati, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show where Maddow repeatedly called Behati out on his ridiculous claims about wealthy American homosexuals “paying Ugandan schoolchildren to become gay.” Behati’s bill came about after The Family, a powerful GOP-based lobby of anti-gay Christianists, visited Uganda to preach against homosexuality. Watch this.

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Kenya’s Prime Minister: I Was Misquoted, Gays Won’t Be Arrested

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga now says he’s been misquoted and that homosexuals will not be rounded up and arrested. Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Thursday denied that he had ordered a nationwide crackdown on homosexuals but maintained that such unions were illegal. He argued that he was misquoted and that his statements were not meant to victimise anyone because: …

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Kenyan TV Covers Prime Minister’s Call For The Arrest Of All Homosexuals

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KENYA: Prime Minister Raila Odinga Calls For Jailing All Homosexuals

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has issued a call for his nation’s homosexuals to be rounded up and jailed. “Any man found engaging in sexual activities with another man should be arrested,” Odinga said at a rally on Sunday, in the Nairobi slum of Kibera. “Even women found engaging in sexual activities will be arrested.” Speaking to his home constituency, …

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“Hang Them”: Uganda Paper Publishes Names And Photos Of “Top 100 Homos”

CBS News today picked up on the story of a Uganda newspaper publishing the names and photos of the country’s so-called “top 100 homos.” The yellow banner under the headline reads “Hang Them!” In the days since it was published, at least four gay Ugandans on the list have been attacked and many others are in hiding, according to rights …

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