Mashoga wa Geita Wako Jela

Tanzania kuna sheria kali kuhusu ushoga, usenge na ufiraji.  Unaweza kufungwa maisha ukikamatwa.

Mashoga wa Uganda

   DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) - Tanzanian police say they have arrested three more people over a video shared online in which a woman kisses and embraces another woman.

   Ahmed Msangi, police chief in the Mwanza region, says 25-year-old Janeth Shonza was arrested in the central region of Singida. He says police also are holding a man accused of creating the video and another woman seen in it.

   One of the women seen kissing, Milembe Suleiman, was arrested in the northwestern region of Geita earlier this week.

   Homosexual relations are criminalized in Tanzania and the law prescribes sentences of up to life in prison.

   This East African nation has launched a crackdown against people accused of promoting homosexuality. Authorities have threatened to deregister non-governmental organizations accused of supporting gays.

Kwa habari zaidi BOFYA HAPA:

Arrested for Promotion of Homosexuality in Tanzania

   DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - Tanzanian police say they are holding 12 men, including two South Africans, for questioning over allegations of promoting homosexuality in this East African country.

   Dar es Salaam Police Chief Lazaro Mambosasa said Thursday that authorities are gathering evidence and will arraign all the suspects in court to face criminal charges. He said the suspects include two South Africans, a Ugandan and nine Tanzanians

   The men were arrested at a hotel in the port city of Dar es Salaam.

   Homosexuality is criminalized in Tanzania under a colonial-era law banning sex acts "against order of nature."

   Tanzanian authorities have recently ramped up a crackdown on the activities of LGBT people, even ordering clinics to stop offering services to homosexuals

Mbinu ya Kutafuta Makaratasi ya Kukaa Marekani

Siku hizi ni ruksa Kwa wasenge na mashoga kufunga ndoa. Ona huyo kijana wa Nigeria kamuoa dume wa kizungu anayejiona kama ni mwanamke. Tena hao gays wanasema wanaume wa Africa maana wanasema wamejaliwa vyombo mirefu na migumu.

Mashoga wa Kike Waambukizana UKIMWI

Wadau, hii mpya! Kwa kawaida ni wasenge, mashoga wa kiume wanaoambukizana virusi vya UKIMWI (HIV/AIDS) kwa vile wanapenda mchezo wa kufirana. Sasa leo kuna habari shoga wa kike amemwambukiza shoga mwenzake kwa kupenda mchezo wa kutumia  sex toy (mboo bandia)!  Walisema kuwa walikuwa wanafanya mabo yao hata wakati wakiwa kwenye siku zao! Jamani, damu si ndo ina virusi!  Hii kali!  Walikuwa wanasema kuwa wanawake wakifanya ngono wenyewe kwa wenyewe yaani ushoga hawawezi kuambukizana! Kumbe

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 Kutoka Yahoo.com

Washington (AFP) - A rare case of suspected HIV transmission from one woman to another was reported Thursday by US health authorities.

The 46-year-old woman "likely acquired" human immunodeficiency virus while in a monogamous relationship with an HIV-positive female partner in Texas, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The woman, whose name was not released, had engaged in heterosexual relationships in the past, but not in the 10 years prior to her HIV infection.

Her HIV-positive partner, a 43-year-old woman who first tested positive in 2008, was her only sexual partner in the six months leading up to the test that came back positive for HIV.

She did not report any other risk factors for acquiring the virus that causes AIDS, such as injection drug use, organ transplant, tattoos, acupuncture or unprotected sex with multiple partners.

The strain of HIV with which she was infected was a 98 percent genetic match to her partner's, said the CDC in its weekly report.

Authorities first learned of the case in August 2012 from the Houston Department of Health.

The couple said they had not received any counseling about safe sex practices, and reported that they routinely had sex without barrier methods.

"They described their sexual contact as at times rough to the point of inducing bleeding in either woman," said the CDC report.

"They also reported having unprotected sexual contact during the menses of either partner."
The partner who was infected since 2008 had been prescribed antiretroviral drugs in 2009 but stopped taking them in November 2010, and was lost to follow up in January 2011.

The CDC warned that although such cases are rare, "female-to-female transmission is possible because HIV can be found in vaginal fluid and menstrual blood."

People with HIV should be under the care of a doctor and take their prescribed medicines to keep their viral load down and reduce the risk of infecting a partner, the CDC said.

Very few cases of this kind have been documented, and confirmation "has been difficult because other risk factors almost always are present or cannot be ruled out," said the report.

One survey of 960,000 female blood donors found 144 who tested positive for HIV and were therefore blocked from donating.

Of 106 of those women who agreed to interviews, none described female-to-female sexual contact as their only risk factor.

The CDC also described one case of a woman in the Philippines who tested positive for HIV and said she had sex only with women and did not inject drugs, though no source of infection could be confirmed.

One other case is known of a 20-year-old woman who was diagnosed with HIV after a two-year monogamous relationship with a female partner who was HIV positive. While both women had the same drug-resistant HIV mutations, no tests were done to identify if their HIV strains were a genetic match.

Wasenge na Mashoga watafungwa Maisha Uganda!

 Hapa Marekani wasenge na mashoga wamepigania haki zao hapa Marekani na sasa ni ruksa kwa wao kufunga ndoa katika mikoa mingi.  Wanakuwa na haki sawa na na mwanaume na mwanamke wanaofunga ndoa.  Sasa wanapigania haki za mashoga na wasenge nchi zingine  barani Asia na Afrika ili nao wawee kufunga ndoa. Leo, Rais Museveni amesema hao wasenge na mashoga wasilete uchafu wao Uganda na amesaini sheria kuwa Msenge au shoga akikamatwa Uganda atafungwa maisha!

Nchi za magharibi zimesema kuwa zitazuia misaada kwenda Uganda kwa sababu ya hiyo sheria. Rais Museveni kasema wakae na hela yao!

Mashoga (lesbians) wakifunga ndoa Marekani

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 Kutoka CNN.com

(CNN) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law a bill that toughens penalties against gay people and defines some homosexual acts as crimes punishable by life in prison.

Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda, and Museveni had gone back and forth recently about whether he would sign the controversial bill in the face of vocal opposition from the West.

At the public signing of the bill Monday, a defiant Museveni declared that he would not allow the West to impose its values on Uganda.

"We have been disappointed for a long time by the conduct of the West, the way you conduct yourselves there," he told CNN's Zain Verjee in Entebbe. "Our disappointment is now exacerbated because we are sorry to see that you live the way you live, but we keep quiet about it. Now you say 'you must also live like us' -- that's where we say no."

READ: How Museveni clashed with Verjee

Portaits of gay Ugandan couples

Gay rights around the world

Gay and afraid in Uganda

The bill, introduced first in 2009, originally included a death penalty clause for some homosexual acts. It was briefly shelved when Britain and other European nations threatened to withdraw aid to Uganda, which relies on millions of dollars from the international community.

The nation's parliament passed the bill in December, replacing the death penalty provision with a proposal of life in prison for "aggravated homosexuality." This includes acts in which one person is infected with HIV, "serial offenders" and sex with minors, according to Amnesty International.

Vita Dhidi ya Wasenge na Mashoga Uganda na Nigeria

Wakati dunia inaanza kuwapa uhuru na haki wasenge na mashoga (hata kuwaruhsu kuoana), nchi za kadhaa Afrika bado zinawapiga vita.  Matokeo itakuwa nchi za magharibi zitamwaga hela kwa mashriika na makundi yanayopigania haki za  mashoga ili wasinyanyaswe.  Kutakuwa na Air lifts za mashoga na wasenge kutoka Afrika ili kuokoa maisha yao.

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   KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, officials said Friday, alarming rights activists who have condemned the bill as draconian in a country where homosexuality already has been criminalized.

   Museveni announced his decision to governing party lawmakers, said government spokesman Ofwono Opondo.   In Twitter posts on Friday, Opondo said the legislators, who are holding a retreat chaired by Museveni, "welcomed the development as a measure to protect Ugandans from social deviants."

   Museveni's decision was based on a report by "medical experts" presented at the retreat, saying that "homosexuality is not genetic but a social behavior," said Opondo.

   Evelyn Anite, a spokeswoman for the governing party, said the report, which had been requested by the president, was prepared by more than a dozen scientists from Uganda's Health Ministry.

   Opondo and Anite both said the president did not indicate when he will sign the legislation into law.

   Homosexuality already is illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law that criminalizes sex acts "against the order of nature."

   An earlier version of the bill, first introduced in 2009, proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts. Although that provision was later removed amid international pressure, rights groups want the whole bill jettisoned.  Amnesty International has described it as draconian, repeatedly urging Museveni not to sign it into law.

   But the bill is popular in Uganda, one of many sub-Saharan African countries where homosexuals face severe discrimination if not jail terms.  A new law in Nigeria last month increased penalties against gays.

   After the Ugandan bill was passed late last year, Museveni said he wanted his governing party to reach what he called a "scientifically correct" position on homosexuality, ordering the team of government scientists to investigate whether homosexuality is a lifestyle, according to Anite.

   Their report led Museveni to believe homosexuality should be punished, she said.

   Museveni, who has criticized gays as "abnormal" people who should be "rehabilitated," had previously called the bill too harsh.

   Ugandan lawmakers passed it on Dec. 20. Since then Museveni has been under pressure within his own party to sign the legislation, which has wide support among Christian clerics and lawmakers who say it is needed to deter Western homosexuals from "recruiting" Ugandan children.

   Ugandan gay activists have accused some of their country's political and religious leaders of being influenced of American evangelicals who want to spread their anti-gay campaign in Africa.

   A prominent Ugandan gay group singled out Scott Lively, a Massachusetts evangelical, and sued him in March 2012 under the Alien Tort Statute, which allows non-citizens to file suit in the U.S. if there is an alleged violation of international law.

   Rejecting Lively's request to dismiss the lawsuit, a federal judge ruled in August that the case could proceed, saying systematic persecution on the basis of sexual orientation violates international norms.

   Lively denied he wanted severe punishment for gays, and he has previously told The Associated Press he never advocated violence against gays but advised therapy for them.

   The bill before Museveni would allow life imprisonment for acts of "aggravated homosexuality," defined as sex acts where one of the partners is infected with HIV, sex with minors or the disabled, and repeated sexual offenses among consenting adults. The bill also would make conducting a same-sex marriage ceremony punishable by seven years in prison.

Nigerian Gay Men being Publically humiliated

   On Friday, the watchdog group Human Rights First expressed "deep concern" over news that the bill will be signed into law, saying it "will have severely adverse consequences for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as well as other Ugandans."

   Robyn Lieberman of Human Rights First said, "There should be no doubt that Museveni's latest words on the subject have been influenced by the reaction to similar legislation in Nigeria, Russia and elsewhere."

   Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin said, "Unless this bill is stopped from becoming law, lives will be destroyed and countless people will be punished for an immutable characteristic."

   He said, "Anti-LGBT Americans advocated for laws further criminalizing LGBT people in Uganda, and it looks like they are now getting their wish. Whether it's Brian Brown advocating for anti-LGBT laws in Russia or Scott Lively calling for the further criminalization of LGBT people in Uganda, anti-LGBT Americans must stop exporting their hate abroad."

   Brown is president of the National Organization for Marriage, a Washington-based group that opposes same-sex marriage.

   A Russian law, signed by President Vladimir Putin in June, bans gay "propaganda" from reaching minors. The law has drawn strong international criticism and calls for a boycott of the Sochi Games from gay activists and others.

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - A mob armed with wooden clubs and iron bars, screaming that they were going to "cleanse" their neighborhood of gay people, dragged 14 young men from their beds and assaulted them, human rights activists said Saturday.

   Four of the victims were marched to a police station, where they allegedly were kicked and punched by police officers who yelled pejoratives at them, said Ifeanyi Orazulike of the International Center on Advocacy for the Right to Health.

   Police threatened that the men would be incarcerated for 14 years, he said, the maximum prison sentence under Nigeria's new Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act, dubbed the "Jail the Gays" law. Activists have warned the law could trigger attacks such as the one perpetrated in the early hours of Thursday morning in Abuja, the capital of Africa's most populous nation.

   Mob justice is common in Nigeria and civil rights organizations have been warning for years of an increase in community violence and the government's failure to curb acts in which people have been beaten to death for perceived crimes such as theft.

   "Since the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act was signed, we have expressed concern as a friend of Nigeria that it might be used by some to justify violence against Nigerians based on their sexual orientation," the U.S. Embassy said in a statement Friday. "Recent attacks in Abuja deepen our concern on this front."

   The police spokeswoman for the Federal Capital Territory, Deputy Superintendent Altine Daniel, said she was unaware of the attack but would try to get details for The Associated Press.

   Orazulike said he got a panicked email from a colleague who said he was hiding from a mob of 40 people who struck around 1 a.m. Thursday, going from house to house saying their mission was "to cleanse" the area of gays. He said they used pieces of wood and iron to beat up 14 young men. Orazulike said he drove from his home at 4 a.m. Thursday to save the man in Gishiri, a shantytown with mud roads near central Abuja.

   Those attacked are in hiding and too scared to speak to reporters, he said, recounting their story.

   "They were told `If you come back, we will kill you."'

   The walls of houses where the men lived have been painted with graffiti declaring "Homosexuals, pack and leave," he said.

   The New York-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission condemned the attack and warned, "It is important that people understand that this kind of violence can happen to anyone and that the government seems to have abdicated its responsibility to protect people from violence and impunity."

   Orazulike said he went to the police station later Thursday and met with a senior officer who ordered the four men released because there was no evidence that they were gay and they had not been caught having sex.

   Four were severely injured and others suffered bruises, he said. They were treated at his organization's clinic because they were afraid to go to the hospital.

   "They said the police slapped and kicked them and swore at them," he said.

   Dorothy Aken'Ova, executive director of Nigeria's International Center for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights, said she stayed up all night Wednesday trying to get police and Civil Defense to send officers to the scene after she got a phone call from a man who was being attacked.

   "Instead of helping them, apparently some of them were arrested," she told AP. "None of the (law enforcement) agents responded to our distress calls."

   Dozens of allegedly gay people have been arrested since President Goodluck Jonathan signed the bill into law in January. It not only forbids gay marriage, which carries a 14-year jail sentence, it makes it a crime for anyone, straight or homosexual, to hold a meeting of gays or to advocate human rights for gays. Convicted offenders can be jailed for up to 10 years.

   U.S. President Barack Obama's initiative to promote the rights of homosexuals has been rebuffed in Africa, where Uganda also is considering a draconian law carrying penalties of up to life imprisonment for certain gay acts. Many Africans believe homosexuality is an evil import from the West.

   However, the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, James F. Entwistle, on a recent radio program assured Nigerians that the United States would not be cutting aid because of the new anti-gay law.

Wanapinga ukeketaji wanashabikia Ushoga na Usagaji?

Na Mdau Mobini Sarya  

 

JUMATANO wiki hii nilishtuka kusikia mtangazaji wa redio moja jijini Dar es Salaam, akitangaza kuwa siku hiyo ilikuwa siku ya kupinga ukeketaji duniani!

Kilichonishtua ni jinsi ambavyo wazungu kupitia mawakala wao wa kiafrika walivyokomalia hilo tendo la  ukeketaji au tohara kwa wasichana na kulivyolibebea bango, utadhani ni dhambi kubwa kuliko zote duniani.

Wamelikomalia, kila mwaka wanatenga bajeti kubwa kupambana na tamaduni zetu za kiafrika,wakiziita za kishenzi na  sisi tunachekelea kwasababu wanatupa peremende na shanga tunaogopa kuwahoji  vipi ushoga sio ushenzi?

Wazungu wana tamaduni nyingi za kipuuzi ambazo kama ni sisi tungekuwa tunaziendekeza pengine tungeitwa wanyama tusiostahili kuitwa binadamu. 

Wanatenga siku ya kupambana na ukeketaji lakini wao ambao wameathiriwa na vitendo vya ushoga hawataki kutenga siku ya kupinga ushoga na usagaji!

Najiuliza hivi kama vitendo vya ushoga chimbuko lake lingekuwa afrika hawa wakoloni wetu wa zamani wangetudharau vipi,wangetutukana vipi?

Tulidhani kuwa ingekuwa vema wakaja kujifunza kwetu, kufanya utafiti halisi inakuwaje baadhi ya makabila ya kiafrika wanafanya tohara kwa kisu au wembe bila kutumia ganzi na kijana anavumilia halafu anapona bila kutumia dawa ya hospitali?.

Inakuwaje kijana anatahiriwa kwa kisu halafu akitoka damu nyingi anapewa dawa za asili kukomesha damu hiyo na anapona  kabisa bila kwenda hospitalini kutumia madawa ya kizungu?

Hawataki kujiuliza hayo wanaoona tutapewa sifa waafrika wanatulazimisha tufuate kile wanachoamini,kwamba wao hutahiri wanaume wanataka tutahiri na sisi, kwamba wao hawakeketi wasichana na sisi  wanatuzuia. 

Sisi weusi tulizoea tendo la  ndoa hufanywa na jinsia mbili tofauti yaani mke na mme kama mwenyezi alivyoamuru lakini wazungu wamekuja na mapenzi yajinsia moja, yameendelea kushika chati katika miji mbalimbali hapa nchini.

Lakini cha ajaabu ni kwamba wakati utamaduni huo wa kishenzi ukizidi kushamiri katika shule za seminari na kwingineko mitaani, hakuna mkakati wowote wa kupinga vitendo hivyo zaidi ya kusikia wazungu wakitulazimisha tutambue haki za mashoga.

He! yaani hao watenda maovu yanayo mchukiza Mungu na jamii ya wanadamu mnaataka tuwatambue lakini wafrikakudumisha utamaduni wao kwa kufanya tohara mnawambia kuwa utamaduni wao  ni wa kishenzi.

Wafrika  wakioa wake wengi ili  kukidhi haja ya tamaa zao na kuepuka uzinzi wanaambiwa kuwa suala la kuoa wake wengi limepitwa na wakati,lakini kuwa na boyfriend au girl friend ruksa hata kama upo ndani ya ndoa!

 

Suala la kuoa wake wengi limeandikwa hadi kwenye biblia wafalme waliotukuka kama Suleiman walioa wake 700 na hata suala la kurithi ambalo wazungu wanalipiga vita kwa waafrika lilikuwepo tangu zamani.

Sisi tunapojaribu kufanya kile ambacho wazungu hawakipendi tunaambiwa kuwa utamaduni wetu ni wakishenzi wa kwao safi, hata kama wanalala na watoto wao wa kuwazaa.        

Kutokana na upuuzi huo wa kizungu leo katika safu hii nampongeza  kamanda wa Polisi  kanda maalum ya Tarime na Rorya,Justus Kamgisha na wengine waliofanya nzuri kama yeye  kuhakikisha utamaduni wetu unabaki.

Ni kweli na ni wazi kuwa mtu akitenda jambo jema anastahili pongezi akikosea, akosolewe,akiwajibishwa awajibike.

Kamanda wa Polisi wa Tarime/Rorya anastahili pongezi na tuzo ya heshima kwa watu wanaolinda na kutetea utamaduni wetu wa kifrika.

Kamanda huyo  amekataa kupokea mawazo ya kitumwa kutoka kwa mawakala wa kizungu eti azuie wakazi wa wilaya ya tarime kuwatakasa mabinti wao. 

Hiki ni kipindi kigumu ambacho dunia inapitia kuelekea katika utandawazi unaokuzwa na kuenezwa na mabadiliko makubwa ya teknolojia.

Anapotokea mtu kama Kamanda Kamgisha akapuuza amri ya mawakala wa Kizungu waliomtaka kukamata wananchi wa Tarime ambao wangediriki kujihusisha na vitendo vya tohara ya kiafrika, anapaswa kupongezwa.

Kamanda  huyo ameonyesha mfano kwa  makamanda wenzake kuwa unaweza ukatumia akiri kufikiri badala ya miguu au tumbo.
 kiongozi akifanya jema apewe shukrani zake akikosea akosolewe bila aibu, ndivyo leo ninavyoendelea kumpongeza  Kamanda huyo kwa jinsi alivyoshughulikia suala la tohara kwa wasichana wilayani tarime Mwezi Disemba Mwaka 2012.

Hicho ni kipindi ambacho mabinti wengi waliomaliza shule walikuwa wamejiandaa kutahiriwa ili kujiweka tayari kisaikolojia kwa ajili ya kuolewa ,kuposwa kwani tendo hilo huashiria pia ukuaji kimwili.

Kumuingiza kijana wa kiume au kike jando baada ya kumfanyia tohara kunamuepusha na vitendo hatarishi vya ushoga na usagaji, kwani anajitambua yeye ni nani anatakiwa kufanya nini baada ya hapo.

Kijana aliyetahiriwa kwa kisu ni vigumu kumkuta akiwa anajihusisha na utamaduni huo wa kizungu wa kugeuzana, watu wa jinsia moja kufanya yasiyompendeza Mwenyezi Mungu.

Hata hivyo licha ya kwamba utamaduni huo unasaidia kwa kiasi kikubwa kukomesha  vitendo hivyo lakini wenzetu hawapendi wakiona wanatenga fungu la pesa kuwagombanisha raia na serikali yao.   

Wanasema kamateni wote wanaojihusisha na mila hizo kwani zimepitwa na wakati,lakini hawatuambii zilipitwa na wakati kuanzia Mwaka gani.    

Ndipo taarifa zikamfikia Kamanda akitakiwa kuwakamata wale wote ambao wanafanya hivyo,bahati nzuri kamanda huyo ni mtani wa wakurya akitokea Bukoba ikabidi aone aibu akaamua kutumia busara kujumuika na watani zake katika sherehe hizo. 

Kamanda na kupongeza kwa kukataa mawazo  na fikra za kitumwa, umewaruhusu wakazi wa Tarime kuendelea na ustaarabu wao wa kutahiri watoto wa kike.

Hilo ni jambo la heshima kabisa analo stahili kufanyiwa kijana wa kiafrika kwa baadhi ya makabila hapa nchini hivyo,lisingefanyika kama Kamgisha angetumia miguu na tumbo kufikri, kutokana labda na ushawishi wa bahasha.

Nimefurahi nililiposikia kuwa Mkuu wa wilaya ya Tarime Dc.Frank Uhahura alipotoa amri ya kukamatwa wale wote waliokuwa wanakeketa wasichana kama wanavyoita wao, lakini  wewe kwa kushilikiana na vijana wako mkapuuza amri hiyo ili kudumisha amani tarime.

Busara zako, hekima zako zimedumisha amani Tarime kwa gharama ndogo, lakini kama Polisi wangedhubutu kuanza kuwakamata wale wote waliokuwa wanajihusisha na sherehe za jando amani ingetoweka na kuirejesha ingetumika gharama kubwa na umwagikaji wa damu.

Lakini kwa busara zako, Ewe Kamgisha umetambua kazi ya Polisi ni kulinda amani sio kushiriki kuvunja amani, wadau wa maendeleo ya tarime tunaamini kupitia busara hizo unaweza kukomesha mauwaji ya mgodi wa Nyamongo.

Unaweza kukaa na  wamiliki wa mgodi huo mkakubaliana namna ambavyo vijana wa Tarime wanavyoweza kuruhusiwa angalau mara moja kwa wiki kuzoa mawe yanayotupwa kama uchafu ili wao wakasafishe madini ya dhahabu kuliko sasa wanavyoitwa wavamizi.

Mnaweza kukaa mkakubaliana , eneo likaandaliwa ambalo mzungu atakuwa anakwenda kutupa mawe hayo kama dampo ili vijana waende wakaookote kule badala ya kuingia mgodini kama ilivyo sasa ili kuepuka maaafa zaidi.

Nimemalize kwa kuwapa ujumbe waafrika wenzangu hakuna utamaduni wa kishenzi hapa afrika,tunaweza kuungana na wamasai kudumisha utamaduni wetu.

Tanzania Haitalazimishwa Kukubali Haki za Mashoga!!

Mashoga

Tanzania stands firm on aid-gay rights spat with UK

By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala | Reuters – Fri, Nov 4, 2011

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has become the latest African government to say it will not legalise homosexuality even if that means it loses substantial financial aid from Britain.

Government officials reacted strongly to Prime Minister David Cameron's threat to cut aid to countries that deny gay rights.

"Tanzania will never accept Cameron's proposal because we have our own moral values. Homosexuality is not part of our culture and we will never legalise it," foreign affairs minister Bernard Membe was quoted as saying by Tanzania's Guardian newspaper.

"We are not ready to allow any rich nation to give us aid based on unacceptable conditions simply because we are poor. If we are denied aid by one country, it will not affect the economic status of this nation and we can do without UK aid."

Tanzania, a former British colony and one of Africa's biggest per capita aid recipients, received $453 million (282 million pounds) of aid for its 2011/12 budget, with Britain the largest provider of general budget support.

Ghana's President John Atta Mills said Wednesday his government would never legalise homosexuality. Uganda has also reacted strongly to Cameron's comments.

The Department for International Development (DFID) gave Tanzania 144 million pounds in aid in 2009/10 and has pledged to spend an average of 161 million pounds per year in Tanzania until 2015.

Homosexuality is a serious criminal offence in Tanzania, punishable by imprisonment, but no one has been prosecuted.

"We cannot be directed by the United Kingdom to do things that are against our set laws, culture and regulations," Membe was quoted as saying.

Zanzibar President Ali Mohamed Shein also rejected the British demands for gay rights to be respected in Tanzania.

"We have strong Islamic and Zanzibari culture that abhors gay and lesbian activities, and to anyone who tells us that development support is linked to accepting this we are saying no," Shein told journalists Thursday.

Zanzibar, Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago, enacted a law in 2004 banning homosexual relations. Male offenders face more jail time, up to 25 years, than convicted women.

Homosexuality is illegal in 37 African countries, and rights groups say gays are often the targets of violent hate campaigns.

(Additional reporting by Ally Saleh in Zanzibar; Editing by Richard Lough and Robert Woodward)

Mimi katika Mchezo- 'The Vagina Monologues'

Washiriki wa Boston Community Production of The Vagina Monologues 2011

Mimi mbele ya Altar Iliyoundwa kwa mfano ya Uke.

Wikiendi iliyopita nilishiriki katika Mchezo wa Kuigiza, The Vagina Monologues (Maongezi ya Uke ..nishahishe kama nimekosea kutafsiri).

Kila mwaka vikundi vya wanawake hapa Marekani na nchi nyingi duniani wanasoma na kuigiza huo mchezo mwezi Machi. Hela wanazopata kutoka kwenye viingilio na mauzo ya chakula zinakwenda kusaidia vyama, mashirika yanayosaidia akina mama. Machi ni mwezi ya Wanawake duniani.

The Vagina Monologues ni hadithi fupi mbalimbali zinazotokana na mahojiano aliyofanya Bi Eve Ensler na wanawake kadhaa kuhusu nyeti zao. Kulikuwa na maongezi ya Bi Kizee, Shoga, Mke, Uke uliyokasirika, Mwanamke aliyedhani kapoteza kiharage chake, Kubalehe, Kubakwa, Kutairiwa, na mengine.

Kwa kweli nimetokea kufurahia huo mchezo na hata wanaume niliyowaalika waliyoenda wameipenda sana. Imewafanya wafikirie haki za akina mama na pia jinsi akina mama wanavyoona maswala kama uke zao, ngono, kunyanyyawa kijinisia.

Tanzania kuna hadithi nyingi sana ambazo zinaweza kuingizwa katika huo mchezo.

Mnauliza niliongelea nini? Nililionogelea uzazi, jinsi mwanamke anavyokuwa na uchungu katika uzazi na jinsi uke unavyofunguka ili mtoto atoke.

Sinema 'Shoga' Yafungiwa na Serikali

TAARIFA KWA VYOMBO VYA HABARI

Wizara ya Habari, Vijana, Utamaduni na Michezo imeiagiza Kampuni ya kutengeneza filamu ya 'Al-Riyamy Production Company' kuwasilisha Filamu ya 'Shoga' kwa Bodiya Taifa ya Ukaguzi wa Filamu kwa ajili ya ukaguzi.

Aidha Kampuni hiyo pia imeagizwa kutoisambaza Filamu ya 'Shoga' na kusitisha hatua nyingine yoyote kuhusiana na filamu hiyo hadi hapo Bodi ya Taifa ya Ukaguzi wa Filamu itakapojiridhisha kuwa filamu hiyo inakidhi kuonyeshwa hadharani kama ilivyoainshwa katika Sheria ya Filamu na Michezo ya Jukwani Namba 4 ya mwaka 1976.
Kampuni hiyo inatakiwa kuwasilisha kanda hiyo kabla ya tarehe 17 februari, 2011.Kwa mujibu wa Sheria hiyo hairuhusiwi kutengeneza filamu bila kupata kibali cha kutengeneza filamu.

Aidha kifungu cha 4 (1) inaelekezwa bayana kuwa kila anayetengeneza filamu anatakiwa kuwasilisha maombi kwa maandishi kwa Waziri chini ya Sheria hii yakiambatana na mswaada na maelezo ya filamu inayotarajiwa kutengenezwa.

Pamoja na mambo mengine katika kifungu cha 14 (2) Sheria inaipa Bodi ya Filamu mamlaka ya kukagua filamu, picha ya matangazo au maelezo yake kwa makusudi ya kuamua kuonyesha na ikiwa rushusu itatolewa maonyesho yawe kwa namna gani.

Katika Sheria hiyo kifungu cha 15 (1) kinapiga marufuku kwa mtu yoyote kuongoza,kusaidia , kuruhusu au kushiriki katika maonyesho ya filamu bila kuwa na kibali cha Bodi.

Sheria hii ilipitishwa na Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania kwa waraka Namba 22 wa mwaka 1974.

Imetolewa na
Kitengo cha Habari,Elimu na Mawasiliano,
Wizara ya Habari,Vijana,Utamaduni na Michezo.
Tarehe 14 februari,2011.

Shoga Aua Shoga Mwenzake Boston

pichani Shoga Eunice Field (alieykaa), akisikiliza mashitaka dhidi yake mahakamani leo

Hapa Boston, kuna shoga kakumbwa na wivu ile mbaya baadaye ya kuibiwa mpenzi wake na shoga mwingine. Eunice Field (54) Alienda kwa yule ambaye alimwibia na kumchoma kisu mara tano. Baada ya kuua alienda kujisalimisha kwenye kitu cha polisi. Mwenye nyumba wa Lorraine Wachsman (62) alisema kwenye taarifa ya habari kuwa haukujua kuwa marehemu ni shoga. Marehemu alikuwa mwamlimu wa shule ya msingi kwa miaka mingo na alikuwa amestaafu. Kumbe hata mashoga wanakuaga na wivu!!!

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BROCKTON – A prosecutor today said the Brockton woman who allegedly confessed to murdering a retired schoolteacher blamed the victim for breaking up an important romantic relationship.

Eunice Field, 54, appeared in Brockton District Court today where a not guilty plea to a charge of murder was entered on her behalf. Judge Julie S. Bernard ordered Field held without bail.
Field allegedly murdered 62-year-old Lorraine Wachsman inside Wachsman's Bridgewater condo on Monday. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Flanagan said in court today that Field stabbed Wachsman three to four times in the back and neck with a serrated knife.

Flanagan also said that Field left a note she hoped her ex-girlfriend would find. In it, Flanagan said, Field wrote that Wachsman got what she deserved for "taking away the love of her life.''

Mnaweza kusoma habari zaidi hapa:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/08/brockton_a_pros.html

Ruksa kwa Wapenda Jinsia Moja Kufunga Ndoa D.C.!

(Pichani baadhi ya wapenda jinsia moja waliofunga ndoa leo huko Washington D.C.)

Sasa huko mji mkuu wa Marekani, Washington D.C. ni ruksa kwa wapenda jinsia moja (Gay/lesbian) kufunga ndoa. Washington D.C. sasa inakuwa jimbo la sita kuruhusu ndoa za aina hiyo.

Mmmh! Kuna madai kuwa eti ushoga utaongezeka katika nchi za Third World, kwa vile wataona kuwa watapata misaada zaidi wakiwa watu wa aina hiyo.

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/09/same.sex.marriages/index.html?hpt=T2

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/22-first-gay-weddings-celebrated-in-us-capital-aj-03