{Japan will provide Tanzania funds to improve water supply in the western Tabora region, the Citizen reported. }
The Japan International Cooperation Agency will supply 28.95 billion shillings ($18 million) for the water project, and a further 1.7 billion shillings for road upgrades in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital, the newspaper reported, citing Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary Servacus Likwelile.
{A 23 year old man by the names of Uwiragiye Philippe, who is suspected to have taken a lot of crude waragi (Kanyanga), was found dead in his house located in Gahara sector of Kirehe district this Monday. His wife, also suspected of the same act, remains in critical condition.}
According to the mother of the deceased, Mukankusi Bernadette in an interview with IGIHE, she was summoned by the local security officers after a checkup of his son’s house who was suspected of dealing in unauthorized beer Known as kanyanga
While standing outside her son’s house they heard someone screaming inside, that’s when they managed to break into the house through the windows and unfortunately found uwiragiye dead; at that moment the wife was in bad conditions. She was immediately rushed to the hospital by security officers
According to the source, neighbors were not aware that the deceased used to deal in unauthorized beer selling (Kanyanga).
Neighbors confirmed that the deceased had no any misunderstandings with anyone around the village, which would have been expected to be the primary cause of his death.
According to the executive secretary of the Butezi sector, Hakizimana Cyprian, after checking the house of the deceased, they found two full jericans and half of waragi (Kanyanga).
The executive secretary calls upon people to stop using unauthorized drugs because they lead to both under development and insecurity among the residents.
Currently, the deceased’s body rests at Kirehe hospital for testing.
{Some of the married families around the world declare poor hygiene, as one of the primary causes of devotion and separation of couples.}
It’s said that most people concentrate on cleaning there outer part of the body while the inner part remain stagnated by poor hygienity.
Most people tend to judge hygienity, based on their own outer observations.
There are some of the people who complete and fulfill all the qualities of good hygiene, starting from their bodies, kitchens and bedrooms where they live.
However, some of these private parts and areas remain a secret as they can’t be observed and judged by everyone.
This has caused a very big negative impact to the families and couples especially the married ones, which may end up divorcing.
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According to the 34 year old Joseph, poor hygiene may cause stigmatization between couples and friends.
‘I can’t hesitate to separate with my wife if I find out she has that problem of poor hygiene in the bedrooms where we sleep and at home in general” Said Joseph.
According to the 27year old Joy, she can’t also hesitate to live with a man of poor hygiene.
“It hurts me to see a person dressed in an underwear for a whole week, while outside the body dressed in cool ironed dresses. “A person is supposed to wash his or her body once or twice a day”. Says Joy
46 year old Rugendo says, “If you want to understand more about your wife’s hygienity, you will understand it from the bedroom. This is because a clean woman is not told to change bed sheets or Mopping the room”. Am always in quarrels with my wife about hygienity” He added
Nirere a 30 year old female says good hygienity should not always be tested from ladies alone every time.
“If we talk about hygienity most people immediately think about women and girls but I think that’s not the issue men should also be concerned.
Do you know a man who can’t wash his beards and body before the wife reminds him, and how he smells when he comes near you, it hurts a lot. Says Nirere.
Hygienity should be considered one of the best solutions to permanent marriage and friendship.
{Dr. Leon Mugesera has asked the court to postpone the hearing of witnesses, so that he can collect all the information about the witnesses involved in his case.}
During a Session of November 11, 2013, the prosecution explained that Mugesera does not know what he wants so there is no reason to order the court to give instructions to all the courts of the country to give all the information they hold on Mugesera.
According to the court, the crimes that Mugesera is accused are clear.
Léon Mugesera was charged with genocide planning, incitement and distribution of arms among others
During the Session, the prosecution decided to continue with the hearing of the witnesses as it was scheduled.
When the Court ordered the first witness to testify, Mugesera said he is not ready to question him saying that the witness who was on the schedule was not the one who came in during the session.
The judge explained that the witness who was on the program was not present because of his own reason.
The present witness testified that Mugesera during his Kabaya speech, stated that “the Tutsi came from Ethiopia that they must return home (Ethiopia) via the river Nyabarongo.”
After this speech, four people who were in the meeting where he made this incendiary speech were killed.
{A U.S. Army veteran who turned his life around after struggling with drug addiction is fighting his deportation, saying he should not have been expelled last year for a minor criminal record after honorably serving his country and living here legally for more than 50 years.}
Arnold Giammarco was deported to his native Italy over drug possession and larceny convictions, his attorneys said. The former Connecticut resident is seeking to reverse his deportation, arguing in a federal lawsuit he planned to file Tuesday that immigration authorities never acted on his citizenship application in 1982.
Giammarco, 57, did brief stints in prison for shoplifting in the 1990s and drug possession in 2007. He has been homeless at times, but his supporters said he got clean, became a father in 2008, found work and married.
“I think it’s a shameful thing for the United States to take a man who’s lived lawfully in this country for 50 years, who’s raising a family, who’s working productively, who volunteered for the Army, served honorably,” said Michael Wishnie, a law professor at Yale University handling his case with law school students. “It’s a shameful thing to deport him based on minor non-violent criminal convictions. It’s a departure I think from our historic treatment of veterans.”
Giammarco served in the Army from 1976 to 1979 and National Guard from 1980 to 1983 and had a green card to live legally in the U.S., Wishnie said.
Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, declined to comment on the case. Immigration officials contend in documents obtained by Yale students working on the case that his application wasn’t completed.
ICE exercises prosecutorial discretion for veterans on a case-by-case basis when appropriate, Walls said. ICE issued a memo in 2011 that identifies military service as a positive factor that should be considered.
“We are very deliberate in our review of cases involving veterans,” Walls said.
For decades, authorities declined to deport veterans except in extraordinary circumstances but Giammarco’s lawyers say immigration agents have departed from that practice in recent years.
Giammarco’s grandfather returned to Italy after he was wounded in World War I fighting in the U.S. Army. Giammarco and his parents came to live in the U.S. in 1960 when he was 4.
Giammarco and his supporters say he’s had a tough time in Italy, with even relatives suspecting he must have committed a more serious crime to be deported after serving in the military. Giammarco, who spoke little Italian, eventually landed a part-time landscaping job.
“It was just a big nightmare,” Giammarco said in a telephone interview.
Giammarco, whose daughter turns 5 Tuesday, said he has missed three of her birthdays. His daughter asked him if he would be home for her birthday and Christmas.
“She said, ‘Daddy I’ll save you a piece of cake,” Giammarco said. “That just broke my heart.”
Giammarco and his wife married on July 4, 2010, the 50th anniversary of his arrival with his parents in the United States. Giammarco’s wife, Sharon, has collected more than 3,000 signatures on a petition to officials seeking his return.
Giammarco was arrested by immigration officials in 2011 and was detained in a Massachusetts jail for 18 months before he was deported. His daughter visited him, but could not hug or touch him.
“I just wait for a day to hold my daughter again in the country that I love,” he said.
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{Iran agreed Monday to allow the United Nations to conduct additional inspections of its nuclear sites after failing over the weekend to reach a deal with six world powers on more extensive concessions.}
Secretary of State John Kerry said the confidence-building deal under discussion in Geneva over the weekend broke down because Iran rebuffed an offer that diplomats on the other side were united behind. It called for Tehran to curb some nuclear activities in exchange for easing punishing international economic sanctions.
Under the new accord, Iran will give inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, more regular access to several significant parts of the country’s nuclear infrastructure. However, it falls well short of Western demands that Iran open all sensitive sites as part of efforts to prevent the country from eventually attaining a nuclear weapon.
Nevertheless, Western diplomats said the IAEA accord was a step in the right direction.
U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague called it “another positive sign provided that the verification activities that have been agreed allow us to resolve all the past and present issues raised by the IAEA.”
He added: “It is important that in doing so, Iran addresses the substance of the agency’s concerns over what it calls the possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear program.”
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{Vigilantes Monday attacked and killed two suspected kidnappers in Kirinyaga County. The suspects were cornered as they fled, stoned to death and set on fire at Kagumo town. }
The two men identified by police as Mr Peter Kinyua and Mr Harrison Warui approached two boda boda riders saying their vehicle had developed engine trouble and wanted to be taken to where they claimed their car was parked.
As they were talking, one of the suspects drew out a sword and the two attempted to kidnap the boda boda riders who were part of a vigilante. But other riders raised the alarm and their colleagues responded immediately forcing the two men to flee in different directions.
More than 300 vigilantes gave chase and caught up with the two, descending on them with stones, rungus and iron bars, killing them on the spot. There was tension in the area as the vigilantes hooted and shouted as they chased the suspects during the 2.30am incident.
Area AP commander Zakayo Mbugua said he and his officers received information that kidnappers were being pursued and rushed to the scene. “We responded swiftly but on arrival, we found the suspects had been killed,” he said.
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Mr Mbugua said one of the suspects hailed from Kagumo while the other in Kangai village in Mwea East division which is believed to be a hideout of the kidnappers.
Mr Kinyua was on a list of the most wanted criminals, he said, adding he was being sought in connection to a series of criminal activities.
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{Two Rwandan referees have been selected by the confederation of east and central African football to be among the 18 referees who will officiate the tournament this year. }
The selected 2 include Simba Honore and Hakizimana Louis, who are set to officiate in the CECAFA championship, which will take place this year in Kenya from 27th November to 12th December 2013.
According to the information on the ground, the 18 selected referees including the Liners are set to go for health tests before the tournament kicks off.
Recently, Hakizimana Louis officiated the game between APR fc and Rayon sports this Saturday.
He became an international referee in 2002 whereby he took part in the 2012 CECAFA tournament that took place in Uganda.
Another selected referee (lines man) is Simba Honoree who became, international in 2011.
Currently, according to the news on the ground, CECAFA has not yet secured any sponsor for this year’s tournament, but discussions are still going on with Coca Cola Company.
According to the organizer of this year’s tournament Gerald Chege, the voting for the team’s fixtures was set to be this Monday but was shifted to Saturday.
However, this came as a result of waiting for the permission from the CECAFA boss, Nicholas Musonye.
Super sport will be showing all the live coverages for these games as it concluded a visit to the pitches of Mombasa, Kisumu and Machakos with a great appreciation to the organizing committee.
{List of the referees to take part in the 2013 CECAFA Tournament:}
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1. Anthony Ongwayo – Kenya
2. Denis Batte – Uganda
3. Wish Yabarow – Somalia
4. Israel Mujuni – Tanzaniya
5. Louis Hakizimana – Rwanda
6. Thiery Nkurunziza – Burundi
7. Waziri Sheha – Zanzibar
8. Gebremichael Luleseged – Eritrea
9. Kheirala Murtaz – Sudan
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1. Gilbert Cheruiyot – Kenya
2. Tonny Kidiya – Kenya
3. Mark sonko – Uganda
4. Fedinard Chacha – Tanzaniya
5. Suleiman Bashir – Somalia
6. Fraser Zakara – South Sudan
7. Simba Honore – Rwanda
8. Hamid Idam – Sudan
9. Kinfe Yimla – Ethiopia
{A rebel movement in oil-rich eastern Libya said Sunday it had formed a regional oil firm to manage the production and sales of oil and gas, challenging the central government and its revenue lifeline.}
Abd-Rabbo al-Barassi, prime minister of the self-declared government of Cyrenaica, or Barqa in Arabic, said the firm would be based for now in Tobruk, a port city on Libya’s eastern Mediterranean coast near the border with Egypt, before moving to Benghazi.
Libya’s current oil output is at a fraction of its capacity of 1.25 million barrels a day. The government would face a deficit from next month because of the disruption of around 60 percent of Libya’s oil exports, mostly from the eastern region, said Ali Zeidan, prime minister of the interim government.
Shortly after the declaration of the establishment of the Eastern oil firm, Zeidan issued a deadline for the rebels to lift their siege of the oil and gas plants in the region within ten days.
Zeidan said taking the oil fields to serve political or personal interests was unacceptable and the central government would take action if the rebels would not respect the ultimatum.
He urged citizens to protest the continued blockade of the oil fields “to avoid bloodshed and the destruction of oil infrastructure” that could result in if troops are sent in.
However, Barassi said “statements made by Zeidan do not deserve even a reply as we are moving at a steady pace.”
In late October, leaders of the rebel movement unilaterally declared the eastern region of Cyrenaica an autonomous state. They blamed the central government in Tripoli for corruption and mismanagement of national oil revenues.
In the west, protestors of the Amazigh minority community shut down on Monday the natural gas submarine Green Stream pipeline at the Mellitah terminal, demanding more political rights. The pipeline, running from Libya to Italy, was owned by Italy’s ENI and Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation.
They also closed gas facilities in the western mountainous city of Nalut.
“It would be a grave matter if gas exports got blocked…they might look for other sources and leave us,” Zeidan said, stressing Italy is his country’s biggest partner as it imports between 23 and 25 percent of its oil needs.
In October, Tuareg protesters attacked the oil field of El Sharara, operated by Spain’s Repsol oil company.
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{At least 100 people are feared dead in a ferocious storm battering Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region, the local government said Monday, warning that hundreds more are missing.}
The government in the semi-autonomous region described the situation as a “disaster”, with entire villages destroyed, and said it was appealing for emergency international aid.
“A tropical cyclone storm (has) wreaked death and destruction… the storm brought high wind speeds and torrential rains, causing flash floods,” said a statement from Puntland’s government.
“Information collected from coastal areas via irregular telephone contact over the past 48 hours indicates that up to 100 people might have been killed, while hundreds of other people remain unaccounted for,” it added.
Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole said the “crisis was immense”, with the government declaring the situation a “disaster”.
The government is organizing relief efforts, but also appealed for international support.
“Preliminary information also indicates that homes, buildings, boats and entire villages have been destroyed and over 100,000 livestock lost, endangering the livelihoods of tens of thousands of local people,” the government said.
Heavy rains and fierce winds are expected to continue until Wednesday, it added.
“Affected coastal areas are in need of emergency supplies of clean water, non-perishable foods, medicines, emergency shelter materials, and blankets,” the government said, adding it was setting up makeshift shelters for those made homeless.
Local authorities in the coastal towns of Eyl and Bandarbeyla said the remote settlements were badly hit.
“At least 11 people were killed and six others injured in the Eyl area this morning alone,” said Feisal Kalif, deputy commissioner of Eyl. “People are confused, and the situation is getting worse.”
Somalia has been riven by civil war since the collapse of central government in 1991.
Impoverished Puntland, which forms the tip of the Horn of Africa, is run by its own government, although unlike neighbouring Somaliland, it has not declared independence from Somalia.
The often lawless region is also home to numerous warlords, as well as for many years hosting pirate gangs who raided far out into the Indian Ocean.
Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab are also based in Puntland, with bases in the rugged Golis mountains, honeycombed with caves and difficult to access.
On Friday the insurgents staged a failed bid to free comrades in prison in the town of Bosaso, with up to 40 men involved in the raid.
The impact of the storm will be a possible complicating factor as Puntland gears up for a presidential election due in early 2014, which was suspended in July after the government warned that the risk of violence was too great.
AFP