Ot.prp. nr. 75Om lov om utlendingers adgang til riket
og deres opphold her (utlendingsloven)
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Waziri anayeshughulikia masuala ya wageni aliwasilisha muswada wa sheria mpya ya uhamiaji nchini, Norway, Ijumaa 29. Juni 2007. Muswada huo uko kwenye lugha ya Kinorwejiani. Kwa wale wanaokijua angalieni kiungo hapo chini:
Massive hype surrounds the looming launch of Apple's new iPhone in the US this week, but one mobile distributor in Norway rang alarm bells by saying it might not be available in Norway. Others claim Mac and Apple fans won't be disappointed.
The police may refuse to issue passports to families who are suspected of planning sexual mutilation of their young girls. This is one of the Government's urgent measures against this illegal practice.
Among the new measures is also an information campaign at the Oslo International Airport Gardermoen, and establishing an emergency phone service.
In the fall, the Government will also consider introducing compulsory medical examnation of young girls from countries where the practice of female circumsition is commonly practised.
The head of social services in Oslo, Sylvia Listhaug, has already announced that medical examination of young girls will be mandatory in Oslo from the fall.
She warns parents who had planned to have their girls circumsised while on vacation in their homeland this summer, will be found out and reported.
In Norway, sexual mutilation of children has been a crime since January 1996, also if the operation is performed abroad. However, so far no one has been sentenced for such a crime.
Source: Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation(NRK), 15.00 Central European Time.
The state church maintains a powerful position in Norwegian society.
More than 250 girls and women have sought help from Oslo's largest hospital in recent years, because of physical problems resulting from female circumcision, also known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).Kahsay, of the National Competence Center for Minorities' Health at Ullevål, said that 90 percent of the girls and women are ethnic Somalians. Female genital mutilation has also been found, she said, among female patients from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Gambia and Senegal.
The mutilation also seems to have spread to the Kurdish community, with Kahsay mentioning that Norwegian Church Aid has claimed it's a problem for females from Northern Iraq. "Reports we've had from our health stations (in the Oslo area) involve Kurdish girls as young as 11 and 12, who've been circumcised," Kahsay said.
The girls and women have almost always said the circumcision, which is illegal in Norway, occurred before they emigrated. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported over the weekend, however, that an alarming number of young girls born or living in Norway have been taken back to Somalia during school holiday periods and subjected to circumcision.
The agonized screams of one young girl being forcibly held down while her genitals were being cut shook Norwegian viewers and has led to a political outcry on the issue. There have been calls for increased enforcement of the law prohibiting female circumciscion, a fatwa against the practice, and regular medical checks of young girls believed to be at risk.
Arild M Jonassen
Aftenposten English Web Desk
Nina Berglund
State officials have ordered a special agency to reopen a probe of alleged police brutality, and investigate more thoroughly the death of immigrant Eugene Obiora.An internal affairs division within the police (Spesialenheten for politisaker) investigated the death, which has prompted public protests and charges of police brutality. The probe concluded that the officers involved hadn't intentionally carried out any measures that would have stopped or hindered Obiora from breathing. No case was brought against the officers.
Now the state's Director General of Public Prosecutions (Riksadvokaten) has said it needs more information on the case, and wants more thorough questioning of witnesses, the police officers involved and what the police knew about the risks of using a controversial grip around his throat that led to his suffocation.
"The goal is to gather more information... to evaluate whether any offenses have been committed on the part of the police," said state prosecutor Tor-Aksel Busch on Thursday afternoon.
Keki ya hepibethdei ya miaka 50
Photo: courtsey of Colgate. These are genuines!Palmolive announced additional developments and actions by the Company to protect consumers against possible risk from recently reported counterfeit toothpaste. The Company warned consumers that the counterfeit toothpaste, which has been found in some small, independent dollar-type discount stores, may not contain fluoride and could contain Diethylene Glycol, an ingredient not used in Colgate toothpaste anywhere in the world.
The additional developments and actions taken by the Company include:
Colgate Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Reuben Mark said, “We are all highly committed to reliability, quality and superior product performance. We will spare no effort to help consumers avoid counterfeits and support regulators in their efforts to remove these products from the marketplace.”
Source: US Food and Drug Administration
Saturday, 28th July 2007.
Freddy Macha, Tanzanian writer and artist, speaks to Robtel Pailey from Pambazuka News about being a journalist during censorship in Nyerere’s administration. He explores the nature of music and expresses his thoughts on a range of subjects from satirising urban life, promoting African languages and culture and the connections between modern life and constipation. You can find out more and hear Macha’s music at
MBUNGE machachari wa Viti Maalumu (CCM), Amina Chifupa, amelazwa katika hospitali moja inayomilikiwa na Jeshi la Wananchi wa Tanzania (JWTZ) jijini Dar es Salaam, imefahamika.Imetumwa na Pwagu na Pwaguzi: pwagu.na.pwaguzi@oslo.online.no
Kama wewe ni mpenzi wa muziki wenye midundo ya reggae au michanganyiko ya reggae na aina zingine za muziki kama zouk, african jazz nk uwezekano ni mkubwa sana kwamba umeshawahi kumsikia au kumuona jukwaani Ras Nas au kwa jina lingine Nasibu Mwanukuzi. Ras Nas ni mtanzania anayefanya kazi zake za muziki nchini Norway ndani ya jiji maarufu la Oslo. Jambo moja ambalo pengine wapenzi na mashabiki wake hawajui ni kwamba Ras Nas ni mwanasheria kitaaluma. Alisomea sheria katika chuo kikuu cha Dar-es-salaam. Pia ni mtunzi na mghani mzuri wa mashairi.
An employee at a DnB NOR branch on Oslo's west side is accused of embezzling millions of Norwegian kroner.The man allegedly used a temporary national identity number used by the bank's foreign clients to borrow money in their name and without their knowledge, newspaper Dagbladet reports.
The man reportedly used the numbers of people on their way out of the country, making it more difficult for the bank to contact them and follow up on the loans.
Information chief Hege Resvoll Skaug confirmed the story.
"The person reopened accounts of passive clients and took out loans in their name. The man now owes money to the bank. There has been misappropriation and the person has confessed. He has cooperated in the unraveling process," Skaug said.
Skaug would not comment on how many clients had been affected, or how much money the man had managed to steal in this way. According to Dagbladet, the sum was approximately NOK 3 million (USD 500,000).
The case has been reported to police and the employee was suspended from his middle management position in April.
Stine Barstad
Aftenposten English Web Desk
Jonathan Tisdall
In 1969 the Tanzanian government started working on the possibility of extending the use of Kiswahili medium of instruction (MOI) to post-primary levels of education. In 1997 it reiterated this stance by declaring the cultural policy (sera ya utamaduni). However to date this plan is yet to be achieved. English remains the medium of instruction despite the fact that teachers and students are incompetent in the language and face enormous difficulties using it. The switch in Form I is especially problematic. In order to attain meaningful learning, code switching to Kiswahili is a common phenomenon in classrooms despite the fact that national examinations would still be set in English.
The objective of the study was to find out if there were differences shown in Form I geography classes taught in different MOI: English the official MOI to date, Kiswahili which is the proposed MOI and code switching, the unofficial MOI currently in use. The study was conducted in two government secondary schools. The main data gathering techniques used in this study were: a quasi experiment in which two tests were administered, classroom observations, document analysis and interviews with headmasters, teachers and students of the respective schools. The central theoretical framework guiding the study was linguistic imperialism. Qualification analysis theory and teaching and learning theories supplemented this framework.
Overall findings indicated that there were differences in teaching and learning when the different MOI were used. Students’ test performance showed that students taught in Kiswahili MOI performed considerably better than the others and had minimal disparities between them. Students in code switching as MOI classes were in the mediocre position. Students taught in English performed most poorly. Students taught in English MOI also had quite large disparities between them in comparison to other MOI. Classroom observations showed that in English MOI classes, memorization and chorus teaching, characteristics of safe talk prevailed. For these reasons, the qualifications gained by students in English MOI classes, for the most part were directly and indirectly accepting adaptability qualifications. In order for effective teaching and learning to take place it was stated by the majority of students that in English MOI, code switching to Kiswahili was very important. On the contrary code switching was not needed in Kiswahili MOI classes since students claimed to understand easily. It was noted from classroom observations that in code switching MOI that there was no formula in the use of the different languages. In some cases teachers used more Kiswahili and less English and vice versa applied though rarely. Student participation in code switching as the MOI classes was highly depended on the use of Kiswahili such that, the more the Kiswahili used the more the participation.
Teachers claimed that they expressed themselves better in Kiswahili MOI and students alleged that they learnt better. Classroom interaction was higher in Kiswahili MOI in comparison to other MOI. The requisite methodology for teaching geography as in the geography syllabus; the discovery strategy was utilized mainly in Kiswahili MOI and to some extent in CS MOI. Kiswahili MOI thus inculcated creativity and independence which led students to achieve creative and general proficiency qualifications. Interviews with a good number of respondents showed that maintaining English as a MOI is largely driven by perceptions accentuating linguistic imperialism. Moreover there were widespread misconceptions between learning English as a subject and using it as a MOI. On the whole English MOI seemed to counteract most of the students’ overall performance in comparison to other MOI in this study. These findings underscore the criticism towards the use of a foreign language for teaching and learning. Data from the various sources indicated that in order to capitalize on the creativity and capability of students, the use of Kiswahili MOI as stated in sera ya utamaduni would be beneficial.
Drawing from the overall findings and the discussion in the theoretical framework of this study, it is recommended that multilingualism should be the goal as highlighted in the linguistic ecology paradigm. The use of Kiswahili as a MOI could serve as an initial step towards this goal as firm grounding in a familiar language promotes development in other languages. English and other languages could be taught and learnt well as foreign languages.
