Mwizi Ageuka Mbuzi Nigeria

Wadau, huko Nigeria mbuzi kashikiliwa na polisi kwa tuhuma za kuiba gari. Watu walioshuhudia tukio wanasema kuwa eti mwizi alitumia uchawi kusudi ageuke mbuzi wakati anakimbia kutoka kwenye eneo la tukio.

Nilidhani kuwa Tanzania tuna imani kubwa na uchawi kumbe hata huko Afrika Magahribi wamo!

Ujumbe kwa polisi huko. Na nasema hebu lete huyo mbuzi tumgeuze nyama choma! LOL!

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Goat Detained over Armed Robbery

LAGOS (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.

Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.

"The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They pursued them. However one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat," Kwara state police spokesman Tunde Mohammed told Reuters by telephone.

"We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat," he said.

Belief in witchcraft is widespread in parts of Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. Residents came to the police station to see the goat, photographed in one national newspaper on its knees next to a pile of straw .

Picha Rasmi ya Rais Barack Obama

Wadau, hii ni picha rasmi (official portrait) ya rais mpya wa Marekani, Barack Hussein Obama.

Miss Brazil Afariki Dunia

Mrembo Miss Brazil, Mariana Bridi (20) amefariki dunia leo asubuhi huko Brazili baada ya kuugua ugonjwa wa bacteria usio na tiba. Hivi karibuni alikatwa sehemu ya tumbo na mikono na miguu yake kusudi bacteria usisambae zaidi mwilini mwake. Jitihada za kumwoka hazikufanikiwa. Aliwahi madkatari walidhani ana ugonjwa kwenye njia ya kupitisha mkojo. Bridi aliwahi kushiriki katika mashindano ya urembo wa Miss World. Alikuwa mmoja wa warembo watano bora.

Mungu ailaze roho yake mahala pema mbinguni. Amen.

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2009/01/mariana-bridi-da-costa.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2160372.ece

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24960178-12377,00.html

Serikali Yafuta Leseni za Waganga wa Kienyeji

Wadau, nasema WAZIRI PINDA NI SHUJAA!!!!

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Waziri Mkuu Pionda afuta leseni za waganga wa kienyeji

SERIKALI imetangaza kufuta leseni zote za waganga wa jadi kuanzia jana (Ijumaa Jan. 23, 2009) ikiwa ni sehemu ya mapambano dhidi ya mauaji ya Albino na Vikongwe nchini.

Amri hiyo ilitangazwa na Waziri Mkuu Mizengo Pinda katika mkutano wa hadhara mjini Shinyanga jana mwishoni mwa ziara yake ya mikoa ya Kanda ya Ziwa kuhamasisha mapambano ya Serikali dhidi ya mauaji hayo.

Waziri Mkuu alisema kuwa aliwasiliana na Mwanasheria Mkuu kuhusu uamuzi wa kuchukua hatua hiyo ya kufuta leseni hizo na Mwanasheria Mkuu akasema jambo hilo linawezekana.

"Kuanzia leo leseni zote za waganga wa jadi futa… Mtu yeyote akiendelea na kazi hiyo mfuatilieni," aliwaagiza Wakuu wa Mikoa, Wilaya na Wakuu wa Halmashauri zote za Jiji, Miji na Wilaya nchini.

Waganga wa jadi wamekuwa wakituhumiwa kuwa ndiyo chimbuko la mauaji hayo kwa vile wao ndiyo hupiga ramli za kuelekeza hivyo.

Katika mikutano na viongozi wa mikoa ya Kagera, Mwanza, Mara, Tabora na Shinyanga, wachangiaji wengi waliitaka serikali kufuta leseni hizo. Hata baadhi ya waganga wa jadi waliochangia walikiri.

Waganga wa jadi husajiliwa na kupewa leseni za kufanya kazi zao na Halmashari kwa utaratibu wa kiutawala. Ipo sheria ya mwaka 2002 kuhusu Tiba Asilia na Tiba Mbadala (Traditional and Alterntive Medicine Act), lakini Kanuni za utekelezaji wake zilikuwa hazijatengenezwa.

Waziri Mkuu alisema mganga wa jadi ambaye anaweza kuruhusiwa baadaye ni yule ambaye dawa zake za mitishamba au za asili zitakuwa zimethibitishwa na Kitengo cha Uchunguzi wa Tiba Asili cha Hospitali ya Taifa ya Muhimbili kuwa kweli zinatibu. Mgonjwa naye atatakiwa awe na cheti kutoka hospitali kitakachothitisha maradhi yake na kuwa tiba yake hopitali imeshindikana.

"Waganga hawa ni waongo wakubwa…Siyo lazima kuwa nao. Wangekuwa waganga wa kweli magonjwa mengi yangepungua nchini, lakini magonjwa yapo na sasa wanapiga ramli na kuwa kichocheo cha mauaji.

Mkoa wa Shinyanga unasemekana unaongoza kwa idadi ya waganga wa jadi waliosajiliwa na wako 1,104 na 94 ambao hawakusajiliwa. Wilaya ya Kahama peke yake ina 763.

Waziri Mkuu aliuambia umati uliofurika kwenye uwanja wa Chuo cha Biahshara cha Shinyanga (Shycom) huku akishangiliwa kuwa mapambano dhidi ya mauaji ya Abino ni vita na ndiyo maana anataka ulinzi wa jadi wa Sungusungu urejeshwe kusaidiana na vyombo vya dola kukabiliana na hali hiyo.

Aliwataka Wakuu wa Mikoa na Wilaya pamoja na Jeshi la Polisi na Idara ya Usalama wa Taifa kufnya kazi zao kwa ufanisi zaidi na "kujipanga upya na kuteremka hadi ngazi ya chini" kusimamia mapambano dhidi ya mauaji ya Albino na Vikongwe.

"Inapotokea kuwa Albino au Kikongwe anauawa katika eneo fulani, mimi nitamshukia Mkuu wa Mkoa na kumuuliza kwa nini aliacha hali itokee hivyo. Mkuu wa Mkoa naye atamshukia Mkuu wa Wilaya na vivyo hivyo," alisema.

Aliongeza: "Tukijumuika wote kwa pamoja tutashinda vita hii kama tulivyoshinda vita dhidi ya nduli Idi Amin wa Uganda".

Waziri Mkuu pia alisema atamwomba Jaji Mkuu kuwa zile kesi za mauaji ya Albino ambazo ziko tayari zinapangiwa majaji maalum ili zikamilike na hatima yake ijulikane haraka.


Tangu Juni mwaka 2007 mpaka Novemba mwaka 2008 jumla ya Albino 34 wameuawa nchini kwa imani za ushirikina kuwa eti viungo vyao vinasaidia kupata utajiri. Idadi yao kimkoa kwenye mabano ni Mwanza (19) Mara (4) Kigoma (3) Shinyanga (4), Kagera (3) na Mbeya (1). Mwaka huu tayari wameuawa watatu.

Jumla ya vikongwe waliouawa nao kwa kushukiwa wachawi ni 2583 ambapo idadi yao kimkoa kwenye mabano ni Mwanza (696), Shinaynga (522), Tabora (508), Iringa (256), Mbeya (192) Kagera (186), Singida (120) na Rukwa (103).

Ziara ya Waziri Mkuu Pinda katika mikoa ya Kanda ya Ziwa inamalizika leo kwa majumuisho yatakayowahusisha viongozi wa mikoa hiyo. Alianzia Kagera na badaye kutembelea mikoa ya Mwanza, Tabora na Shinyanga. Mkoa wa Mara ulijumuishwa kwa viongozi wake kuhudhuria mkutano wa viongozi Mwanza.
(mwisho)
Imetolewa na:
Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu,
S.L.P. 3021,
DAR ES SALAAM

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Pinda ataka jino kwa jino
Na Victor Kinambile, Tabora

KATIKA hali ya isiyo ya kawaida, Waziri Mkuu Mizengo Pinda jana aliwaambia wananchi kuwa wanaoua watu wenye ulemavu wa ngozi (albino) pamoja vikongwe ni hawana budi kuuawa kwa kuwa wakisubiri mahakama kuwahukumu, watakuwa wanakosea.

Waziri Pinda, ambaye ameanza ziara katika mikoa ya Kanda ya Ziwa yenye lengo la kuhamasisha vita dhidi ya mauaji ya vikongwe na albino, aliutaka Umoja wa Vijana wa CCM kuongoza vita hiyo, akisema lina jeshi zuri.

Mauaji ya albino yamekuwa ni tatizo kubwa nchini na hasa katika mikoa ya Kanda ya Ziwa.

Pamoja na serikali kutangaza hatua kadhaa za kupambana na wauaji hao, bado matukio ya kuuawa kwa watu hao wenye ulemavu wa ngozi yamekuwa yakiendelea kuripotiwa, lakini Waziri Pinda ameenda mbali zaidi katika kukabiliana na tatizo hilo alipotaka wauaji hao wauawe badala ya kufikishwa mbele ya vyombo vya sheria.

Kauli ya Pinda, ambayo inaweka maswali katika suala la utawala bora, imekuja wakati ambao wananchi wamekuwa wakijichukulia sheria mkononi na kuua vikongwe kutokana na imani za uchawi.

Akihutubia wakati wa kufungua mkutano wa 16 wa Shirikisho la Vyama vya Kuweka na Kukopa (SCCULT) kwenye ukumbi wa Chuo cha Utumishi Umma mkoani hapa, Waziri Pinda alisema iwapo wananchi wataendelea kuwahurumia wauaji hao ambao wanatafuta viungo vya albino wakitegemea mahakama itatenda haki huku nao wakiongeza kasi ya mauaji kwa Watanzania, watakuwa wanakosea.

Hivyo alisema kwamba kuanzia sasa mtu yeyote atakayemuona mtu amemkata shingo au mkono mweziwe basi naye auawe papo hapo hii itakuwa ndiyo dawa kwani vingozi wote tumechoka na mauji hayo.

"Mkimuona mtu akamkata mwingine shingo naye muueni kwani sasa viongozi wote tumechoka... no more, I can't tolerate anymore (imetosha, siwezi kuvumilia tena)," alisema Pinda huku akiwaacha watu midomo wazi.

Aliviomba vyama vya siasa kushirikiana na wananchi kuhakikisha suala hili la mauji linakwisha kwani wauji "tunaishi nao na ni rahisi kulimaliza iwapo tutakuwa kitu kimoja katika kuondoa kashifa hii ambayo imekuwa mbaya kwa nchi yetu".

Aliuagiza Umoja wa Vijana wa CCM kuhakikisha mauaji hayo yanatokomezwa kabisa, akisema kuwa ni jeshi zuri ambalo likiamua kutokomeza kabisa mauaji ya vikongwe na ndugu zetu maalbino inawezekana.

"Umoja wa vijana mna jeshi zuri ambalo naamini mkiamua mnaweza kutokomeza mauaji ya wazee wetu pmoja na ndugu zetu maalbno na kazi hiyo nawaagiza muanze leo msisubri auawe mwingine tena," alisema waziri mkuu.

Baada ya kumalizika kwa mkutano huo, baadhi ya watu wanaoonekana kuwa ni wa "serikali" waliwafuata baadhi ya waandishi wa habari, akisihi suala hilo lisiripotiwe magazetini kwa madai kuwa kauli hiyo ya Waziri Pinda inaweza kusababisha matatizo.

Rais Jakaya Kikwete, ambaye pia amekuwa mstari wa mbele kupiga vita mauaji hayo, alitofautiana na Waziri Pinda katika moja ya hotuba zake aliposema kuwa adhabu ya kuua haitofautishi muuaji wa albino na muuaji mwingine na kwamba watakaopatikana na hatia ya kuua albino, atakabiliana na adhabu ya kifo kama ilivyo kwa muuaji mwingine.

Waziri Pinda alionekana kukerwa na mauaji ya albino wakati alipopata taarifa kwamba kuna mama mwingine aliuawa usiku wa kuamkia juzi.

"Nimeambiwa kuwa juzi wilayani Sengerema kuna mama mmoja ambaye ni mlemavu wa ngozi amekatwa mkono na wauaji wakaondoka na mkono huo na tayari mama huyo amekufa," alisema Pinda na kusisitiza kushughulikia wauaji hao.

Akitoa takwimu za mauaji ya vikongwe na malbino alisema mwaka 2003 waliuwawa vikongwe 517, mwaka 2004 waliuawa vikongwe 444, mwaka 2005 (494), 2006 (vikongwe 386), mwaka 2007 (vikongwe 526) na albino sita na mwaka 2008 (vikongwe 526 na albino 28).

Alisema tayari mwaka huu wameuawa albino watatu hivyo kufanya albino na vikongwe waliouawa kufikia kuwa jumla 2,900.

Waziri mkuu ameanza ziara ya siku nne kutembelea mikoa ya Shinyanga, Tabora na Mwanza ili kuhamasisha wananchi watokomeze vitendo vya mauaji ya vikongwe na watu weye ulemavu wa ngozi.

Wimbi la Ajali za Mabasi Bongo!

Hivi jamani, chanzo cha hizi ajali hizi ni nini? Barabara mbovu, uendeshaji mbaya, mabasi mabovu? Ni nini? Yaani katika mwezi tu, mamia ya watu wamekufa huko Tanzania!

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Kutoka ippmedia.com

Ajali zaondoa uvumilivu wa Kikwete

2009-01-23
Na Mwandishi Wetu

Rais Jakaya Kikwete, amesema serikali haiwezi kuvumilia kutokea kwa ajali za barabarani zinazosababisha vifo na upotevu wa mali, wakati mamlaka zenye kusimamia usalama katika eneo hilo zipo.

Katika salaamu za rambirambi alizozitoa jana kwa Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Arusha, Isdore Shirima, kufuatia ajali ya juzi iliyosababisha vifo vya watu 16 na wengine kadhaa kujeruhiwa, Rais alisema ni lazima juhudi zifanywe kupunguza ajali hizo kama si kuzikomesha kabisa.

Ajali hiyo ilihusisha basi la abiria, Toyota Double Coaster liitwalo Mapenzi ya Mungu na lori, ilitokea katika eneo la daraja la mto Nduruma, nje kidogo ya mji wa Arusha.

``Hatuwezi kuendelea kuvumilia kutokea kwa ajali hizi, wakati mamlaka zenye dhamana ya kusimamia sheria ya usalama barabarani zipo,`` Kurugenzi ya Mawasiliano ya Rais, imemkariri Rais Kikwete akionya.

``Tufanye jitihada zilizo ndani ya uwezo wetu, kupunguza kwa kiwango kikubwa na ikiwezekana kukomesha kabisa ajali hizi za barabarani ambazo
katika kipindi kifupi tangu kuanza kwa mwaka mpya, zimepoteza maisha ya wenzetu wengi,`` alisema.

Rais Kikwete, alisema ajali mfululizo zinazotokea nchini, hazina budi kuwekewa mikakati madhubuti ya kudhibitiwa, kutokana na mamlaka husika kuwa na uwezo huo.

Katika salam zake hizo, Rais Kikwete, alitoa pole kwa majeruhi na kusema: ``Ninatambua maumivu makali mnayoyapata hivi sasa...Mwenyezi Mungu awape moyo wa uvumilivu.``

Tangu mwaka huu uanze ajali nyingine mbaya mbili za mabasi zimetokea kanda ya kaskazini, moja mkoani Tanga na nyingine mkoani Kilimanjaro. Ya Kilimanjaro iliua wanandugu 11 waliokuwa wanatoka kwenye sherehe ya ubarikio Hai na ya Tanga iliua watu 28.

Pia kuna ajali nyingine ya basi lililokuwa likisafiri kutoka Dodoma kwenda Manyara iliyoua watatu katika mwezi huu.

SOURCE: Nipashe

Maoni ya Balozi Ombeni Sefue kuhusu Rais Obama

Kutoka http://www.habaricom.com/media/378/Ambassador_Ombeni_Sefue

Mshiko!

Wadau kama mnafahamu mapacha wa kike (identical) wenye umri kati ya miaka 45-55 mshiko huo hapa!

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Chemi,

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Please pass this along to family and friends.
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Ajali ya Lifti Dar

Wadau, hivi lifti zinakaguliwa kweli Bongo?

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Kutoka Gazeti la Majira:

Ofisa CHADEMA Aporomoka na Lifti Ghorofani

*Ni kutoka ghorofa ya kumi, ashtuka ubongo

Na Joyce Magoti

OFISA Habari na Uenezi wa CHADEMA, Bw. Devid Kafulila, amenusurika kifo baada ya kuporomoka akiwa ndani ya lifti iliyokuwa mbovu kutoka ghorofa ya kumi hadi ya pili, katika Hotel ya Concord iliyopo mtaa wa Agrey, Dar es Salaam.

Mkurugrenzi wa vijana wa chama hicho, Bw. John Mnyika, alisema tukio hilo lilitokea juzi saa moja usiku wakati Bw. Kafulila alipokuwa akitoka katika semina iliyokuwa ikifanyika hotelini hapo na kwamba amelazwa katika Tasisi ya Tiba ya Mifupa Muhimbili (MOI).

"Bw. Kafulila alikuwa mtoa mada katika semina iliyokuwa ikifanyika katika hoteli hiyo iliyohusisha vijana na wanawake ambapo aliwahi kuondoka. Wakati akitoka, aliingia katika chumba cha lifti ambacho mlango wake ulikuwa wazi.

"Baada ya kuingia lifti hiyo, alimshusha hadi ghorofa ya pili wakati yeye akitokea gholofa ya kumi, tulimkuta ghorofa ya pili akiwa amepoteza fahamu tukamwahisha hospitalini kwa ajili ya matibabu," alisema Bw. Mnyika.

Alisema kabla ya tukio hilo, uongozi wa hoteli hiyo ulipewa taarifa za ubovu wa lifti hiyo na baadhi ya washiriki waliokuwa katika semina hiyo lakini kutokana na kutojali hawakuchukua tahadhari yoyote.

"Baada ya kutokea ajali hiyo tuliangalia eneo la tukio ambalo halikuwa na maandishi yoyote wala kitu chochote kilichoashiria kuwa lifti hiyo ni mbovu, tunaomba uchunguzi ufanyike, inaonesha lifti hiyo ni mbovu kwa muda mrefu lakini hakuna tahadhari yoyote iliyochukuliwa na uongozi wa hoteli hiyo," alisema.

Afisa muuguzi wa MOI, Bi. Mercy Temu, alisema vipimo vya X-Ray alivyofanyiwa ngonjwa huyo vinaonesha kuwa ameumia sehemu ya nyonga katika mguu wa kushoto ambapo amewekewa jiwe lenye uzito wa kilo nne kwa ajili ya kumpunguzia maumivu na kurudisha nyonga hiyo katika sehemu yake.

"Mbali na kuumia sehemu hiyo pia ubongo wake ulishtuka hali aliyosababisha kupoteza fahamu lakini hali hiyo itatulia na anaweza kurudia katika hali yake ya kawaida baadaye.

"Ni jambo la kumshukuru Mungu kwa sababu mgongo wake haujaumia anaweza hata kuinua miguu yake na kugeuka peke yake," alisema Bi. Temu.

Waandishi wa habari walifika katika hoteli hiyo kwa lengo la kupata ufafanuzi kuhusiana na tukio hilo ambapo msichana mmoja aliyekuwa mapokezi alimwita Meneja wa hoteli hiyo ambaye hakutaka kutaja jina lake.

"Mnataka niwasaidie nini, mimi sina shida na waandishi wa habari wala sitaki kuzungumza chochote na nyie, mnaweza kwenda sina habari ya kuwapa," alisema Meneja huyo.

Barack Hussein Obama ni Rais wa Marekani

Rais Obama na mke wake Michelle, wakielekea makazi yao mapya, WHITE HOUSE

The Obama's & The Biden's mara baada ya kuapishwa

Rais Obama Akithutubia Wananchi

(Picha zote kutoka CNN.Com)

Wadau, leo mchana Senator Barack Hussein Obama, ameapishwa kuwa Rais Marekani. Alitumia jina lake kamili bila aibu. Wengi walisema atatumia Barack H. Obama kwa vile waMarekani wengi hawapendi jina la Hussein kwa vile inawakumbusha Uislamu na Saddam Hussein. Pongezi kwa Obama kwa kuheshimu jina aliyopewa na wazazi wake!

Sasa anaanza kazi ngumu ya kuwa Rais Marekani. Mungu ampe nguvu na amlinde yeye na famila yake.

Wimbo wa Taifa wa Weusi Marekani

Wadau, hata sikujua kama weusi Marekani wana wimbo wa taifa wao. Inaitwa 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'. Huisikii mara kwa mara. Tuone kama tutaanza kuisikia zaidi na hivyo tutakuwa na rais mweusi. Wimbo wa Taifa wa Marekani ni ' The Star Spangled Banner'.




'THE NEGRO NATIONAL ANTHEM'

Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God, where we met Thee;
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand.
True to our GOD,
True to our native land

Mtunzi:James Weldon Johnson June 17, 1871 - June 26, 1938

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Jr.

(1929-1968)

Leo tumeshekerekea sikukuu ya kuzaliwa kwa mgombea haki za weusi Marekani (Civil Rights) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. kwa njia za amani. Aliuawawa mwaka 1968 na mbaguzi James Earl Ray. Asante jitihada za Dr. King weusi Marekani na watu wote wasio wazungu wana hali bora zaidi ya maisha. Kabla ya hapo maisha Marekani yalikuwa kama Afrika Kusini enzi za Apartheid! Asante Dr. King!

Kesho ndoto yake itakamilika. Baraka Obama ambaye ni mweusi ataapishwa kuwa Rais wa Marekani. Atakuwa rais wa kwanza mweusi wa Marekani. Marekani ina miaka 233 na Obama atakuwa rais wa 44.

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

Kazi ya Richard Bon Magumba

Ona kazi ya Mtengeneza sinema wa Bongo, Richard Bon Magumba. Iko You Tube.

Onyo Kwa waMarekani wanaoenda Burundi

Hivi Kuna nini tena huko Burundi?

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Travel Warning
United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520

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This information is current as of today, Sun Jan 18 23:34:32 2009.

BURUNDI
January 08, 2009

The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Burundi and continues to caution Americans against non-essential travel outside the capital, Bujumbura. The U.S. Embassy restricts the travel of its personnel in Burundi, and certain areas of Bujumbura are off-limits to U.S. government personnel. This replaces the Travel Warning for Burundi dated April 22, 2008 to provide information concerning the failure of government and rebel forces to implement a cease-fire agreement, and revised information on security restrictions for Embassy personnel.

Burundi was plagued by a civil war from 1993 to 2006 that often involved non-governmental and non-combatant targets. In September 2006, the government and the last rebel group not party to peace accords, the PALIPEHUTU–FNL (FNL), signed a cease-fire agreement. However, many of the cease-fire provisions have not been implemented. Rebel forces still retain the capability to conduct indirect fire attacks on the capital. In April 2008, rebel forces engaged Burundian military units in and around the Bujumbura city limits, though government troops quickly overcame them. The FNL leaders agreed to discontinue hostilities and to implement fully the cease-fire agreement. Despite the cessation of hostilities, the FNL are still present throughout Bujumbura Rural, which surrounds the capital city. Both sides have not yet completed a final peace agreement.

Crime, often committed by groups of armed bandits or street children, poses the highest risk for foreign visitors to both Bujumbura and Burundi in general. Common crimes include muggings, burglaries, robberies, and carjackings. Visitors should be careful when stopped in heavy traffic due to the threat of robbery by roving bands of criminals. The U.S. Embassy has received reports of armed criminals ambushing vehicles, particularly on the roads leading out of Bujumbura. U.S. Government personnel are prohibited from walking on the streets after dark and from using local public transportation at any time. Due to the lack of resources, local authorities in any part of Burundi often are unable to provide timely assistance during an emergency.

The U.S. Embassy restricts the travel of Embassy personnel in Burundi, and certain areas of Bujumbura, the capital, are off-limits to Embassy personnel. The Embassy's Regional Security Officer (RSO) must pre-approve all travel outside the capital by U.S. Embassy personnel, and employees must travel in two-vehicle convoys. The RSO also requires additional security precautions for U.S. Embassy personnel traveling north to Cibitoke and south to Rumonge along the national highways. The Embassy recommends that American citizens not travel on national highways from dusk to dawn.

American citizens who travel to or remain in Burundi despite this Travel Warning are urged to contact the U.S. Embassy in Bujumbura for information on the latest Embassy security guidelines, and to register at the State Department's travel registration website. By registering, American citizens make it easier for the Embassy to contact them in case of emergency. Americans without internet access may register directly with the U.S. Embassy in Bujumbura at Avenue des Etats-Unis. The hours for non-emergency American Citizen Services are 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Fridays. The Embassy Consular section can be reached by telephone, including after hours emergencies, at (257) 22-20-7000, or by fax at (257) 22-22-2926. Security information for American citizens in Burundi is posted at the Embassy's website .

For further information, consult the Country Specific Information for Burundi and the current Worldwide Caution Travel Alert , available on the Bureau of Consular Affairs Internet website at http://travel.state.gov. Updated information on travel and security in Burundi is available at 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the U.S. and Canada, and for callers in other countries, a regular toll line at 202-501-4444. These numbers are available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays).

Wabaguzi wachoma Moto Kanisa la Weusi

Wazungu wabaguzi watatu wamekamatwa huko Springfield, Massachusetts kwa kuchoma moto kanisa la weusi huko. Hao wabaguzi walisema kuwa walichoma moto kanisa hilo kwa vile walichukizwa na mtu mweusi kuchaguliwa kuwa rais wa Marekani.

Mnaweza kusoma habari zaidi hapa:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/01/17/church_arson_tied_to_racism/

Na Obama anavyokaribia kuapishwa weusi Marekani wameonywa kuwa matendo ya kibaguzi dhidi yao yanaweza kuongezeka.

Mtoto anahitaji Msaada

Kutoka Maisha ni Vita Blog:

Mtoto Erica Laurent (1) aliyezaliwa bila njia ya haja kubwa amekuwa na tatizo la kufumuka nyuzi kila anaposhonwa katika hospitali ya rufaa Mbeya alipofanyiwa operation Novemba 2007. Baba wa mtoto Laurence Msongole amekataa kutoa fedha za matibabu, amemtelekeza mke baada ya kuzaa mtoto mwenye matatizo.

Hivi sasa mama wa mtoto Huruma Mwaijande anaishi kwa wazazi wake ambao nao wameshindwa kupata fedha za matibabu kufuatia umaskini unaoikabili familia hiyo.

Mtoto huyo amepangiwa kwenda Muhimbili kwa matibabu zaidi lakini uwezekano hauopo kutokana na ukweli kwamba familia haina uwezo hata wa kugharamia matibabu katika hospitali ya rufaa ya Mbeya.

“Tulifukuzwa katika nyumba tuliyopanga na mume wangu, tukahamia kwa mama mkwe ambaye amepanga chumba na sebule, baba na mama mkwe wanalala chumbani na mimi na mume wangu tunalala sebuleni hali iliyonifanya nihame nije kuishi kwa wazazi wangu” anasema Huruma.

Mama na mtoto huyo wanaishi mtaa wa Ilembo mjini Vwawa wilayani Mbozi, wamefika ofisi ya mkuu wa wilaya kuomba msaada, ofisi hiyo imetoa kibali ili mama huyo azunguke mitaani kuomba msaada kwa wasamaria apate fedha za kumpeleka mgonjwa Muhimbili Dar es Salaam.

Huruma anao watoto wawili, ambapo mkubwa ni Sabina Laurence (3) na Erica ambaye ni mgonjwa.

Baba ya wa mtoto Laurence Msongole alipohojiwa juu ya tuhuma za kumtelekeza mke, anasema yeye hajagoma kutoa fedha ila hana fedha hizo hata nauli ya kwenda rufaa jijini Mbeya anashindwa.

Babu wa mtoto huyo Hatson Mwaijande anasema imekuwa ni mzigo kwake kwani mkwe wake amemwachia gharama zote za kuzunguka na mtoto, hata chakula chao ni shida inabidi awasaidie kwa kuwapa mtaji wa kuuza maparachichi kwa ajili ya kujikimu.
"Mkwe wangu ni fundi uashi lakini hatoi fedha kwa ajili ya famila yake, hii inasikitisha sana" anasema kwa masikitiko Mwaijande
Mwisho.

Kwa habari zaidi tembela MAISHA NI VITA BLOG:

Kifaru huyo Vipi?

Hmmm? Wadau, huyo kifaru amevishwa thong au ni ugonjwa wa ngozi?

Rais Bush amekoa maisha ya watu zaidi ya Milioni 10

Rais Bush anachukiwa na watu wengi sana hapa Marekani na duniani. Lakini alifanya kitu ambacho watu wanasahau, kutoa misaada na dawa kwa wagonjwa wa UKIMWI barani Afrika na Caribbean.

Kwa kweli ameokoa maisha ya watu na vizazi vijavyo Afrika, lazima tumpongeze kwa hiyo.

Dr. Bill Frist anasema:


In my annual medical mission trips to Africa during the Bush administration, I saw the cost of treatment for HIV with life-saving antiretrovirals (ARVs) drop from $4,000 a year to $125. The number of Africans on ARVs jumped from 50,000 to 2.1 million.

na:

Our visits with villagers all over the country opened our eyes to how Bush's five-year, $1.2 billion effort to combat malaria has provided 4 million insecticide-treated bed nets and 7 million life-saving drug therapies to vulnerable people. Yes, George Bush the healer.

Soma:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/15/frist.bush/index.html

Ndege Imeanguka New York!

Ndege ya US Airways, imeanguka huko New York. Ni US Airways Flight 1549. Kwa bahati imeaguka mtoni Hudson River. Ilikuwa hewani, dakika tatu kabla ya ndege aina ya bata kuingia kwenye injini zote mbili.

Abiria wote 148 wako salama! Ndege ilikuwa inatoka LaGuardia Airport kwenda Charlotte, North Carolina.

Abiria wanasema walibakia kuomba baada ya rubani kutangaza "Brace for Impact"!

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/15/new.york.plane.crash/index.html

http://www.usairways.com/awa/?redir=http://www.google.com/search&hl=en&q=us+airways&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=6656804&page=1

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jV9WYV6yQ3vPpmH9qhG6db-zhzqQD95NQ8E00

Kiwanja cha Ndege Bagamoyo

Hivi mlikuwa na habari kuwa huko Bagamoyo kuna kiwanja cha ndege? Naona imesahaulika! Cheki majani yanavyota huko! (picha kutoka Mjengwa blog)

Hakuna Petroli Dar!

Samahani, lakini hii suala inaniudhi sana tena sana. Yaani bei ya mafuta ni dola $37 kwa pipa lakini huko Dar wafanyabiashara walikataa kushusha bei ya mafuta. Serikali iliwamuru washushe bei na sasa hakuna mafuta! Khaa!

Samahani, lakini kweli nimemkumbuka Mwalimu Nyerere. Angewadhibiti na ushenzi wao mara moja! Huo ushenzi waliofanya ni zaidi ya Ubepari!

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Kutoka ippemedia.com

Gosh! Dar pumps `run` out of petrol

2009-01-13

By Angel Navuri

Petrol was reportedly out of stock at most filling stations in Dar es Salaam yesterday, hardly a fortnight after the government announced that the country had enough stocks to meet national demand for at least one month.

Many motorists were forced to queue for hours at two filling stations, namely Gapco at Africa Sana in Sinza and Total at Victoria area in Kinondoni municipality where petrol was on sale.

A quick survey carried out at most filling stations in the city yesterday showed that almost all stations operating under the banners of Gapco, BP, OilCom, Engen and Total did not have fuel.

Sales persons at various stations said in separate interviews that petrol had run out of stock, but speculations around the city were rife that the shortage had been artificially created by oil dealers themselves who were out to reap higher prices through the ``run on low stocks.``

In an interview with The Guardian, Gapco fuel salesperson, Michael Kalunga said that petrol is not available in the city but would probably be available this week.

This has been a problem since last month...it`s only that there was still a small amount of petrol remaining in circulation at the filing stations, he said.

Total salesperson Mildred Joseph attributed the shortage to the government pressure on dealers in making sure that pump prices drop. That could be the reason that has never happened before, why now? said Joseph.

An Oil Com salesman, Ali Mohamed, explained that shortage of petrol had been a problem, but it will be over this week. He said the problem of petroleum had nothing to do with other filling stations being closed.

A BP salesperson, Daniel Mhina, said that petrol shortage had been there over the last three days only that it wasn`t that serious because there was still little circulating in the system.

We are not sure if it is true that there is a shortage of petrol or they have decided to be on a go-slow.

Why should it happen now when there is a tug-of-war between the government and the oil dealers, querried daladala driver Timothy Swai.

Swai added that the government should be serious about the matter and make sure that oil companies cooperate well with the regulators.

A taxi driver, Ben Mwakey, advised the government to cancel licenses of oil dealers who are not ready to adopt its indicative price cap.

This is just ridiculous. Since they have been forced to lower pump prices, they have decided to create shortage of petrol. The government should revoke their licenses to teach them a lesson, said Mwakey.

When contacted for comment on the petrol shortage, Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority director of petroleum Sirll Massay could not give an immediate response.

When `The Guardian` called him in the first place he answered the phone, but said he was driving and would respond later. However, he hung up when this paper made several other attempts to reach him.

On December 29, last year Energy and Minerals deputy minister Adam Malima said there were enough fuel stocks to meet national demand for at least a month.

Oil dealers hiked pump prices during end of the year festivities, compelling the government to intervene and set prices through Ewura, hardly two week ago.

However, since then some oil dealers have been reluctant to comply with the government directive.

SOURCE: Guardian

Bibi yake Obama Atakuwepo D.C.

Bibi yake Barack Obama, wa Kenya, Sarah Obama (86) yuko njiani kuja Marekani kwenye sherehe ya kumwapisha mjukuu wake kuwa Rais wa Marekani. Sherehe za kumwapisha zitakuwa jumanne ijayo 1/20/09.

Mungu ambariki na amlinde katika safari yake. Nadhani maishani mwake hakutegemea kuwa mjukuu wake atanyakua wadhifa mkubwa hivyo.

Mnaweza kuona video hapa:

http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/v/11525816

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/13/sarah-obama-baracks-kenya_n_157449.html

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gQQeY0vveLTZQdG84d9bYaILLP7Q

Watu 27 Wafa katika Ajali Tanga!

Watu 27 wamekufa katika ajali ya Basi karibu na Hale, Tanga. Nadhani wakati umefika wa serikali kurudisha ule utaribu wa mabasi kutosafiri baada ya saa mbili jioni ili kuokoa maisha ya watu. Huo utaratibu ulikuwepo miaka ya 80 mwishoni baada ya ajali nyingi za mabasi ya mikoani. Mamia ya watu walipoteza maisha na ajali nyingi zilikuwa zinatokea usiku.

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Kutoka ippmedia.com

http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2009/01/12/129530.html

Another road accident in week kills 27

2009-01-12

By Lulu George, Tanga

Twenty seven people died on the spot on Saturday night at Hale, near Tanga, hardly a week after 11 family members perished in another grisly road carnage.

As usual police have attributed the accident to speeding but avoided to speak about the much publicised speed governors which bus owners were ordered to install in their buses in the late 1990s.

The Saturday accident occurred at 8.30 pm after a Tanga bound bus christened Tashreef rammed into a stationary lorry, killing 27 on the spot and injuring 23, two of them seriously. The bus was travelling from Dar es salaam to Tanga.

The Chief of Traffic Police James Kombe, on his way to the accident scene, said yesterday that they were in the process of re-introducing new speed governors, more than ten years after the earlier ones were discarded.

He, however, did not say when exactly the gadgets would be installed in the passenger buses.

Tanga Regional Police Commander Simon Sirro said the driver of the fateful bus escaped immediately after the accident and was being sought by police.

He said the conductor and the turn boy of the bus were among the dead.

Tanga Regional Commissioner Mohammed Abdulaziz who arrived at the scene few minutes after the accident, broke into tears after he saw the mangled bodies.

One of the injured Omar Khalfan said the driver of the bus was speeding when the accident occurred.

``Probably he was rushing to reach Tanga before midnight, the deadline for passenger buses to travel,`` he said.

The injured have been admitted to the Muheza designated hospital and Bombo hospital respectively.

Eighteen bodies out of the 27 had been identified as of yesterday.

Sirro named them as; Idirisa Bakari, Hamidu Titu, Salama Ramadhan, Mbaruku Salum, Mussa Hussein, Msahamu Alli, Rahabu Jamal, Shaban Bakari, Hamad Alli and Omar Salehe.

Others are; Amir Sanyo, Salim Musa, Omar Al jabri, Napendaeli Msangi, Said Abdallah, police officer WP Corporal Mariam and two members of the Tanzania People\'s Defence Forces Corporal Mbaraka Mafoni and Corporal Deo Zakaria.

One of the injured Hamid Swahib said soon after the accident, a group of villagers arrived at the scene and started looting from the victims.

``They took my mobile phone and my handbag,`` Swahib said.

This is the second bad accident to occur this year, after last week a mini bus full of family members rammed into a stationary lorry killing 11 of them at Himo in Kilimanjaro Region.

SOURCE: Guardian

Picha Blog

Mduara huko Mnazi Mmoja

Daily News/Habari Leo wana blogu ya picha:

Kuna picha nyingi za matukio ya hivi karibuni huko.

http://dailyhabari.wordpress.com/

Bikira wa Miaka 107 Anataka kuolewa huko China!!

Leo ni siku ya mabikira!

Huko China, Bi Kizee Wang Guiying (107) anasema anataka kuolewa kwa mara ya kwanza katika maisha yake. Anasema pia bado ni bikira.

Bi Wang, anasema kuwa alikuwa mwoga wa kuolewa kwa vile aliona wanawake walioolewa wakipigwa na waume zao. Alisema hakutaka maisha ya hivyo, hivyo alikuwa na shamba na aliamua maisha yake itakuwa ni ya kulima.

Ila sasa anakaribia kuwa na miaka 108 na amekuwa mpweke. Anasema kuwa sasa anataka mwanaume wa kukaa naye. Yuko tayari kumkubali kijana wa miaka 90 au hata 100! Huko China wasamaria wema wanamtafutia mume huko kwenye nyumba za wazee.

Na kuna watu wamesema itakuwa vigumu kwa Bi Wang kupata mume maana hao wazee wenye miaka 90 wanatafuta maspring chicken wenye miaka 70!

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://chattahbox.com/curiosity/2009/01/12/107-year-old-woman-seeks-husband/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4222884/Woman-107-seeks-husband.html

http://newsblaze.com/story/20090112100351reye.nb/topstory.html

Anauza Ubikira Wake!

Natalie Dylan (22) (pichani) wa California anauza ubikira wake kwa atakayemlipa hela nyingi. Kwa sasa anafanya mnada na bei imefika dola $3.7 milioni! Anasema kuwa atatumia pesa hizo kwa ajiliya kulipia masoma yake Chuo Kikuu.

Hivi kweli huyo ni bikira au? Dada yake ni malaya huko Nevada kwenye bunny ranch. Na siku hizi unaweza kwenda kwa Plastic surgeon akarudisha ubikira. Na kuna tofauti gani na anavyofanya na umalaya?

Je, atapimwa kuhakikisha kuwa kweli ni bikira maana siku hizi hapa Marekani watoto wanazipoteza wakiwa wadogo wadogo asnte TV.

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://www.huliq.com/1/76004/natalie-dylans-virginity-auction-deplorable

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2009/01/13/bids-flow-in-as-student-puts-virginity-up-for-auction-86908-21037085/

http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/live/article/158784

Ushauri Blog

Habari Wakuu;

Nimeanzisha blog yenye nia ya kusaidia kiushauri, mawazo, au zaidi (kadri ya uwezo) kwa wenye kuhitaji msaada wa kisaikolojia/kimawazo. Lugha ya Kiswahili na Kiingereza hutumika. Natoa mchango wangu mdogo kwa wananchi kwani hatuna professional counselors wa kutosha Tanzania.

In turn, napata experience ya field ninayosomea katika mazingira ya watu wangu, na kupata uhalisi na utofauti wa matatizo kati ya watu wa west na wa nyumbani ili niweze kuwatumikia kiufasaha baada ya masomo mwakani.

Natumai majibu na maoni ya maswali kutoka kwangu, na watoa maoni tofauti yatasaidia wengi zaidi ya wanaohusika moja kwa moja. Natumai pia awareness ya mental health nchini tanzania, na interest na recognition ya field ya saikolojia itakua miongoni mwa wananchi na viongozi wa nchi. We do have enough Educational psychologists in our colleges, but it is a wide spectrum field, my focus is on counseling people of all walks of life...not just students.

Asanteni.

Dr.Wannabe

Your questions to:-wannabe.dr@gmail.comweb at http://www.dr12b.blogspot.com/

Kitabu Kipya cha Da Sandra Mushi

Hivi karibuni, mtunzi maarufu Da Sandra Mushi, alizindua kitabu chake kipya, The Rhyme of my Rhyme, huko Dar es Salaam. Ni kitabu cha mashairi.

Hongera sana kwa kitabu chako kipya!

Da Sandra pia amewahi kuandika vitabu na mashairi kuhusu haki za akina mama na mila za WaChagga.

Msiba Daily News - Cassian Malima

Kutoka Lukwangule Blog:


ALIYEKUWA Mhariri wa 'HabariLeo', Cassian Kigeso Malima (44),pichani, amefariki dunia.
Taarifa iliyotolewa jana na Mhariri Mtendaji wa TSN Media Group, Issac Mruma, ilisema Malima alifariki dunia jana jioni katika Hospitali ya Aga Khan, Dar es Salaam alikokuwa amelazwa tangu Jumamosi iliyopita.
Ilisema Malima ambaye hivi karibuni alipandishwa cheo kuwa Mhariri Msaidizi wa Magazeti ya Mwisho wa Wiki ya Kampuni ya TSN Media Group, alijiunga na kampuni hiyo Oktoba 10, 2004 akiwa Mwandishi Mkuu Daraja la Pili.

Baadaye alipanda cheo na kuwa Mhariri wa Habari wa Daily News na kuwa mmoja wa waanzilishi wa 'HabariLeo' baada ya kuteuliwa Agosti mosi 2006 kuongoza timu iliyoanzisha gazeti hili la Kiswahili linalomilikiwa na Serikali.

“Alitegemewa sana katika utendaji kazi, lakini pia alikuwa mcheshi na rafiki wa kila mtu … aliheshimu kila mtu,” ilisema sehemu ya taarifa hiyo.
Mruma katika taarifa yake alisema kampuni imepoteza si tu mfanyakazi, bali rafiki aliyekuwa tayari kubeba jukumu lolote alilopewa na alikuwa mtiifu kupindukia.

Mkewe Malima, Hellen Maro, ambaye walizaa binti, Elizabeth, alifariki dunia Mei 19, 2006.
Malima alizaliwa Mwanza Julai 14, 1965, alipata elimu yake ya msingi katika shule mbalimbali nchini, kati ya mwaka 1972 na 1979; elimu ya sekondari katika Sekondari ya Mwanza kati ya 1980 na 1983.

Alipata elimu ya sekondari ya juu katika Shule ya Sekondari ya Lake Mwanza kati ya 1984 na 1986 kabla ya kujiunga na Chuo Kikuu cha Rostav State cha Urusi kati ya mwaka 1988 na 1994 na kuhitimu Shahada ya Uzamili katika Uandishi wa Habari.
Katika uhai wake, Malima alifanya kazi katika Mamlaka ya Bandari Tanzania (THA) kati ya 1987 na 1988; Mwandishi wa Habari Uhuru/Mzalendo tangu Mei 1988 hadi 1996 alipokuwa Mhariri.

Machi 1998 hadi Septemba 1999 alikuwa Mhariri wa Habari wa Gazeti la Mtanzania na kuwa Mhariri wa Mtanzania na Mtanzania Jumapili kati ya Septemba 1999 hadi Julai 2003 na kisha Mhariri wa Habari wa The African tangu Julai 2003 hadi Oktoba 2004 alipojiunga na TSN.
Aliwahi pia kuwa kiongozi katika vyama mbalimbali kitaaluma ndani na nje ya nchi ikiwa ni pamoja na kuwa Mwenyekiti wa Chama cha Waandishi wa Habari za Bunge Tanzania, mbali na kuhudhuria semina, makongamano, warsha na kampeni mbalimbali nje na ndani ya nchi. Mungu ailaze roho yake mahali pema peponi.

Mruma alisema mipango ya mazishi inafanywa na taarifa kamili itatolewa baadaye.

Kwa Nini Tunakubali Kuibiwa!!!!

Kutoka Ippmedia.com

Revealed: Tanzania`s shocking vast wealth

2008-08-31 09:07:51
By Staff Writer

As massive poverty continues to rock the majority of Tanzanians, the latest data reveal that Tanzania`s wealth in terms of the top five metals out of eleven provable mineral deposits amounting to millions of tonnes.

It is hard to believe it, but that is the reality in a country where 38million plus population lives in abject poverty, below a dollar per day, while 89percent of the total population survive on a single meal per day.

According to a geological survey conducted last year by the ministry of energy and minerals, Tanzania has huge reserves in eleven key minerals which include gold, Nickel, Tanzanite, Diamonds, copper, Iron ore, coal, Limestone, soda ash, gypsum and phosphate.

The five key minerals and their provable amounts in brackets is Gold (2,222tones), Nickel (209million tones), Diamonds (Carat 50.9million), Copper (13.65million tones), and Iron ore (103million tones).

However since this was just a geological survey undertaken by experts last year, its actual result is approximated to be accurate by up to 70 percent.

So far, only three types of minerals - gold, diamonds, Tanzanite - are being fully mined by multinational companies which at the end of the day take 97percent, leaving only peanut to the original Tanzanian owners.

If well managed through sound, people-centered mining policies, the mining sector can catapult Tanzanians to the proverbial promised land in decades and generations to come.

Comparing these huge deposits and the actual situation of poverty in the country, the message that comes across one`s mind is that Tanzania is in what experts describe as `resource curse`.

The term `resource curse` refers to the observation that nations with rich endowments of natural resources (oil, metals, timber) often dramatically under-perform economically relative to what one would expect.

Common sense and simple economics suggest that countries blessed with an abundance of natural resources should live long and prosper.

Yet over many years, it has been observed that nations rich in oil, gas, or mineral resources have been disadvantaged in the drive for economic progress.

Why are we poor?

Perhaps the biggest question that begs an urgent answer is; why are we so poor despite having all these huge minerals deposits?

It is a question that policy makers and politicians have been avoiding to seek answers for.

Tanzania like many other African countries is highly blessed with rich natural resources, but its people are swimming in the deep sea of massive poverty.

But the appalling truth is that instead of financing people`s development, Africa's huge mineral resources were used to fund the brutal civil wars that ravaged millions of people during the past four decades.

Today in Africa only a few countries like Botswana, Ghana and South Africa have managed to use their natural resources, especially minerals, to facilitate development and welfare to their people.

This example is vividly manifested in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sudan and Angola whereby masters of the wars used natural resources to finance their deadly power struggle.

However in Tanzania, there wasn`t any civil war apart from the role played by the founding President, (the late) Dr Julius Nyerere, in liberating Southern African countries during the nationalist struggle.

While it is an undeniable truth that the move to allow the private sector to participate in the mining industry was brilliant one, the truth is that due to poor policies introduced by the third phase government, the whole idea has become a disaster to Tanzanians.

This is well echoed in the lucrative mining industry which has been mainly benefiting multinational companies, while paying the government a small slice of the cake.

Last year, for instance, the Minister for Energy and Minerals, William Ngeleja, told the parliament that during the period between 2001 and 2006, Tanzania produced gold worth $2.6 billion (Tshs3.38 trillion), but the government earned only $78 million.
In simple arithmetic, this is just 3 percent of the total revenues generated from thousands of tonnes of gold produced in the Lake Victoria gold belt. It also shows that the government earned an average of $13 million annually during that period from the multibillion industry whose real investments currently is valued at $2.5 billion.

According to the available statistics from the mining industry, from June 2000 to December 2006, the two biggest gold mines in the country produced a total of 5,686,710 ounces of gold, which at the current gold price of $600 per ounce is valued at Tshs 4.3 trillion ($ 3.3 billion), but what the nation earned is frightening and a shame.

While mineral production has increased in Tanzania in the past few years with export per year estimated to be nearly $900 million (Tshs1.17 trillion), the contribution of the mining sector to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) remains very minimal, accounting to 3 percent.

According to the National Economic Survey report released in 2006, the growth rate of mining and quarrying sector increased from 15.4 percent in 2004 to 15.7 percent in 2005, whereby the increment was attributed to new investments in Tulawaka gold mines in Biharamulo District, Kagera Region.

The report further states that, the contribution of the sector to GDP, which is the total value of goods and services produced in a country during a year, increased from 3.2 percent in 2004 to 3.5 percent in 2007.

We would like to hear from you about this story; what you think the problem is, and what needs to be done. Send your comments through sundayguardian@guardian.co.tz

Siku ya Kuapishwa Rais Obama Inakaribia

Wadau, wangapi mmepanga kwenye huko Washington D.C. kwenye Inauguration (Sherehe za Kuapishwa) ya Barack Obama? Nasikia itakuwa balaa huko kwa jinsi watu watakavyojazana. Vyumba vya hoteli hakuna.

Pia watu wa usalama hapa wame weka masharti mengi kwa wanaoenda. Hakuna kwenda na kiti, mwavuli, backpack, na mambo mengi. Simu za mkononi hazitafanya kazi maana signals ziatkuwa jammed.

Pia wana usalama wanasema katika historia hakuna rais aliyetishiwa maisha kama Barack Obama. Na wanasema kuwa hii ni kwa sababu ni mweusi. Wabaguzi nchi hii bado wanachukia kushinda kwa rais Obama.

Wakati huo huo watu wanaanza kushangilia kuondoka kwa Rais Bush! Wanasema jamaa kaharibu nchi na kutesa watu!

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/08/inauguration.security/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Kipanya Asema...

Translation:

Man: Stop listening to those street rumours. I don't have AIDS, I only have HIV...

Woman: Oh what a relief! Some people wanted to cheat me out of my luck! They said oh Fataki is sick! Loh! Some people are really bad!!

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Jamani, kwa kweli kuna haja ya watu kuelimishwa kuhusu huo ugonjwa hatari! Hivi kuna watu ambao wanadhani kuwa unaweza kuambukizwa UKIMWI lakini siyo V.V.U? Tumieni kondomu na mjikinge. Na hebu cheki huyo dada, amesikia maneno lakini bado tu anakubali kwenda kitandani na jamaa! Halafu anasema watu wanatakia mabaya! Khaa!

Sophia Simba Mwenyekiti Mpya wa UWT

Sofia Simba (Picha kwa hisani ya Michuzi Blog)

Kutoka Lukwangule Blog:

WAZIRI wa nchi ofisi ya rais Utawala bora, Sophia Mnyambi Simba ameibuka kidedea na kuwa mwenyekiti wa Umoja wa Wanawake Tanzania (UWT) wa CCM na kuwabwaga wagombea wenzake Janeth Kahama na Joyce Masunga.

Katika uchaguzi uliofanyika jana usiku na matokeo kutangazwa leo katika ukumbi wa kilimani na msimamizi mkuu wa uchaguzi huo Seif Khatibu, Sophia Simba aliibuka kidedea baada ya kupata jumla ya kura 470 sawa na asilimia 54.4 ya kura halali 862 zilizopigwa na wajumbe wa mkutano mkuu wa uchaguzi.

Janeth kahama alipata jumla ya kura 383 sawa na asilimia 48.4 huku Joyce Masunga akiambulia jumla ya kura 10 kati ya kura 862 zilizopigwa sawa na asilimia 1.1.

Kwa upande wa nafasi ya Makamu mwenyekiti wa UWT taifa alikwenda kwa Asha Bakari Makame ambaye alikuwa mgombea pekee na hivyo kupigiwa kura za ndiyo na hapana ambapo alishinda kwa jumla ya kura za ndiyo 736 kati ya kura halali 815 sawa na asilimia 90.3 huku kura za ndiyo zikiwa ni 79 sawa na asilimia 9.7.

Naye Ofisa uhusiano wa Benki ya NMB, Shy Rose Bhanji aliibuka mshindi na kuukwaa uwakilishi wa jumuiya ya umoja wa vijana (UVCCM), toka UWT baada ya kuwabwaga wenzake watano kwa kupata jumla ya kura 499 kati ya kura 807 zilizopigwa huku Mbunge wa Viti maalum Martha Mlata aliibuka kidedea na kupata nafasi ya uwakilishi wa jumuiya ya wazzai toka umoja wa wanawake.

Kwa upande wa nafasi za wawakilishi wa baraza kuu la umoja huo upande wa bara waliochaguliwa katika nafasi hizo ni pamoja na Magreth Mkanga, Betty Malanga, Ellen Magoha, Amina Msenza na Sifa Swai.

Wawakailishi wa baraza kuu la UWT upande wa Zanzibar waliochaguliwa ni pamoja na Zulekha Yunus Haji, Lilian Grace Limo, Catherine Peter Nao, Subira Mohamed Ali na Latifa Nassor Ahmed.

Akiongea baada ya matokeo hayo kutangazwa aliyekuwa mgombea wa nafasi ya mwenyekiti wa UWT taifa, Janeth Kahama alisema kuwa uchaguzi huo ulikuwa mgumu sana na kwamba ulikuwa na rafu nyingi na matusi yalitawala.

“Mimi sina ugomvi na mtu ila ninamuomba radhi sana mume wangu kwa matusi ambayo nilikuwa natukanwa kupitia simu nisamehe sana mzee mwenzangu “ Alisema.

Aliwaomba wanachama wa umoja huo kumpa sapoti mwenyekiti mpya kwa kuwa bila wanachama hakutakuwa na uwt imara na kuongeza kuwa yeye atakuwa tayari muda wowote ambapo mwenyekiti mpya atamuhitaji.

Urais Unazeesha

Kuwa rais wa Marekani ni kazi ngumu. Wataalamu wanasema kuwa ukiwa rais unazeeka haraka, mara mbili kuliko mtu wa kawaida. Kazi ipo.

Kusoma habari zaidi na kuona picha za jinsi marais wa Marekani walivyozeeka wakiwa madarakani, BOFYA HAPA:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/06/presidential.health.aging/index.html

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Mkutano wa UWT Dodoma

Anna Abadallah akihutubia wajumbe

Baadhi ya wajumbe kwenye mkutano wakiwemo Mama Maria Nyerere

Kutoka Lukwangule Blog:

JK akihutubia wakati akifungua mkutano mkuu wa Umoja wa Wanawake katika ukumbi wa Kilimani huko Dodoma leo. Picha nyingine ni Mwenyekiti anayeng'atuka Anna Abdallah akihutubia na picha nyingine wajumbe na waalikwa wakiwa katika mkutano.Mpaka sasa mambo bila bila hasa tukitambua wanachuana ni Mh. Janeth Kahama na Mh. Sofia Simba ambapo mmoja wao atamrithi Mh. Anna Abdallah katika kiti hicho. Matokeo yanatarajiwa baadaye usiku huu!

M-Net 2009 Screenwriters Workshop

Hii ni nafasi nzuri sana kwa WaBongo wenye interest na mambo ya screenwriting, utunzi wa filamu...hasa kuandika script. Script ni ramani ya sinema na ni muhimu kwa sinema nzuri. Nimeona sinema/video nyingi za Bongo na kwa kweli ingekuwa vizuri watunzi wakapata training zaidi. Kazi kwenu!

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M-NET ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR 2009 SCREENWRITERS WORKSHOP

With its brand-new local talk show The Patricia Show on air, its hot new drama The Agency about to hit DStv screens across East Africa and its second Kenyan drama Changes heading into production, African entertainment pioneers M-Net are already focusing on 2009. Today the company announced plans for a special 6-day Screen-Writers Workshop to be held in Nairobi in March.

Now calling for interested writers, producers and industry professionals from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to apply for entrance into the fully sponsored event, M-Net is aiming to promote the continued growth of the region’s burgeoning television industry.

By investing in local skills development and by further partnering with the Kenyan Film Commission, M-Net has expanded its ongoing efforts to nurture and foster local talent.

According to recently appointed M-Net Africa Channel Director Biola Adekanbi, the decision to host a Screen-Writers Workshop is a direct result of the enthusiasm and commitment M-Net has found in its partnerships with the local East African film and television community.

"In the last two years M-Net has deeply intensified its efforts across this region and this outreach has been warmly welcomed with positive support across the board. Increasingly the need to tell local stories, promote local stars and holistically involve local crew is becoming paramount to ensuring that good quality, relevant productions are created to meet the demand from millions of DStv viewers for engaging and entertaining content."

She goes on to say, "M-Net is confident that this Screen-Writing Workshop is another step in the right direction, another brick in building on our strong foundations for marketable and relevant programming."

To apply for entrance into the workshop, script-writers from any of the three participating countries must submit a copy of their original script-work completed within the last two years, which is not currently and has never been in production for any commercial television company. The script submitted should be a minimum of 20 pages and a maximum of 30 pages.

In addition, script-writers will also be requested to submit a one-page synopsis, character bible, an updated resume or biography, and a proposal of not more than 1500 words explaining why they would like to attend the workshop.

Thereafter an evaluating committee will shortlist the entrants who will be invited to a one-on-one meeting with M-Net and other stakeholders at which each will be required to write a 10-minute narrative in the format of drama, short story and/or sitcom. Finally, 25 writers will be invited to attend the workshop.

M-Net Program Manager for East Africa Wangeci Murage acknowledges that gaining entrance to the workshop requires entrants to complete a rigorous selection process.

"We’re investing heavily in this initiative and want to ensure we’re able to provide 25 truly determined writers with an innovative and unique opportunity to hone their skills and enhance their talents. For this reason, we want to select candidates who’ll be able to fully maximize on their learnings from this event.

Ultimately, we’d also like to be able identify key partnerships for the future from this process as well as promote greater regional commercial television success."

Comprising lectures and writing exercises, the M-Net Screen-Writers Workshop follows an initiative by M-Net last year in which a contingent of Kenyan filmmakers were sponsored on an all-expenses paid trip to Lagos to share ideas and knowledge with Nigeria’s prolific Nollywood film making community.

This time round, selected participants will workshop on the grammar of film, story development, narrative point of view plus character analysis and scene structure. In addition, it will allow industry professionals from the three countries to network and construct multi-national relationships that they are able to use to their benefit.

Interested persons who wish to apply for the M-Net Screen-Writers Workshop can deliver their proposals to Wangeci Murage (M-Net Kenya, Rahimtulla Tower, 18th Floor, Nairobi);

Ronald Shelukindo (MultiChoice Tanzania, Dar es Salaam)

or

Leonah Mbonimpa (MultiChoice Uganda, Kampala).

The deadline for entries is Friday January 16, 2009.

For further information, please contact M-Net Kenya on email: wangeci.murage@mnet.co.za.

Ngoma ya Weusi Marekani 1903

Hii Ngoma inaitwa 'Cake Walk'. Hii sinema fupi ilipigwa mwaka 1903 yaani miaka 106 iliyopita.

Msiba Italy - Mohamed Abdul Shakur

Marehemu Mohamed Abddul Shakur aka Captain PAMA (pichani)

Uongozi wa Jumuiya ya Watanzania Italy unasikitika kutangaza kifo cha Ndugu MOHAMED ABDUL SHAKUR (PAMA) kilichotokea jana asubuhi katika hospitali ya SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO E RUGGI D'ARAGONA" SALERNO.

Kutakuwa na Mkutano wa Watanzania wote leo jioni saa kumi na moja 17:00 pm.
Sehemu: LAGO PATRIA MABEMBEANI.

TAFADHALI TUZINGATIE WAKATI NA KUFIKA BILA KUKOSA.
Mwenyekiti wa jumuiya ya Watanzania Italy,kwa niaba ya uongozi na watanzania wote hapa Italy,anapenda kutoa salam za rambirambi kwa wazazi na ndugu wa marehemu nyumbani na popote walipo, kuwa tumepokea taarifa hizi kwa masikitiko makubwa na tunaungana nanyi katika wakati huu mgumu wa maombolezo.
Mungu ailaze roho yake mahala pema .
Amin.
Abdulrahaman A.Alli.
Mwenyekit

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Mwimbaji wa Injili, Fanuel Sedekia, Afariki Dunia

Kutoka Michuzi Blog:

MWIMBAJI WA INJILI FANUEL SEDEKIA KATUTOKA. HABARI ZA KUSIKITISHA ZIMEINGIA SASA HIVI KWAMBA MWIMBAJI MAHIRI WA NYIMBO ZA INJILI, FANUEL SEDEKIA, AMEFARIKI DUNIA JANA KATIKA HOSPITALI YA PORIYA TIBERIA, HUKO ISRAEL.

HABARI ZINASEMA MAREHEMU ALIKUWA AMELAZWA KWA WIKI TATU HOSPITALI HAPO AKISUMBULIWA NA KISUKARI PAMOJA NA NIMONIA. ALIKUWA HUKO KATIKA MSAFARA WA MAHUBIRI NA MCHUNGAJI MWAKASEGE.

MIPANGO YA KUULETA MWILI WAKE NYUMBANI KWA MAZISHI UNAFANYWA NA TUTAENDELEA KUWAFAHAMISHA HABARI ZINAPOTUJIA. KWA SASA KINACHOFAHAMIKA NI KWAMBA MSIBA UTAKUWA NYUMBANI KWAKE ARUSHA NA ATAKAPOZIKIWA BADO HAIJAJULIKANA KWANI YEYE KWAO NI KIGOMA.
MOLA AILAZE ROHO YA MAREHEMU MAHALI PEMA PEPONI - AMINA

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REST IN PEACE KAKA FANUEL!

Mtu Mzee Kuliko Wote duniani sasa ni Mmarekani Mweusi

Mwezi November mwaka jana, mtu mzee kuliko wote, Bibi Edna Parker, alifariki huko Indiana, USA akiwa na miaka 115!

Leo wataalam wametangaza kuwa Bibi Gertude Baines (pichani), mwenye miaka 114 ni mtu mzee kuliko wote duniani. Bibi Baines, ni mtoto wa watumwa. Alizaliwa mwaka 1894 huko Atlanta, Georgia.

Kwa sasa anakaa Los Angeles,California kwenye nyumba ya wazee.

Ni baraka kuweza kuishi muda wote huo tena katika karne tatu! 1800's, 1900's, 2000's. Ila wakati mwingine nafikiria kuna wakati utakuwa mpweke hasa ukifikiria watu wote uliokuwa unawafahamu wamekwisha kufa.

Hivi huko Afrika hakuna watu wenye umri mkubwa hivyo? Maana naona hao wataalam wanachunguza nchi zilizoendelea na hata siku moja sijasikia walienda Afrika kuchunguza.

Namtakia Bibi Baines, maisha marefu zaidi. Mungu amlinde.

Na kitu kingine, hapa Marekani kuna usemi "Black Don't Crack!" yaani ngozi nyeusi haivunjiki. Wana maana kuwa watu weusi hawazeeki kama wazungu ambao ngozi yao inasinyaa vibaya.

Wadau, kama mnafahamu watu wenye umri mkubwa zaidi ya miaka 100 hebu tutoe ripoti kwa hao wanaojiita watalaam wa umri waingie kwenye record books.

Najua watu wanatania, au kuna mzee fulani asubuhi tunamtoa na kumanika juani. Je, ana miaka mingapi?

GOD BLESS YOU MS. BAINES!

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Gertrude Baines, ma 114-year-old California resident, will likely be crowned the world's oldest woman, according to the organization that keeps track of such honors.

Gertrude Baines told CNN two years ago that she has taken good care of herself, "the way (God) wanted me to."

The previous oldest woman was Maria de Jesus, who died this week in Portugal at age 115, Guinness World Records said.

Baines -- born to former slaves in a small town south of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1894 -- now lives in a Los Angeles nursing home.

Baines appeared cheerful and talkative when the Los Angeles Times interviewed her in November as she cast her vote for Barack Obama for president, whom she said she supported because "he's for the colored people."

"I'm glad we're getting a colored man in there," she said.

Baines apparently prefers using the older term for her race. She was well into her 70s when "African-American" became the common reference in the United States. Watch Baines speak to CNN
She told the Times she spends most of her time "doing nothing but eating and sleeping."
When CNN interviewed Baines two years ago, she was asked to explain why she thought she has lived so long.

"God. Ask him. I took good care of myself, the way he wanted me to," Baines said.
Her only child, a daughter, died of typhoid fever at age 18.

Much of her long life was lived in Ohio, where she worked as a "house mom" at a state university. She eventually divorced and traveled to Los Angeles, where she retired.
Baines will not officially be given the title until after Guinness World Records completes an investigation, the organization said.

"Maria was crowned the world's Oldest Living Woman by Guinness World Records on 28 December upon the death of Edna Parker," the group said.
Parker -- an American -- was 115 years, 220 days old when she died November 26, 2008, in an Indiana nursing home, it said.

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KAMA MNA HABARI ZA WAZEE WENYE UMRI MKUBWA TAFADHALI WASILIANA NA GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS:

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/member/how_to_become_a_record_breaker.aspx

Rais Mpya wa Ghana ni John Atta Mills

Aliyekuwa makamu rais wa Ghana chini ya rais Jerry Rawlings, Prof. John Atta Mills (64), amechaguliwa kuwa rais wa nchi hiyo. Habari zinasema kuwa katika uchaguzi wa jumapili iliyopita Prof. Mills ameshinda kwa asimilia 50.23 ya kura.

Hongera Rais Prof. John Atta Mills!

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Ghana's newly elected president says it's time for the country to "work together to build a better Ghana."

Opposition leader John Atta Mills has been declared the winner of Ghana's presidency. Election officials are calling it the closest race in the West African nation's history.

It's the third time the 64-year-old tax expert and Fulbright scholar had tried to become president of Ghana. Atta Mills had been vice president under former coup leader Jerry Rawlings, who stepped down in 2001.

He won last Sunday's ballot with 50.23 percent of the vote. Election officials say the Ruling party candidate got 49.77 percent of the vote. A special revote in a single district yesterday secured Atta Mills' victory.

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=86&art_id=nw20090103144224839C176946