ARE THEY STILL THE WINGS OF KILIMANJARO?

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Feds pressure African dictator's son to surrender Ferrari, Michael Jackson's glove

The U.S. government may soon own one of Michael Jackson's white gloves, a $530,000 Ferrari and a $30 million Malibu estate if it succeeds in seizing them from the son of a corrupt African dictator.

In a case kept hidden from public view until last week, the U.S. Department of Justice says it's pursuing more than $32 million in assets from Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, whose father Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled over oil-rich Equatorial Guinea for 32 years -- and has been accused by authorities around the world of illicitly siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars for himself and his family.
A 2010 U.S. Senate report detailed how Obiang the younger, known as Teodorin, had moved $110 million into the United States through shell companies and anonymous transactions, propping up a hard-partying lifestyle that included spending $30 million on one of Malibu's largest mansions and a $38.5 million Gulfstream V jet. Obiang was also known to collect supercars like they were Hot Wheels, with at least 32 cars and motorcycles at one point, including eight Ferraris, two Bugatti Veyrons and a $2 million Maserati.

While the U.S. Department of Justice has said a probe into Obiang had been ongoing since 2004, the first signs of legal trouble for Obiang came from France, where authorities seized 11 of his cars last month, including the $2 million Maserati MC-12. While the Justice Department had sought seven cars from Obiang in California, its latest request mentions only one -- a 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO.

The documents unsealed last week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles offer the first glimpse of the case built by the Justice against Obiang, accusing him of spending more than $100 million garnered from extortion and embezzlement in Equatorial Guinea. The feds also revealed how Obiang bought $3.2 million worth of memorabilia from Michael Jackson's estate earlier this year, including the white crystal-studded glove Jackson wore on the "Bad" tour, the MTV Music Video Award for "We Are The World" and several of the life-size figurines Jackson used to keep at his Neverland Ranch.

So far, no representatives of Obiang's has officially responded to the government's bid, and the Justice Department has not yet responded to a request for comment from Yahoo! Autos. Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group long critical of inaction against the Obiang family, has called on the United States and other countries to move against the clan despite their control over a key oil supply.

“The move to freeze Teodorín’s assets in the U.S. is overdue,” said Arvind Ganesan, business and human rights director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement. “But the real test will be if the U.S. government vigorously pursues the inquiry to its conclusion without letting diplomatic or business ties stand in the way.”
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DO YOU KNOW IT ENGINEER FRANCO CHANDE?

IT Engineer Franco Chande.

Franco Chande is among of IT Engineer in Tanzania, had an experience in computer Maintenance( Assembling and Installation), Computer Networking, (LAN/WLAN) and Configuration of any IT devices (Servers, Routers, Modems, etc.)

According of the shortage of IT Expert in Tanzania, Franco Chande advice every young boys and Girls to join in this field to help our Nation and to make sure we develop our Country in this Industry, which is running the World.

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MHASIBU MKUU DELMORE COMPANY - AFRICA DENIS FULGENCE AUAGA UKAPERA.

Maharusi wakiingia Ukumbini kwa kwa furaha na Stail ya aina yake.

Bwana na Bibi Denis Fulgence wakiwa katika pozi la kipicha zaidi.

Mr and Mrs Stephen Malakasuka nao hawakuwa nyuma katika kushereheka pamoja katika harusi ya Wapendwa wetu Maharusi.

Bi Harusi Ajimbo Fulgence akiwaongoza wageni waalikwa kwenda kwenye kuchukua chakula kilichoandaliwa na wataalam wa upichi wa Bufee ndani ya Ukumbi wa Beach Komba.

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One killed, 8 wounded in Nairobi blast

A grenade thrown into a downscale Nairobi pub early Monday exploded and wounded a dozen people two days after the U.S. warned of possible terror attacks in Kenya's capital. Police said it was too early to name a suspect.

Any such attack in Nairobi would immediately arouse suspicion that Somali militants from al-Shabab carried out the assault. The al-Qaida-linked group earlier this month promised to unleash terror attacks in Nairobi in response to a push by Kenya's military into southern Somalia.

Monday's grenade explosion, though, did not bear the hallmarks of well-planned terror attack. The U.S. on Saturday warned of an imminent terrorist attack and said likely targets include shopping malls and night clubs where foreigners congregate. Conversely, the grenade explosion occurred at a downtrodden bar where only lower-income Kenyans meet.

Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere told a news conference Monday that the grenade exploded at 1:15 a.m. while 20 people were inside the bar. Three people were seriously wounded, he said. The blast overturned chairs and tables, and blood stained the floor. Iteere said police did not yet have any suspects.

"It is too early at this point in time to give a conclusive answer," he said, adding later: "The person who lobbed the grenade into the pub was not seen by anybody."

Police have tightened security around hotels, bridges and fuel depots, Iteere said.

The weapon used Monday was a Russian-made F1 grenade, he said. A similar type of grenade was used in a downtown Nairobi attack in December 2010 at a bus station. That attack killed one person.

Three grenades exploded at a political rally in downtown Nairobi in June 2010, killing six people. In December that year two traffic police died when they were shot and a third was seriously injured by a grenade.

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GADHAFI IS NO MORE!!!

AIBU GANI HII BADO INAENDELEA KULIKUMBA TAIFA LETU!

AIBU GANI HII BADO INAENDELEA KULIKUMBA TAIFA LETU!

Jeshi la Polisi nchini (PT) kupitia Inspekta Generali wake Said Mwema(Pichani) imetangaza dau la Shilingi Milioni 5 kwa mtu yeyote atakaefanikisha kupatikana kwa mtu aliyemjeruhi mtoto Adam Robert (14) ambaye ni Albino huko Geita ambapo mtu asiyejulikana alimvamia mtoto huyo na kuanza kumkata kata mikono na kisha kutoweka na vidole vya Albino huyo.

Tukio hilo lilitokea usiku wa kuamkia mwishoni mwawiki katika Kijiji cha Nyaruguguna, Kata na Tarafa ya Nyang’hwale ambapo mlemavu huyo, Adam Robert (14), mwanafunzi wa darasa la nne, alivamiwa na kukatwa mkono wa kulia na kisha kunyofolewa vidole vitatu vya mkono wa kushoto.

Ni jambo la kusikitisha sana kuona vitendo hivi vinaendelea kutokea na mwisho wa siku jeshi linataka kutumia fedha za walipa kodi kwa ajili ya kuwapata wahalifu hao, mi nadhani hii njia sio sahihi, sidhani kama Jeshi la polisi wanashindwa kuwapata hawa wanaowatuma wahalifu kwenda kuwadhuru maalbino hawa. Jambo la msingi hapa sio kutangaza dau ni kuhakikisha wale wanaowatuma ndio wanakamatwa na ninaamini jeshi la polisi likishirikiana na usalama wa Taifa inawezekana kuwakamata hawa na kuwatokomeza kabisa, usalama wa Taifa wanafanya kazi gani kama sio pia na kuangalia usalama wa Watanzania hawa!

Ni aibu kubwa kwa Taifa letu vitendo hivi vinavyoendelea.

SAKATA LA MGOMO WA WANACHUO WA IMTU UNIVERSITY HATMA YAKE LINI?

SAKATA LA MGOMO WA WANACHUO WA IMTU UNIVERSITY HATMA YAKE LINI?

Geti kuu la kuingia Chuo kikuu cha Afya IMTU kilichopo Mbezi Beach.

Wanachuo hao hapa wakiwa katika moja ya maandamano ya mgomo huo.

Waziri wa Elimu na Mafunzo ya Ufundi Dr Shukuru Kawambwa

Sakata hili lilitolewa miezi michache iliyopita na vyombo mbali mbali vya habari kuhusu mgomo huu wa wanachuo hawa.

Ni jambo la kusikitisha sana kuona nchi ambayo ina upungufu mkubwa wa Madaktari, kushindwa kuumaliza mgomo wa Madaktari Wanafunzi ambao sasa umekamilisha miezi miwili, kundi hili la wanachuo limekuwa likikusanyika nje ya Makao Makuu ya Wizara ya Elimu kwa vipindi tofauti bila hitimisho la mgomo huu.

Kwa kutambua umuhimu wa wataalam hawa tunaziomba mamlaka zilizopewa dhamana ya kusimamia na kuongoza ziumalize mzozo huu ambao madai yao ya msingi ni kulipa Ada kwa Tshs na si US Dollar na pia kulipa ada kubwa tofauti na vyuo vingine vya binafsi (private).

Sisi kama wanafunzi ambao tunaathirika na mgomo huu Bado tuna imani na Serikali ya Mh.Jakaya kikwete na watendaji wake wote, Katibu Mkuu Wizara ya elimu,Tanzania Commision of Universties na Higher Education Student Loan Board tunawaomba waumalize mzozo huu.

Pesa nyingi zimetumika za walipa kodi kupitia loan board kuwakopesha wanafunzi hawa Tunahitaji sasa wote kwa pamoja kulishughulikia hili tatizo ili tuweze kuendelea na Masomo na mwisho tuende kujenga taifa letu changa lenye upungufu mkubwa wa Madaktari.

Uganda president: US troops not sent in to fight

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that U.S. military "personnel" being sent to Uganda to help fight the rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army will not participate in actual fighting.

Museveni told a news conference it was wrong to say that the U.S. was sending troops to fight the LRA and its brutal leader Joseph Kony.

"Better to call them U.S. personnel, not troops," Museveni said.

The Americans will help gather intelligence, he said.

"When you call them troops you are saying that they are coming to fight on our behalf," Museveni said. "We shall never have troops coming to fight for us. I cannot accept foreign troops to come and fight for me. We have the capacity to fight our wars."

President Barack Obama announced Friday he is dispatching about 100 U.S. troops — mostly special operations forces — to central Africa to advise in the fight against the LRA, a guerrilla group accused of widespread atrocities across several countries. Some experts suggest that the U.S. move is to reward Uganda for its contributions to the African Union force in Somalia that fights the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militia.

Museveni said Sunday that the U.S. has been supporting its fight against Kony already, including sharing satellite intelligence and assisting with helicopters.

The LRA once fought Ugandan troops in the country's north, but have been flushed out of the country. The LRA now operates in South Sudan, Congo and the Central African Republic.

The LRA poses no known security threat to the United States, and a report from the anti-genocide group the Enough Project last year said that Kony no longer has complete and direct command and control over each LRA unit. The LRA is estimated to have between 200 and 400 fighters but still carries out deadly attacks on isolated villages.

The group's tactics have been widely condemned as vicious. The U.S. troops will be helping to fight a group that has slaughtered thousands of civilians and routinely kidnaps children to be child soldiers and sex slaves.

Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court for his group's attacks.

MAPACHA . . .

The two teenage boys sitting on the sofa opposite are different in almost every way. On the left is James: he's black, he's gay, he's gregarious, and he's academic. He's taking three A-levels next summer, and wants to go to university. Daniel, sitting beside him, is white. He's straight, he's shy, and he didn't enjoy school at all. He left after taking GCSEs, and hopes that his next move will be an apprenticeship in engineering.

So, given that they are diametrically opposed, there is one truly surprising thing about James and Daniel. They are twins. They were born on 27 March 1993, the sons of Alyson and Errol Kelly, who live in south-east London. And from the start, it was obvious to everyone that they were the complete flipside of identical. "They were chalk and cheese, right from the word go," says Alyson. "It was hard to believe they were even brothers, let alone twins."

The boys' colour was the most obvious, and extraordinary, difference. "When James was born he was the spitting image of Errol, and I remember seeing his curly hair and thinking – he's just like his dad. It was another two hours before Daniel was born: and what a surprise he was! He was so white and wrinkly, with this curly blond hair."

It wasn't the first time nature had shocked Alyson and Errol. Daniel and James were the family's third set of twins: Errol and Alyson each already had a set with a previous partner. Errol's first set are fraternal boys, Shane and Luke, who are 21; Alyson's are identical boys, Charles and Jordan, 20. The only singleton in the house is the couple's youngest child, and only daughter, 14-year-old Katie. "Apart from her, it's twin city," says Alyson. "At least life was made a bit easier by the fact that we always had two of everything."

But it was clear that having one black and one white twin was going to mark the family out, wherever they went. "We'd go on holiday and people would say, 'Is that one a friend you brought along?'" says Alyson. For Errol the response of strangers was harder to deal with. "People didn't believe Daniel was mine," he says. "They didn't always say anything, but I could tell it was what they were thinking."

So how does it happen that a white and a black partner – who would usually produce, as Alyson and Errol did in their other children, black-skinned offspring – have a child who is as white as his mum? I spoke to Dr Jim Wilson, population geneticist at Edinburgh University – and his first question was, "What is Errol's heritage?" Errol is Jamaican – and that, says Jim, is the basic explanation.

"It wouldn't really be possible for a black African father and a white mother to have a white child, because the African would carry only black skin gene variants in his DNA, so wouldn't have any European DNA, with white skin variants, to pass on," he explains.

"But most Caribbean people, though black-skinned, have European DNA because in the days of slavery, many plantation owners raped female slaves, and so introduced European DNA into the black gene pool.

"The thing about skin colour is that even a bit of African DNA tends to make a person's skin colour black – so to be white, the child must have inherited more of the father's European DNA with its white skin variants. Added to the mother's European DNA, this led to a child with white skin – while his brother, who is black-skinned, inherited more of his father's African DNA.

"The Caribbean father will have less European DNA than African DNA, so it's more likely he'll pass on African DNA – but rarely, and I've worked it out to be around one in 500 sets of twins where there's a couple of this genetic mix, the father will pass on a lot of European DNA to one child and mostly African DNA to the other. The result will be one white child and one black."

Alyson got used to the comments and the stares, the sniggers about their parentage and the "stupid things people said" when her boys were babies; but then, when Daniel and James went to nursery aged three, the twins' skin colour plunged the family into controversy. "They were at this very politically correct nursery, and the staff told us that when Daniel drew a picture of himself, he had to make himself look black – because he was mixed-race," says Alyson. "And I said, that's ridiculous. Why does Daniel have to draw himself as black, when a white face looks back at him in the mirror?"

After a row with the nursery staff, she gave interviews to her local paper and TV. "I kicked up a fuss, because it really bothered me," she says. "Daniel had one white parent and one black, so why couldn't he call himself white? Why does a child who is half-white and half-black have to be black? Especially when his skin colour is quite clearly white! In some ways it made me feel irrelevant – as though my colour didn't matter. There seemed to be no right for him to be like me."

Daniel and James are listening politely, but with slight resignation, while their mum relays the story – it is clear that, though they are aware that they are unusual, it is Alyson who is keenest on telling their tale. They don't remember the nursery incident, they say; but nod their heads as Alyson says she took them both out of it in protest.

Primary school passed without colour being an issue: but, says Alyson, everything changed when they went to secondary school. And at this point the boys, too, add their voices: because the racism they encountered there had a huge effect on them, and on what happened to them next.

It all started well, says Alyson. "The school was almost all-white, so James was unusual. But it wasn't a problem for James – it was a problem for Daniel.

"The boys were in different classes, so for a while no one realised they were related. Then someone found out, and the story went round that this white boy, Daniel, was actually black, and the evidence was that he had a black twin brother, James, who was right here in the school. And then Daniel started being picked on and it got really ugly and racist, and there were lots of physical attacks. Daniel was only a little kid, and he was being called names and being beaten up by much older children – it was really horrible. We even called the police."

"I was really bullied," cuts in Daniel, his face hardening at the memory. "People couldn't believe James and I were brothers, and they didn't like the fact that I looked white, but was – as they saw it – black."

It is interesting that it was the white twin, Daniel, and not the black twin who was on the receiving end of racism – but, though it's counter-intuitive, Alyson agrees that it betrayed very deep-seated prejudices. "Those kids couldn't stand the fact that, as they saw it, this white kid was actually black. It was as though they wanted to punish him for daring to call himself white," she says.

While we are chatting, James and Daniel are sitting at opposite ends of the sofa; they give the impression of being polite around one another, but don't seem particularly close. As Alyson says, everything about them is chalk and cheese: even their body language is at odds – James moves lightly and delicately, while Daniel moves in a more muscular, masculine way. But when Alyson reaches this stage of their story, you see a glimmer of that age-old solidarity where siblings who keep one another at arm's length, nonetheless pitch in when one of them is threatened.

"I started to notice how angry Daniel was getting at school, how people were provoking him and how he was getting hurt," says James. "And when he got pulled in fights, I went in too, to help him. I didn't want to see my brother being treated like that." James does not look like a kid who would end up in any fight: but, when his brother was up against it, he weighed in – and, says Alyson, the bruises and cuts they both came home with told their own tale.

It is possible Daniel would not have liked school anyway, but being on the receiving end of racist abuse certainly did not help. "I would have left in year 7 if I could," he says. "But instead, I left in year 11 – and it felt so good to get away." He moved to a school that was much more racially mixed, and which his older brothers had attended. "People knew I was Charles and Jordan's brother, but they were fine about it," he says.

James, meanwhile, stayed on at the old school. "It was fine in the sixth form – things settled down, and I had never been on the receiving end of much racism," he says.

But at the same time, he was coming to terms with another major difference from his brother – the fact that he is gay. "I knew from about the age of 15, but I kept it to myself for a while," he explains. "And then a few months ago, it just seemed like the right time to tell my family. I was most worried about my dad, about what he'd say ... but in the end he was fine about it."

Daniel, too, thought it was fine. "It wasn't as though it was a big surprise. I'd thought it for a while," he says. "But I said to him, 'If anyone starts bullying you about it, I'll be there to support you.' After all, James did that for me when I was being bullied. If anyone starts any homophobic stuff against him, I'll be there to fight them off."

Like all teenage siblings, there is plenty of joshing among the two of them. "I certainly wouldn't wear James's clothes!" says Daniel, laughing. "But if it's the other way round, he'd wear mine!"

"No I wouldn't," shoots back James. "My taste in clothes is way better than yours."

Alyson says that, initially, James's coming out was a surprise. "We were like, 'Woa!'" she says. "My big worry was that he'd think he was different, or special, because he was gay – so we said to him: 'That's fine, it's what you are, but it doesn't make you any more special than the other children in this family.'" Errol says he was proud of his boy for being open and honest about his feelings. "It's fine; I'm glad he felt he could tell us," he says.

But Alyson does admit that, just as she once worried about racist abuse being directed at Daniel, she now worries about homophobic abuse being directed at James. "It's something you think about from time to time, but the main thing I worry about is him staying safe – I want all of my children to be safe, obviously," she says.

These days the boys frequent very different social scenes. "A lot of my friends are lesbian or gay, and I go to gay clubs, and they aren't places where Daniel hangs out," says James. His big out-of-school interest is cheerleading – while Daniel, whose older half-brothers Shane and Luke are both acrobats, loves tumbling. "It's something I've enjoyed for ages – I love the thrill of it, and I love how it makes me feel," he says. After leaving school he had a spell as an acrobat on a cruise ship, which is where his older brothers also work, but he didn't stay long. "I thought it sounded brilliant, but I missed my family too much so I came home," he says. He has now applied for an apprenticeship, and hopes to make engineering his future.

Occasionally, the twins go out together for the evening. "It's good fun, because we can be drinking in a bar and someone will come along for a chat who doesn't know we're twins. And of course they never suspect and then someone else will say, 'Hey, do you know James and Daniel are brothers?'" says James. "And people never, ever believe it – they always think it's a wind-up."

"Sometimes we even get people who say: 'I don't believe you! Prove it!'" says Daniel, laughing. "But we don't care whether they believe it or not anyway – we know it's true."

Alyson says all she wants, like any mum, is for her boys to be happy, and to live lives free from prejudice, so that each can flourish in his own way. "Mind you," she says with a smile, "I do sometimes find myself wondering, now the children are all getting older, what the future holds. There will be another generation eventually – who will that bring along, I wonder?

"Twins are almost a must, I'd say. But the other big thing is: how many white grandchildren will I have? And how many black?" She throws back her head and laughs, and Errol laughs with her. They're a straightforward, outspoken family, the Kellys: all they've ever wanted for their children is a fair chance in life. And if their youngest twins have made anyone think twice about their preconceptions about race and colour, they don't mind that in the least. "It's good to challenge people on race and sexuality and other issues where there's prejudice," says Alyson. "If knowing my boys encourages anyone to think a bit more deeply about how we label people, then that's just great as far as I'm concerned."

MY HERO, OUR HERO!!!

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SHUKRANI!!!