December 23, 1998
"
Forced prostitution is another form of abuse and
exploitation known to fuel the HIV epidemic. Around
30% of 13-19-year-old sex workers (some of whom
were forced into prostitution) in Cambodia are
infected, and even higher rates have been reported
from elsewhere."
"UNAIDS estimates that four million of the infections occurred in 1998, particularly in east Africa and southern
Africa. Some 11.5 million of them people have already died.
"It is estimated that eight out of every 10 women living with HIV are living in Africa.
"Early involvement of girls in unprotected sex with older persons has been singled as the major factor fanning the
spread of HIV. "
October 29, 1998
"...It now also appears, as I hear from Dr. Hooker,
that some of these same temperate plants have been
discovered by the Rev. R. T. Lowe on the mountains of
the Cape Verde Islands. This extension of the same
temperate forms, almost under the equator, across the
whole continent of Africa and to the mountains of the
Cape Verde Archipelago, is one of the most astonishing
facts ever recorded in the distribution of plants."
October 16, 1998
October 15, 1998
October 9, 1998
On Monday, September 28, Africa: Seeds of Hope (H.R.
4283) passed the House by voice vote. This is a major victory for
hungry people in Africa and it could not have happened without the hard work
of Bread for the World members.
- U.S. Senate
Africa: Seeds of Hope, S.2283, now has 23 cosponsors. We are
still working hard to win passage of the bill in this Congress. The target
adjournment date is still October 9, but it appears likely that Congress will
remain in session several days beyond this date.
--- Please contact your senators immediately and urge them to cosponsor Africa: Seeds of
Hope, S. 2283, and pass it before Congress adjourns.
September 25, 1998
"The Dudley area of Roxbury/North Dorchester is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Boston. This diverse community of African American (37%), Latino (29%), Cape Verdean (25%) and White (7%) residents has a per capita income of $7,600 compared to nearly $16,000 for the City of Boston as a whole."
Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street - Award-Winning TV Documentary Chronicles Successful Resident-Led Community Revitalization.
September 24, 1998
GOES Project Science - NASA
Cidade da Praia, 24 Julho - O Conselho de Ministros
cabo-verdiano aprovou uma proposta de alfabeto
para a oficializaÁ“o da escrita do crioulo, que
funcionar· a tÌtulo
experimental nos prÛximos cinco anos, disse
TerÁa-feira o porta-voz do colectivo governamental,
Rui Figueiredo Soares. Segundo a mesma fonte, a adopÁ“o do Alfabeto Unificado para a Escrita do
Cabo-Verdiano, ALUPEC "È um passo de grande
import’ncia no sentido da institucionalizaÁ“o e
oficializaÁ“o da
lÌngua crioula". "Espera-se a
contribuiÁ“o de toda a sociedade em geral, de
intelectuais,
linguistas, jornalistas e escritores", em
Cabo Verde e nas comunidades espalhadas pelo Mundo,
disse
Rui Soares, acrescentando que o grupo que
apresentou a proposta foi presidido pelo escritor
Manuel Veiga.
De acordo com a proposta, o alfabeto
crioulo "È um conjunto de sinais gr·ficos para a
representaÁ“o
uniforme de cada som da lÌngua
cabo-verdiana, consistindo na harmonizaÁ“o de dois
modelos de
alfabeto, de base etimolÛgica e
fonolÛgica". De base latina, tem 23 letras e quatro
dÌgrafos,
obedecendo ý seguinte ordem: A B S D E F G
H I J DJ L LH M N NH N O P K R T U V X TX Z. Segundo o
porta-voz do Conselho de Ministros, o
ALUPEC tem "em conta a diversidade da lÌngua
cabo-verdiana
em todas as ilhas", devendo apenas
depois do perÌodo experimental pensar-se a sua
introduÁ“o no
sistema de ensino.
Also:
The Home Page Development Team takes no position, pro or con, with respect to the situation in Guinea-Bissau. We provide the following links and information in the hope of helping the reader develop some appreciation of what is happening and why, and the positions of various involved and interested parties.
Press Release - Republic of Cape Verde (June 11)
Em Português
World Factbook (CIA)
The Multicultural AIDS Coalition/ Boston
Check this out.. then take action.
"Officials
yesterday
kicked off plans for a trade mission to the World Fair in
Lisbon, Portugal, with a plea for New Bedford and Fall
River businesses to join the trip. It is planned for mid-July."
Conceived for performance during the Expo-98 World's Fair in Lisbon.
- (..if you'd like to know why they call it Buzzards Bay, click here. Use Explorer browser if you don't hear bird sounds.)
(Could someone investigate this and send us a report?)
"... The African political landscape has already changed markedly in the post-cold war and post- one party eras. Africa is no longer perceived as a pariah by the rest of the world. African leaders are ready to do business with America and the rest of the world but on terms that are just and fair, for many believe the world economic order is skewed against them. If President Clinton's historic visit is to herald the dawn of a new renaissance as he put it, then time is ripe for a new and more just world economic order that could ameliorate suffering, particularly in Africa.The current economic regime perpetuates the slave-master relationship and the dependency syndrome, and consigns the world's poor to the garbage heap." - The Times of Zambia (Mar. 24, 1998)
"Visiting a Ugandan primary school with dirt-floor classrooms,
President Clinton on Tuesday pledged $120 million in aid for
African schools to train more teachers and to connect African
children to the Internet."
" Girls, and boys as well, can be infected through
sexual abuse by relatives, family friends, teachers
and strangers. Girls and young women in domestic
service, often exploited for their labour, are especially
vulnerable to sexual abuse by males in the
employer's family. Young boys serving as apprentices
in the construction trade or helpers on long-haul
trucks are sometimes abused by the older men.
"The Dakar meeting is taking place amid startling revelations by UNAIDS that 34 million people in sub-Saharan
Africa have been infected with HIV since the epidemic started in the 1980s.
Poor West African fishermen, prevented by an international treaty from
fishing off their own shores, are forced to buy their own sardines in European cans,
reports Paul Brown
- U.S. House
"The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is a nonprofit community-based planning and organizing entity based in the Roxbury/North Dorchester area of Boston. DSNI's mission is 'to empower Dudley residents to organize, plan for, create and control a vibrant, diverse and high quality neighborhood in collaboration with community partners.'"
See how many of the current Atlantic storms (Georges, Ivan, Jeanne) originate in the area of the Cape Verde Islands. See Tropical Storms, Worldwide for yearly summaries and other data.
"original articles by journalists Daniel
Pendick and Kathy Svitil explain the science behind volcanoes, earthquakes, and
tsunamis, and feature original animations that illustrate the action of these natural
phenomena. You can also Ask the Experts your questions, and explore other Savage Sites on the Web."
"At 0845 UTC, 19 August 1995 we find a small, tightly spiraled storm wound up within the Cape Verde islands off the coast of North Africa. At 15N, there is not enough coriolis force to make a storm spin very much. So, how did it get that way? "The answer is blowin' in the wind." NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
GLOBE Visualizations - for students and teachers.
Capeverdean Creole Institute ( Institutu Kriolu Kabuverdianu ) ta
kumunika tudu algen ki ta interesa pa dizenvolvimentu di Kriolu di Kabu
Verdi ki Konselhu di Ministrus di Kabu Verdi, na seson di trabadju, di
dia 20 di Julhu di 1998, prova na Praia, ALUPEC - Alfabetu Unifikadu pa
Skrita di Kabuverdianu - pa mudelu sprimental, duranti un periudu di
sinku anu.
ADOPTADA PROPOSTA DE ALFABETO PARA O CRIOULO
CCI Na DifÈza Di Un Skrita pa Kriolu Di Kabu Verdi - pa Nesi Brito, CCI
Web-site dedicated to assisting efforts to end the crisis in Guinea-Bissau and to provide a forum in which people can voice their concerns.
DeclaraÁ“o da Comiss“o Permanente da Comiss“o PolÌtica (PAICV-Praia, June 17)
US Dept. of State Statement (7/28/98)
AfricaNews Online/Guinea Bissau
LusaNews
CNN Africa
BBC News Africa
ICRC operations in Guinea
Bissau
Travel Advisory (US State Department)
Travel Alert (RWRT Security Consultants)
Search Deja News
Guinea Bissau Telecom
Portugal em Linha - Artigos de Opinião;
Público
Diário de Notícias
Jornal de NotÌcias
Expresso
CNN em Português
Background material on Guinea Bissau
Army commander suspended - (BBC News - February 1998)
A Return to Peace in Guinea-Bissau - Celina Schocken
Aging guerrillas back in Guinea-Bissau's revolution (Seattle Times)
Bissau civil war points to region's fragility (Seattle Times)
Fishing in Guinea Bissau - economic and environmental threats. ((IUCN)
LEAD International
Democracy and Elections in Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau (Dr. Richard Lobban)
"Guinea-Bissau - the struggle goes on" (ORBIT No 62 - 3rd Quarter 1996)
Antis' ki ele parabu.
Stop AIDS!
Before It Stops You!
1-800-382-1MAC
Click on image for full size poster from the Cape Verdean Women and Families HIV Prevention Billboard campaign..
International Action Alert!
Africa: Seeds of Hope - Raymond A. Almeida
"Congratulations to Anselmo "Jair" Ribeiro on his first game for the
Revolution !!!! You make us Capeverdeans very proud.We hope to see more CV soccer "football" players to make it to the majors. In the end the hard work pays off. Jair nu fikabu mutu gratu pa kel grandi golo, nu ta pidi Deus pa dabu forc,a i saudi pa bu kontinua ta fura redi. Good luck and keep on destroying those nets." - C.Danilo Gomes i familia
© Fred Kfoury III
"Extensive research
undertaken in the Cape Verde Islands of west Africa examined the performance of local irrigation networks with
regard to the efficiency of water use within the network and the distribution of benefits among network members. He
has helped design project monitoring and evaluation systems in Cape Verde and Bangladesh which aim to measure
the project impacts on beneficiary groups through a variety of different survey techniques."
- (The majority of the 300,000 people of Cape Verdean descent in America live in the Southeastern part of New England, with New Bedford, Massachusetts being the traditional heart of Cape Verdean America.)
The mystery of a baobab tree on the island of Santiago!
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