En route to Dakar aboard his plane "Air Force One", the President of the USA Barack Obama through his Tweeter account, sent messages of congratulations to homosexual couples following the decision of the Supreme Court of the USA invalidate the law against gay marriage in California, allowing the cutter to marry. Tweets that suggest that President Obama visit to Africa will not fail to address the issue of gay rights, especially in Senegal, where this question is taboo.
Last Wednesday, the ambassador of the USA in Senegal and Guinea Bissau, Lewis Lukens, facing the Senegalese press had camped the major axes of the visit of the U.S. President in Senegal: strengthening democratic institutions, promoting economic growth, trade and investment, promoting the development that creates opportunities and the promotion of peace and security. Asked whether the U.S. president, who had invited him at his inauguration for his second term, a gay Hispanic origin to read a poem, address the issue of gay rights in Senegal. Ambassador of the USA in diplomatic language was answered: "The rights and freedoms must be defended everywhere in the world." Worldwide. Even in Senegal? A country where this question each time it is raised, always raises an outcry in the Senegalese opinion. On the road to Dakar, the U.S. president, we followed through his Tweeter account, flooded his social networking accounts (twteer and facebook) of messages encouraging same-sex couples. At around 17 am local time, the president of the first world power balance this tweet: "The same-sex couples should be able to marry," President Obama. A tweet that says a lot about the feeling that animates this issue of homosexuality, a few hours of landing in Dakar. A few minutes earlier, he sent a message of congratulations to a homosexual couple. Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, two complainants couples who attacked the "Proposition 8" (a law that dates back to 1996, prohibiting marriage between persons of the same sex that gives the acronym in English (DOMA) in front of the U.S. Supreme Court last Wednesday a law forbidding the marriage of same-sex in the state of California. This gay couple was successful before the Supreme Court. He will soon marry legally in the state of California. When the couple and some human rights celebrated on MSNBC this was an historic victory, they were interrupted by President Obama, who called to congratulate from Air Force One: "We are proud of you guys, and we're very happy, "said the president of the speaker. Around the mobile phone Human Rights Campaign, which you can see on MSNBC, President Chad Griffin and two other plaintiffs, Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami, who also challenged Proposition 8. U.S. President acknowledged the courage of the couple and told them they gave "a hand for a lot of people."
Promotion of homosexuality? It is in this atmosphere of pride for the recognition of gay rights in the State of California, the U.S. president has landed in Dakar. Crosses he not, by openly discussing this issue with the Senegalese President Macky Sall, who recently said that while he is president, homosexuality is not legalized in Senegal? A question that so far remains unanswered. However, we would not be surprised that the American president puts on the table the issue in Dakar or during these two steps (Tanzania and South Africa). This especially as already last Tuesday, the Washington Post, took up an article published by the Office of the very serious American press agency (Associated Press) Abidjan, entitled "Obama walks tightrope in Africa by supporting gay rights, but not too strong. " An article that looks back at a reception hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Abidjan for a dozen Ivorian gays openly. According to the AP, despite "the novelty of the event, journalists were prevented from attending, and the only mention of it was a short blurb on the Embassy website posted the following week ". Management of the event is, according to AP, the careful promotion of U.S. government gay rights in Africa. A question which, she says, is likely to happen during a visit this week to three African nations, President Barack Obama (South Africa, Senegal and Tanzania) the last two penalize homosexuality a sentence prison. At the reception, Ambassador Philip Carter thanked the guests for their courage in the face of persecution and promised that the United States would continue to defend their interests, according to three guests to the event as well as Ivorians two American diplomats cited by agency AP. During the event they continue, the meeting focused on how Obama could promote gay rights during his second visit to the continent since taking office. "I asked the ambassador if Obama would discuss the matter when he goes to Senegal," said Claver Toure, executive director of the gay and lesbian group "Alternative Côte d'Ivoire" who attended the private reception. He added: "It will be very important for us to speak with African leaders, and also in his speeches. It will give us the strength for us to know that we are not alone. " By signing a memorandum in December 2011 instructing federal agencies to promote gay rights abroad, said Ap, Obama himself has publicly inserted into the bitter debate in Africa whether homosexuals have legitimate rights. Since then, U.S. diplomats have vigorously lobbied for gay rights behind closed doors, especially in countries that criminalize homosexuality, experts and advocates say. "Given that African societies tend to be very conservative, it is a difficult question," told the U.S. ambassador in Ivory Coast The Associated Press. "The question for us is how we recommend effectively and advance the human rights agenda for the LGBT community, or any community that is in a difficult situation? "said Ambassador Carter.
HAROUNA FALL
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