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	<title>Global Voices &#187; Somaliland</title>
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		<title>Somaliland: Challenge for openly gay president</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/08/17/somaliland-challenge-for-openly-gay-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ndesanjo Macha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sokari&#39;s reaction to the news that Somaliland&#39;s President is openly gay: &#8220;Roll on the next AU [African Union] meeting. Will he stand up for LGBTI Rights?&#8230;If not and his identity becomes silent then he betrays his own self as well as the people who voted for him.&#8221; Written by Ndesanjo... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/gay-rights-around-the-world-somalilands-gay-president/">Sokari&#39;s reaction to the news </a>that Somaliland&#39;s President is openly gay: &#8220;Roll on the next AU [African Union] meeting.  Will he stand up for LGBTI Rights?&#8230;If not and his identity becomes silent then he betrays his own self as well as the people who voted for him.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Somaliland ready to join international community</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/07/21/somaliland-ready-to-join-international-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ndesanjo Macha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Successful Presidential election means the country is now in a position to move forward and join the other independent states of the world,&#8221; reads a press release from Somaliland Forum. Written by Ndesanjo Macha &#183; comments (0) Share: Donate &#183; facebook &#183; twitter &#183; reddit &#183; StumbleUpon &#183; delicious &#183;... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Successful Presidential election means the country is now in a position to move forward and join the other independent states of the world,&#8221; reads <a href="http://somalilandforum.org/slforum/?p=318">a press release from Somaliland Forum</a>. </p>
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		<title>Somaliland: Elections in Hargeisa</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/07/09/somaliland-elections-in-hargeisa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ndesanjo Macha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doreen blogs from Hargeisa, the unofficial capital of Somaliland: &#8220;There are swathes of colour everywhere, from the hotel lobby to the streets to the market place to the campaign trail.&#8221; Written by Ndesanjo Macha &#183; comments (0) Share: Donate &#183; facebook &#183; twitter &#183; reddit &#183; StumbleUpon &#183; delicious &#183;... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.pilgrimages.org.za/?p=1232">Doreen blogs from Hargeisa</a>, the unofficial capital of Somaliland: &#8220;There are swathes of colour everywhere, from the hotel lobby to the streets to the market place to the campaign trail.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Macedonia: Singing Skopjans Cover Footbal World Cup Anthem</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/06/07/macedonia-singing-skopjans-cover-footbal-world-cup-anthem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Filip Stojanovski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singing Skopjans celebrated [MKD] the start of the Football World Cup in South Africa by singing its anthem, &#8220;Waving Flag,&#8221; because they &#8220;realized that the Somali K&#39;naan managed to slip a powerful social song to FIFA and Coca-Cola, which fits perfectly with the current situation in Skopje.&#8221; Written by Filip... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/23/macedonia-singing-skopjans/">Singing Skopjans</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn88fdYKgcM">celebrated</a> [MKD] the start of the Football World Cup in South Africa by singing its anthem, &#8220;Waving Flag,&#8221; because they &#8220;realized that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_people">Somali</a> K&#39;naan managed to slip a powerful <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhXOKUBGSRw">social song</a> to <a href="http://www.fifa.com/">FIFA</a> and Coca-Cola, which fits perfectly with the current situation in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje">Skopje</a>.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Somaliland: Arrest of opposition politicians condemned</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ndesanjo Macha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Voice of Somaliland publishes a statement from the Qaran Party:&#8221;It is regrettable that at this day and age, having all experienced the horrors of bad regimes in the past, the people of S/Land are once again reliving the abusive powers of yet another callous regime.&#8221; Written by Ndesanjo Macha... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Voice of Somaliland <a href="http://waridaad.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-action-cannot-stand-press-release.html">publishes a statement from the Qaran Party</a>:&#8221;It is regrettable that at this day and age, having all experienced the horrors of bad regimes in the past, the people of S/Land are once again reliving the abusive powers of yet another callous regime.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Somaliland: sign of order and normalcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ndesanjo Macha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sign of order and normalcy in Hargeysa, the capital of the Republic of Somaliland. Written by Ndesanjo Macha &#183; comments (0) Share: Donate &#183; facebook &#183; twitter &#183; reddit &#183; StumbleUpon &#183; delicious &#183; Instapaper]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://newsomalia.blogspot.com/2007/04/traffico.html">A sign of order and normalcy</a> in Hargeysa, the capital of the Republic of Somaliland.</p>
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		<title>Somaliland: we cannot be fooled</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ndesanjo Macha</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahmed Quick <a href="<br />
http://waridaad.blogspot.com/2007/03/mr-president-back-off-from-your-self_08.html&#8221;>warns the President of Somaliland</a>, &#8220;Mr. President, your clandestine activities and subversive strategy are out there in the open for all to see. And the citizenry of Somaliland are an intelligent; politically conscious, and visionary people that cannot be fooled by a despotic tin pot dictator in sheep’s coating or by anyone else and have a free reign over the people and their motherland.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Africa: renewable technologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa Unchained writes, &#8220;Karekezi, S&#8230;surveys (PDF) the dissemination of renewable technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa&#8230;and attempts to evaluate the potential for these technologies to meet the energy needs of Africa’s poor&#8230;&#8220; Written by Ndesanjo Macha &#183; comments (0) Share: Donate &#183; facebook &#183; twitter &#183; reddit &#183; StumbleUpon &#183; delicious &#183;... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Africa Unchained writes, &#8220;<a href="http://africaunchained.blogspot.com/2006/09/renewables-in-africa.html">Karekezi, S&#8230;surveys (PDF) the dissemination of renewable technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa&#8230;and attempts to evaluate the potential for these technologies to meet the energy needs of Africa’s poor&#8230;</a>&#8220;</p>
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		<title>Africa: Moving on from the digital indaba</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ndesanjo Macha</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meskel Square on &#8220;<a href="http://www.meskelsquare.com/archives/2006/09/late_random_tho.html">Moving on from the Digital Indaba</a>&#8220;:<br />
&#8220;Overall it was a huge success. One way of judging that is to look at all the discussions that are still carrying on in posts and comments and Technorati links. The discussions started with the race debate which I now wish I hadn&#39;t joined (there was just something about that pig/hairless-bulldog). But it has now moved on to thinking about what should come next.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Africa: Is the Battle against AIDS Lost?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Backer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forum Realisance believes (Fr) former colonial powers and pharmaceutical companies are partially to blame for the AIDS crisis but saves harsher words for Africans and failed African leaders: &#8221; Ignorance and illiteracy reproduce AIDS blindly without the least use for reason. Isn&#39;t it sacred and legitimate to protect oneself? Why... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Forum Realisance</em> <a href="http://realisance.afrikblog.com/archives/2006/08/22/2514710.html">believes</a> (Fr) former colonial powers and pharmaceutical companies are partially to blame for the AIDS crisis but saves harsher words for Africans and failed African leaders: &#8221; Ignorance and illiteracy reproduce AIDS blindly without the least use for reason. Isn&#39;t it sacred and legitimate to protect oneself? Why not do it? By weakness in front of the beauty of orgasm? Weakness because of the taboo of sexuality? Curious logic.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Somaliland, Somalia: Journalistic criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luisetta Mudie</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guest-blogging on the <em>Voice of Somaliland Diaspora</em>, Faysal Diriye launches an <a href="http://waridaad.blogspot.com/2006/07/somali-websites-cyber-war.html">attack on journalistic standards among Somali Web sites</a> which he describes as Siadist. &#8220;Cheap shot journalism! Too subjective, too emotional, and as boring as hell! They often shed more tears than thunder clouds could spill,&#8221; he writes.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Will the Conference Bring? Says France-based African blogger Le Pangolin, Du 10 au 11 juillet 2006, s&#39;est tenue à Rabat au Maroc, la première rencontre interministérielle euro-africaine sur les problèmes des migrations entre ces deux continents.Elle a regroupé 57 pays africains et européens et certaines organisations humanitaires qui se... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>What Will the Conference Bring?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://lepangolin.afrikblog.com/archives/2006/07/17/2310021.html">Says</a> France-based African blogger <em>Le Pangolin, </em></p>
<blockquote><p>Du 10 au 11 juillet 2006, s&#39;est tenue à Rabat au Maroc, la première rencontre interministérielle euro-africaine sur les problèmes des migrations entre ces deux continents.Elle a regroupé 57 pays africains et européens et certaines organisations humanitaires qui se sont bruyamment invitées à la table de négociation.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation"> From July 10 to 11, 2006, the first interministerial Euro-African meeting on the problems of migrations between the two continents was held in Rabat, Morocco. The Conference attracted 57 African and European countries and a couple of humanitarian organizations that insisted on inviting themselves to the negotiation table.</div>
<p>Though cautious in his wording, Senegalese blogger-mayor Robert Sagna, was willing to <a href="http://www.robertsagna.com/index.php?2006/07/15/25-les-migrations-mon-point-de-vue-apres-la-conference-de-rabat">give the conference&#39;s resolution the benefit of the doubt</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>L’Europe, l’Asie, l’Amérique, l’Australie et même l’Afrique connaissent le phénomène migratoire ; il faut savoir le gérer ; la répression n’est sûrement pas la meilleure manière, comme le souligne la Déclaration de Rabat, il faut engager un dialogue politique, mais les solutions durables à mon avis passe par la Croissance et le Développement d’une part, et une répartition équitable des résultats de cette croissance et de ce développement, d’autre part.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Europe, Asia, America, Australia and even Africa are all familiar with migrations; it is important to manage the phenomenon properly. Repression is probably not the best way, as the Rabat Declaration emphasizes, we need to start a political dialogue but durable solutions in my opinion should involve growth and development on the one hand and an equitable distribution of the results of that growth and development on the other.</div>
<p>France-based African blogger <em>Le Pangolin </em> agreed that policing was a short-sighted solution and had <a href="http://lepangolin.afrikblog.com/archives/2006/07/17/2310021.html">mostly harsh words for</a> the conference, for Europe and for Morocco:<span id="more-13063"></span></p>
<blockquote><p>De ce qui est ressorti de cette conférence c’est une impression générale d’une rencontre pour rien, même si pour certains observateurs optimistes c’est signe que l’Europe reconnaît son échec et surtout le Maroc malgré ses exactions envers les négro-africains de l’année dernière passées sous silence internationale, ne peut continuer à jouer au gendarme de l’Europe, car le Maroc lui-même est un pays qui offre que l’émigration à sa jeunesse malgré son potentiel économique.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">There is a general feeling that the meeting was useless even though some optimistic commentators took it as a sign that Europe is recognizing its failure. Also, Morocco despite its internationally silenced abuses vis-a-vis Negro-Africans  last year, cannot continue to play the role of Europe&#39;s cop because Morocco itself is a country that offers only emigration to its youth.</div>
<blockquote><p>Les politiciens européens en manque d’idées et d’audace préconisent le durcissement des lois envers les étrangers et l’exclusion d ‘une partie de leur population. C’est ce qui ressort du plan adopté à Rabat ce sont des mesures vagues du genre :<br />
    ØCoopération entre l’Europe et l’Afrique dans le contrôle des frontières<br />
    ØRéduction de la pauvreté<br />
    ØAccroissement de l’aide au développement<br />
    ØEt l’Europe sans scrupule souhaite contrôler les flux financiers émanant des ressortissants africains à destination de leurs pays.<br />
    A lire ces mesures on comprend vite que les ministres africains et européens n’ont rien compris à la chose.<br />
    Pour les ministres africains c’était l’occasion de remettre à plat les rapports économiques existants, mais hélas les ministres africains n’ont pas encore saisi tous les contours du problème.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Unimaginative European politicians advocate a hardening of the laws against foreigners and the exclusion of a part of the population. That is what transpires from the plan adopted in Rabat, vague measures such as:<br />
*Cooperation between Europe and Africa on the control of borders<br />
*Poverty reduction<br />
*Increase in development aid<br />
*And an unscrupulous Europe hopes to control the financial flows between Europe-based Africans and their homelands<br />
Reading these measures, it is obvious that African and European ministers don&#39;t understand this crisis. For the African ministers this was an opportunity to rehash the existing economic relations but alas African ministers have not yet wrapped their heads around the extent of the problem.</div>
<p><strong>What is Behind the Migration of Africans to Europe? </strong></p>
<p>Both bloggers attempted to put migrations of Africans to Europe in perspective. </p>
<p>Zinguinchor, Senegal mayor Robert Sagna <a href="http://www.robertsagna.com/index.php?2006/07/15/25-les-migrations-mon-point-de-vue-apres-la-conference-de-rabat">thought</a>: </p>
<blockquote><p>Les flux migratoires ont toujours existé et sous des formes diverses : violentes ou pacifiques.<br />
    De nos jours, la libre circulation, des biens et des hommes, constitue l’élément essentiel d’un brassage planétaire, au cœur de ce qui est appelé « mondialisation ». Les biens et les services ne peuvent pas circuler sans les hommes, et les nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication ont fini de faire de ce globe terrestre un village planétaire, un vase communiquant où la richesse et l’opulence des uns sont une soupape d’appel des plus pauvres en quête de moyens de survie. Cela impose à l’humanité toute entière, une nouvelle attitude faite d’ouverture, de générosité et de tolérance. La notion de frontière fermée n’est plus de mise et il est illusoire de vouloir arrêter la mer avec ses bras. </p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Migrations have always existed and in various forms: violent or peaceful.<br />
These days, the free circulation of goods and persons is an  essential element of a global melting pot and at the heart of what is referred to as &#8220;globalization.&#8221; Goods and services cannot circulate without people and new information and communication technologies have completed the process of making a global village of the planet, a pipe where the wealth and opulence of some serves as a valve sucking in the less fortunate looking for means of survival.  This imposes on humanity as a whole a new attitude made of openness, generosity and tolerance. The notion of closed borders is no longer possible and it makes no sense to want to stop the ocean with one&#39;s bare arms.</div>
<p><em>Le Pangolin</em> <a href="http://lepangolin.afrikblog.com/archives/2006/07/17/2310021.html">looked closely at structural and historical issues:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Sur le plan économique, l’Afrique a du mal à nourrir sa population, sa production agricole détournée vers les cultures d’exportation pendant la colonisation, puis poursuivie les années d’indépendance a scellé le sort alimentaire des Africains. (…) Un pays comme le Congo pour un budget annuel d’Etat de près de 1000 milliards de francs cfa, dépense près de 200 milliards de francs cfa pour subvenir à ces besoins alimentaires (et dire que dans ce pays il pleut en moyenne 9 mois sur 12 et que près de 60% de sa superficie est constituée de foret).<br />
    Tant que les pays du Nord et de l’Asie continueront à subventionner leur agriculture et que le FMI et la banque Mondiale continueront à imposer le libéralisme à tout va aux pays africains en empêchant les gouvernements africains de subventionner leur agriculture, du coup tous ces éléments rendant l’agriculture pas du tout lucrative en poussant les paysans vers les villes (le taux d’urbanisation des pays africains a dépassé celui des pays d’Europe et des USA, on relève de chiffres dépassant 65% ) tout cela ayant pour conséquences :<br />
    L’augmentation de la pauvreté rurale<br />
    Ø Augmentation des bidonvilles<br />
    Ø Augmentation d’insalubrité donc des maladies infantiles et de sa mortalité<br />
    Ø Augmentation du taux de chômage, les migrants ruraux n’ayant pas pour la plupart de formation professionnelle, ces derniers manqueraient de tout (école, loisirs, santé, travail) d’où criminalisation de la vie privée et politique en Afrique.<br />
    Ø Augmentation des importations des produits alimentaires européens, asiatiques et américains avec conséquences augmentation de l’achat des devises étrangères.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">On the economic front, Africa has a hard time feeding its population, its agricultural output having been channeled towards exports during the colonization period [and since the trend] continued during the years of Independence, Africans&#39;  fate was sealed. (&#8230;) A country like the Congo for an annual state budget of 1000 billion of CFA Francs spends about 200 billion CFA Francs to feed its population (this despite the fact that it rains about 9 months out of 12 and that 60% of is surface is covered by forests).<br />
The countries of the North and of Asia continue to subsidize their agriculture and the IMF and the World Bank continue to impose liberalism at the drop of a hat to African countries while preventing those countries from subsidizing their agriculture, making agriculture non-lucrative by pushing peasants to the cities (the rate of urbanization in Africa surpasses that of Europe and USA at up to 65%), with the following consequences:<br />
*Increase in rural poverty<br />
*Increase in city slums<br />
*Increase in sanitary and hygiene problems and hence in infantile diseases and mortality<br />
*Increase in unemployment rates, rural migrants not having for the most part any professional training, they lack everything (schooling, entertainment, health, work) hence the criminalization of private and political life in Africa<br />
*Increase in imports of food from Europe, Asia and the USA ensuing an increase in the purchase of foreign currencies.</div>
<p><strong>Using Drained Brains Differently</strong></p>
<p>Senegalese commentators on Robert Sagna&#39;s blog<a href="http://www.robertsagna.com/index.php?2006/07/15/25-les-migrations-mon-point-de-vue-apres-la-conference-de-rabat"> tried to offer solutions</a>.</p>
<p>For Kader, brains being drained out of Africa need to be managed to the continent&#39;s advantage :    </p>
<blockquote><p>L’un des facteurs favorisant le flux migratoire est la possibilité de travail (même au noir)<br />
    N’oublions pas qu’une nation qui vieillit a besoin de sang neuf; c’est malheureusement le cas des pays européens<br />
    un renouvellement de la population est toujours à l’ordre du jour . Celà participe de la dynamique des populations.<br />
    un autre facteur qui se dessine est la volonté de moins investir sur la formation des cadres et de pomper les ressources humaines des autres nations: c’est la volonté affichée des USA et aujourd’hui de la France à travers la fameuse loi sur l’immigration<br />
    Quelle attitude développer? Réorienter la coopérations? L’heure n’est elle pas venue pour que nos ressortissants hautement qualifiés soient des “coopérants” de type nouveaux? </p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">One of the factors favoring migrations is the availability of work (even on the black market). Let&#39;s not forget that a nation that is getting older needs new blood; that is unfortunately the case of European countries. A renewal of the population is always needed. That is part of dynamics of populations. Another factor is the will to invest less in the training of cadres and to pump the human ressources of other nations: that is the will of the USA and today of France through its new immigration law. What attitude to develop? Reorienting cooperations? Isn&#39;t it time that our highly qualified nationals become new kinds of &#8220;cadres&#8221;?</div>
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		<description><![CDATA[France-based Togolese Blogger Kangni Alem reflected on homosexuality in Africa recently. Namely, he tackled claims by some on the continent that homosexuality is a heretic religion. In the process, he mentioned recent &#8220;outings&#8221; of public figures. A debate ensued that involved Martinique&#39;s lesbian blogger Le Blog de [Moi] who&#39;d read... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>France-based Togolese Blogger Kangni Alem <a href="http://togopages.net/blog/?p=260">reflected on homosexuality in Africa recently</a>. Namely, he tackled claims by some on the continent that homosexuality is a heretic religion.  In the process, he mentioned recent &#8220;outings&#8221; of public figures. A debate ensued that involved Martinique&#39;s lesbian blogger <em><a href="http://www.blogdemoi.com/">Le Blog de [Moi]</a></em> who&#39;d read an excerpt of the post on Global Voices.</p>
<p><strong>Homosexuality and Religion</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>J’écoutais RFI (&#8230;) quand je suis tombé sur un reportage sur l’homophobie à travers le monde. Et là, de la bouche d’un militant des droits de l’homme camerounais, j’appprends que certains auraient peur, au pays de Paul Biya et de William Eteki Mboumoua, des homosexuels, parce qu’ils sont censés propager une nouvelle religion. (&#8230;) tout cela relève de suppositions liées à la superstition, à une conception désagrégée de la sexualité en Afrique, suite aux mutations et rencontres civilisationnelles, et d’un tissu d’incompréhensions tenaces.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">I was listening to RFI [Radio France Internationale] (&#8230;) when I fell on a report on homophobia across the world. And there, from the mouth of a Cameroonian human rights activist, I learn that some, in the country of Paul Biya and William Eteki Mboumoua, are afraid of homosexuals, because they are supposedly disseminating a new religion. (&#8230;) All of that comes from presumptions linked to superstition, a disagregated conception of sexuality in Africa caused by mutations and clashing civilizations and of a fabric of stubborn ignorance.</div>
<blockquote><p>même la métaphore biblique sur l’homosexualité n’attribue pas aux “sodomites” un quelconque prosélytisme religieux, sinon une tendance à la déparavation dont la conséquence directe a été la punition divine. Mais bon, depuis plusieurs décennies, dans les caves du Vatican, cette histoire de “punition divine” ne fait plus rire les prêtres homosexuels!
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<div class="translation">Even the biblical metaphore on homosexuality does not deem &#8220;sodomites&#8221; to be religious heretics. What it does say is that they tend towards depravation which has divine punishment as a direct consequence.  But since many decades in the Vatican&#39;s caves, the story of &#8220;divine&#8221;punishment only has gay priests laughing! </div>
<p><strong>Recent Gay Scandals in Cameroon</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Il faut dire que le Cameroun tient l’actualité quant au sujet. Il y a 2 ou 3 ans, je crois, deux hommes s’étaient présentés à la mairie de Yaoundé ou Douala pour demander qu’on les unisse par les liens du mariage civil; l’affaire avait fait couler beaucoup d’encre, puisque le maire n’avait jugé bon répondre à la “provocation” qu’en faisant intervenir les policiers. Récemment encore, le directeur de publication du journal La Météo avait été condamné à six mois de prison avec sursis pour avoir publié dans ses colonnes le nom d’un ministre sur une liste d’homosexuels présumés. Dans la foulée, plus d’une dizaine de plaintes en diffamation ont été déposées devant le tribunal de Yaoundé contre des journaux qui ont publié (&#8230;) les noms de plusieurs dizaines de personnalités politiques, religieuses, artistiques ou sportives camerounaises accusées de “déviances” homosexuelles. Rappelons qu’au Cameroun, les rapports sexuels entre personnes du même sexe constituent un délit puni de six mois à cinq ans de prison et d’une amende de 20.000 à 200.000 francs CFA (30 à 300 euros). Seulement, diraient les plus homohobes!</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Cameroon is at the forefront of headlines on this topic. Two to three years ago, two men showed up at Yaounde&#39;s or Douala&#39;s city hall, asking to be married; much ink flowed from the affair since the mayor only responded to the &#8220;provocation&#8221; by calling the police. Recently, the editor in chief of the paper La Météo was sentenced to six months in jail for having published the name of a minister in a list of presumed homosexuals. More than a dozen defamation complaints were made to Yaounde&#39;s tribunal against papers who had published (&#8230;) the names of dozens of Cameroonian political, religious, artistic and sports personalities accused of homosexual &#8220;deviances&#8221;.  Note that in Cameroon, sexual acts between people of the same sex are a crime punishable by six months to 5 years in jail and of a fine of 20,000 to 200,000 African Francs (30 to 300 Euros). &#8220;Only,&#8221;add the most homophobic.</div>
<p><strong>Homophobia and Ignorance</strong><br />
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<blockquote><p>Evidence des temps, l’homosexualité ne peut plus être perçue comme un mythe en Afrique. même moi je l’ai cru longtemps, jusqu’au jour où je suis tombé sur l’évidence qui me pendait au nez, lorsque j’ai surpris une de mes meilleures amies, dramaturge africaine célèbre, en train de draguer ma copine de l’époque, dans un festival à Cotonou. On a beaucoup ri de l’histoire, nous sommes restés amis, et moi j’ai beaucoup découvert des stratégies des homos en Afrique pour survivre à un environnement hostile, stratégies dont je parle un peu dans mon roman Cola cola jazz, à travers le personnage de la dame Omoneh.</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">Sign of times, homosexuality in Africa can no longer be perceived as a myth. Even I believed it for a while until the evidence stared me in the face when one of my best [female] friends, a famous African playwright, hit on my then girlfriend at a Cotonou Festival. We laughed, stayed friends and I found out a lot about the strategies that homosexuals in Africa use to survive a hostile environment, strategies I touch upon in my novel <em>Coca Cola Jazz</em> through the character Omoneh.</div>
<blockquote><p>Et si l’homophobie, au Cameroun comme ailleurs, n’était en définitive que la religion de l’inculture?</p></blockquote>
<div class="translation"> What if homophobia in Cameroon as elsewhere was just the religion of ignorance? </div>
<p><strong>Thanks to GV, Martinique&#39;s <em>Le Blog de [Moi] </em>Chimes in</strong></p>
<p>Several of Alem&#39;s regular readers posted responses to his post.</p>
<p>According to Naomi:</p>
<blockquote><p>Tu te souviens de Mugabe, Robert Mugabe, Président du Zimbabwe? Lors de son discours d’ouverture de la foire du livre à Harare en août 1995, hors de lui, il définit les homosexuel(le)s comme « (valant) moins que les porc et les chiens ».<br />
(&#8230;)il faut y rajouter Sam Nujoma, Président de Namibie, Yahya Jammeh, président de la Gambie, déclarant gaiement ceci sur la très sérieuse chaîne BBC : « Je peux vous déclarer avec certitude qu’il n’y a pas de gays ni de lesbiennes parmi (les) animaux (de mon zoo privé). Ils se conduisent, eux, selon les lois normales de la nature. la nature, ah la nature, elle a bon dos la nature. </p></blockquote>
<div class="translation"> Do you remember Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe? During a recent speech in 1995, he defined gays as &#8220;being worth less than hogs and dogs&#8221;. (&#8230;) I have to add Sam Nujoma, President of Namibia, Yahya Jammeh, President of Gambia, declaring happily to the BBC: &#8220;There are certainly no gays and lesbians among the animals (in my private zoo). They live according to the normal laws of nature.&#8221; Nature is always used as an excuse.</div>
<p>Sami adds:</p>
<blockquote><p>Pas d’homsexualité chez les animaux? Son Excellence Monsieur le Président n’est pas friand des documentaires animaliers comme moi, il aurait vu que tout ce que nous autres humains classons dans la catégorie perversions se vit chez certains animaux selon les décrets de la nature. </p></blockquote>
<div class="translation">No homosexuality among animals? Mister the President doesn&#39;t watch as many documentaries on animals as I do, he would have seen that all that we humans call perversion is lived by certain animals according to nature&#39;s decrees. </div>
<p><em>The Specialist</em> from <em><a href="http://www.blogdemoi.com/">Le Blog de [Moi]</a></em>, a lesbian Martiniquan blog that <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/06/29/martinique-in-the-closet-to-officemates/">recently waxed nostalgic on the travails of being closeted at work</a>, posted the following, confirming the great connections facilitated by the Global Voices community:</p>
<blockquote><p> J’ai eu la chance de découvrir ton blog grâce Global voices Online (&#8230;). J’ai trouvé tres interressant ton analyse sur l’homosexualité en afrique (j’avous que je ne savais rien sur le sujet).  &#8220;Et si l’homophobie, au Cameroun comme ailleurs, n’était en définitive que la religion de l’inculture?&#8221; Je pense également comme toi, la relagion également de la peur de l’autre et de la différence. </p></blockquote>
<div class="translation"> I discovered your blog through Global Voices (&#8230;). I found your analysis on homosexuality in Africa very interesting (I knew nothing of the topic). You say: &#8220;What if homosexuality in Cameroon as elsewhere was the religion of ignorance?&#8221; I might add also the religion of fear of the Other and of difference.</div>
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