CHADEMA: ZITTO ACHUNGUZWE

LISSU ATAJA WABUNGE WALA RUSHWA

Na Edson Kamukara, Dodoma

KAMBI rasmi ya Upinzani Bungeni imetaka kuchunguzwa kwa madai ya Naibu Kiongozi wa wa kambi hiyo, Zitto Kabwe, kuhongwa.

Kambi hiyo pia imetaja majina ya wabunge sita wa Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), waliokuwa wajumbe wa Kamati ya Nishati na Madini iliyovunjwa na Spika wa Bunge, Anne Makinda, mwishoni mwa wiki, ikidai kuwa kwa namna moja ama nyingine walihusika na vitendo vya rushwa.

Wabunge hao wanatuhumiwa kupokea rushwa kutoka kwa kampuni za mafuta ili kuipigia debe menejimenti ya Shirika la Ugavi wa umeme nchini (TANESCO).

Akizungumza jana na waandishi wa habari mjini hapa, Mnadhimu Mkuu wa kambi hiyo, Tundu Lissu, alisema wamesikia tuhuma nyingi dhidi ya Zitto lakini hawajamhoji kiongozi huyo.

Alisema wanaviomba vyombo vinavyohusika vimchunguze Zitto ili ukweli ujulikane na hatua zinazostahili zichukuliwe kama atathibitika kuwa na makosa.

“Chama hatujakaa na Zitto kumsikiliza lakini tunataka achunguzwe, hatuna masilahi yoyote katika uchafu huu wa rushwa. 

“Uchunguzi huu utatupa msingi wa kumchukulia hatua kama chama ikiwa itathibitika amehongwa,” alisema.


Alibainisha kuwa, mbunge wao huyo amekuwa akihusishwa na kumtumia ujumbe mfupi wa vitisho Katibu Mkuu wa Nishati na Madini, Eliakimu Maswi.

Alisema ni vema Zitto achunguzwe na apewe nafasi ya kujieleza kama itakavyokuwa kwa wengine kuliko kuendelea kusambaza maneno ya kufikirika.

Alibainisha wamejiridhisha pasipo shaka kuwa wabunge wao watatu waliokuwa wajumbe kwenye Kamati ya Nishati na Madini, John Mnyika (Ubungo), David Silinde (Mbozi Magharibi) na Mwanamrisho Taratibu Abama (Viti Maalumu), hawajahusika kwa lolote katika sakata hilo la rushwa.

“Kama kuna mtu ana ushahidi zaidi ya huu tulionao tunaomba atuletee ili hatua zaidi ziweze kuchukuliwa, lakini mpaka sasa wabunge wetu hawa watatu hawajashiriki kwa lolote katika kuomba rushwa,” alisema.

Kauli ya Lissu inashabihiana na aliyoitoa Zitto juzi ambapo alisema hajachukua hongo, ila kuna watu wana lengo la kuchafua jina lake.

Zitto alisema kuwa uchunguzi dhidi yake ndiyo njia pekee ya kuudhihirishia umma kuwa hahusiki na chochote kama baadhi ya watu wanaoeneza maneno ya kumchafua.

Awataja wala rushwa

Kuhusu majina ya wabunge wanaotuhumiwa kujihusisha na vitendo vya rushwa, Lissu alisema kuwa kwa mujibu wa kanuni za kudumu za Bunge na Sheria ya Maadili ya Viongozi wa Umma ya mwaka 1995, wabunge hao walipaswa kutaja masilahi yao kibiashara kwenye shirika hilo.

“Sasa wabunge hawa hawajawahi kufanya hivyo na wameendelea kuwa wajumbe wa Kamati ya Nishati na Madini na wengine kufanya biashara na TANESCO,” alisema Lissu na kuwataja kuwa ni Munde Tambwe, Sara Msafiri, Mariam Kisangi wa Viti Maalumu, Yusuf Nassir (Korogwe Mjini) na Charles Mwijage Muleba Kaskazini.

soma zaidi Tanzania Daima

source: TANZANIA DAIMA, 31st July,2012

I'm not a big fun of siasa, laikini hii habari imenichosha!!!! mmmh!

MALI UNWED COUPLE STONED TO DEATH

A couple who had sex outside marriage have been stoned to death by Islamists in the town of Aguelhok in northern Mali, officials say.

The man and woman were buried up to their necks, then pelted with stones until they died.

The northern half of Mali has been overrun by rebels - Tuareg and Islamist - following a coup in Mali's capital.

Aguelhok in the region of Kidal was one of the first to be captured by Tuareg separatist rebels.

The Islamists in Aguelhok stoned the couple to death in front of about 200 people, officials said.

"I was there. The Islamists took the unmarried couple to the centre of Aguelhok. The couple was placed in two holes and the Islamists stoned them to death," a local government official told the AFP news agency.

"The woman fainted after the first few blows," he said, adding that the man had shouted out once and then fallen silent.

TIMBUKTU HAS NOW BECOME A GHOST TOWN

While the interim government is busy battling with the soldiers who overthrew the previous administration in March, the picture in the north grows darker.

What began as a rebellion in January by ethnic Tuareg has been usurped by Islamist militant groups who have taken advantage of the coup and imposed Sharia in most of the key towns in the north.

Music has been banned from local radios, women face being beaten if they are seen with their heads uncovered and people have been whipped in public for various misdemeanours.

source: BBC NEWS

FROM BIRD FLU TO PIG FLU; NOW - SEAL FLU

Scientists in the United States have identified a new strain of influenza in harbour seals that could potentially impact human and animal health.

The H3N8 flu has been associated with the deaths of harbour seals in New England last year.

Researchers say the virus may have evolved from a type that had been circulating in birds.

They say the discovery highlights the potential for pandemic flu to emerge from unexpected sources.

Continue reading the main storyResearchers were puzzled by the mysterious deaths from pneumonia of 162 harbour seals around the coast of New England last year.

Autopsies on five of the marine mammals indicate that they died from a type of H3N8 influenza A virus that is closely related to a strain circulating in North American birds since 2002.

One of authors of the research paper is Prof Ian Lipkin, from Columbia University in the US. He is a celebrated virus hunter who in the past has helped identify West Nile virus and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). He told the BBC that finding this flu virus in seals was an interesting "new jump".

Cause for concern

As well as mutating to live in both animals and birds the scientists say this flu has evolved to make it more likely to cause severe symptoms. The virus also has the ability to target a protein found in the human respiratory tract.

Dr Anne Moscona of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City edited the report and says that the new virus is a worry.

"There is a concern that we have a new mammalian-transmissable virus to which humans haven't yet been exposed. It's a combination we haven't seen in disease before."

One of the big concerns for Prof Lipklin is that seals are acting as a mixing vessel for viruses in a way that has previously happened in pigs.

"What was interesting about this is the seals are acting as an intermerdiary - they have receptors for both bird flu viruses and well as mammalian flu viruses, so you have a host in which this virus can adapt, evolve and become more mammalian in phenotype and more capable of causing disease in mammals.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS; 31st July, 2012

MAGONJWA YANAONGEZEKA DUNIANI

VENEZUELA ACTING AMBASSADOR, KILLED IN KENYA

Police in Kenya have arrested six people in connection with the murder by strangling of Venezuela's most senior diplomat in the country at her residence in Nairobi. "We are holding six. Please give us time. Let us investigate," Anthony Kibuchi, Nairobi area police commander, told Reuters by phone on Saturday, without giving more details. On Friday, police said Olga Fonseca, Venezuela's acting ambassador and charge d'affaires, had been found dead in her residence on her bed, but that it was unclear why she had been killed. Officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Kenyan staff at the embassy's residence had complained to its Diplomatic Police Unit after the new envoy fired them. Fonseca had sacked them after they refused to retract sexual harassment claims against the former head of the Venezuelan embassy, the employees said. The ministry is investigating their allegations, officials said on Friday. Though Fonseca's murder is not thought to be related to theft, violent and sometimes fatal robberies in Nairobi are common. Diplomats are among the most well-guarded people in the east African country. Officials in Caracas said Fonseca, who started her job on July 15, was also Venezuela's representative to UN agencies based in Nairobi, and had responsibility for Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. SOURCE: Al jazeera Inasemekana kuuwawa kwake kuna tokea baada ya kesi ya sexual scandal iliyotokea 2011, ambayo wafanyakazi wa ebassy ya Kenya walii-repot. Ila police bado hawajatoa uthibitisho wa nini hasa kilichomfanya auwawe.

EBOLA IN UGANDA; TUOMBEE MUNGU AENDELEE KUTUEPUSHA

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has called on people to avoid physical contact, after the deadly Ebola virus spread to the capital, Kampala.

Fourteen people have died, including one in Kampala, since the outbreak began in western Uganda three weeks ago, he said in a special broadcast.

Ebola is one of the most virulent diseases in the world.

It is spread by close personal contact and kills up to 90% of those who become infected.

Mr Museveni said health officials were trying to trace everyone who had had contact with victims so that they could be quarantined.

People should avoid shaking hands, kissing or having sex to prevent the disease from spreading, he added.

Mr Museveni said relatives and friends should not bury anyone who is suspected to have died of Ebola.

"Instead call health workers because they know how to do it," he said.

Mr Museveni said seven doctors and 13 health workers at Mulago hospital - the main referral hospital in Kampala - are in quarantine after "at least one or two cases" were taken there.

One victim - a health worker who had been transferred to the capital later died.

"I wish you good luck, and may God rest the souls of those who died in eternal peace," Mr Museveni said as he ended his address to the nation.

The first victim of the latest outbreak was a pregnant woman in Kibaale district, about 170km (100 miles) west of Kampala.

It then spread at a funeral, Mr Museveni said. Uganda has seen three major  outbreaks over the past 12 years.

The deadliest was in 2000 when 425 people were infected. More than half of them died.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS, 30th July,2012

WHY IS INDIA SO BAD FOR WOMEN?

Of all the rich G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be for a woman, and yet it prides itself on being the World's largest democracy.

This is the story of the above photo                                

One evening two weeks ago, just a few miles downhill, a young student left a bar and was set upon by a gang of at least 18 men. They dragged her into the road by her hair, tried to rip off her clothes and smiled at the cameras that filmed it all. It was around 9.30pm on one of Guwahati's busiest streets – a chaotic three-lane thoroughfare soundtracked by constantly beeping horns and chugging tuk-tuks. But for at least 20 minutes, no one called the police. They easily could have. Many of those present had phones: they were using them to film the scene as the men yanked up the girl's vest and tugged at her bra and groped her breasts as she begged for help from passing cars. We know this because a cameraman from the local TV channel was there too, capturing the attack for his viewers' enjoyment. The woman was abused for 45 minutes before the police arrived.

Within half an hour, clips were broadcast on Assam's NewsLive channel. Watching across town, Sheetal Sharma and Bitopi Dutta were horrified. "I was fuming like anything. There was this horrible, brutal assault being shown on screen – and the most disturbing thing was, the blame was being put on the woman, who, the report emphasised, was drunk," says Sharma, a 29-year-old feminist activist from the North-East Network, a women's rights organisation in Guwahati. "The way it was filmed, the camera was panning up and down her body, focusing on her breasts, her thighs," says Dutta, her 22-year-old colleague.

It was only a few days later, when the clip had gone viral and had been picked up by the national channels in Delhi, that the police were shamed into action. By then, Guwahati residents had taken matters into their own hands, producing an enormous banner that they strung up alongside one of the city's arterial roads featuring screen grabs of the main suspects. Six days after the attack, the chief minister of Assam, the state where Guwahati is located, ordered the police to arrest a dozen key suspects. He met the victim and promised her 50,000 rupees (£580) compensation.

Indian women, such as these three in Bawana, on the outskirts of Delhi, frequently come under pressure to abort female foetuses. 

Kwa kifupi, according to the news, wanawake wa  India mpaka leo wanauzwa kama bidhaa, wanaozeshwa kindoa kuanzia wakifika miaka 10, wanaweza chomwa moto kutokana na kutoafikiana kimahari ( wanawake ndio huwa wanatoa mahari na si wanaume) hii pia imefanya India kuongoza katika utoaji wa mimba za watoto wa kike kwasababu kwa wale wazazi masikini huogopa kuja kushindwa kutoa mahari. Wanawake huwa pia exploited and abused as domestic sex labourers, na kuna sehemu hadi leo  wanawake wanapanda mabasi yao wenyewe na wanaume ya kwao.


Mengine ni kama haya:


Last Wednesday, a man in Indore was arrested for keeping his wife's genitals locked. Sohanlal Chouhan, 38, "drilled holes" on her body and, before he went to work each day, would insert a small lock, tucking the keys under his socks. 


Earlier this month, children were discovered near Bhopal playing with a female foetus they had mistaken for a doll in a bin. In the southern state of Karnataka, a dentist was arrested after his wife accused him of forcing her to drink his urine because she refused to meet dowry demands.


In June, a father beheaded his 20-year-old daughter with a sword in a village in Rajasthan, western India, parading her bleeding head around as a warning to other young women who might fall in love with a lower-caste boy.( Hii hapa ndio imenichosha kabisaaaa)




Source: The Guardian 23rd, July.




Hizo ni badhii ya manyanyaso wanawake wakihindi wanayapitia kwasababu ya jinsia yao. Tooooo sad!

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MESSAGE TO MY GRANDMA'

Dear Grandma' Apaisaria Lema, it's been six years now since you slept peacefuly forever. What a sad day it was to all of us, especially to me as it was just a week before u were going to witness my wedding day. God knows how i was looking forward to see you dancing proudly and sooo happy for me.
Until now i sumtimes wish ungekuwepo nikuulize maswali mengi bibi yangu mpendwa, maana naamini ungekuwa na majibu mema zaidi. We miss your strories sana sana, but most specially ur true love and kisses whenever you saw us. We believe your with your husband sasa (our grand dad Martin Carl Nkumbo) whom you loved sooo much hadi mwisho even though yeye alitangulia zamani sana. Ulitufundisha upendo wa kweli bibi. We still remember  your stories you were telling us on how you and grand dad met, hahaaa! What a love story to remember always. Remembering all of it now makes me want to cry, but i thank God i got an opportunity to know and love you. We all believe your in the better place na unamuimbia Mungu wako sana kama ulivyokuwa ukifanya ukiwa huku na sisi, na nyimbo zako zote we sing them everytime we all meet. Maana pamoja na yote ulikuwa hukosi kwenda kwenye kwaya yako na kuimba na wenzako kanisani. Umetuachia nyimbo bibi, na zaidi umetuachia upendo wa ajabu.


We all love you and will always miss you!!!! Much love to your husband, babu yetu na wapendwa wetu wote. Untill we meet again, sleep well grandma'.

JE NI UKOLONI MAMBOLEO ?? - WACHINA IN AFRICA

China has fast become Africa's largest trading partner, with varied investments.

Is China becoming Africa's new colonial master? Is Beijing sucking away resources to drive its own economic growth, while offering little in return?

Or is such talk the product of fear and envy? Is it a sign of Western anxieties, that China is fast becoming the new power in Africa, building more equal relationships, and undermining Western influence on the continent?

China is certainly a real force in Africa. Just look at the clutch of presidents and the officials from many more parts of Africa who have made the long trek to Beijing this week for the China-Africa Co-operation Forum.

The visitors certainly have incentives to be here. They are being showered with attention, feted at banquets and tantalised with the prospect of preferential loan deals.

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We should have a fertilizer manufacturing plant here instead of importing the product from China which causes delays and poor harvests”

Raila OdingaKenyan prime minister

Neo-colonialist charge

But China is extremely sensitive to the charge it's a neo-colonialist power and is trying hard to refute it.

President Hu Jintao picked up the theme at the forum, repeatedly calling this "a new type of China-Africa strategic partnership".

He said "the Chinese and African peoples have always treated each other as equals... we will... forever be a good friend, good partner and good brother of the African people".

Source: BBC NEWS

JE WAZUNGU WAMEANZA KUWAOGOPA WACHINA KWA JINSI UCHUMI WAO UNAVYOKUWA HARAKA, NA WANAVYOMWAGIKA AFRICA KWA KUWAITA WAKOLONI  AU NI KWELI WACHINA NAO WANALAO JAMBO??

NATURAL BEAUTY

Light skin and silky hair has long been the standard for beauty across many parts of the world. Entertainment and fashion industries tend to promote Caucasian features, either choosing models that fit that image or using technology to remake them. 

Critics say such choices have created a racialised perception of beauty, along with a multi-billion dollar market for chemical products that alter skin tone and hair texture. 

In the United States, African American women have increasingly been dumping harsh chemicals and embracing natural hair. Some call this a liberating movement; others say the trend is simply another standard to meet. 

What do you think? Could the natural hair trend change traditional notions of beauty forever? 

The Iconic photo above reportedly took place after the boy pictured told President Obama " I want to know if your hair is just like mine."

Hivi jamani, kwani kuwa mweupe na nyewele za kizungu au kihindi na kuwa mwembamba ndio uzuri??? 

TUNATAKA KUWA KAMA SCARLET JOHNSON AU

KAMA AISHWARYA RAI

I BELIVE EVERYONE IS SO DAMN BEAUTIFUL IN THEIR OWN NATURAL WAY!!!!

TUJIFUNZE KUJIPENDA TULIVYO!!!!!!

DESIGNER- OZWALD BOATENG

FISH TREND - DESIGNER ALIAKIM

BEAUTIFUL DRESSES FOR BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

I LOVE HILDA SANA!!! SHE'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL BABE, BOTH  PHYSICALY AND IN PERSON.

YESSS! HURRY NOW UJE UPENDEZE NA WEWE.

                                                                                                                

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FORMER WIFE OF PRESIDENT ZUMA BECOMES AFRICAN UNION LEADER

The African Union has chosen South African Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as its leader, making her the first woman to hold the post.

Ms Dlamini-Zuma beat incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon after a closely fought contest for the chairmanship of the organisation.

In January, neither got the required two-thirds majority, leaving Mr Ping in office for another six months.

The dispute has overshadowed other issues, especially security and trade.

Voting had been broadly split along linguistic lines, with English-speaking countries tending to support Ms Dlamini-Zuma and French-speaking countries lining up behind Mr Ping.

Senior officials had warned that failure to resolve the leadership deadlock would divide the AU and undermine its credibility.

Long-serving minister

Ms Dlamini-Zuma, the former wife of South African President Jacob Zuma, won the leadership of the AU commission in a third round of voting.

She got 37 votes at the 54-member body, giving her the 60% majority she needed to be elected.

The 63-year-old is currently South Africa's home affairs minister, and has also had spells as minister of health and of foreign affairs.

Source: BBC NEWS

KUPENDEZA KUZURIIII

KUFANYA KAZI YA MUNGU

The Catholic church at Bagamoyo is beautiful, ni yale makanisa yaliyojengwa zamani sana wakati wa utumwa.

Waliokaa mbele ndio walikuwa wanajitayarisha kupokea Ushemasi, they are from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia

Waliokaa nyuma ya mashemasi ni mapadri from all over the world waliokuja kuwa wapa support

Mashemasi wakipata test ya kuona kama kweli they are realy ready kumtumikia Mungu

Wakikubali na kupokea nadhiri za maisha

My shemeji alikuwa mmoja wa hao six mashemasi. Tunakuombea heri na baraka katika kufanya kazi ya Mungu, na akakutangulie katika yote.

A COUPLE were busted after trying to smuggle their baby into the United Arab Emirates - in their HAND LUGGAGE.

WAZAZI NA MTOTO WAO

PICHA YA SCANNING YA MIZIGO IKIONYESHA MTOTO NDANI YA BAG.

The Egyptian husband and wife were arrested when airport security staff spotted the five-month-old boy had been picked out by a bag scanner's X-rays.

They were denied entry after flying into the UAE’s Sharjah International Airport as they lacked any official documents for the newborn.

Airport authorities allowed them to stay until the relevant office re-opened.

The couple decided to make a break for it and stash their baby in a bag when shift staff changed.

But the pair were rumbled when security noticed the the outline of the baby’s body on the scanner's screen.

A Sharjah Police spokesman said: “They were risking the life of the baby.

“They said in an interrogation they'd resorted to sneaking him through inside a bag because he did not have a passport or visa and they wanted to have him with them in the UAE.”

Another police official said: “When customs officials saw the baby inside the bag at the X-ray scanner, they were stunned.

“This machine is very dangerous for anyone, let alone a baby in a bag to pass through.utline of the baby’s body on the scanner's screen.

SOURCE: THE SUN; 10/7/2012

Wazazi wakati mwingine wana risk mambo ya ajabu sana. Hawa waliposhindwa kumtafutia mtoto wao travelling documents wakaamua kumtia kwenye bag lao ili waweze kusafiri nae bila kuonekana. Sasa najiuliza kama mtoto angelia wakati wa ukaguzi ingekuwaje? Zaidi angefia humo kwa kukosa hewa je?

WAREMBO WA BET AWARDS 2012

WALIPENDEZAJE SASA?