Tag Archives: Africa

Citing poor early results, researchers have halted an African study in which women were given the HIV medication Truvada as a preventive to infection. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been considered one of the more promising advances against AIDS. Women taking Truvada, made by Gilead Sciences Inc., are just as likely to get HIV as other women who have been given …

Box Turtle Bulletin alerts us that despite recent media reports that Uganda’s “kill gays” bill had been shelved, in fact it will be debated in the national parliament next week. The bill came into being after American evangelicals visited Uganda with claims that foreign homosexuals wanted to pay Uganda’s children to become gay. The controversial Anti Homosexuality bill is one …

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Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi just appeared on state television to declare that he will not step down and that he plans to “die here as a martyr.’ He described protesters who have carried out days of anti-government demonstrations as “rats”, adding: “This is my country and the country of our ancestors”. Speaking in a loud voice, Col Gadaffi has claimed …

“Yes I did make those comments but did I actually cut off anyone’s head? Have I ever arrested anyone for being gay? No, but Senegal has arrested and imprisoned someone for being gay and they receive the [Millennium Development Goals]. There are gays here in The Gambia, I know that. But they live in secret and that is fine with …

Buzzfeed has posted a fantastic collection of this morning’s headlines about Egypt. As always, the New York Post wins.

Celebratory, yet appropriately cautious.

Apparently this time it’s true. Mass celebrations are breaking out all over Cairo. Every news channel is on it, get to a television and watch some history if you can.

Contrary to jubilant early reports today, Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak is not stepping down, but is merely transferring some power to his number two man. Angry crowds are presently marching on the television studio where Mubarak made the below announcement less than an hour ago. I’ll replace this clip with a proper network account when it becomes available.

More on this shortly as details emerge…

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 …

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

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.

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 …