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
Communication
mainline telephones: 71,400 (2005) cellular telephones: 81,700 (2005) Internet hosts: 155 (2005) Internet users: 25,000 (2005)
Previous Stories
new website will launch soon August 13, 2004: When newspaper editors refused to place a M2M personal ad in a Kenyan newspaper it inspired the creation of gaykenya.com "an accessible medium for self expression" for gay Kenyans. [more]
a real gay time August 7, 2004: The road to my first gay dinner - after Westlands Primary School - is straight � The guy driving me there - pardon the pun - is not. [more]
Cathy Crimmins, author of How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization
