Libyan Ambassador to Tanzania, summoned to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mr Bernard Membe yesterday summoned Libyan Ambassador to Tanzania, Prof Ahmed El Ash’ab, for raising the rebel National Transition Council (NTC) flag without prior consultations.
The envoy was seen at the Foreign Ministry’s office with minister Membe, indicating that the minister had fulfilled his promise he made before journalists on Sunday that he would summon the ambassador to explain why he had raised the flag of a rebel government without notifying his hosts.
No details were available yesterday over the meeting between the envoy and the minister.
The minister said on Sunday that he was aware that the embassy had raised the flag of the Libyan rebels.
“It’s wrong. There are rules and regulations to follow for the government to recognise the existing government. They have not followed them,” said Membe.
The minister also said that Tanzania would not recognise the Libyan transitional government formed by the rebels until its true architects were known and the government was satisfied that ordinary Libyans were fully involved in its formation.
“We in Tanzania will not recognise the transitional government led by the rebels, until we are sure of the participation of Libyans in its formation and the officials leading it,” Membe maintained.
He said out of 54 African states only 14 have recognised the transitional government.
“TNC has not been able to convince Tanzania to recognise the government. We are not ready to make hasty decisions over something we hardly know,” said Membe.
“We do not know who the members of the rebel movement are, how many they are and whether they are Libyans or foreigners,” he stressed.
Membe said Tanzania would recognise the new Libyan government only if all stakeholders of the country, including citizens and all political parties, participate in the formation of the transitional government, which would prepare for elections.
Some of the countries that have already recognised the rebel-led Libyan transitional government are Kenya, Rwanda, Gabon, Nigeria, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Senegal, Burkinafaso and Botswana.
Membe also said Tanzania joins AU in calling on the three sides in the Libyan conflict, namely NATO, Col. Gaddafi’s army and the rebels to end the fighting so as to save the lives of people in Libya and give the country a chance to form its own government.
He added that Tanzania and AU had agreed that Gaddafi’s leadership in Libya had come to an end, and that what was urgently needed was to ensure that the country returned to normality as soon as possible.

NATO ACTION IN LIBYA CONDEMNED

THE chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Peace initiatives Mr Edward Lowasa

THE chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Peace initiatives Mr Edward Lowasa has condemned the western allies NATO, led by the USA for invading Libya for no apparent reason at all.
Mr Lowasa, who was the Tanzania's prime minister in the first five-year term of president Jakaya Kikwete, before being forced to resign on bribery scandals was reacting to a barrage of questions from Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) crew members in Dodoma yesterday. Mr Lowasa is still the MP for Mbulu constuituency.
"The alleged purpose of U.N. Security Council resolution 1973, passed on March 17, was to seek to protect Libyan civilians from violent attacks by both sides. But alas, In NATO's eager hands, it has rapidly mutated into a straightforward bid to destroy Qaddafi's regime, specifically to murder Qaddafi, financially, politically and militarily by missile or bombardment and no doubt by land-based teams of Special Force assassins now deployed in the desert," he said.
He condemned also the cowardly attitude of African Union leaders for keeping mum on the issue without helping Qaddhafi, who was a staunch supporter of Africa.
"I'm saddened by the cowardly attitude shown by African leaders for not acting quickly to solve the problem which has turned into a humanitarian disaster. Libya's oil infrastructures, roads and airports have been bombed and thousands of people have been killed and injured and it remain a poorer country than ever before," he added.
NATO says more than 10,000 sorties have been flown over Libya since operations began, which shows how the Western allies have no regard to humanity.
This includes 3,794 "strike" bombing raids across the country. In the heaviest strikes yet, concentrating on attacks in Tripoli, NATO launched 157 strike missions on Tuesday, more than three times the previous daily average.

School pregnancies, hinders education progress for girls in Tanzania

HUMAN right activists have proposed the revival of societal morals as a strategy to curb schoolgirl pregnancies.
According to a press statement issued in Dar es Salaam yesterday by the Tanzania Media Women’s Association (Tamwa), the gender activists said without stern measures to revive national moral values, schoolgirl pregnancies would escalate posing unbearable challenges to national efforts and making the right to education for all children an illusion.
Representing six human rights organisations, a statement insisted that teachers impregnating schoolgirls should be sacked forthwith, forced to pay compensation and then charged in a court of law.
It urged students to name without fear all teachers engaged in love affairs with schoolgirls to facilitate effective action against the culprits.
Of late, the country has witnessed an alarming increase of cases of schoolgirl pregnancies.
According the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training between 2004 and 2008, a total of 28,590 schoolgirls in the country dropped out of school as a result of unwanted pregnancies, 11,599 being secondary and 16,991 primary schoolgirls.
The leaders interviewed by Tamwa on what needs to be done to revive teachers’ morals were executive directors Bubelwa Kaiza (ForDia), Ussu Mallya (Tanzania Gender Networking Programme – TGNP), Ann Marie Mavenjina (Tanzania Women Lawyers Association – Tawla), Scholastica Jullu (Women Legal Aid Centre – Wlac) and Maimuna Kanyamala (Kivulini Women Human Rights Organisation). Another was Harold Sungusia, Director of Advocacy and Reforms, Legal and Human Rights Centre.
A newspaper survey which Tamwa conducted on schoolgirl pregnancies and stories published by local newspapers between December last year and the end of March this year showed there were 11 cases of schoolgirl pregnancies which involved teachers.
The activists noted with concern that schoolgirl pregnancies contributed to illiteracy and poverty among women, maternal mortality and HIV/Aids infection.
The country’s Demographic Health Survey (2010) shows that 454/100,000 equivalent to about 8,000 women and girls die annually due to preventable causes of maternal deaths including controlled schoolgirl pregnancies.
On HIV/Aids infection, a national survey conducted between 2007 and 2008 shows that 5.7 per cent of the country’s population estimated to be about 40 million people has contracted HIV/Aids and the population of women and girls is more affected at a rate of 6.6 per cent compared to 4.6 per cent of the male population.

SAKATA LA JENGO LA TGNP, MABIBO JIJINI DAR ES SALAAM

Bi Usu Malya, mkurugenzi mtendaji wa TGNP



MTANDAO wa Jinsia Tanzania (TGNP) ni mmiliki halali wa jengo lenye hati namba 56998, Kiwanja namba 22/3/1 lililoko katika eneo la Mabibo Dar es Salaam
Mtandao wa Jinsia ulinunua jengo hilo kutoka kwa Mfilisi (Benki ya Rasilimali Tanzania- TIB) kwa iliyokuwa Tanzania Sewing Thread Manufacturers Limited ambayo ilikuwa sehemu ya kampuni tanzu ya Tanzania Textile Company Limited (TEXCO) kwa gharama ya shilingi milioni 200 ambapo makubaliano ya manunuzi yalifanyika tarehe 15/6/ 1997.
Mchakato wa uuzaji wa jengo hili ulikuwa wa wazi uliotangazwa katika vyombo vya habari nchini hususan magazeti.
Baadhi ya watumiaji wa ofisi waliokuwa ndani ya jengo hilo wakati TEXCO ikiwa inafilisiwa nao walishiriki katika mchakato wa kununua bila mafanikio.
Baada ya TGNP kushinda ‘tender’, baadhi ya watumiaji hao , mnano mwezi wa Julai 1997 walifungua kesi namba 215 / 1997 dhidi ya TIB kama mshitakiwa wa kwanza na TGNP mshitakiwa wa pili katika mahakama kuu kupinga maamuzi ya TIB kuiuzia TGNP jengo hilo.
UAMUZI WA MAHAKAMA KUU
Kesi hii ilichukua muda mrefu sana takribani miaka kumi na mbili mpaka kufikia tarehe 15/10/ 2009, uamuzi wa Mahakama Kuu ulipotolewa na Mheshimiwa Jaji T.B. Mihayo.
Mahakama Kuu ilitowa hukumu ambayo iliwapa haki TGNP na kuwaamuru walalamikaji kuondoka mara moja na kulipa gharama za kesi.
Wakati mchakato wa kutekeleza hukumu ya Mahakama Kuu ukiendelea, tarehe 19/9/2009 walalamikaji walipeleka katika Mahakama ya Rufaa azimio la kusimamisha utekelezaji wa hukumu ya mahakama kuu ya kuwatoa kwenye jengo kwa kupitia ombi na 129 la 2009.
Ombi lao hilo lilitupiliwa mbali na Mahakama ya Rufaa tarehe 23/8/2011.
MCHAKATO WA KUTEKELEZA UAMUZI WA MAHAKAMA
TGNP,ambao ndio wamiliki halali wa hili jengo hilo tunasubiri utekelezaji wa uamuzi wa Mahakama ya Rufaa iliyotolewa terehe 23/8/2011.
Tutaendelea kuwataarifu maendeleo ya mchakato huu.

DAWA ya Mchungaji wa KKKT, Ambilikile Mwasapila ni feki

CHAMA cha Madaktari nchini (MAT) kimesema tiba inayotolewa na Mchungaji Mstaafu wa Kanisa la Kiinjili la Kilutheri Tanzania (KKKT), Ambilikile Mwasapila, kwa njia ya kikombe kwa ajili ya kutibu magonjwa sugu, imeleta maafa makubwa kwa wagonjwa.
Makamu wa Rais wa MAT, Dk. Primus Saidia, alitoa tamko hilo wakati akizungumza na waandishi wa habari kuhusiana suala zima la magonjwa yasiyoambukiza na tiba mbadala.
Alisema kuwa wagonjwa wengi baada ya kunywa kikombe cha Babu waliacha kunywa dawa za magonjwa yaliyokuwa yakiwasumbua na kusababisha wengi wao kupooza, kufa na wengine hali zao kuzidi kuwa mbaya.
“Ni vyema wananchi walio wagonjwa wa shinikizo la damu, kisukari, anemia na magonjwa mengine wakafuata ushauri wa madaktari badala ya kulaghaiwa na wachache,” alisema Dk. Saidia bila kufafanua zaidi.
Alisema umma wa Watanzania umekuwa ukilaghaiwa kwa tiba mbadala na kuacha kutumia dawa za hospitali hivyo kuongeza ukubwa wa tatizo na wanapokimbilia hospitali tayari hali zao zinakuwa mbaya.
Dk. Saidia alisema ili dawa iweze kutumika hufanyiwa utafiti kwa kati ya miaka 10 hadi 15.
Naye Katibu Mkuu wa MAT, Dk. Richard Kabangira, ambaye ni daktari bingwa ya tiba wa Hospitali ya Rufaa ya Bugando, alisema: “Serikali yetu haisikilizi wana taaluma, mfano Babu wa Loliondo utafiti uliofanyika pale ni wa dawa kutokuwa na madhara kwa binadamu na sio kutibu magonjwa.” alisema Dk. Kabangila na kuongeza:
“Hospitali ya Rufaa ya Bugando ilipokea wagonjwa wengi wa kisukari baada ya kutoka Loliondo kufuatia wagonjwa hao kuacha kunywa dawa walizopewa hospitalini.”
Alisema waliwasiliana na wanachama wao nchini kote kufuatilia hali za wagonjwa waliokuwa wamekwenda kwa Babu kupata kikombe na waligundua kwamba waliokuwa wanatumia dawa za kufubaza virusi vya Ukimwi (ARV), shinikizo la damu, kisukari na hata saratani waliacha dawa baada ya kunywa kikombe cha Babu.
Alisema pamoja na watu kadhaa kutoa ushahidi kuwa wamepona kwa dawa hiyo, utafiti uliofanywa na MAT, umegundua kuwa hakuna hata mtu mmoja aliyepona baada ya kunywa dawa ya Babu.
Alisema watumiaji wa ARV walipungua kama ilivyo kwa hao wengine, lakini baada ya muda hali zao zilikuwa mbaya wengine walikimbilia hospitalini lakini kwa kuwa walikuwa wamevuruga mtiririko wa tiba, walipata madhara makubwa.
Dk. Kabangira alisema MAT ilimwandikia barua Katibu Mkuu wa Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii juu ya hatari ya tiba ya Babu, na kutoa ushauri wao, lakini ulipuuzwa kwa sababu za kisiasa.
Kufuatia hali hiyo, MAT imetoa wito kwa Serikali na Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii kuwaeleza wananchi ukweli ili wasiangamie huku wakieleza kusikitishwa kwao kutokana na tiba hiyo kutumika kisiasa.
Mchungaji Mwasapila alianza kutoa tiba hiyo mapema mwaka huu na kusababisha maelfu ya wananchi kutoka pembe zote za nchi na nje ya nchi kukimbilia nyumbani kwake katika kijiji cha Samunge, Loliondo katika Wilaya ya Ngorongoro, mkoani Arusha kupata tiba hiyo dhidi ya magonjwa mbalimbali yakiwemo ya kisukari, Ukimwi, saratani na shinikizo la damu.
Viongozi mbalimbali wa madheheu ya dini nao walikuwa miongoni mwa maelfu waliokwenda Samunge na kupata kikombe huku wakitoa ushuhuda kwamba wamepona kwa dawa ya Mchungaji Mwasapila maarufu kwa jina la Babu.
Safari ya kwenda Samunge ilikumbana na changamoto ya barabara mbovu zilizosababisha misongamano na kuilazimisha serikali kuingilia kati kupanga utaratibu pamoja na kusaidia kuboresha miundombinu.
Chama hicho leo kinafanya mkutano wao mjini Mwanza, suala la tiba ya Babu linatarajiwa kuibuka katika mkutano huo unaowakutanisha wanachama wake.

LIBYAN REBELS AND WESTERN INFLUENCE: A PANACEA FOR DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA

LIBYAN rebels are united by hatred towards the current leader. Once Colonel Gaddafi is out of the game, they will turn on each other and NATO.This is a prediction from many people, including political pundits in Tanzania. As the civil war in Libya rages, many say the country could go the way of Egypt and end up with a disillusioned society impatient for reform, but others believe it could be even much worse. One political commentator in the country said that there is a huge potential of Libya turning into a new Afghanistan. The NATO-led regime change in Libya might well turn the country into a failed state, following the examples of Somalia, Iraq and now Afghanistan. Once Gaddafi leaves power, one way or another – because it is simply impossible for him to fight the whole of the NATO and their puppets or stooges rather; the so called National Transitional Council (NTC) will have huge divisions within its own rank and it is highly doubtful it will be able to keep Libya as a united state. They predict that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi will stay in Libya and nobody knows either where he is or what will happen to him, though he and his sons still have political power in the country. ‘The problem of post-Gaddafi era could be actually more problematic than the problem before the removal of Gaddafi regime, because there is a huge split among the rebels themselves.’ The majority of people who are fighting Gaddafi are Muslim extremists or people who believe they must create an Islamic state in Libya. They are saying that legitimizing this group would be a great problem for NATO. Once NATO decides officially to start a ground operation in Libya it will turn the rebels and Muslim extremists that are now fighting Gaddafi against the troops that would invade Libya. People in Libya have never seen democracy and imposing it will be a very long and complicated process. Democracy is a culture of practice. “You cannot parachute democracy to people in Libya, in Iraq or Afghanistan.” Talks about democracy are very sweet and we know about that. Under the banner of democracy the West intervened in Afghanistan and Iraq – and look what happened. It is the 10-year anniversary of the American invasion in Afghanistan this year and the Western powers have not learnt any lesson from Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, and Afghanistan. “NATO is not a charitable organization” so there must be some sort of oil deal between the Libyan rebels and the alliance which helped the insurgents to gain everything by bombing out military objects of Libya. Libyan cake is lucrative and already shared and the NTC will pay the demanded price to aggressors: exploration contract and military bases. The Libyan future government should pay and will pay a very heavy price – this is not a free service and for sure NTC definitely has a secret oil agreement with the NATO countries. As for the UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s statement that NATO is going to stay in Libya as long as needed, that is a pure imperialism and the Libyan people will not tolerate this and will fight the aggressors.

'IRAN ORGANISES QURAN RECITING COMPETITION IN DAR'

To honour the holy month of Ramadhan, in which the Holy Quran was revealed, The Cultural Centre of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran yesterday, organised a Quran reciting competition. A total of 25 pupils participated, and nine of them emerged as overall winners; three in the art of reciting, another three in the art of memorisation and three in the art of qirat. One of them emerged as the best and was awarded a ticket to go to perform pilgrimage this year in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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'IRAN INVITES JOURNALISTS TO IFTAR'

THE Cultural Centre of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on Tuesday 23rd August, 2011 hosted an 'Iftar' party to journalists based in Dar es Salaam who are constatly play a leading role in highliting various issues of that county.
See photos here below:

LIBYA AND WESTERN IMPERIALISTS

THE so called "War on Terror" and battle against "Oppressive Regimes" continues unabated, the only question is "who's next" on the list? The vast majority of the media...terrified to report anything less than pure NATO propaganda.
It has always been about the oil and natural resources, the Bush/Blair years helped pave the way forward for the so called "super powers" to exploit nations for their wealth (except that time they actually called it war), a simple "smash and grab" under the flimsy pretence of "limited Allied involvement" is what we have now.
This has economic hit man written all over it.
And who leads the charge to claim Libya's wealth while the country is still in a state of shock? Step forward that great beacon of light...Italy, closely followed by other beacons...Britain...France...and oh, hang on...I almost forgot...the ace in the hole...the place of freedom and liberty itself... how could I have forgotten...America, wow I feel so much safer knowing these people are in charge on the world, don't you?
I mean, these people actually care about democracy and all that good stuff we read about every day in the news and reported by the media, it's not about material wealth, no this is about freedom people, so get with the program, it's time to shape up, or shut up.
In generations to come, when humanity has actually woken up to see what our governments have created in the name of "peace and democracy", they (our children) will hang their heads in shame at what this century of "peace" has accomplished.
Remember, the victors write history, not the losers, and it's always the people on the ground that are the losers, just ask the thousands of Libyan's that have lost family members to the Allied bombing campaign.
NATO, the UN and America, are nothing more than a combined group of world economic thieves.
Of course it will be worse. That's how it always goes, it gets worse. Take down the dictator to install another one just to make sure you can come back anytime and bring them peace again not sure.
And of course every country has material interests, so if Russia started a war against anyone I'd be reading US-news to know what's probably going on.
If they would at least combine their agenda with the will to install an independent regime that won't make the people suffer more after taking down the old one I could live with that.
But, that's not going to happen and you don't even have to be that smart to know.
And if it's going to happen this time for the first ever then yes "God bless NATO" for doing right!
I'm sorry, but it is simply laughable. Libya’s oil wealth was spent on the welfare of the people, but the media and government propagandists simply deny this fact.
Free education, subsidized housing and commodities, cheap fuel, free medical care, massive infrastructure projects for water supply and agriculture, the list goes on, which you cannot find in any western countries, even in the USA; where poverty looms high among the lower class cadres of the population.
Whatever the faults of the Qaddafi governmental system, a lack of spending on the peoples welfare was simply not one of them.
Qaddafi did not live in golden palaces like the Saudi royals, or the Kuwaiti/Qatari/UAE/Bahraini monarchs; that speaks volumes for the man’s ideals.

ADOLF HITLER, THE CONQUERER OF EUROPE

THE Second World War changed the landscape of human life on Earth.
In January of 1933, the ailing German leader Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany.
Paul von Hindenburg passed various legislative acts that suspended German civil liberties and gave Hitler administrative control over the entire country.
In 1933, the era of Nazi Germany began and Hitler laid out plans for world conquest.
Adolf Hitler was a master of deception and media propaganda.
In 1934, he began to display the message “One people, One Germany, One Führer.” Hitler made sure to trick foreign powers into thinking that Germany was a safe place to live.
In fact, Adolf Hitler was named the U.S. Time Magazine person of the year in 1938.
During this time in German history, Adolf Hitler took control over the youth.
He passed laws that forced German teachers to use Nazi propaganda.
German children were taught to despise Jewish people and to show all loyalty to the Third Reich.
He organized a program called Hitler’s Youth, which recruited all kids over the age of nine years.
Between the years 1936-1938, over 8 million German children took part in Hitler’s Youth oath of allegiance.
In 1935, Hitler passed the first laws against the Jewish population.
He ordered that all Jewish people were no longer German citizens.
Marriage and sexual intercourse between Germans and Jews was outlawed.
At this time, Hitler pushed thousands of white Arian German women into pregnancy. He demanded that teenage girls attend Nuremberg rally camps, where they had sexual intercourse with boys and became pregnant.
In 1936, nine hundred girls came home from the Nuremberg rally pregnant. Unwed mothers were knows as the Führer’s brides.
In 1938, Hitler annexed Austria under Nazi rule.
This was accomplished because Mussolini’s Fascist Italy made an alliance with the Third Reich and no longer was protecting Austria.
Many people welcomed Hitler into Austria, but within days of the move, 70,000 Austrians were sent to concentration camps.
During the Second World War German armies occupied most of Europe.
Nazi forces defeated France, took Norway, invaded Yugoslavia and Greece and occupied much of the European portion of the Soviet Union.
Germany also forged alliances with Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and, later, Finland, and collaborated with individuals in several other nations.
Hitler’s decision to launch Operation Barbarossa and attack the Soviet Union turned the tide of war.
Had Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin remained in alliance how would your life be different today?
Would the United States nuclear technology have been used in the European Theatre of World War II?
How much influence could one man, Adolf Hitler, really have on the rise of the Third Reich in Germany?
All of these questions should be considered when examining your ancestry and this dark time in human history.

DOME OF THE ROCK (Masjid Quba), Jerusalem

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The Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem is the oldest extant Islamic monument. The rock over which the shrine was built is sacred to both Muslims and Jews.
The Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam, is traditionally believed to have ascended into heaven from the site.
In Jewish tradition, it is here that Abraham, the progenitor and first patriarch of the Hebrew people, is said to have prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac.
The Dome and Al-Aqṣā Mosque are both located on the Temple Mount, the site of Solomon’s Temple and its successors.

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Al-Kaaba in Mecca Saudi Arabia where millions of Muslims go for pilgrimage (hajj)

Thailand kuunga mkono taifa la Palestina

Thailand's foreign minister Mr Kasit Piryoma
Thailand imesema itaunga mkono kuundwa kwa taifa la Palestina kura itakapopigwa kwenye Baraza Kuu la Umoja mwezi Septemba mwaka huu.
Hayo yamesemwa na Bwana Nabil Shaath, mjumbe wa Kamati Kuu ya Utendaji ya Chama cha Fatah.
Shaath alifanya mazungumzo na waziri wa mambo ya kigeni wa Thailand Kasit Piryoma.
Palestina ina mpango wa kutaka Umoja wa Mataifa kuitambua Palestina kama mwanachama aliye nchi huru ikiwa na mipaka yake kama ilivyokuwa mwaka 1967.
Thailand imekubali kupiga kura kuiunga mkono kupata uanachama wa Umoja wa Mataifa.
Kiongozi huyo wa Fatah yuko safarini nchi za nje kutaka kuungwa mkono kwa taifa la Palestina kwenye chombo hiki muhimu cha kimataifa.

Colonel Roland Lavoie, NATO's military spokesman of operations in Libya, talks to reporters during a media briefing at NATO's Southern Europe Headquarters in Naples August 23, 2011.
NATO does not know where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is and the military alliance does not view him as a target, which of course is a lie.
Lavoie and his bosses at NATO, in fact want to kill Colonel Qddafi so that they could usurp oil resources in Libya, the Muslim country which has not bowed to western pressures.

'Western countries, led by the USA are fighting for Libya’s oil fields'

Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, a strong man in Africa who never bowed to the pressure of Western infidels'
MONTHS of chaos await Libya if the NATO-led operation in the country topples Muammar Qaddafi, according to political analysts, but regime change would suit Western oil interests.
“They are eventually going to topple Qaddafi," one political analyst in Tanzania. He added: “I think what Libya is going to face after that is a period of prolonged chaos. Nobody knows the outcome for sure.”
“What emerges from that, I think it suits some of the Western oil interests, especially the British and the French, who were fighting like piranhas over grabbing the most juicy oil fields for their own companies,” said one commentator from the University of Dar es Salaam.
NATO’s actions in Libya have created a very virulent precedent.
“What we have seen going on in Libya for some months now is a major effort by the US and NATO forces to pour at least $1 billion by various estimates into the so-called Transitional National Council,” he said.
It’s rival tribal clan warfare that is going on in Libya. This is not a democracy movement at all by any stretch of the imagination.
It is simply an insurgency being supported covertly by US-financed armed shipments to the rebels – in order, “to simply carve up the oil fields and get them into Western hands, rather than in Libyan state hands, which Gaddafi held firmly on to.”

NATO na unyama wake huko Libya

Dead civilians in Zliten Hospital.

NATO ATTACK ON LIBYA: A crusade against Muslims

NATO's attack on Libya has no justification whatsoever and this clearly shows how the west, led by the USA are bent on a crusade against Muslims.
They'd attacked Iraq, killed thousands of innocent civilians and destroyed its economy which was booming during Saddam Husein's regime; they attacked Afghanistan and still are there fighting for whom; now Libya, one of the prosperous country in the African continent.
So, if you are peace loving people, why don't you attack Israel, for killing innocent civilians in Palestine's territories?

JE, NI KWELI TRIPOLI NCHINI LIBYA IMETEKWA NA WAASI?

People celebrate the capture in Tripoli of Moammar Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, early Monday, Aug. 22, 2011.
Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli in a lightning advance Sunday that met little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi's defenders melted away and his 40-year rule appeared to rapidly crumble.
The euphoric fighters celebrated with residents of the capital in the city's main square, the symbolic heart of the regime.

MTOTO ATUPWA CHOONI TABORA

KATIKA hali isiyokuwa ya kawaida huko Tabora, binti mmoja ambaye bado hajafahamika jina, anasakwa na jeshi la polisi kwa kutupa chooni kitoto kichanga cha siku kati ya kumi na moja hivi na siku ishirini.
Kitoto hicho kiliopolewa kikiwa hai huku kikiwa kimetapakaa kinyesi mwili mzima baada ya kukaa ndani ya lindi la kinyesi (chooni) kwa zaidi ya saa ma3!
Tukio hili la kusikitisha limetokea juzi Jumatano Mtaa wa 50, maeneo ya gongoni kati kati ya mji wa Tabora.

ISRAELI LAUNCHES AIR-STRIKES ON GAZA

RAFAH, GAZA - AUGUST 18: Palestinians stand in the morgue next to the bodies of six militants killed in an Israeli airstrike, at Al Najar hospital on August 18, 2011 in Rafah, Gaza.
The airstrike came hours after attacks by militants killing seven Israelis near Eilat, Southern Israel.
The targeted air strike killed six people, including PRC secretary-general Kamal al-Neyrab.

EILAT, Israel — Gunmen who crossed from the Egyptian desert launched a series of attacks Thursday in southern Israel, killing eight people and threatening to destabilize a volatile border region that includes the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and the increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula.
Israel blamed an armed Palestinian group from neighboring Gaza. Israeli forces killed five of the gunmen along the border with Egypt, the military said, and later launched an air strike inside Gaza that killed five other militants from the same group as well as a child.
Three blasts shook Gaza early Friday, including one that killed a 13-year-old boy, according to a Gaza hospital official.
But the Israeli military did not immediately confirm reports of three more air strikes targeting a security compound, a home and the area of the smuggling tunnels crisscrossing the Gaza-Egypt border.
The Israeli military said three of the men killed in Gaza had been involved in planning the attack.
Gunfire continued on both sides of the border late into the evening. After nightfall, Israel's "Iron Dome" anti-missile system intercepted a rocket fired by Gaza militants at the city of Ashkelon, the military said.

MZEE JOB LUSINDE: Serikali ya awamu ya nne imevuruga uchumi wa Tanzania

Balozi Job Lusinde, alikuwa waziri wa kwanza kabisa katika Baraza la Mawaziri wa serikali ya kwanza ya Tanganyika baada ya uhuru mwaka 1961 (kulia) akiwa na aliyekuwa mkuu wa mkoa wa Morogoro Bwana Stphen Masishanga (kushoto)

MZEE wa siku nyingi na aliyekuwa waziri wa kwanza katika Baraza la Mawaziri la serikali ya kwanza ya Jamhuri ya Tanganyika ikiongozwa na hayati Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere Balozi Job Lusinde amesema kuwa serikali ya awamu ya nne ikiongozwa na Rais Jakaya Kikwete imeshindwa kusimamia rasilimali za nchi na hivyo kuididimiza nchi hii katika lindi la umaskini.
Aliyasema hayo jana katika mahojiano maalumu na mwandishi wa TBC Joseph Bura katika kuadhimisha miaka 50 ya uhuru wa Tanganyika (sasa TANZANIA).
Aliongeza kusema kuwa hali za wananchi zimedidimia kiuchumi, mashirika mengi, akayataja Shirika la Reli Tanzania, Shirika la Ndege Tanzania na Shirika la Bandari Tanzania kuwa yamefilisika na kwamba wananchi wana taabika kukosa usafiri wa uhakika.
"Ingawa tumefanya vizuri katika sekta zingine za miundombinu hasa barabara, elimu nk, bado huduma za afya ni mbaya sana na zinahitaji kuboreshwa zaidi," alisema.
Aliongeza kusema kuwa ikiwa huduma za reli zitaimarika na barabara ya Iringa hadi Arusha, basi Dodoma itakuwa imefunguka na itapata unafuu mkubwa wa kibiasharana na kufikika kwa urahisi zaidi.
Akaishauri serikali hii kuacha kuwalinda mafisadi na badala yake ikomeshe rushwa ili jamii iwe na imani nayo.

DAWA YA BABU LOLIONDO NI FEKI: Wananchi kumburuza mahakamani kwa utapeli

WAGONJWA wa Virusi Vya Ukimwi walio wahi kunywa kikombe cha Mchungaji Ambilikile Mwasapile (pichani juu) mwaka huu katika Kijiji cha Samunge, huko Loliondo mkoani Arusha hatimaye wameamua kumburuza mahakamani kiongozi huyo kwa madai kwamba dawa yake ni feki, haitibu kabisa na wamedanyanywa bure.
Wakizungumza na mwandishi wa habari hizi kwa nyakati tofauti wiki iliyopita kwa sharti la kutoandikwa majina yao, watu hao ambao wako katika Muungano wa Vyama vya Watu Wanaoishi na Virusi vya Ukimwi Tanzania (TANOPHA) walisema kwamba wao ni kati ya waathirika waliopelekwa na chama chao Samunge kupata tiba lakini cha ajabu ni kwamba tangu wanywe dawa hiyo wamekuwa wakipimwa hospitalini na kuonekana kuwa bado wana virusi vya ugonjwa huo.
Waliendelea kusema kwamba kila wakienda kupima ili waone kama wamepona, wamekuwa wakielezwa na daktari kwamba hakuna mabadiliko na kikombe hakijawasaidia lolote lile, hivyo wameona ni udanganyifu na utapeli mkubwa hivyo wameamua kumfikisha mahakamani wakati wowote.
“Hatuwezi kupoteza muda na fedha zetu kwa kwenda kunywa dawa ambayo haitibu, hii ni kuwarubuni wananchi, wengi wameuza mali zao, wengine kutumia akiba ya fedha walizokuwanazo kwenda Loliondo wakijua kwamba wangepona lakini cha kushangaza ni kwamba baadhi yetu wanakufa.
“Wengine wako mahututi baada ya kupewa kikombe, tulikuwa na matumaini ya kupona hadi tuliacha kutumia vidonge vya kurefucha maisha vya ARV, hatuna mengi zaidi ila tunaomba umtafute mwenyekiti wetu akueleza zaidi,” alisema mmoja wa wanachama hao.
NIA YA MWENYEKITI WA TANOPHA
Mwenyekiti wa TANOPHA, Julius Kaaya alipotafutwa kwa njia ya simu juzi ili kueleza madai hayo ya wanachama wake, alisema kwamba ni kweli walipelekwa watu 14 kwenda kunywa dawa Loliondo lakini hakuna hata mmoja aliyepona kwani kila wanapopimwa hospitalini wanaonekana bado wana virusi.
“Nakumbuka kwamba kipindi tunaenda huko Loliondo Machi, 19 mwaka huu tulifanya mkutano na waandishi wa habari, tulifika Samunge Machi 22, ambapo Machi 24 walikunywa dawa hiyo kila mmoja akiwa na matumaini ya kupona, baada ya siku 20 tangu wanywe dawa hiyo walienda hospitali kuangalia kama wamepona, daktari aliwaambia hakuna hata mmoja aliyepona, “ alisema Kaaya.
Aidha, aliendelea kusema kwamba wanachama hao hawakukata tamaa , baada ya siku 90 walirudi tena hospitalini kuangalia kama kuna hauweni, daktari aliwapima na kuwaambia hakuna mabadiliko hata kwa mtu mmoja.
Aliendelea kusema kwamba wanachama hao baada ya kuelezwa hivyo walikata tamaa na kuamua kuendelea kutumia ARV.
“Wengi ambao tunajua kwamba wana HIV na walikunywa kikombe wanapukutika na hata juzi tulihudhuria mazishi ya mmoja wapo, hii dawa haitibu kwani kuna wagonjwa wa kisukari ambao waliinywa hawajapona .
“TANOPHA ina vyama 230 vilivyosajiliwa na mimi ndiye mwenyekiti wao, nimekuwa nikipokea taarifa za baadhi ya wanachama wetu waliokwenda Samunge ambao waliacha kutumia ARV wakijua kwamba wamepona, wengi wamefariki.
“Babu wa Loliondo amedanganywa na shetani na siyo kwamba alielezwa na Mungu, nashangaa viongozi wa dini wanaompigia debe wakati wao siyo wataalamu wa kujua kama dawa hiyo inaponya au la, ni ushabiki wa kidini usiokuwa na maana, lengo lao ni kuchuma fedha kwa wagonjwa.
Kwa nini wasiwaachie wataalamu kushughulikia suala hilo?
“Wanasiasa waliokunywa dawa hiyo na kupigwa picha na vyombo vya habari walihamasisha wananchi kwenda huko kunywa dawa, hawakupaswa kufanya hivyo, wao kama viongozi wangesubiri kwanza wapate matokeo ya utafiti wa Wizara ya Afya.
“Ni kiongozi gani aliyejitokeza na kuonyesha cheti chake hadharani mbele ya vyombo vya habari kwamba amepona, wanaona aibu, ile siyo dawa ni maji tu.
“Wizara ya Afya nao wameingiliwa na wanasiasa ambao wamekuwa wakidai kwamba inatibu wakati Waziri wa Afya kwa upande wake anasema kwamba dawa ya Ukimwi bado haijapatikana duniani.
“Wizara inasema bado wanaendelea kuifanyia uchunguzi hiyo dawa ya Masapile,mpaka lini? Watutajie wangapi walikunywa maana mpaka sasa hakuna idadi kamili, kwa kweli wengi wamefariki ,wengine wako hoi, nawashauri wasiache kutumia ARV.
“Wanaoishi na virusi wasione aibu wajiamini watumie ARV, watambue kwamba ni tatizo limeshawapata na wakifanya hivyo bila kuwa na hofu wanaweza kuishi miaka mingi,” alisema Kaaya.
Alipoelezwa kuwa kuna watu waliokunywa kikombe wanataka kumfikisha mahakamani Mchungaji Mwasapile, Kaaya alisema hata yeye yupo tayari endapo atampata mtu wa kumsaidia kufungua kesi.
“Mwasapile ameharibu taifa, ingekuwa kesi inafunguliwa bure kwa kweli ningeshafanya hivyo na kama wanachama wangu wameamua kumfikisha kortini, nawaunga mkono,” alisema Kaaya.
MCHUNGAJI MTIKILA
Naye Mchungaji wa Kanisa la Full Salvation, Christopher Mtikila, kwa upande wake amesema kwamba dawa hiyo haitibu na analishughulikia suala hilo ili kumfikisha Mchungaji huyo mahakamani pamoja na mawaziri, wabunge na viongozi wa juu waliokunywa kikombe.
“Mawaziri hao wamewahamasisha wananchi kwenda Loliondo kunywa dawa, lazima tuwashitaki pamoja na viongozi wa dini waliopiga debe,” alisema Mtikila. Viongozi wa dini waliohamasisha ni Askofu Thomas Laizer na Martine Shayo.
Baadhi ya Mawaziri waliopata kikombe ni Waziri wa Nchi Ofisi ya Rais (Sera na Uratibu wa Bunge), William Lukuvi, Waziri wa Nchi Ofisi ya Rais (Uhusiano na Uratibu), Steven Wassira, Waziri wa Ujenzi, John Magufuli.Wabunge ni Augustine Mrema, Edward Lowassa na wakuu wa mikoa ni Yohana Balele na Abbas Kandoro.
MAJIBU YA BABU KWA WASIOPONA
Mwandishi wetu wa Arusha wiki iliyopita alizungumza na msaidizi wa Mchungaji Masapile kwa njia ya simu, Paulina Lucas na kuulizwa kuhusu malalamiko hayo akasema wasiopona ni wale ambao hawana imani.
“Kama hawajapona siyo makosa yetu. Tuliwaambia kabla kuwa katika tiba hii kigezo cha kwanza ni kuwa na imani na hapa tuna uthibitisho wa kutosha wa watu walioponywa na maajabu ya dawa hii wakiwemo wagonjwa wenye Ukimwi,” alisema Paulina.
Alidai kuwa kuna baadhi ya watu wanaoishi na Virusi Vya Ukimwi si wakweli kwani kuna uwezekano kuwa wamepona lakini wanashindwa kuweka wazi kwa malengo ya kukosa fedha wanazopewa na wafadhili.

SHEIKH TWALIB AHMED ALAANI WAISLAMU KUTUMIA CHAWI MISIKITINI

Sheikh Twalib Ahmed, mwanzo kulia, akiwa na masheikh wenzake jijini Dar es Salaam hivi karibuni

IMAMU Mkuu wa Msikiti wa Al-Maamur uliopo Upanga jijini Dar es Salaam Sheikh Twalibu Ahmed amekemea vikali tabia ya baadhi ya waumini wa Kiislamu kujihusisha na vitendo vya ushirikina, uchawi na ndumba wawapo misikitini kwani vitendo hivyo vinamchukiza sana Mwenyezi Mungu.
Amesema ushirikina misikitini ni laana na yeyote anayejihusisha na tabia hiyo ajue kuwa anatenda madhambi na madhara yake ni makubwa mno hapa duniani na kesho akhera.
Sheikh Twalibu alikuwa akitoa nasaha zake kwa waumini wa dini hiyo jana jijini Dar es Salaam mara tu baada ya swala ya adhuhuri kufuatia kitendo cha muumini mmoja ambaye hakujulikana kuitupa hirizi yake msikitini humo kwa nia ya kuwaroga viongozi wa Msikiti huo ili wafe.
Hirizi hiyo iliokotwa na mfanya usafi wa msikiti huo na kuikabidhi kwa Sheikh Twalibu kwa hatua muafaka kwani aliogopa hata kuiguza kwa kuhofia asije akadhurika.
“Jamaani waislamu tunakwenda wapi ?” alihoji Sheikh Twalibu na kuongeza: “Msikiti ni nyumba safi, tukufu na ni mahali patakatifu pa kuabudia na kumcha Mwenyezi Mungu peke yake na vitendo vya ushirikina namna hii havina nafasi katika Uislamu.”
Alionya kuwa mwenye kujihusisha na uchawi kwa nia ya kumroga Imamu au mtu mwingine hapo Msikitini ni haramu na mtu huyo anajisumbua tu, kwani harogeki namna hiyo.
Aliongeza kusema kuwa vitendo mfano huo ni vingi msikitini hapo na kwa kweli vinaudhi na kuchukiza hata kuvisema.
Alisema kwa muda mrefu amekuwa akiletewa mashtaka juu ya vitendo vya ushirikina na mara zote amekuwa akivipuuza kwa kuwa ni vya aibu kwa mtu anayejiita mwislamu safi.
Alisema tukio la jana ni la aibu mno na ameamua kulisemea ili muimini aliyefanya kitendo hicho kwa kutumwa na mtu aviache kwani madhara ya kitendo hicho yatamrudia mwenyewe au yule aliyemtuma.
“Sielewi lengo la mtu kutupa hirizi msikitini, anataka mimi Imamu nife au anataka niondolewe msikitini achukue yeye uimamu au nini hasa?” Alihoji Sheikh Twalibu kwa ghadhabu.
Aliendelea kusema kuwa uimamu si lele mama, unataka elimu ya dini, tena kwa kusoma na si vinginevyo.
Alisema iwapo mtu ana dukuduku lake, aende kwake au kwa kamati ya msikiti akatoe dukuduku lake na si kwa njia ya mkato ya kutaka kumroga mtu kwa chuki zake tu.
Sheikh Twalibu aliwataka waislamu kudumisha upendo na umoja miongoni mwao ili uislamu uheshimiwe na wala si kwa kurogana kwa ndumba na mahirizi ambayo hayana maana yeyote katika jamii yetu.

Born Ahmed Hussein Deedat
July 1, 1918(1918-07-01)
Surat, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died August 8, 2005(2005-08-08) (aged 87)
Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Resting place Verulam cemetery
Other names Sheikh Ahmed Deedat
Ethnicity Indian
Occupation Missionary, orator, public speaker, writer


Ahmed Hussein Deedat (Urdu: احمد حسين ديدات; July 1, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was a Muslim apologist, writer and public speaker of Indian South African descent.
He was best known for his numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as pioneering video lectures, most of which centered around Islam, Christianity and the Bible.
He also established the IPCI, an international Islamic missionary organization, and wrote several booklets on Islam and Christianity which were widely distributed by the organization.
He was awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize in 1986 for his 50 years of missionary work.
One focus of his work was providing Muslims with theological tools for defending themselves against active proselytizing by Christian missionaries.
He used English to get his message across to Muslims and non-Muslims in the western world.

Kutoka kushoto ni: Raisi wa Zanzibar Abeid A. Karume, mgeni wao Mfalme Haile Selasie wa Ethiopia na Rais Julius K. Nyerere wa Tanganyika

Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar 26th April, 1964. Hapa Rais Wa Tanganyika akichanganya mchanga wa nchi mbili hizi katika Ikulu, Dar es Salaa.Muungano ndio chimbuko la mgogoro ambao tunaendelea nao hadi leo hii.