Tanzanian police arrested the leader of the opposition Alliance for Change and Transparency after he gave a speech about the current state of the country’s economy. The authorities detained Zitto Kabwe on Tuesday and he’s currently being questioned about the speech he made on Oct. 29 in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital, Abdallah Khamis, the ACT’s spokesman, said by phone. Kabwe’s speech covered issues including “the quality of life of Tanzanians, the state of the economy and how to defeat the ruling party,” Khamis said. President John Magufuli has cracked down on opposition to his administration and closed several newspapers since he came to power in November 2015, stoking fears that the space for political dissent in sub-Saharan Africa’s sixth-biggest economy is shrinking. ...
CRITICALLY ill in a hospital in Nairobi, Tundu Lissu, the chief whip of Tanzania’s main opposition party, Chadema, is a lesson to those who would criticise the Tanzanian president, John Magufuli (pictured). On September 7th Mr Lissu was gunned down in broad daylight near his house in the sleepy administrative capital, Dodoma, after returning from a session in parliament. The attempted assassination came just two weeks after he was arrested—for the sixth time—for such things as insulting the president. It is not clear who was behind the attack. A month later, the government has yet to make any arrests. Mr Lissu had previously complained about being followed, and said he worried he might be killed. ...
A section of women from Nyeri County have vowed to deny their sex to their spouses until they make sure they have voted for President Uhuru in the repeat presidential election set for October 26th.
In a meeting held at a hotel in Nyeri town on Wednesday, the women agreed to 'starve' their husbands on the eve of the Thursday's election so that President Uhuru would get the maximum number of votes from the region.
Led by Nyeri Women Representative Rahab Mukami, the women said the move will guarantee a big win for President Uhuru against his rival Raila Odinga of National Super Alliance (NASA).
In the run for August 8th election, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga was on the record asking his married supporters to refrain from sex on the eve of election.
At a rally in Homa Bay County, the Nasa leader called on residents to refrain from sex until he was declared the winner. He said; "August 8 will be a historic day and no vote will be left without being cast. Men will sleep outside. When the day comes, no man should sleep with a woman." The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader had earlier told supporters that, "when you are going for war, sex is a bad omen".
Kirinyaga, Nyandarua and Kiambu Women Representatives Purity Ngirici, Faith Gitau and Gathoni Muchomba respectively, were also present during the declaration by Nyeri women.
Jubilee wameiga kaulimbiu ya kampeni ya muungano wa Nasa baada ya kikundi cha wanawake kutoa wito wa kujizuia kufanya ngono hadi pale watakapokamilisha kumsimika Uhuru Kenya kuwa rais. “Hakuna ngono hadi baada ya uchaguzi” ni kauli ya hamasa iliyoanzishwa na mgombea urais kwa tiketi ya Nasa, Raila Odinga kwamba wakati wa vita wanaume huwa hawalali na wake zao. Kauli hiyo ilikuwa maarufu kipindi...
Mrembo wa Tanzania na Kada wa Chadema Wema Sepetu ametoa ya Moyoni kwa nini hakwenda kumuona mapema Mbunge wa Singida Mashariki Tundu Lissu baada ya kupigwa risasi septemba 7 ni kwamba asingeweza kumuona akiwa kwenye maumivu.
Wema ameweka wazi maneno hayo kwenye ukurasa wake wa Instagram ikiwa ni baada ya dakika chache tangu kuachiwa kwa picha za kwanza za Mbunge huyo akiwa hospitali ya Nairobi nchini Kenya.
Wema ameandika "Kisichokuua kinakufanya uwe na nguvuz zaidi....Utarudi tena ukiwa na nguvu kuliko ulivyokuwa awali...Shujaa wetu. ... Picha hii imenifanya nipate hisia. Sasa naweza andaa safari ya Nairobi kuja kukuona.. Awali nisingeweza kuvumilia kukuona ukiwa kwenye maumivu".
Mbunge wa jimbo la Mtama kwa tiketi ya Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) Nape Nnauye amefunguka na kusema amefurahi kumuona Tundu Lissu akiwa katika furaha na tabasamu na kumuomba kwa sasa asiseme lolote mpaka pale atakapona kabisaa. Nape Nnauye amesema hayo kupitia ukurasa wake wa Twitter na kusema tabasamu la Mbunge wa Singida Mashariki, Tundu Lissu akiwa kwenye hospitali jijini Nairobi linatoa matumaini...
Familia ya Mbunge wa Singida Mashariki, Tundu Lissu imesema kwamba kwa mara ya kwanza ndugu yao alipotolewa nje kupata hewa na kuota jua kauli yake aliyoitoa alisema kuwa ni sawa na ukiwa mfungwa huoni jua, mawingu wala hupigwi upepo wa kawaida. Katika mahojiano aliyofanyiwa Kaka wa Lissu, Wakili Alute Mughwai Lissu amesema kwamba mara baada ya ndugu yake kutolewa nje na kukaa kwa takribani...
Mhe. Tundu Lissu akiwa hospitali Nairobi alipokua amepelekwa kwa matibabu baada ya kupigwa risasi na watu wasiojulikana ambako kwa sasa anaendelea vizuri
Hon. Lissu will be going to a third level of treatment. He still needs us.
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Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto speaks during a news conference with members of the Foreign Correspondents Association of East Africa in his official residence in Karen, NairobiKenyan Deputy President William Ruto speaks during a news conference with members of the Foreign Correspondents Association of East Africa in his official residence in Karen, Nairobi, Kenya, October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
By Katharine Houreld
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga decided not to stand in next week's presidential election to avoid defeat rather than for reasons of principle, the deputy president said on Tuesday.
Odinga was due to face President Uhuru Kenyatta on Oct. 26 in a repeat of a presidential vote held in August but he withdrew his candidacy, saying the electoral commission had failed to institute reforms to guarantee fairness.
Kenyatta won the Aug. 8 election by 1.4 million votes. The Supreme Court annulled the election citing procedural irregularities and ordered that it be held again.
"Odinga is running away from a humiliating defeat," deputy president William Ruto told journalists. "He has to find this excuse and that excuse and the other excuse to try and justify his exit."
He said the government wants Odinga to run but could not force him. "Legitimacy is a matter that concerns us and it concerns us because we believe in a democracy," he said.
The ruling party is confident Kenyatta can win and secure a second and final four-year term in office, Ruto said, citing their majority in parliament and regional governorships.
Political turmoil connected to the elections has hurt Kenya's economy. The country has East Africa's richest economy and is a stable Western ally in a tumultuous region.
Odinga says the election board has failed to meet conditions to guarantee fairness, including firing key personnel he blamed for mistakes during the last poll. Ruto said the board could agree to Odinga's demands as long as the election went ahead.
On Sunday, the board ran adverts in national newspapers showing which demands it had agreed to and why others were rejected. It has agreed to more than half of opposition demands and says it cannot agree to others due to time constraints.
Odinga has called for daily protests to force the reforms. His supporters have defied a ban by authorities on protests in the center of Nairobi, as well as in the port city of Mombasa and the western city of Kisumu, which is Odinga's stronghold.
On Tuesday Odinga blamed police and ruling party supporters for disrupting a planned rally in central Kenya and told reporters that he was planning to travel around the country to direct protests in the coming days.
"We as NASA are very clear about what we want. We said we don't want to go for an election without proper reforms. We don't want to escort Jubilee to the altar," he said. "If Jubilee wants, to have a proper contest, they will have it."
PROTESTS AND POLICE
Ruto said the protests were an attempt to create crisis and encourage international mediation that might lead to a power-sharing government, as happened in the wake of civil disturbances after an election in 2007 in which hundreds died.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said on Monday at least 33 people were killed in Nairobi during a police crackdown on opposition supporters after the August vote. The police said the report was "based on falsehoods." [L8N1MR39L]
The opposition said in a statement it was disturbed by the death on Monday of a high school student in the western city of Kisumu, Odinga's stronghold. The security forces were trying to "subdue" people seeking a fair election, it said.
Local police said a young man was killed by a bullet in unclear circumstances.
Also in Kisumu, a two-year-old girl was hospitalized on Monday and had a bullet removed from her neck, doctors at the city's main hospital said.
The girl was playing outside her home when she was struck with a stray bullet, her mother Lydia Kageha told Reuters. She said she could hear teargas canisters and gunshots in a nearby neighborhood where police and protesters had clashed.
Police said they were investigating.
A police spokesman said election board officials were attacked by "hooligans" in several towns in western Kenya on Tuesday and warned against interference with the board's work.
(Additional reporting by Humphrey Malalo, George Obulutsa and Maggie Fick; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)
Imamu wa Msikiti wa Al Masjid Kirumbi Islamic Center uliopo Kimara amewazuia waumini wake kutoshiriki katika kuvunja au kutoa kitu chochote katika msikiti huo ambao unatakiwa kuvunjwa na Wakala wa Barabara Tanzania TANROADS. Imamu wa Msikiti huo Ramadhan Juma amesema hayo jana wakati akifanyiwa mahojiano na MCL na kudai kutokana na imani yao ni kosa kubwa mtu yoyote kuvunja...
Kiongozi wa upinzani nchini Rwanda, Diane Rwigara amemtaka Rais Paul Kagame kumfutia mashtaka na kuwaachilia ndugu zake ambao wanashikili na jeshi la polisi nchini humo. Rwigara amesema kuwa serikali imefanya jaribio la kuinyamazisha familia yake pamoja na wafuasi wake tangu alipotangaza kuwania nafasi ya uraisi katika uchaguzi uliofanyika mwezi Mei mwaka huu. Aidha, ndugu hao watatu ambao...
Mwenyekiti wa Chadema, Freeman Mbowe amesema kuwa Mbunge wa Singida Mashariki, Tundu Lissu ametoka ICU na sasa anaweza kukaa. Akizungumza na waandishi wa habari leo Jumanne, Mbowe amesema afya ya Lissu inaimarika kwa kuwa alihitaji upasuaji mwingi sana kutokana na risasi zilizoingia kwenye mwili wake. “Amefanyiwa upasuaji mkubwa mara 17 mpaka sasa. Ameongezewa damu nyingi kuliko mtu yeyote...
Mwenyekiti wa Chadema, Freeman Mbowe amesema gharama za matibabu ya Mbunge wa Singida Mashariki, Tundu Lissu aliyelazwa katika Hospitali ya Nairobi nchini Kenya zimefikia Sh412.7 milioni. Lissu ambaye ni mwanasheria wa chama hicho, amelazwa hospitalini hapo tangu Septemba 7 aliposhambuliwa na kujeruhiwa kwa risasi akiwa maeneo ya nyumbani kwake Area D mjini Dodoma. Mbowe akizungumza na waandishi...
Mbunge wa Mtama, Nape Nnauye amesema kuzuiwa mikutano ya kisiasa si kuminya demokrasia kwa kuwa kuna bunge ambalo linaweza kutumika kutolea maoni yao. Akihojiwa na kituo cha Televisheni cha KTN kutoka nchini Kenya katika kipindi cha siasa za kanda kuhusu demokrasia katika Afrika, Nape amesema demokrasia inatakiwa kutafsiriwa kulingana na maeneo tuliyopo. “Afrika hatuwezi...
Watu 7 wamefariki papo hapo na wengine 14 kujeruhiwa, baada ya gari walilokuwa wakisafiria aina ya Noah kugongwa na lori la mizigo wakitoka kwenye sherehe ya harusi wilayani Hanang mkoani Manyara.
Ajali hiyo ambayo imetokea usiku wa Oktoba 14, 2017 imehusisha Noah yenye namba za usajili T 744 DJQ, likiwa limebeba watu wa familia moja, kugongwa na lori aina ya semi trailer lenye namba za usajili T449 CDR mali ya kampuni ya Lake Hill Paradise ya Singida, na kuleta majonzi na simanzi kwa ndugu wa marehemu.
Licha ya watu walioshuhudia, manusura wa ajali hiyo ambaye ndiye bwana harusi aliyetoka kufunga ndoa, amesema chanzo cha ajali hiyo ni dereva wa gari hilo Bwana Wilson Simba ambaye pia amefariki, kutokuwa makini barabarani kabla ya kuchepuka upande mwengine.
Kamanda wa kikosi cha usalama barabarani mkoa wa Manyara, Bi. Mary Kipesha, amekiri kuwa uzembe uliosababishwa na dereva ndio uliosababisha ajali hiyo na kupoteza watu wakiwemo yeye mwenyewe, na dereva wa lori ambaye amekimbia kushindwa kuchukua hatua za haraka kuidhibiti.
MWANAMUZIKI Rehema Chalamila ‘Ray C’ amesema hatasita kuchukua hatua za kisheria dhidi ya wanamuziki wanaoimba nyimbo zake bila makubaliano
Nyota huyo ambaye kwa sasa yupo nje ya nchi ameimbia Mwananchi kuwa hawezi kuvumilia vitendo hivyo kwasababu vinalenga kumuharibia biashara yake ya muziki ambayo ndio maisha yake.
Amesema, “Muziki ni biashara huwezi ukalipwa pesa nyingi halafu ukapanda jukwaani ukaimba nyimbo za msanii mwingine bila makubaliano. Huu ni ufinyu wa ubunifu,”
Kauli hiyo ya Ray C imekuja siku moja baada ya kuandika kwenye ukurasa wake wa Instagram kuwa hakufurahishwa na kitendo cha Nandy kuimba wimbo wake bila ridhaa yake.
Dar es Salaam. Msanii maarufu wa kike wa fani ya uigizaji wa filamu nchini, Elizabeth Michael Kimemeta, maarufu kama Lulu, anayekabiliwa na kesi ya mauaji ya aliyekuwa msanii maarufu wa kiume wa fani hiyo, Steven Kanumba, keshokutwa atapanda kizimbani tena wakati kesi hiyo itakapoanza kuunguruma.
Lulu ambaye yuko nje kwa dhamana anakabiliwa na kesi hiyo katika Mahakama Kuu Kanda ya Dar es Salaam, akidaiwa kumuua Kanumba bila kukusudia, kinyume cha Kifungu cha 195 cha Kanuni za Adhabu (PC), April 7, 2012, nyumbani kwa marehemu Kanumba, Sinza Vatican.
Pope canonises first New World martyrs, calls Amazon synod for 2019
Pope Francis makes 35 people Roman Catholic saints at the Vatican and used the occasion to announce that he will call a high level meeting of clergy in the Pan-Amazon region in two year's time. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
