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SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Condoms catching on

SÃO TOMÉ Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (IRIN) - No one expected that the reaction to empty condom dispensers on São Tomé and Príncipe would be so angry. "I thought the country had run out of condoms - you people are fouling up too much," Palmira Torres, the owner of Alfa Restaurant, complained to Almerindo Ferreira and Desinela Barros, who work as peer educators for the Italian non-governmental organisation, Alisei. Condom dispensers were installed throughout the archipelago off the coast of Gabon...

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Condoms catching on

No one expected that the reaction to empty condom dispensers on São Tomé and Príncipe would be so angry. "I thought the country had run out of condoms - you people are fouling up too much," Palmira Torres, the owner of Alfa Restaurant, complained to Almerindo Ferreira and Desinela Barros, who work as peer educators for the Italian non-governmental organisation, Alisei. Condom dispensers were installed throughout the archipelago off the coast of Gabon at the beginning of the year, as part of...

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Condoms anytime, anywhere

Bars, restaurants and stores in the archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe now have a new attraction: small brown wooden boxes containing 144 condoms each, placed in highly visible locations. Condoms have traditionally been distributed at healthcare centres, but under the government's new prevention campaign they are gradually becoming more accessible. "This is the way we came up with for condoms to be brought closer to São Tomeans," said Alzira do Rosário, coordinator of the National Programme...

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Something pretty because they are special

Night falls early along the equator. When darkness creeps across the bay of Santa Ana and sets over the town of Sao Tome, the girls appear in twos or threes, or alone. They wait for clients behind the Farol bar and the Dolores disco, the hubs of evening buzz in the capital of the tiny archipelago of Sao Tome and Principe, which straddles the equator off the coast of Africa. Around 7 p.m., Angela*, robust and friendly, wearing a black tank top, tight jeans and beads in her short dreadlocks,...

A chat with Mary N’Diaye another sprouting singer in Sweden

Mary Ndiaye is among the few African musicians that are highly respected in Sweden. She is already a registered songwriter and has performed at different parts of Scandinavia. Born in 1987 in the Swedish capital Stockholm, Mary’s mum is Gambian while her father is from neighbouring Senegal. She started singing at a very early age. However, the young Senegambian girl writes for big music stars in the Scandinavian region. Mary is currently been nominated as the best Gambian female artist...