official name: Rep�blica de Cabo Verde capital: Praia head of state: President Pedro Pires state: multi party democracy population: 420,979 (July 2006 est.) independence: from Portugal in 1975 languages: Portuguese and Crioulo religion: Catholic currency: Cape Verdean escudo media: NA
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mainline telephones: 71,400 (2005) cellular telephones: 81,700 (2005) Internet hosts: 155 (2005) Internet users: 25,000 (2005)
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aids advocates demand rectal microbicides SOUTH AFRICA � April 28, 2006: Advocates are calling for research spending of $350 million over the next decade to develop rectal microbicides to prevent HIV infection. The challenge came Monday, April 24 at the start of the Microbicides 2006 conference in Cape Town, South Africa. [more]
cops mum on double murder SOUTH AFRICA � April 25, 2006: Police remain tight-lipped about their investigation into the motives for the assassination-style murders of Richard Bloom and Brett Goldin, refusing to be drawn into speculation on whether the killings were the result of a drug transaction that went wrong, an initiation into a gang, or bias against homosexuals.
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Cathy Crimmins, author of How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization
