Rais Kikwete Afafanua Faida Za Utafutaji Mafuta na Gesi Nchini Kwa WaTanzania

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Rais Kikwete Apokelewa Kwa Shangwe Nchini Malawi

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Eti Wavuvi wa Malawi wanapigwa na Askari wa Tanzania?

 KUTOKA IPS NEWS

By Mabvuto Banda

YAANI ETI NI KWELI ASKARI WETU WANAPIGA WAVUVI WA MALAWI? KAMA KWELI MBONA NI HABARI YA KUSIKITISHA?  HIYO ZIWA NI KUBWA SANA!

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Fishing families on Lake Malawi, Karonga District. Many fisherfolk have said they have been beaten up and detained by Tanzanian police since the dispute over the lake began late last year. Credit: Mabvuto Banda/IPS

KARONGA, Malawi, Feb 27 2013 (IPS) - Since he was nine years old, Martin Mhango from Karonga village in northern Malawi has known no other livelihood than fishing. And for the last 33 years he has been fishing freely on Lake Malawi – that is, until last October when he was detained and beaten by Tanzanian security forces.



“They stopped me, dragged me to the beach where they beat me up and detained me. They told me that I had trespassed and was fishing on the Tanzanian side,” Mhango, 42, told IPS. “I was told to never fish on their side again.  He had been fishing on both sides of the lake for years, he said, just as Tanzanian fisherfolk did.

The dispute over Africa’s third-largest lake, which is also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania, dates back half a century.

Malawi claims sovereignty over the entirety of the 29,600-square-kilometre lake that straddles the borders of Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

Meanwhile, Tanzania says 50 percent is part of its territory.

The dispute between both southern African countries reignited when Malawi awarded exploration licenses to United Kingdom-based Surestream Petroleum in 2011 to search for oil and gas on Lake Malawi.

Tanzanian authorities want Surestream Petroleum to postpone any planned drilling on the lake until the dispute is resolved. But Malawi has remained defiant.

Last December, the Malawian government awarded the second-largest oil exploration license (after the Surestream license) to South African company SacOil Holdings Limited.

So far, oil companies have yet to begin drilling and are still exploring the centre of the lake, which has been cordoned off.

But several fishing families like Mhango’s that work along Songwe River in northern Malawi are already caught up in this row, making the fisherman fear that the two countries will eventually go to war.

After the October incident, Mhango has been careful not to venture into the waters on the purportedly Tanzanian side, which has affected his livelihood.

A reduced catch has lowered his income from over 286 dollars per month to just 142 dollars.

“I have all my life been a fisherman and this is the first time I am unable to fish freely on the lake and I fear for my future,” he said.

Josiah Mwangoshi, 52, remembers belonging to two villages when he was growing up – one on the Malawian side and another on the Tanzanian side.

“My village is right along Songwe River and I remember that when the river used to shift its course, we would migrate to the Tanzanian side and later on return to the Malawian side when the river shifted again,” Mwangoshi told IPS.

“But I am now afraid that the Tanzanians may arrest me. I can no longer live and fish on the Tanzanian side where I also have a family, because it’s now clear that the dispute is very deep,” he said.

Reports of alleged beatings and harassment of Malawian fisherfolk in October last year forced Malawi’s President Joyce Banda to cut off the dialogue that had started between the two countries.

The wrangle deepened when last November Tanzania published a new map shifting the boundary between Tanzania and Malawi to the middle of the lake.

Banda, angry with the new map and Tanzania’s harassment of fisherfolk, called a press conference in the capital Lilongwe a few days later and announced that she had protested to the United Nations General Secretary and cancelled a planned state visit to Tanzania.

But Tanzanian High Commissioner to Malawi, Patrick Tsere, defended his country’s actions saying that no Malawian fisherfolk have ever been harassed in Tanzanian territorial waters.

“Tanzania’s security forces have never engaged in such behaviour. It’s rather us who have been worried that Malawian planes have been seen flying into Tanzania territory without our permission,” Tsere told IPS.

Many believe that the row over the lake has the potential to worsen if significant oil and gas is discovered.

“This dispute has been around for over 50 years but it has heightened and entered the public domain now because of the potential of oil and gas discoveries,” Udule Mwakasungura, the executive director for the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation, a Malawian NGO, told IPS.

“Lake Malawi contains more than 2,000 different fish species — our worry is that oil exploration and its subsequent drilling will affect the fresh water ecosystem,” he added.

The lake has been witnessing a decline in fish stocks from 30,000 metric tonnes a year to just 2,000 tonnes over the last 20 years, according to a recent Ministry of Agriculture report read in parliament this February.

Last month, both countries presented their position papers after agreeing that the dispute would be mediate by the Southern African Development Community former heads of state, also known as the African Forum.

“We agreed with Tanzania that we will hand over the mediation to the African Forum and so far we have both presented our position papers. A mediation process should commence before the end of this month or early March,” Malawi’s Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Patrick Kabambe, told IPS.

Mhango and Mwangoshi have pinned all their hopes on the mediation efforts.

“I have been following news reports about this on the radio and my prayer is that the former African leaders resolve this issue once and for all,” said Mwangoshi.

Mhango has similar hopes. “All I want is to go back and start fishing freely on this lake — because without that, my family’s future is doomed.”

- See more at: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/lake-malawi-dispute-instils-fear-in-fisherfolk/#sthash.TF5ztGpX.dpuf

Photo by Mabvuto Banda IPS

Dr. Aleck Che-Mponda Atembelea Ubolozi wa Tanzania Umoja wa Mataifa

Dr. Aleck Che-Mponda alikutana na Balozi Mwakilishi wa Kudumu wa Tanzania katika Umoja wa Mataifa, Mh. Tuvako N. Manongi na Naibu Mwakilishi wa kudumu, Mh. Ramadhani M. Mwinyi, jana, Alhamisi, January 24, 2013 mjini New York.

Dr. Che-Mponda alifanya utafiti muhimu kuhusu mgogoro katika ya Malawi na Tanzania kuhusu Ziwa Nyasa mwaka 1971 kwa ajili ya Ph.D yake kutoka Chuo Kikuu cha Howard (Howard University). Dissertation inaitwa, ''The Malawi-Tanzania Border and Territorial Disputes, 1968: A case study of Boundary and Territorial Imperatives in the new Africa". Dr. Che-Mponda alimkabidhi Mh. Balozi Manongi, nakala la andiko (dissertation) lake.  Kwa wasiofahamu, Dr. Che-Mponda ni baba yangu mzazi.

Utafiti aliyofanya zaidi ya miaka 40 uliyopita umekuwa muhimu sana sasa kutokana na Rais wa Malawi, Mh. Joyce Banda kuruhusu makampuni kuchimba mafuta (oil exploration) katika Ziwa Nyasa, akidai kuwa Ziwa yote ni mali/ardhi ya Malawi.

Kutoka Kushoto - Mh. Balozi Tuvako Manongi, Dr. Aleck Che-Mponda, Mh. Balozi Ramadhani M. Mwinyi



Kutoka Kushoto - Mh. Noel Kaganda, Mh. Balozi Tuvako Manongi, Dr. Aleck Che-Mponda, Mh. Balozi Ramadhani M. Mwinyi, na shemeji yangu Stanley Harris

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Gazeti la Business Times waliandika kuhusu utafiti wa baba hivi karibuni:

Kutoka Business Times

Britain solved Malawi-Tanzania border issue in 1924, analyst says: League of Nations duly informed in 1925...


Written by MOHAMED KAZINGUMBE

Saturday, 15 December 2012
PUBLIC International Law and related laws were properly followed by the colonial authorities in drawing the border between Tanganyika Territory and Nyasaland Protectorate, a retired scholar has said, stressing that this was done following the Great War of 1914-18, when Britain was ruling both countries.

The latter country was renamed 'Malawi' on independence in 1964, while Tanganyika,which became independent on December 9, 1961, joined Zanzibar in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.Elaborating on this, Dr Aleck che Mponda – a former senior lecturer in Political Science at the University of Dar es Salaam – said Britain issued a map to that effect in 1924, showing the border as being in the middle of Lake Nyasa, and pointing on other coordinates, with River Pongwe to the north and River Ruvuma to the point where Tanzania's part of the lake ends.Noting that border clashes have threatened to worsen into a territorial war between Tanzania and Malawi twice since independence, che Mponda said it was not altogether surprising that the matter comes up again! 

The former lecturer – who hails from the shores of Lake Nyasa – sets the record straight, in elaborate detail, in an academic study conducted in the early 1970s.He points out that the first time this happened was in 1968 when Malawi, under the late Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda as president, went about claiming that the border was at the Lake Nyasa shore on the Tanzanian side!“Had it not been for efforts to maintain the status quo, the two countries would have fought it out – much to the destruction of their economies, as each would have resorted to strong weapons for the bombing of buildings, bridges, roads, airports and so on,” Dr che Mponda states.That controversy raised eyebrows among global leaders and international institutions, prompting them to engage in fact-finding missions.

At the time, che Mponda was a student at Howard University in the United States, working on a Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Science. In the event, he made the topical Banda claims the basis of his dissertation in 1972. Business Times had an exclusive interview with Dr che Mponda this week, at which he revealed morsels of the matter the subject of controversy between Malawi and Tanzania. Details of the border delineation and related issues are on record, titled ''The Malawi-Tanzania Border and Territorial Disputes, 1968: A case study of Boundary and Territorial Imperatives in the new Africa.'

The latest dispute on the border was triggered after the Tanzania government learned that the incumbent Malawi Government under President Joyce Banda had granted a UK-based company the right to conduct oil exploration over areas of Lake Nyasa which also touch on Tanzania's shores “It is unclear how far President Kikwete and President Banda are sensing the danger ahead as the two neigbouring former British colonies squabble,” Dr che Mponda says.

“Dar has nothing to worry about, as Tanzania stands on the right side of the issue,” he claims, adding that this is on the basis of what he reckoned in examining the facts for his dissertation 40 years ago! Insisting that Public International Law and other pertinent laws and procedures were applied in 1924 by the British government to fix the Tanganyika-Nyasaland boundary, che Mponda dissertation stresses that “the line of the border is drawn right through the middle of the lake, and again to the north of the lake is Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)...”The document further reads, “to the northern tip of Lake Nyasa is River Songwe, which is in Tanzania and continues along the centre line of Lake Nyasa to a point due West of the River Ruvuma, whence the boundary runs East and joins the Ruvuma River, whose course follows to the sea...”Further details quote the authority of the League of Nations Report with Mandatory Power No 7 by His Britannic Majesty's Government on the Administration under Mandate of Tanganyika Territory, 1924. “For more details, further elaborations can be found in the Geneva League of Nations meeting of 1925 on page 5,”

Dr che Mponda specified.The retired academic seems to be conversant with the matter academically, historically – and as a son of the soil of the Lake Nyasa zone. In the event, has has nothing to gain from not telling I t like it is! At 76 years of age, he has many treasures for the new generation to benefit from.The man sees the matter “as a political issue for President Banda who came into the highest office in the land only recently, succeeding the late President Bingu wa Mutharika.“President Joice Banda would like to build confidence among her people as the country approaches the 2014 general elections... To show that she is capable of raising and working upon difficult issues which have troubled her people for decades.”

In any case, Dr che Mponda believes that the conflict would be resolved diplomatically, and that no war would emerge between the two sides, despite the fact that there are signs from various quarters to influence the issue in relation to potential oil gains. The matter will take a low profile to the end, the former lecturer maintains. Some scholars in Dar es Salaam have been puzzled by this attitude of Malawi, which has been a close of Tanzania for years. In any case, the Tanzania Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation issued a statement after an abortive meeting between the two sides in Dar es Salaam recently, saying that the matter will now be taken for arbitration at the International Court of Justice, where it would hopefully be properly determined.

Ugomvi Kati ya Malawi na Tanzania Yaendelea - Ziwa Nyasa!

Wadau tangu mimi mdogo miaka ya 70 nakumbuka huo ugomvi kuhusu mpaka wa Malawi na Tanzania.  sasa Malawi wameruhusu uchimbaji wa mafuta Ziwa Nyasa. hiyo Ziwa bado ni natural Itachafuka!

Bandari ya Kwetu Manda Picha nilipiga mwaka 2009

Tanzania asks Malawi to Halt Oil search in Disputed Lake

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has asked Malawi to stop oil and gas exploration activities in Lake Malawi until a border dispute between the two countries involving the lake is resolved, a Tanzanian official said on Monday.

Last October, Malawi said it had awarded oil exploration licenses to UK-based Surestream Petroleum to search for oil in Lake Malawi, which is also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania.

"Malawi claims that the whole lake belongs to the country according to colonial boundaries ... But our stated position is that half of the lake belongs to Tanzania," said Assah Mwambene, a spokesman for Tanzania's foreign affairs ministry.

Lilongwe awarded Surestream Petroleum licenses for blocks 2 and 3 in the disputed lake, with a combined area of 20,000 square kilometers.

Tanzanian officials said the 50-year-old territorial dispute between the two countries could escalate if significant oil and gas discoveries are made in the lake.

Mwambene said Tanzanian Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Membe told his Malawi counterpart, Mganda Chiume, that ongoing oil exploration at the lake could jeopardize talks between the countries over the dispute.

The two ministers met in Dar es Salaam at the weekend to discuss the territorial dispute, Mwabene said.

"Some planes have been spotted flying over Tanzania's side of the lake conducting the oil exploration activities ... there is still room for negotiations over the correct border between Tanzania and Malawi," he said.

Tanzania, which made huge natural gas discoveries off its Indian Ocean coast, said last month it had nearly tripled its estimate of recoverable natural gas reserves to as much as 28.74 trillion cubic feet.

Ndege ya Kwanza Kutua Ziwa Nyasa

The first aircraft to land on Lake Nyasa was a Lioré et Olivier LeO H-194 flying boat of the 'Aeronavale' (French Fleet Air Arm) piloted by 'Lieutenant de Vaisseau' (Lieutenant-Commander) Marc Bernard. He landed at Fort Johnston in 1927, on his way from Marseilles to Madagascar. It was an epic flight for the time, down through French North Africa, across the Sahara to Mali, then a long flight over very rough territory to Nyasaland, in a single engined aircraft.

However, the faithful Bristol Jupiter (license-built by Gnome-Rhone) performed impeccably, accomplishing the return trip with no incidents.

Originally he was to have been accompanied by a 2nd 'Aeronavale' machine, a CAMS 37 GR, but its Lorraine engine proved less reliable than the Jupiter, and it had to retire in North Africa with crankshaft problems.

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Bandari ya Kyela

Meli MV Songea (Meli Kubwa)

Wadau, Ziwa Nyasa ni kubwa mno. Ni kama bahari. Ina mawimbi makali kama bahari. Nilitoka Dar es Salaam na basi, hadi Kyela. Nililala gesti (Pattaya Centre Hole) na asubuhi tuliondoka kuelekea bandarini. Kuna bandari mbili huko Kyela. Hii bandari tuliyoenda ni nje ya mji wa Kyela. Ukitaka kwenda Lupingu, Manda, Mbamba Bay na sehemu kadhaa unapanda meli hapo. Hiyo Meli inaendeshawa na Tanzania Railways.

Siku tuliyoondoka, Oktoba 29, 2009, ndo meli kubwa MV Songea ilikuwa inarudishwa katika huduma. Walikuwa wanaifanyia matengenezao ya mwisho mwisho. Walisema meli itaondoka saa 7 mchana, lakini iliondoka saa 11 jioni. Swahili Time kweli kweli. La sivyo ingebidi tupande meli ndogo MV Iringa kesho yake.

Muda wote huo wasafiri pale bandarini waliishia kuchomwa na jua kali. Yaani kali kuliko hata Dar es Salaam. Kulikuwa na akina mama na watoto wao wengi tu pale. Kivuli hakuna. Kulikuwa na vimiti, na pia kajumba. Hiyo jumba walisema inafunguliwa tu, kama kuna wasafiri wanaolala pale kungojea meli, mfano inachelewa kuondoka. Ofisi ya kuuza tiketi ni kontena.

Kundi la akina mama waliamua kwenda kupeleka watoto wao kuoga pale kwenye beach. Mimi mwenyewe nilitia miguu kwenye maji ili kupooza ile joto. Ajabu, polisi fulani mwenye cheo ndogo sana alitokea na kuwafukuza wale wakina mama na watoto wao pale kwenye maji. Halafu alikuwa anatukana matusi ya nguoni, ila watu wamsikie huko kavaa magwanda yake. Sijui alijiona mtu mkubwa sana kwa kitendo chake.

Ningeomba serikali waweke angalau kibanda chenye kivuli pale, bandari ili watu wasichomwe na jua.

Kuna akina Mama Ntilie pale, na wanapikaga dagaa safi sana!
Jua lina zama. Ziwa Nyasa imetulia.
Bado tuko Kyela

Chai kwa Mama Ntilie. Ndizi, dagaa na soda.

Vibanda Vya Mama Ntiliel. Nilipata wali/dagaa/maharage safi sana pale kwa shs. 1,200/-.

Bandari ya Kyela

Hao wazungu ni wanafunzi wa udaktari huko Muhimbili. Wanatoka Ujerumani. Walikuwa wanafanya backpacking. Tulisafiri nao kwenye meli, walikuwa wanaenda Mbamba Bay. Mmoja wao aligombezwa kwa kupiga picha ya meli, MV Songea.

Chemi Kijijini Ilela, Manda

Kaburi la marehemu bibi yangu, Gandula Mary Makatochi. Alifariki 1977 nikiwa mwanafunzi wa Form One, Zanaki Girls Sec.

Manda saa za jioni, mnaona Ziwa Nyasa

Muhogo ni chakula kikuu huko Manda. Hivi sasa kuna ukame. Nashangaa kwenye picha naona kijani kijani, lakini nilivyokuwa huko kila kitu kilikuwa 'brown' shauri ya kukosa mvua! Ugali wa muhogo na dagaa wa Ziwa Nyasa tamu sana.

Nilionana na ndugu wengine sana huko Ilela. Wengi walinikumbuka kwa vile nilikuwa mtundu sana nuikiwa mdogo.

Kaburi la Marehemu baba mdogo, Prof. Crispin Hauli huko Ilela. Alipofariki mwaka 2001 alikuwa mbunge wa Ludewa na pia Naibu Waziri wa Fedha.

Njia kati ya Nsungu na Ilela, Manda Mnaona mlima wa Manda. Inaitwa Mt. Likolombola. (wadau naomba mnisaidie jina sahihi)

Ndugu huko Ilela Manda (Mama Nsumuka)

Niko na Ndugu wengine

Mimi na Bibi Mburuma, siyo bibi yangu lakini ni ndugu wa karibu.

Sara binti wa ndugu yangu Cassian ananisalimia

Niko na Happy, mtoto wa ndugu yangu Mama Rose

Bandari ya Manda

Ukitoka bandarini kuelekea kijijini unakutana na huo mbuyu mkubwa. Niliuliza vijana wenye mgahawa hapo historia ya huo mbuyu, wakasema ni mbuyu tu. Nahisi ina miaka kama mia 500 au zaidi. Lazima imeona mengi. Ingeweza kusema! Manda, ilikuwa makao makuu ya Nyasaland enzi za Mjerumani. Walipaita, Wiedhaven au Wiedhafen.

Hiyo ni gofu la bandari ya zamani.

Meli ndo inapiga nanga hapo usiku sana kwenye giza. Manda hakuna umeme. Tulifika saa nane ya usiku, lakini kulikuwa na mba la mwezi safi sana. Ziwa Nyasa ni kubwa kama bahari.

Kivutio cha Watalii kijijini Manda

Wadau, hii kaburi ni la Mjerumani aliyekufa huko Manda mwaka 1904. Alizaliwa 1879. Maandishi yalikuwa kwa kijerumani hivyo sikuelewa vizuri wanasema nini. Nasikia wazungu wakifika kijijini ni lazima wafike huko kuona kaburi. Ni njiani kwenda kanisa la St. Thomas, huko Nsungu. Pia watu huko wanaamini kuwa wajerumani wameacha dhahabu tele huko kijijini. Kila siku watu wanachimba huko kuzitafuta!

Stori inaendea hivi, Mwingereza alipovamia, wajerumani walitia dhahabu yao kwenye sanduku. Waafrika wawili walipewa kazi la kubeba hiyo sanduku. Waliambiwa wachimbe shimo kubwa la kuficha hiyo sanduku. Baada ya kuchimba hilo shimo, waliingiza sanduku. Wajerumani waliwapiga risasi hao waafrika wawili na kuwazika humo humo kwenye shimo na hilo sanduku la dhahabu. Walihofia watasema wameficha wapi hiyo dhahabu. Kuna watu ambao wanaamini kuwa wajerumani wameacha ishara kadhaa kuonyesha walipozika ila sanduku.

Picha zingine zitabandikwa kesho jioni.

Twende tukaogelee!

Vijana wakienda kuogelea huko Ziwa Tanganyika mwaka 1930. Picha kutoka 'Phtography and Image' Blog

Nakumbuka kuona vijana wakienda kuogelea hivyo uchi, huko kwetu Ziwa Nyasa.