Mjue Nyirongo Trump

Balozi mpya wa Malawi nchini Marekani atembelea Ubalozi wa Tanzania D.C.

 Mhe balozi mpya wa Malawi Nector Mhura akipokelewa na Afisa ubalozi Swahiba Mndeme alipotembelea ubalozi.

 Mhe, balozi Liberata Mulamula kwenye picha ya pamoja na mgeni wake balozi wa Malawi Nector Mhura.

 Mhe, balozi wa Malawi nchini Marekani akiweka saini kwenye kitabu maalum cha wageni.

 Mhe, balozi wa Malawi nchini Marekani Nector Mhura akimsikiliza kwa makini mwenyeji wake balozi Liberata Mulamula alipokua akijitambulisha.

  Mhe, balozi wa Malawi nchini Marekani Nector Mhura akiwa ameambata na mkuu wa utawala wa ubalozi wa Malawi bi, Jane Nankwenya.

 Mhe, balozi wa Malawi nchini Marekani Nector Mhura akiwa ameambata na mkuu wa utawala wa ubalozi wa Malawi bi, Jane Nankwenya, kulia ni balozi wa Tanzania nchini Marekani Liberata Mulamula na Afisa wa ubalozi Swahiba Mndeme.

                   PICHA ZOTE KWA HISANI YA CAMERA YA UBALOZI.

Rais wa Malawi Afunga Pingu za Maisha Leo! Ana miaka 74

Photos from the Wedding of President Peter Mutharika June 21, 2014

Photos courtesy of Charles Banda

Rais wa Malawi, Peter Mutaharika, (74) amemwoa mchumba wake Bi Gertrude Maseko leo mjini Blantyre. Hongera Bwana na Bibi Mutharika

Kwa habari zaidi BOFYA HAPA:

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Kutoka: Voice of America

Malawi’s newly elected head of state is set to marry on Saturday. President Peter Mutharika will wed his longtime fiancée Gertrude Maseko, a former parliamentarian, at a private ceremony according to Peter Mukhito, co-chairman of the presidential wedding organizing committee.

The couple and some of their “well-wishers” are expected to fund the wedding, after Mutharika ordered government officials to ensure that no state funds are used to organize the nuptial ceremony.

Mukhito said foreign dignitaries, members of the diplomatic corps, friends of the couple and residents of the region Mutharika hails from have been invited to be guests at the wedding this weekend.

“The wedding would be officiated here in Blantyre and after a reception will follow at Ndata Farm,” said Mukhito. “The bill is being footed by the president himself and some well-wishers. In fact, His Excellency has directed that no government money should be used on this wedding…we have religiously followed the directive from the president that no government money should be used for the wedding.”

Mutharika, 74, is a widower with two daughters and a son. He was however accused of being gay during the run up to last month’s general election.

Malawi Yapata Rais Mpya!!!

Habari kutoka Malawi zinasema kuwa Peter Mutharika, ni Rais Mpya wa Malawi! Katika Uchaguzi wao,  Lazarus Chakwera alikuwa wa pili  na Joyce Banda (Rais wa sasa), kawa mshindi wa tatu!  Peter ni Kaka wa marehemu Bingu wa Mutharika aliyewahi kuwa rais wa Malawi.

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Hon. Peter Mutharika - President Elect of Malawi

  BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Malawi's election commission has declared opposition leader Peter Mutharika to be the winner of an election that was marred by scattered unrest and complaints from the president and others that the vote was rigged.

   Mutharika, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party and brother of a president who died in 2012, won the May 20 election with nearly 2 million votes, or 36.4 percent of the electorate. Another opposition leader, Lazarus Chakwera, came second with 27.8 percent, the election commission announced late Friday night. Malawi uses the first-past-the-post system, meaning the candidate with the largest share of votes, no matter how small a percentage of the total votes cast, is the winner.

   President Joyce Banda was a distant third with just over 20 percent, according to the results. Banda had sought to annul the vote because of what she said were irregularities and had called for another election in which she said she would not participate, but a court said her move was invalid.

   Banda came to power in 2012 following the death of Mutharika's brother, Bingu wa Mutharika. Malawi is poor and heavily dependent on foreign aid. Banda initially drew praise for vowing to combat graft when she came to office, but her government has been tarnished by corruption scandals.

   Justice Maxon Mbendera, head of the election commission, lamented the death of a young boy in post-election violence in the southern resort district of Mangochi. He urged Mutharika, a lawyer and former foreign minister, to "focus on what matters and to spend our taxes efficiently" and appealed to the losers to acknowledge that "there can only be one winner."

   Jessie Kabwila, spokeswoman for Chakwera's opposition party, the Malawi Congress Party, said her party will challenge the results in court.

   "We are disappointed because this is not a credible election," she said. "We can't have a president from a junk vote."

   Nicholas Dausi, spokesman for Mutharika's party, said the victors would not be distracted by "bad losers."

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  BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Malawi's election commission has declared opposition leader Peter Mutharika to be the winner of a disputed election despite complaints from the president that the vote was rigged.

   The election commission said late Friday night that Mutharika, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, had won the May 20 election with 36.4 percent of the vote. Another opposition leader, Lazarus Chakwera, had 27.8 percent.

   President Joyce Banda was a distant third, according to the results. Banda had sought to annul the vote because of what she said were irregularities, but a court said her move was invalid.

   Banda came to power in 2012 following the death of Mutharika's brother, Bingu wa Mutharika.
  

Rais Kikwete Apokelewa Kwa Shangwe Nchini Malawi

Video Kwa Hisani ya IKULU

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.

Rais wa Malawi Afariki Dunia!

 Kuna habari kuwa Rais wa Malawi, Mzee Bingu wa Mutharika amefariki dunia huko Afrika Kusini alipoenda kutibiwa baada ya kupata heart attack.  Poleni wananchi wa Malawi. Mungu ailaze roho yake mahala pema mbinguni. Amen.

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 Kutoka BBC News:

6 April 2012

Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika 'dead'

President Bingu wa Muatharika

 

President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi has died, doctors and cabinet ministers have told the BBC, but this has not been officially announced.

One of the doctors who treated Mr Mutharika, 78, said the president was "clinically dead" on Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest.

State media has only reported that he has been flown to South Africa for medical treatment.
If confirmed, his death would spark a constitutional crisis, analysts say.

According to the constitution, the vice-president takes over if the head of state is incapacitated or dies in office.
But Vice-President Joyce Banda and Mr Mutharika fell out after a row over the succession in 2010, and she was expelled from the ruling Democratic People's Party (DPP).
Mr Mutharika's brother, Foreign Minister Peter Mutharika, was chosen instead of Ms Banda to be the DPP's presidential candidate in the 2014 elections.

He has been standing in for the president when needed during official occasions. Ms Banda recently told the BBC she had not spoken to Bingu wa Mutharika for more than a year.

The BBC's Raphael Tenthani in the main city, Blantyre, says ministers met all night to discuss the situation.

The doctors and ministers say that Mr Mutharika's body was taken to South Africa while a decision is taken about what to do next.

Government sources have told the BBC that efforts to resuscitate President Mutharika had failed and that an official announcement is being prepared.
'The laws are clear'

  Former President Bakili Muluzi - a bitter rival to Mr Mutharika - has called on the authorities to make an announcement.

"It's important that the government announces the condition of the president as soon as possible so that the nation is informed," he told journalists.

"I am calling for a constitutional order, for continued peace and order. The laws of Malawi are very clear that the vice-president takes over when the president can no longer govern."

Mr Mutharika, a former World Bank economist, came to power in a 2004 election, after being backed by outgoing President Muluzi. Soon afterwards, Mr Mutharika left his United Democratic Front (UDF) to form the DPP, after accusing Mr Muluzi and other UDF leaders of opposing his campaign against corruption.

Since being re-elected with a large majority in 2009, critics allege he has demonstrated an increasingly authoritarian streak.

The president has been under mounting pressure to resign, amid accusations of nepotism and economic mismanagement.
The criticism has led to a souring in relations with major foreign aid donors, especially the United Kingdom.

Last year, Mr Mutharika expelled the UK High Commissioner, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, after a leaked embassy cable quoted the diplomat as saying that the president could not tolerate criticism.
The Malawian leader said he could not accept "insults" just because the UK was his country's largest aid donor.

In response, the UK expelled the Malawian envoy to London and cut direct aid.
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, with an estimated 75% of the population living on less than $1 (60p) a day.

The country has suffered shortages of fuel and foreign currency since the UK and other donors cancelled aid.

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17636393

 http://news.yahoo.com/malawi-president-dies-heart-attack-hospital-075230249.html

Mpinzani Ralph Kasambara Alazwa Hospitalini Malawi

 BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - The lawyer for an outspoken opponent of Malawi's president says his client has been moved from jail to a hospital, where he is being treated under police guard for a heart ailment.

Ralph Kasambara's lawyer Wapona Kita said he went with him to a hospital early Saturday. Kita says doctors say Kasambara "has developed a serious cardiac condition."

 Kasambara was arrested Monday, accused of kidnapping and torturing three men he told reporters had confessed they had been sent by the government to firebomb his office. The government denies Kasambara's accusations. Kasambara denies the charges against him.

 Kasambara's arrest came days after weekly newspapers quoted him saying President Bingu wa Mutharika "wants to be a dictator" and should be impeached.

Viongozi wa Afrika

Mwaka 1960 Rais Sekou Toure wa Guinea na mke wake walitembelea mikoa ya Kusini mwa Marekani. Wakati huo Ubaguzi huko ulikuwa mbaya mno!

L-R - Emperor Haile Selassie (Eithiopia), President Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya), President Gamal Abder Nasser (Egypt), and President for Life Hastings Kamuzu Banda (Malawi)

Hii picha naona ilipigwa kwenye miaka ya 1964. Rais Nasser alifariki 1970, na Mzee Banda anaonekana bado kijana.

Luncheon With the Vice President of Malawi Boston

Name of Event: NEMA Luncheon with the Vice President of Malawi, Hon. Joyce Banda

When: 06/05/2010 at 12:30pm

Where: The Lantana, 43 Scanlon Drive, Randolph, MA 02368 (Tel) 781-961-4660
In the Mediterranean Room

Cost per Person: $40

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