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  • Museveni, French President discuss Somalia, Burundi

    {Mr Museveni said his government would continue supporting French investors, pointing out that there were opportunities in the provision of solar energy and supporting water projects on River Kagera.}

    French President François Hollande yesterday commended Uganda’s role in bolstering regional peace and security, and announced his country’s continued support through military cooperation.

    According to a statement from the French Presidency, President Hollande “stressed the positive contribution of Uganda to peace and security in Africa, in particular the participation of Ugandan forces in the African Union [Peace-keeping] Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).”

    Uganda’s military, the UPDF, is the biggest contributor to the continental peace-keeping mission and about 4,500 of the soldiers receive additional training provided by France prior to their deployment to fight the Al-Shabaab.

    {{Burundi question}}

    In yesterday’s meeting, the two leaders discussed the ongoing dialogue to the political crisis in Burundi for which President Museveni is the official mediator, although the regional bloc assigned former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa to coordinate the talks.

    “President Hollande welcomed the commitment of the states of the region for the opening of a genuine political dialogue,” the statement reads in part. He reiterated his commitment to rapid implementation of the decisions of the African Union and United Nations on deployment of observers to Burundi.

    President Museveni was accompanied to the Élysée Palace meeting by wife Janet, State International Affairs minister Okello Oryem and Uganda’s Ambassador to France Nimisha Madhivani. He condoled with the French people over the spate of terrorist attacks in the country, the worst being on July 14 when at least 84 people were killed and 50 others injured during celebration of French National Day.

    Terrorism, Mr Museveni said, is a result of ideological disorientation and reiterated his position that the question of pseudo-ideology must be addressed to fight terrorists.

    The President, who is on his way to attend the UN General Assembly in New York, thanked his host for their continued military cooperation and support, noting that the French-trained Alpine Brigade of Uganda’s military will also be a buffer to security on water bodies.

    Mr Museveni said his government would continue supporting French investors, pointing out that there were opportunities in the provision of solar energy and supporting water projects on River Kagera. Some of the French companies in Uganda include Oil major Total SA, Green Bio Energy and Lafarge/Hima cement.

    President Hollande earlier commended Uganda’s ratification of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a pact that 195 countries adopted in the French capital last December to combat global carbon emissions.

    Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa last Thursday signed instruments for ratification and the document will be delivered at the UN today.

    In Paris, the two leaders discussed development of renewable energy, access to water and urban transport.

    President Hollande agreed to visit Uganda on Mr Museveni’s invitation.
    Earlier, the Uganda leader met a section of African ambassadors accredited to France, whom he implored to market Africa to Europe.

    {{The numbers}}

    4,500

    Number of Ugandan soldiers trained by the French government for the peace keeping mission in Somalia.

    President Museveni inspects a guard of honour mounted by the France Republican Guards at the French Presidential Palace.

  • ICC judges put Kenya on the spot over Uhuru’s election violence case

    {International Criminal Court judges on Monday found Kenya guilty of failing to cooperate with the court in the collapsed case against President Uhuru Kenyatta.}

    They have now referred the country to the Assembly of State Parties (ASP) for action.

    The ASP can impose sanctions against the country for failing to comply with its obligations.

    The ruling also means that Kenya will be discussed as a separate agenda at the next meeting of the State Parties.

    The action might now lead to Kenya being discussed at an open plenary session of the ASP, as well as the body making a resolution against the country.

    The resolution by the ASP- which may decide as it “deems fit”- is final.

    However, it can also make a decision to pursue non-judicial means to get the country to cooperate with the court.

    Any action by the ASP is likely to be binding on Kenya even in future cases with the court.

    ICC judges agreed with Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that the government had sabotaged and frustrated investigations and refused to surrender material that would have aided in prosecuting the case, including the President’s bank and phone records.

    Although the court had earlier left open the possibility of the case being revived, the act of referring a case to the ASP is mainly a diplomatic and political one.

    Kenya has been more successful in lobbying and arguing its case at the assembly, also sometimes referred to as the countries, which make up the Rome Statute.

    African countries are the majority of the assembly members.

    It was here that Kenya lobbied for a change of the rules to allow the cases against President Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto to continue in their absence as long as the two were represented by their lawyers.

    Kenya also successfully lobbied the ASP to change rules to allow change of venue for trial, a move that allowed part of the evidence in the preliminary case against President Kenyatta to be taken by video link.

    {{CASE REVISIT}}

    This lobbying was sometimes accompanied by threats of withdrawal from the ICC by African countries.

    Ms Bensouda lodged the non-cooperation case, accusing Kenya of sabotaging her bid by not providing relevant materials that included President Kenyatta’s records.

    She argued that the failure to provide the records had severely injured the case.

    The court, in December 2014, had left the window open for the re-introduction of the case should new evidence emerge.

    Yesterday, the ICC said: “The Republic of Kenya failed to take all reasonable steps to execute a request for cooperation from the court, including by not providing clear, relevant and timely responses or taking any meaningful steps to compel production of requested information.”

    President Kenyatta had been charged, together with five other Kenyans, with bearing the greatest responsibility for the 2007/2008 post-election violence that led to the deaths of 1,133 people and the displacement of more than 650,000.

    When the case opened, he was a Deputy Prime Minister in the Grand Coalition government.

    The others were Mr Ruto, Mr Henry Kosgey, then Cabinet minister, Mr Francis Muthaura, who was the head of the civil service and Secretary to the Cabinet and Maj-Gen Hussein Ali, who was the Police Commissioner.

    Also charged alongside them was radio journalist Joshua arap Sang.

    The cases the four were dismissed.

    Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto were later discharged but the court said the cases could be re-opened should new evidence emerge.

    {{COOPERTATION}}

    Ms Elizabeth Evenson, the associate international justice director at Human Rights Watch, welcomed Monday’s ruling.

    “The ICC has squarely called out Kenya’s breach of its cooperation obligations. ICC member countries should make sure the message is heard in Nairobi that they will not turn a blind eye to the government’s obstruction of justice,” Ms Evenson said.

    The ruling brings a new dynamic to the 2017 elections because President Kenyatta and Mr Ruto had both shaken off the ICC tag.

    The international community had ran an active campaign to dissuade Kenya from electing the Jubilee leaders in 2013, with a US representative warning at the time that choices at the ballot box, would have consequences.

    Now, Kenya will have to argue its case before the 124-member assembly in November.

    The ASP is the law-making and supervisory arm of the ICC.

    “The assembly may certainly support the effectiveness of the Rome Statute by deploying political and diplomatic efforts to promote cooperation and to respond to non-cooperation,” the ASP Rules of Procedure on non-cooperation states.

    President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses wananchi at Muthurwa Market in Nairobi on September 19, 2016. The ASP can impose sanctions against the country for failing to comply with its obligations.

  • Dar enters UN good books in education for all achievement

    {United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has said Tanzania was an exemplary nation in making education available to all.}

    The UN chief made the remarks on Sunday when launching the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity report, titled ‘The Learning Generation: Investing in Education for a Changing World.’

    The launching ceremony was held at the UN headquarters in New York and was attended by the commissioners of the Education Commission, including former President Jakaya Kikwete.

    Present during the launch include the commission’s Coconvenors: Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, President Arthur Peter Mutharika of Malawi and the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Irina Bokova.

    Others were the UN Special Envoy for Education, Mr Gordon Brown, who is also the commission’s Chairperson, large investors, including CEO of the Dangote Groupe, Mr Aliko Dangote, research institutes, financial institutions, civic organisations and students.

    “Experience from countries such as Tanzania, Vietnam and my own country, South Korea, shows that where there is political will, plus opportunities and financial resources something positive can be done in education,” the UN chief said.

    He said the international community must provide assistance to such countries and others that have decided to bring reforms in their education systems to get desired results.

    The report points out that with more than 250 million children out of school and another 330 million children failing to achieve the most basic learning outcomes, the world cannot hope to achieve the promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

    The report sets out the commission’s four-stage plan that will, among others, aim to generate the reforms and investment that will get every child on track to enter school by 2030; increase the number of qualified high school graduates in low and middle-income countries from 400 million to 850 million by 2030 and raise the numbers even further to 1.2 billion during the next decade.

    The stage includes having all countries adopting the reforms of the fastest improvers, which is 25 per cent of education performers around the world. Instead of only one in 10 schools being online, all schools would go digital.

    Plan Two is for every country to see education as an investment in the future and elevate spending in low-income countries — from three per cent of national income today to five per cent of national income; The third stage of the plan is to mobilise the combined resources of the international institutions.

    No country committed to reforming and investing should be denied the chance to deliver universal education for lack of funds; and Stage Four calls for a ‘Financing Compact’ between developing countries, donors and multilateral institutions under which overall aid will rise to US35 dollars a year per child by 2030, significantly less than US1 dollars a week, hardly a wasteful use of the world’s resources.

    The secretary general said the report makes the case for investment in education as a prerequisite for economic growth, sustainable development and global stability.

    He noted that while the crisis of education is eminently solvable, if current trends continue; “we will not achieve universal primary education until 2042, and upper secondary education until 2084. We will miss SDG 4 by half a century.”

    Contributing to the launching of the report as one of the Commissioners, former President Kikwete said achievement in education means that every child, including those living in difficult conditions and marginalised, especially girls, have access to education.

    He said one out of 20 girls living in poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa finish primary school education while 75 million children in school going age face various dangers. The figure includes one million Syrian refugee children who are not in schools.

    “The report points out a vision of providing opportunities to future generation with a focus on children refugees, street children, girls, children in labour and other groups,” former president Kikwete stressed.

    The report is a culmination of a one year analysis work that involved 30 research institutions and consultations that involved more than 300 contributors from 105 countries.

    United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon

  • Banro Trucks Targeted in Attack, Kidnappings in Eastern Congo

    {Thirteen drivers were kidnapped and six trucks burned in an attack on a convoy delivering fuel and mining equipment to a Banro Corp. gold project in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.}

    Bandits attacked the convoy of 18 vehicles on Sept. 13 at a road block in the village of Kilembwe, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Toronto-based Banro’s Namoya gold project, said Franco Chobohwa, managing director of the trucking company Simba Logistics DRC, a Banro sub-contractor.

    More than 60 armed groups operate in eastern Congo. It’s the first time a Banro convoy has been attacked since the company began mining there in 2004, Banro spokesman Desire Sangara said by phone from Kinshasa, the capital. Banro operates the Twangiza and Namoya gold mines in eastern Congo and plans to develop two other projects at Lugushwa and Kamituga.

    The thirteen drivers, all Tanzanian and Kenyan nationals, were freed Sept. 15 in an offensive by the Congolese army.

    “We thank the authorities for the help they gave us to safely find the drivers and we hope that can find some solution to better secure the route,” Sangara said.

    The vehicles were empty, returning to Tanzania from Namoya, having already delivered their cargo. At least 23 other Congolese drivers were freed immediately, with the group only targeting foreign nationals. The bandits had requested $4,000 per driver in ransom before the Congolese army intervened, Chobohwa said by phone from the regional capital, Bukavu.

    Simba Logistics’ trucks started transiting the route again Sunday, Chobohwa said.

  • Uganda:24,000 go blind in Karamoja

    {High incidence of blindness attributed to poor hygiene and sanitation.}

    At least 24,000 people in Karamoja sub-region have gone blind after being attacked by trachoma and cataract diseases, according to a report by Sight Savers Uganda.
    The report indicates that the highest incidence of blindness is in Amudat District.The mass blindness has prompted government to dispatch eye care equipment to the sub-region to rescue the situation.

    Sight Savers Uganda country director Johnson Ngorok, while handing over the eye care equipment worth Shs400m to Moroto Regional Referral Hospital last week, said blindness in Karamoja stands at 0.6 per cent, higher than the national average of 0.3 per cent.
    Dr Ngorok attributed the high incidence of blindness to poor hygiene and sanitation. He said 44 per cent of blindness in Karamoja is caused by cataract while trachoma accounts for 26 per cent.
    Sight Savers Uganda has been holding health camps in the sub-region to respond to the blindness prevalence.

    “At least 6,975 people have undergone surgical operation and treatment. By now, the number of treated people could have gone beyond this figure, but we are faced with the challenge of mobilising people to come for treatment,” Dr Ngorok explained.
    “Last week in Amudat, some people ran away from the camp after they were deceived by some illiterate persons that Sight Savers is about plucking out their eyes,” he added.

    He said there is urgent need for leaders in the sub-region to intervene in educating communities on dangers of having blind communities. “In our four-year project, there would be significant progress if the leaders in Karamoja could merely inform people here to rush for treatment at the hospitals and put more emphasis on elimination of blindness,” he said.

    While commending Sight Savers Uganda for the donation, Dr Filbert Nyeko, the hospital director, said two eye specialists were sent for further studies and would be completing their courses in two years.

    Dr Nyeko said if area residents continued washing hands after visiting toilets or pit-latrines and lived in clean environment, the blindness in the region would be tamed.

    Senior Ophthalmic Clinical Officer in Moroto hospital, Mr Charles Pariyo explains the use of the eye care equipment to other hospital staff.

  • Tanzania:Region’s star seen shining as EA helps Kagera

    { {{Uganda gives 437m/-
    Kenya delivers items}}

    Experts in diplomacy have described a move by three heads of state of the East African Community (EAC) to give relief aid to victims of Kagera earthquake as signal towards more cooperation and brilliant future in the bloc. }

    Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and Paul Kagame of Rwanda handed over their contributions to President John Magufuli on Saturday. Mr Museveni contributed a total of 200,000 US dollars (437m/-) and Mr Kenyatta provided a relief items including roofing sheets, blankets and mattresses worth 115m/-.

    The tremor, which occurred on September 10 and measuring at a magnitude of 5.7 on the Richter scale, killed 17 and left 440 others injured. The quake also destroyed 2,063 houses while 14,081 others were damaged.

    In separate interviews with the ‘Daily News’ yesterday, the experts on diplomatic issues and a member of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) called for continued such spirit among the members of the EAC of helping each other during hard times.

    They argued that the situation showed the real meaning of the Community. A Lecturer at the Centre for Foreign Relations (CFR), Dr Kitojo Wetengere, noted that being in the community means that the members need to support each other economically and socially. “When one member country faces trouble, others should provide help.

    For these presidents to support Tanzania, it means that we are together during good and hard times. They have proved that our pain is theirs,” Dr Wetengere remarked. He said it was healthy for the EAC because by doing so; the three presidents have underscored more collaboration and unity among member states.

    “They have given us the real meaning and sense of the community. It’s my first time to hear this happening and I hope that such gestures would continue,” he said. Another expert in diplomacy at the CFR, Dr Bernard Achiula, remarked that what the three EA heads of state have done was crucial for the brighter future of the EAC.

    Dr Achiula even went far arguing that the relief aid from the three presidents could also explain how Dr Magufuli, as the new chairman of the EAC, has been able to win support from other member states and manage to unite them within a short period after he took over the chair.

    He further said that Tanzania has been in the frontline in helping other countries during times of trouble and, therefore, such a gesture has proved to other countries in the Community that a friend in need is a friend indeed.

    “I think helping each other in the Community before asking for support from western countries shows how the EAC is now matured,” he noted. A Member of the EALA, Mr Makongoro Nyerere, said the presidents’ move underlined the solidarity among member states.

    “Their response was unique since they made a quick response after seeing that their fellow EAC member has got problems,” he added.

    He proposed that the EAC should in future need to have a law that would guide them in collaboratively respond to disasters. He said the law would improve the current low capacity among the EA countries in responding and managing the disasters, which have caused deaths, injuries and loss of properties in the region.

    Houses damaged following a 5.7-magnitude earthquake in Bukoba region in northwest Tanzania.

  • Democratic Republic of Congo adviser on ‘pleading mission’ to U.S. not to impose sanctions

    {A senior adviser to Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila said on Friday he was on a “pleading mission” to Washington to press U.S. officials to support talks between the government and opposition on setting up new elections and not to impose sanctions that could hurt the process.}

    In an interview with Reuters, Barnabe Kikaya said he had updated U.S. officials and lawmakers on talks under way to form an interim government in Congo and insisted that Kabila was not seeking to extend his term.

    “I’m in a pleading mission because there are two resolutions that were pending in the House to impose sanctions on Congolese officials,” Kikaya said. “My mission is to plead with American officials and to prove to them that sanctions are not a solution to help us resolve our problems.”

    Washington has threatened sanctions against political figures over delays in the vote that had been set for November. The mining-rich country has never had a peaceful transition of power and the delay has led to protests and arrests.

    Most major opposition parties are boycotting the talks, saying they are part of a plan by Kabila to justify staying in power beyond the end of his mandate in December, when he is due to step down under the constitution.

    The opposition has insisted that presidential elections should be held first, but the government has argued for local elections to take place before.

    Under a compromise worked out between the sides, presidential and legislative elections would occur simultaneously provided there was funding for it, Kikaya said.

    A senior State Department official said the United States supported talks that included the opposition and civil society, but there was still a lack of clarity over precisely what the agreement would include.

    “We want to see what it would say,” the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. “We want to make sure that the Congolese government includes political opposition, civil society in these discussions.”

    The United States insisted again on Friday it was ready to consider additional targeted sanctions against individuals who sought to undermine Congo’s democratic institutions and the election process.

    “We’re ready to consider targeted sanctions under those circumstances,” the official said, adding: “It is something we’re exploring and looking at.”

    Kikaya denied that Kabila was seeking to stay in power and pushed back at accusations that the delay in the election was “purposefully engineered.”

    The constitution “means a lot to him and he will not violate it,” said Kikaya, “And he has said it time and again.”

    Asked why Kabila had not publicly stated he was not seeking to extend his term, Kikaya said: “He has made it clear at every opportunity. It is written in the constitution that he can’t and the constitution hasn’t changed.”

    Kikaya added: “He cannot say it. We are in Africa … where if Kabila had to say that … from that time on he loses all authority.”

    Washington had made it clear to Congo’s leaders that the election process had to be inclusive and in keeping with the constitution and agreements among political parties, the State Department official said.

  • Uganda:Police doctor arrested over theft of government drugs

    {A police doctor, who was implicated in the theft of government drugs worth millions of shillings in Gulu District three years ago, has been arrested and handed over to the Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala.}

    Dr Abdallah Walimbwa, a former officer in-charge of Gulu Police Barracks Health Centre III, was arrested at police training school, Kabalye in Masindi District where he has been heading a medical team.

    The arrest followed pressures mounted on him from the Directorate of Ethics and Integrity and Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).

    Dr Walimbwa was reportedly implicated in 2013 after security operatives intercepted him with 12 boxes of assorted government drugs in Gulu, majority being anti-malarial drugs meant to serve the government health facility.

    He was allegedly intending to transport the assorted drugs to Mbale District.

    The anti-corruption coordinator in Acholi Sub-region, Mr Christopher Opiyo Ateker, told Saturday Monitor in an interview on Tuesday that the arrest of the suspect was long overdue.

    According to Mr Ateker, Dr Walimbwa was interrogated by police Professional Standards Unit in Gulu District after his arrest but his case file disappeared without a trace days later under and unclear circumstances.

    Mr Ateker alleges that when pressure was piled to have the suspect’s file forwarded to the Resident State Attorney, police instead reacted by transferring him to Butiaba police training wing in Bulisa District.

    “It was a long follow-up in various government offices where we lodged complaints to let police produce the suspect. Finally last week, the Directorate of Public Prosecution ordered Gulu Resident State Attorney to trace for the suspect’s file,” said Mr Ateker.

    Aswa Regional Police Spokesperson Jimmy Patrick Okema said the suspect was brought to Gulu District where his case file was sanctioned before being taken to Kampala and charged at the Anti-Corruption Court.

    Mr Okema said the suspect is facing charges of embezzlement of government property and abuse of office contrary.

    Meanwhile, police in Gulu are investigating two health workers over alleged theft of Hepatitis B vaccines and drugs.

    One of the suspects is the officer in charge of Gulu University Health Center II, who is accused of theft of Hepatitis B vaccines that were supplied to the health facility in mid July.

    The other is the proprietor of Lubii Medical Centre in Gulu Town, who was found in possession of 15 boxes of government anti-malarial drugs at her clinic last week.

    Recently, the State minister for Primary Health Care, Dr Joyce Moriku Kaducu, in a July 8 letter directed health officials in Gulu District to stop the distribution of Hepatitis B vaccines and testing kit to private medical facilities pending investigations.

    It was reported that 23,000 vaccines were released to private facilities to be administered to locals in Gulu free of charge, but locals were reportedly being charged before vaccination.

    Aswa Regional Police Spokesperson Jimmy Patrick Okema said the suspect was brought to Gulu District where his case file was sanctioned before being taken to Kampala and charged at the Anti-Corruption Court.

  • Kenya donates Sh500m to Global Fund

    {Kenya on Friday announced it will donate of $5 million (Sh500 million) to the Global Fund Against Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria making it one of the highest contributors from Africa.}

    The announcement was made by Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed who spoke on behalf of President Uhuru Kenyatta at the Global Fund Replenishment conference in Montreal, Canada.

    “The Global Fund has played a major role in supporting Kenya’s success in combating HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria over the years,” said Ms Mohamed.

    The donation by the government is part of the concept of ‘giving to receive’ in which countries that benefit from the global fund also make contributions. In the next three years, Kenya is expected to receive more than Sh34 billion from the Global Fund.

    In the statement, the President said the Global Fund had made a huge difference in saving the life of millions of people all over the world.

    Kenya runs the seventh largest Global Fund portfolio and its donation is part of its commitment to ensure the fund achieves the goal of combating the three diseases.

    The fund aims to ensure Aids, TB and malaria will no longer be a public health threat by 2030 .

    {{ARV}}

    The President said the spirit of true partnership can indeed be the difference between life and death for millions of people and of prosperity or poverty for nations.

    He said a global commitment could result in averting 28 million new HIV infections and 21 million Aids related deaths.

    “It is in the spirit of solidarity and shared responsibility that the Government of Kenya has pledged $5 million towards the 5th Global Fund Replenishment, which shows an increase from $2 million pledged and honoured during the last cycle,” said President Kenyatta.

    Kenya has invested more than $54 million (Sh5.4 billion) in the last two financial years as its contribution and counter fund to the Global Fund and other partners’ investment in Aids, TB and Malaria interventions.

    {{DISEASES}}

    Kenya has 950,000 people living with HIV enrolled in life long anti-retroviral treatment, and who will receive ARVs for the next 70 years, if a cure is not found.

    Over the last decade, a total of 1.2 million Kenyans have been diagnosed with TB and one million treated successfully and the number of TB cases has dropped from 120,000 to 80,000 in the last 2 years.

    This has averted over 500,000 deaths and placed Kenya as global leader in TB control.

    In the case of Malaria, government funding supported by the Global Fund has enabled scaled-up intervention to reduce the burden.

    Health Cabinet Secretary Dr Cleopa Mailu said Kenya has been a major beneficiary of the Global Fund.

    Other countries from Africa that made contributions to the Global Fund included South Africa which also pledged $5 million (Sh500 million) and Namibia which contributed $1.5 million (Sh150 million) among others.

    While opening the conference, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the struggle against the three diseases is not over but they can be eradicated if the world works together.

    He said the days of isolationism are gone and the world should engage in partnerships to manage challenges including Aids, TB and malaria.

    The PM described the performance of the Global Fund as phenomenal.

    The Pledging target was $13 billion. The total contributions by all countries and other donors will be announced on Saturday afternoon.

    Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed reading a speech on behalf of President Kenyatta during the Global Fund Replenishment conference in Montreal, Canada on September 16, 2016.

  • Tanzania:Hundreds turn up for quake charity walk

    {Retired President Ali Hassan Mwinyi leads hundreds of Dar es Salaam residents who turned up for Five Kilometres Kagera earthquake charity walk today.}

    The charity walk intends to raise money for for last Saturday quake survivors.

    The walks starts and ends at Oysterbay Police Mess. the tremor left 17 dead, over 250 injured and destroy some 1000 buildings.

    So far over 2.5bn/- have been donated for the cause.

    The charity walk intends to raise money for for last Saturday quake survivors. The walks starts and ends at Oysterbay Police Mess. the tremor left 17 dead, over 250 injured and destroy some 1000 buildings. So far over 2.5bn/- have been donated for the cause.