Malumbano, utata wa kanuni vilivyoleta kizaazaa Bunge la Katiba

Kipanya

Nesi Kihiyo!

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Bunge maalumu la katiba

Kura ya siri yazua mjadala mkali - Bunge la Katiba

Mjumbe wa Bunge la Katiba Mhe Maria Sarungi akichangia katika mjadala wa kanuni za bunge hilo

Oslo, Norway

Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) - Anti-drugs police have arrested a man believed to be the country’s most wanted drug kingpin. Ali Khatibu Haji, popularly known as Shikuba

Dar es Salaam. Anti-drugs police have arrested a man believed to be the country’s most wanted drug kingpin. Ali Khatibu Haji, popularly known as Shikuba, was arrested at Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) last Sunday after two years of an intensive manhunt. The 44-year-old is considered one of the most powerful and influential drug barons in Tanzania. He is said to be the leader of a cartel operating principally in East Africa but with a reach as far as China, Brazil, Canada, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom.

He was charged last week with trafficking in a record 210 kilograms of heroin worth around Sh10 billion. Police seized the drugs in Lindi in January 2012 and have linked him with the haul. Shikuba reportedly fled to South Africa the same day the drugs were seized and has since been in hiding.

It is not clear how he sneaked into the country and managed to get a new passport but on February 28, the manhunt paid off. Investigators had been on his trail in Dar es Salaam before cornering him at the airport as he prepared to leave the country.

He had been at the airport for an hour before officers from the anti-drugs task force descended on him and arrested him at around 1 p.m. as he was about to board a South African Airways flight. The head of the Anti-Drugs Unit (ADU), Mr Godfrey Nzowa, told The Citizen on Sunday: “It’s true that we got him. His arrest is a major milestone in our efforts to nab the big fish. He is among the suspected powerful and influential traffickers.”

Entries in his passport indicate that Shikuba had in the past two years frequented Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Japan and Brazil. The passport was issued in Zanzibar in June last year.

Shikuba has also been charged with the murder in 2007 of a young Tanzanian who died in China after reportedly swallowing drugs. According to police reports, Shikuba used the victim as a courier. He was acquitted, though, after the Director of Public Prosecution dropped the charges for lack of sufficient evidence.

Two years later, officers from ADU arrested Shikuba and asked the Ilala district court to place him under the watch of the police and courts because they had reliable information that he was a notorious drug dealer operating in and outside the country. The court ordered him to report to ADU once a month for a year. One of the security officers who took part in the arrest told The Citizen on Sunday that the suspect was “big-headed” upon his arrest. He reportedly refused to cooperate with the police and told them he would only speak in court.

After his arrest, Shikuba was driven to Central Police Station under tight security. He was taken to Lindi the following morning and charged with trafficking in drugs.

The Citizen on Sunday has reliably learnt that authorities in US and UK are also on his trail over similar accusations. Shikuba was among 12 people appearing on the list of suspected notorious drug dealers released by a Tanzanian prisoner in Hong Kong last year. He is also among 122 suspected drug dealers who were arrested between 2007 and 2008 and put under court and police supervision.

Anti-drugs officials in Tanzania have for the past year intensified the war against drug trafficking and registered significant success at transit points such as airports. Dozens have been arrested in the past year at JNIA and Kilimanjaro International Airport. Early last month, authorities impounded 201 kilograms of heroin worth $5.5 million (Sh9 billion) hidden in an Iranian ship. The development came just a few weeks after the Canadian military ship Toronto impounded 265 bags of heroin weighing more than 280kgs aboard a vessel while patrolling the Indian Ocean.

Source: The Citizen (Tanzania)

Due to unforeseen circumstances Kansiime Anne has had to cancel plans to attend/host the International Women's Day event in Oslo, Norway slated for March 8, 2014.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Due to unforeseen circumstances Kansiime Anne has hadto cancel plans to attend/host the International Women's Day event in Oslo, Norway slated for March 8, 2014. 

Kansiime Anne / Entertainer willarrive in the United Kingdom next week for the March 10th Commonwealth Day Reception in the presence of Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, and attend to private engagements including scheduled interviews.

Kansiime Ann will attend and looks forward to meeting herNinjaz at the 'after meeting the Queen welcome' parties in Manchester

 COMEDIAN ANN KANSIIME LIVE INMANCHESTER!

 on March 15th and in London at Club Laface with Mc Moseh,Kuklee Ali on March 16, 2014

Johnson Mujungu

Personal Manager for Anne Kansiime.

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Nigeria bloodshed: Who are Boko Haram?

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/world/africa/nigeria-violence

Also: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/boko-haram/ 

Kiwango cha pato la mwaka kwa anayetaka kumleta mwenza wake kuja kuishi naye hapa Norway (family reunion/ familiegjenforening) kimeongezwa hadi kroner laki tatu (300 000)

Serikali ya wahafidhina ya vyama vya the Conservative (Høyre) na the Progress Party (fremskrittspartiet), vimekubaliana wiki hii kuongeza kiwango cha pato la mwaka kwa anayetaka kumleta mwenza wake kuja kuishi naye hapa Norway (family reunion/ familiegjenforening) kimeongezwa hadi kroner laki tatu (300 000).

Bofya na soma zaidi kwa Kinorwejiani: Familiegjenforeningsatsen økes til ca.300,000 kr.

Oslo (Norway): Corruption scandal at Oslo Police District - The corruption accused police leader Eirik Jensen has had contact with a 47 year old investor from Bærum in a large hash case

Eirik Jensen - Top police officer who is accused of corruption.

The corruption accused police leader Eirik Jensen has had contact with a 47 year old investor from Bærum in a large hash case; it confirms the 47-year-old defender.

- I can confirm that there has been contact between my client and Jensen, but can not go into what the contact consisted of says the 47-year-old defender Benedict the Vibe to the newspaper Dagbladet.

In was the hash case in Bærum, which should have triggered the suspicions against Jensen, the 47-year-old admitted possession of between 80 and 90 kilos. This man, who has already served several weeks in custody, according to the newspaper VG has this man been Jensens informant for years. Several independent sources confirm this, according to the newspaper.

However towards Dagbladet rejects Vibe that the 47-year-old should have been Jensen's informant. Vibe also states that he is highly critical of the contact the police have had with criminals. And according to VG, has the man explained that he has given money to Jensen for several years.

Source: NTB scanpix/Norway Today 

Baadhi ya wananchi wa mji wa Dodoma, wametoa masikitiko yao kwa jinsi Bunge Maalum la Katiba linavyotumia muda wake vibaya, huku wajumbe wakijidhihirisha wamekwenda kutafuta fedha na siyo kutunga katiba ya nchi.

Kipanya mambo.....

Oslo, Norway

"It’s time for Africa to salute liberator Nyerere" - President Robert Mugabe

President Mugabe has called on fellow African leaders to honour Tanzania’s founding President, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, saying it was embarrassing that such a revered figure is not getting the recognition he deserves for the immense contribution he made to the liberation of many African states. Speaking at a birthday party hosted for him by staff of his office at State House yesterday, the President said African leaders should do more to honour Dr Nyerere, who supported liberation movements by making his country a sanctuary for freedom fighters....

Read more: Sunday Mail of Zimbabwe http://www.sundaymail.co.zw

Lazimwa wachorwe tu!

na Nathan Mpangala

Tanzania, a fix in Paradise - Reporters

Eastern Africa has become a hub for international drug trafficking, particularly for heroin, and heroin use has skyrocketed in Zanzibar. But the Indian Ocean island, blessed with sandy beaches, turquoise water and a rich cultural heritage, is a prime tourist destination. Authorities have decided to tackle the drug problem.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni President of the Republic of Uganda Responding to H.E. Obama’s statement on Homosexuality

Statement 

by

H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

President of the Republic of Uganda

Responding to H.E. Obama’s statement on Homosexuality

18th February 2014

I have seen the statement H.E President Obama of the USA made in reaction to my statement that I was going to sign the anti-homosexual Bill, which I made at Kyankwanzi.   Before I react to H.E. Obama’s statement, let me, again, put on record my views on the issue of homo-sexuals (ebitiingwa, bisiyaga in some of our dialects).  Right from the beginning of this debate, my views were as follows:

1. I agreed with the MPs and almost all Ugandans that promotion of homosexuality in Uganda must be criminalized or rather should continue to be criminalized because the British had already done that;

2. those who agreed to become homosexuals for mercenary reasons (prostitutes) should be harshly punished as should those who paid them to be homosexual prostitutes; and

3. exhibitionism of homosexual behavior must be punished because, in this part of the World, it is forbidden to publicly exhibit any sexual conduct (kissing, etc) even for heterosexuals; if I kissed my wife of 41 years in public, I would lose elections in Uganda.

The only point I disagreed on with some of the Members of Parliament (MPs) and other Ugandans was on the persons I thought were born homosexual.  

According to the casual observations, there are rare deviations in nature from the normal.  You witness cases like albinos (nyamagoye), barren women or men (enguumba), epa (breastless women) etc.  

I, therefore, thought that similarly there were people that were born with the disorientation of being attracted to the same sex.  That is why I thought that that it was wrong to punish somebody on account of being born abnormal.  That is why I refused to sign the Bill and, instead, referred it to our Party (the NRM) to debate it again.  

In the meantime, I sought for scientific opinions on this matter.  I am grateful to Ms. Kerry Kennedy of the USA who sent me opinions by scientists from the USA saying that there could be some indications that homosexuality could be congenital.  In our conference, I put these opinions to our scientists from the Department of Genetics, the School of Medicine and the Ministry of Health.  

Their unanimous conclusion was that homosexuality, contrary to my earlier thinking, was behavioural and not genetic.  It was learnt and could be unlearnt.  I told them to put their signatures to that conclusion which they did.  That is why I declared my intention to sign the Bill, which I will do.  

I have now received their signed document, which says there is no single gene that has been traced to cause homosexuality.  What I want them to clarify is whether a combination of genes can cause anybody to be homosexual.  Then my task will be finished and I will sign the Bill.

After my statement to that effect which was quoted widely around the World, I got reactions from some friends from outside Africa.  Statements like: “it is a matter of choice” or “whom they love” which President Obama repeated in his statement would be most furiously rejected by almost the entirety of our people.  

It cannot be a matter of choice for a man to behave like a woman or vice-versa.  The argument I had pushed was that there could be people who are born like that or “who they are”, according to President Obama’s statement.  

I, therefore, encourage the US government to help us by working with our Scientists to study whether, indeed, there are people who are born homosexual.  When that is proved, we can review this legislation.  

I would be among those who will spearhead that effort.  That is why I had refused to sign the Bill until my premise was knocked down by the position of our Scientists.

I would like to discourage the USA government from taking the line that passing this law will “complicate our valued relationship” with the USA as President Obama said.  Countries and Societies should relate with each other on the basis of mutual respect and independence in decision making.

“Valued relationship” cannot be sustainably maintained by one Society being subservient to another society.  There are a myriad acts the societies in the West do that we frown on or even detest.  We, however, never comment on those acts or make them preconditions for working with the West.  

Africans do not seek to impose their views on anybody.  We do not want anybody to impose their views on us.  This very debate was provoked by Western groups who come to our schools and try to recruit children into homosexuality.   It is better to limit the damage rather than exacerbate it.

I thank everybody.

Yoweri K. Museveni Gen. (Rtd)

P R E S I D E N T

18th February 2014.

Bunge la katiba na Kipanya

Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali, Jaji Frederick Werema amewataka wajumbe wa bunge maalum la katiba kutambua kuwa Sheria ya Mabadiliko ya Katiba inawazuia wao kuunda mfumo wa serikali moja.

Majirani wanaweza, sisi tunashindwa nini?

Wabunge wa Bunge la Katiba ni aibu tupu!

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Mzimu wa posho walitesa Bunge la Katiba

Siku mbili baada ya kuanza kwa Bunge hilo, baadhi ya wajumbe wametaka waongewe posho kwa maelezo kuwa kiasi wanachopewa sasa cha Sh300,000 kwa siku hakiwatoshi kutokana na kupanda kwa gharama za maisha Dodoma.

Wajumbe hao walitoa kauli hiyo jana katika kikao cha kuwasilisha na kujadili rasimu ya kanuni za Bunge hilo ambacho kilianza saa nne asubuhi.Kwa kiasi kikubwa, kikao hicho ambacho awali waandishi wa habari walizuiwa kuingia, kilitawaliwa na hoja ya kuongezwa kwa posho za wajumbe na kuungwa mkono na wajumbe wengi bila kufuata utaratibu maalumu uliokuwa ukisisitizwa na Mwenyekiti wa Muda wa Bunge la Katiba, Pandu Ameir Kificho.

“Wajumbe wengi walikuwa wakisimama na kutaka kuzungumza bila kufuata utaratibu maalumu. Jambo hilo liligeuza ukumbi wa Bunge kuwa kama soko,” kilisema chanzo chetu. Baadhi ya wajumbe waliopata nafasi ya kuzungumzia nyongeza ya posho hizo ni Mbunge wa Kishapu (CCM), Suleiman Nchambi na Mbunge wa Sumve (CCM), Richard Ndassa.

Katika ufafanuzi wake kwa waandishi wa habari, baada ya kikao hicho kuahirishwa kwa muda, Ndassa alisema: “Bunge ndiyo linalotengeneza Katiba ya nchi. Nasikitika kuwa kiwango cha fedha ambacho tunalipwa ni kidogo na hakitoshi kwa sababu kuishi katika Mji wa Dodoma ni gharama kubwa.”

Ndassa alisema kati ya Sh300,000 wanazolipwa wajumbe hao, posho ya kikao ni Sh220, 000 na 80,000 ya kujikimu na kwamba kiasi hicho hakitoshi.

“Mfano ni siku ya Jumamosi na Jumapili. Katika siku hizo mbili wajumbe wote hawalipwi Sh220,000 za posho za kikao na wakati huohuo wanatakiwa kuwalipa madereva wao, kununua mafuta ya gari, chakula na malazi,” alisema.

Aidha, alisema kitendo cha wajumbe kutakiwa kulipwa Sh220, 000 baada ya kusaini katika kitabu cha mahudhurio mara mbili kwa siku ni sawa na udhalilishaji.

“Nilimweleza mheshimiwa mwenyekiti kwamba wajumbe tupo 600 na kulingana na hali halisi wote hatuwezi kuhudhuria kikao kila siku, zipo siku ambazo baadhi yetu wanakuwa na shughuli nyingine na wapo watakaougua, sasa na hao wasilipwe Sh220,000 kweli?” alihoji.

Alisema Serikali inatakiwa kulitazama suala hilo kwa kina kwa maelezo kuwa linaweza kuibua mvutano unaoweza kusababisha wajumbe hao kushindwa kuijadili Rasimu ya Katiba kama inavyotarajiwa na wengi.

“Wajumbe wa Tume ya Mabadiliko ya Katiba walikuwa wakilipwa Sh500,00 kwa siku, lakini wajumbe wa Bunge Maalumu la Katiba wanalipwa Sh220,000 tena mpaka wahudhurie kikao. Hii siyo sawa kabisa,” alisema.

Alisema madereva wa Tume hiyo ya Katiba walikuwa wakilipwa Sh220,000 kwa siku... “Posho yangu ni sawa na aliyokuwa akilipwa dereva wa Tume ya Mabadiliko ya Katiba.

Sielewi kabisa maana hata viwango vyetu vya posho ni tofauti na wajumbe wa Bunge la Katiba kutoka Zanzibar, wao wameongezewa posho.”

Alisema jambo hilo litaibua ubaguzi kwa sababu wabunge wa Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano wanaweza kuwasilisha malalamiko yao kwa Spika wa Bunge, Anne Makinda na kuongezewa posho lakini wajumbe 201 walioteuliwa na Rais hawana mahali pa kulalamika ili kuongezewa posho.

Pamoja na Ndassa kutotaka kuweka wazi, kumekuwa na madai kuwa wajumbe kutoka Zanzibar wameongezewa Sh120,000 na Baraza la Wawakilishi, hivyo kuwafanya kupata Sh420,000 kwa siku.

Hata hivyo, Katibu wa Baraza hilo, Yahya Khamis Hamad alikana madai hayo akisema hakuna fedha za ziada walizolipwa.

Alisema malipo waliyosaini wakiwa Dodoma yaliyotokana na kuhudhuria vikao vya Kamati za Baraza, lakini si nyongeza ya posho.

Akizungumzia suala hilo Nchambi alisema: “Sisi tumeshazoea maisha ya Dodoma na tunaishi hivyohivyo tu licha ya kuwa fedha ni ndogo. Ila hawa wenzetu ambao ni wageni hali zao ni mbaya.

“Wajumbe wapo hapa kwa ajili ya kutengeneza moyo wa nchi yao na wakati tunakuja hapa Dodoma tulielezwa wazi kuwa tusiende kuishi katika nyumba za wageni za vichochoroni. Sasa kwa mantiki hiyo hiki kiwango cha fedha tunacholipwa kitatosha kweli?

“Hapa bungeni wapo maprofesa walioacha kazi zao zinazowaingizia fedha nyingi na kuja kuandika Katiba. Kitendo cha kuwalipa fedha kidogo kinaweza kuwakatisha tamaa.”

Kificho alihitimisha mjadala huo kwa kusema suala hilo la posho litawasilishwa serikalini kuona namna ya kulifanyia kazi.

Baada ya wabunge kutoka kwenye mjadala huo, Mjumbe, Kabwe Zitto alisema anasikitika kwamba tangu siku ya kwanza, suala la posho linashika kasi... “Kiukweli inavunja moyo sana… Ni dhahiri wajumbe lazima walipwe lakini malipo ya posho ndiyo kipaumbele kweli?”

Imeandikwa na Mwinyi Sadallah, Raymond Kaminyoge Fidelis Butahe na Freddy Azzah.

We Tanzanians in the Diaspora , Believe That Dual Citizenship is a Great Thing for The Country. Please Support.

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Kampala (Uganda) - Women face 10 years in jail for mini-skirts

Women wearing minis-skirts or showing cleavages, if arrested and found guilty, will be charged sh10m or imprisoned for not more than 10 years, according to the new anti-pornography law which President Yoweri Museveni has approved.

The Anti-pornography Act, 2014, which criminalises indecency and promotion of pornography, also provides the court with the option of sentencing the culprit to both punishments.

Addressing the press at the Media Centre in Kampala yesterday (Tuesday), ethics and integrity minister Simon Lokodo said the President assented to the Bill a fortnight ago on February 6. This after Parliament passed the Bill in December last year. 

Mikakati Bunge la Katiba: CCM 'yakazia' serikali mbili

Inside Story Of Why President Kikwete Deployed Tanzanian Troops In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

TOGETHER AS NOT ONE: President Kikwete (centre) with TISS chief Rashid Othman (left) have maintained a public display of closeness, but behind the scenes, a bitter row is threatening Tanzania due to Othman’s refusal to back the FDLR agenda

At an urgent summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) in Kampala in late September 2012, Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete spoke passionately of how Tanzania was eager to end the conflict in DR Congo. President Kikwete informed other leaders that Tanzania was ready to use force. Months later, Tanzanian troops were deployed, but as News of Rwanda reports, the deployment is a personal project of President Kikwete after ignoring advice of the Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service (TISS)....

Read more: http://www.newsofrwanda.com/featured1/22306/inside-story-of-why-president-kikwete-deployed-tanzanian-troops-in-drc

ASKOFU wa Kanisa la Kiinjili la Kilutheri (KKKT), Dayosisi ya Karagwe, Dk. Benson Bagonza amesema rushwa imelifikisha taifa mahala pabaya

Askofu Dkt. Benson Bagonza

ASKOFU wa Kanisa la Kiinjili la Kilutheri (KKKT), Dayosisi ya Karagwe, Dk. Benson Bagonza amesema rushwa imelifikisha taifa mahala pabaya.

Kutokana na hali hiyo, amewataka viongozi wa dini kukemea hilo kwa nguvu zote.

Askofu Bagonza alitoa kauli hiyo jana wakati akizungumza na gazeti hili kuhusu sakata la kunyimwa dhamana kwa Mchungaji Jakson Kanyiginya katika mazingira yenye harufu ya rushwa.

Mchungaji huyo ambaye juzi alipandishwa kizimbani akituhumiwa kumpiga mfanyabiashara Joseph Gareba, alinyimwa dhamana baada ya mwendesha mashitaka Meja Juma Litafa kuzikataa barua za wadhamini hadi azifanyie uhakiki na kuamuru mchungaji huyo awekwe rumande hadi Februari 26.

Hata hivyo, mchungaji huyo aliachiwa kwa dhamana juzi baada ya maaskofu, wachungaji na viongozi wengine wa kanisa hilo waliokuwa kwenye mafungo kukatisha mafungo yao na kuandamana hadi katika Kituo cha Polisi cha Karagwe kushinikiza apate dhamana kabla ya Februari 26.

Mbali na Bagonza, maaskofu  wengine walioshiriki kwenye maandamano hayo ni Paulo Mkuta na Nelson Kazoba ambao waliandaa tamko na kulikabidhi kwa Kamanda wa Polisi Mkoa.

Askofu Bagonza alivilaumu vyombo vya dola na mahakama kwamba vimejaa rushwa, hasa baadhi ya vijana waliopata ajira hivi karibuni ambao alisema wanataka mafanikio ya haraka kupitia rushwa.

“Rushwa imetufikisha mahala pabaya sana. Wapo vijana walioajiriwa kwenye mahakama zetu wanasema wanapokea rushwa kwa sababu wanataka kurejesha mikopo waliyopewa na serikali wakati wakisoma. Leo kanisa limeandamana kwa sababu mtu wetu kaguswa, jiulize wapo wangapi wanaonewa?” alisema Askofu Bagonza.

Akizungumzia chanzo cha mzozo huo, Askofu Bagonza alisema mfanyabiashara Gareba alikuwa na kesi ya ardhi na kanisa tangu miaka 80 na mahakama iliagiza ardhi hiyo isiguswe hadi kesi itakapomalizika.

Alisema mwaka jana, mfanyabiashara huyo aliingia kwenye eneo hilo na kuanza kukata miti, lakini waumini walipoona hali hiyo walimjulisha Mchungaji Jakson ambaye aliwachukua polisi na kumkamata Gareba na kumuweka ndani.

Kwa mujibu wa Askofu Bagonza, baada ya tukio hilo, mfanyabiashara huyo alienda kufungua kesi ya kupigwa kwa siri bila kanisa kujua hadi juzi Mchungaji Jakson alipoitwa polisi na kufikishwa mahakamani.

Kutoka Tanzania Daima.

Panorama goes undercover in Britain's multimillion-pound trade in immigration visas and exposes the breath-taking frauds that allow bogus foreign students - some with little or no English - to remain in the UK.

Reporter Richard Watson unmasks the criminal immigration agents who - in return for cash - secure places at private colleges by arranging forged and fraudulent documents, including bank statements that are good enough to fool immigration officers.

The programme reveals how government-approved exams - designed to weed out those with inadequate English - are being routinely subverted with fake sitters taking spoken English exams for the bogus students and multiple choice tests where they're given all the answers.

CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete about organized poaching in Africa. - Rais Jakaya Kikwete alipohojiwa na Christiane Amanpour kwenye CNN, Alhamisi 13 februari 2014 kuhusu ujangili wa biashara haramu ya meno ya tembo, kuhusu utajiri kwa watu wachache na haki za binadamu za wapendanao jinsia moja

“At independence Tanzania had 350,000 elephants… in 1987 there were only 55,000 elephants left.”

That’s the dire message from the president of Tanzania, who spoke to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about his country’s battle against wildlife poaching.

President Jakaya Kikwete joined Amanpour in London, where heads of state are meeting to find a solution to end poaching before it’s too late.

“This is madness now, it is just impossible… it’s a serious matter.”

Incidents of poaching are on the rise fueled by a growing demand for ivory and rhino horn in Asia. There are also concerns that poaching is helping to fund violent groups in the region.

When it comes to destroying ivory stockpiles, as countries like the United States and China have done in the past, President Kikwete says his country is considering doing the same thing to show it is an unacceptable trade.

“We have about 112 tonnes of ivory… we used to have the idea of asking permission to sell, but we don’t think, these are not the times”.

It’s not the right time, he says, because it was the relaxation of laws that opened the door to more poaching in the first place.

Gay rights in Tanzania

Another topic dominating headlines is that of gay rights on the African continent. In Tanzania homosexuality is illegal, punishable with long prison sentences. When asked whether it’s time to stop criminalising people who are in consensual relationships, President Kikwete told Amanpour it will “take time for our people to accept the norms that the west is accepting”.

And when pressed on whether he wants to see that happen, he told Amanpour “I cannot say that now”.

Courtsey of CNN.

Letter from Dar es Salaam By Alexander Wooley

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Sultan of Zanzibar decided to build Dar es Salaam, today Tanzania’s commercial capital and largest city, next to a sleepy fishing town on the Indian Ocean. For years a backwater, Dar es Salaam had its first boom in 1887 when the German East Africa Company set up operations there, turning the city into the main shipping portal into German East Africa. After World War I, Dar es Salaam came under indirect British rule and became a provincial trading post. It got its independence in 1964, when the republics of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.

Read more: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/features/letters-from/port-of-call 

Kansiime Preps for Norway - Comedy Show Uganda’s most popular comedian, Anne Kansiime is set to entertain fans at a show in Norway.

We are delighted to announce that the Talented Multi Award Winning Comedian Kansiime Anne / Entertainer will be in Oslo on March 8th, 2014 Women's Day in Oslo (Norway). Entrance fee. Kr. 200. 

Getting to Klubbscenen Chateau Neuf Oslo Slemdalsveien 15, 0369 Oslo from Oslo Airport (Gardermoen) or Rygge Airport.

Take a bus or a Train to Oslo S (Oslo Central Station), Jernbanetorget [T-bane]. Avoid taxis as they are extremely expensive. 

You can take the Airport Express Train (160 NOK) (it takes 22 minutes) or the regular train (100 NOK?) from the airport to Oslo Central Station and then take subway nr. 3, 6, 4, 2 and get off at Majorstuen (Oslo). Please Note that all Metros pass through Majorstuen and it will take you 6 minutes from the central station. 

Please do keep time.

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Tanzania slaughters over 11,000 elephants a year for the bloody trade in tusks and its President turns a blind eye, so will the Prince really shake hands with him?

Prince Charles and Camilla with Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete and First Lady Salma Kikwete at the State House in Dar es Salaam November 7, 2011

Ministers, law enforcement agents, conservation officials, rangers - those charged with protecting African wildlife are cashing in on its destruction, and nowhere more so than in Tanzania. In the late 1980s, Tanzania, home to Africa's second-largest elephant population, led the war on poaching and championed the international ban on ivory trading that was adopted in 1989. Today, it is the epicentre of the poaching epidemic sweeping through the continent's forests and savannas.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/Tanzania-slaughters-11-000-elephants-year-bloody-trade-tusks-President-turns-blind-eye-Prince-really-shake-hands-him