Kombe lawasili Nairobi, lakini je! Odinga anafikiria nini?

BE WISE AT YOUR AGE:

· Talking is cheap until you hire a lawyer to do it for you

. Do not run away from rain to hide in a pond of water

· When you give a friend a goat, you have to let go of the leash

· A woman who wants a child doesn't sleep in her clothes

· If you want to smear somebody's face with mud, be prepared to dirty your hands

· It's only a dead man who has everybody on his side

· Only a goat that is tired of life, invites a lion to dinner

· He who never knows where he is going, will never know whether he has arrived

. If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain

· United we are rock, divided we are sand

· It is a foolish fly that is buried with a corpse

· Life is like riding a bicycle, you don't fall off unless you stop pedalling

· It is not by watching a newly-wed wife that she is going to become pregnant

· A dead man does not know the value of his coffin

· If you waited for a roasted piece of liver to cool, it will cool in someone else's mouth

· If you kill time, you will bury opportunities

· A person who sells eggs does not start a fight in the market

· It is unwise to test the depth of water with both legs

· It requires a lot of carefulness to kill a fly that perches on a scrotum

· If you have a poor father, that is destiny; if you have a poor father-in-law, that is your mistake

· Whether the egg crashes on the coconut or the coconut crashes on the egg, it is the egg that suffers

· If you want to improve your memory, lend someone some money

· Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off

Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza won a landslide re-election with 75 percent of the vote, election officials said Wednesday.
"The National Elections Commission announces that citizen Armando Emilio Guebuza has been re-elected president of the republic of Mozambique for a period of five years," the commission's chief Joao Leopoldo da Costa told reporters, after the vote on October 28.
In the parliamentary race, Guebuza's Frelimo increased its majority from 160 seats to 191 seats in the 250-member legislature.
The race for second place -- closely watched in the wake of a recent opposition split -- was won by long-time opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the former rebel movement Renamo, who took 16.5 percent of the vote.
Daviz Simango, founder of the breakaway Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), was in third place with 8.6 percent. The new party took only eight seats in parliament, against 51 for Renamo.
The October 28 vote was Mozambique's fourth national poll since a 16-year civil war between Renamo and the Frelimo government ended in the establishment of multi-party democracy in 1994.
South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday congratulated Guebuza on his re-election, hailing the "excellent, historic and neighbourly relations" between the neighbouring countries and their citizens.
"It is furthermore my profound wish that these warm and close ties will continue to prosper during your new term of office", said Zuma in a statement.

Only in Africa...

Toto la Kiswahili!

Inavyoelekea ni kwamba sehemu kubwa ya elimu yetu haswa ile ya shule za msingi, bado iko nyuma sana. Kuna uwezekano kabisa wa karne ya 22 kutukuta bado tunajiburuza na tuliyoyafanya karne ya 19. Je! hii ina maana ya kwamba hatuelewi umuhimu wa elimu katika maendeleo ya Taifa letu?

Mwalimu Nyerere aliwahi kusema kwamba Taifa letu ili liendelee tunaitaji kupambana na vitu vitatu - "Ujinga, Maradhi na Umasikini," na sielewi ni katika mpangilio upi, lakini inaonekana kwamba vyote vinaelekea kutushinda. Siamini kabisa ya kwamba tunawekeza rasilimali zetu kwa kiasi kikubwa katika elimu au tiba na badala yake siku zote tunawarusha watu wetu kwenda nje kwa matibabu na elimu kwa gharama kubwa sana kwa kutumia rasilimali ambazo pengine tungewekeza nyumbani kwa faida ya wengi.

Taifa letu lazima lianze kufikiria kutoa elimu sambamba na ya dunia ya kwanza ni si ya ubabahishaji. Tunahitaji kuinua kiwango cha elimu yetu kwa kuwekeza zaidi kwenye elimu. Ni sawa kabisa kuwa na ma-mall makubwa, lakini je mahospitali ya kisasa tunayo? Au ndio siku zote tutakwenda India na Afrika ya Kusini? Nawaunga mkono watu kama kina Nimrod Mkono kwa kuwekeza kwenye elimu kiuhakika. "Bila kuondoa Ujinga na Maradhi Tanzania siku zote itabaki kuwa Masikini."

-Fundi wa Kombo-

Mitaa hii pale Dar si chini ya miaka kumi itapata sura mpya kabisa, kwani mengi ya majumba/nyumba hizi zitakula nyundo. Wasi wasi mkubwa ni kwamba je! ujenzi wa majumba mapya pale katikati ya Dar yanakwenda sambamba na mfumo wa maji machafu na maji safi?

Four Catholic men and a Catholic woman were having coffee.

The first Catholic man tells his friends, "My son is a priest, when he walks into a room, everyone calls him 'Father'."

The second Catholic man chirps, "My son is a Bishop. When he walks into a room people call him 'Your Grace'."

The third Catholic gent says, "My son is a Cardinal. When he enters a room everyone says 'Your Eminence'."

The fourth Catholic man then says, "My son is the Pope. When he walks into a room people call him 'Your Holiness'."

Since the lone Catholic woman was sipping her coffee in silence, the four men give her a subtle, "Well....?"

She proudly replies, "I have a daughter, slim, tall, 38D breasts, 24" stomach and 34" hips. When she walks into a room, people say, "Oh My God."

Ingawa Jijini Dar kuna Hosipitali nyingine nyingi, kama vile Muhimbili, lakini kwa watoto wa mjini pale Dar ni fahari zaidi kuzaliwa Ocean Road(pichani juu). Je! hivi hii ni kwa nini?

Hili busi litakutoa Kampala kupitia Mutukula mpaka ndani ya Bukoba!

IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS, KENYA CONFRONTS GAY TABOO

Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time refusal to acknowledge the existence of homosexuality and will launch a survey of gay attitudes and behaviors in its three biggest cities next year.

The project is considered a landmark because the government and the vast majority of Kenyan people have long refused to address homosexuality in the fight against AIDS. Sex between men is illegal in Kenya - punishable by up to 14 years in prison - and is seen by many as a Western-imported, morally wrong behavior that is limited to areas visited by tourists.

But officials say the country is in the middle of a full-blown HIV/AIDS epidemic, with about 7 percent of the population now infected and only 15 percent of those people even aware that they are HIV positive. While the vast majority of HIV transmissions are through heterosexual sex or intravenous drug use, research conducted in 2007 suggests that the spread of the disease through gay sex is far more common than skeptics believe. Fifteen percent of all new HIV infections each year are thought to be among men who have sex with men. And because some men who engage in gay sex are married and do not identify themselves as gay, it is seen as one way in which the virus crosses from "at-risk" categories to the general population.

"It will be a tricky issue that is likely to polarize everybody," Dr. Nicholas Muraguri, director of the National AIDS/STI Control Program, tells TIME. "But what we are saying is that we cannot as a country socially exclude these groups and hope that we will win the war against HIV at the same time."

Initial media reports said the project, which was announced last week, would be a gay census - raising fears that gays could be exposed against their will and questions about whether such a count could possibly be accurate. But Muraguri says all information collected by the government will be kept confidential and officials will not seek to contact all men who have sex with men in Kenya. The government will also seek to interview both male and female sex workers and intravenous-drug users.

While Kenyan attitudes toward homosexuality are considered more liberal than the rest of sub-Saharan Africa outside South Africa, gays say they still face overwhelming hostility in the country. The law banning sex between men is a holdover from colonial times but won't be repealed soon; one member of parliament, asked if a draft constitution in the works would enshrine gay rights, said recently that doing so would destroy the document's chances of passing.

Anti-gay attitudes have been on full display in recent weeks as the Kenyan media have breathlessly reported on the civil ceremony of two Kenyan men in Britain. They were dubbed a shame to Kenya, their parents were harassed and The Nation newspaper's website has been inundated with comments, most of them condemnatory.

Because of the stigma they face, gays rarely seek information about the dangers of having unprotected sex. One commonly held myth in Kenya is that HIV cannot be contracted via anal sex, when in fact that is one of the easiest ways to get it. Gays have trouble receiving treatment at hospitals, particularly if they show symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases that might lead doctors to suspect they had engaged in sex with other men.

"Some of us have gone to a public health facility and if the doctor realizes we are gay, they will draw attention to us, even from the reception, calling people, 'Come and see a gay person, come and see a gay person,'" says Peter Njane, director of the Ishtar MSM gay health rights group in Nairobi. Muraguri's NASCOP group, which will lead the survey with funding from the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, says those beliefs must not be allowed to impede the country's efforts to fight HIV.

The researchers will ask a series of behavioral questions to men who have sex with men starting next year in Nairobi, the western city of Kisumu and the coastal city of Mombasa. They will also try to estimate the number of men who are HIV-positive or have sexually transmitted diseases. Such a widespread survey has never been attempted in Kenya before. In a 2004 study in Nairobi, 500 men who have sex with other men were interviewed about their health practices, and in Mombasa in 2006 and 2008, 400 male prostitutes were questioned as part of two different sex surveys.

"What we've primarily been slowed by is just not having the clear sense of where those populations are centered in the country and where socially and otherwise we can most effectively reach them," Warren Buckingham, Kenya coordinator for the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, tells TIME.

Much of the gay community has largely decided to abandon the fight for gay rights for now because the hostility they face is too intense. But they hope that initiatives such as the NASCOP research will help reshape Kenyan opinions about AIDS. "As a country and as an African culture, we live in full denial of the existence of homosexuality," says James Kamau, national coordinator of the Kenya Treatment Access Movement, which aims to increase the availability of all essential medicines to Kenyans. "Because of the cultural background, we shut our eyes, our minds and everything, yet it is happening every single day."

13 RULES OF CHEATING

Everyone is bound to cheat on their spouse one time or another. Chance comes to all. Opportunities abound for all to seize. Admittedly, cheating is sweet (stolen bread is sweet). While some will try to remain faithful, a lot more will cheat as the physical attraction wanes. Long term relationships get boring with time. The one-time sweetie will turn sour and will be a big turn off. They just lose that magic that would makes the sparks fly and the heart race like a formula one car. Cheating brings back that energetic spark in ones life. Cheating is inevitable. To cheat is human not to be caught is divine.

Here are a few rules to help you as you cheat.

0. Never ignore your spouse's call when you are out with your lover, much more, never switch it off or cut the line when she calls you.

1. Always let your lover know about your marital status. If you hide your status, your lover might surprise you at a very awkward time.

2. Never promise marriage to your lovers. You can only do so when your spouse passes on.

3. Avoid falling in love with your lovers (this is hard). If you notice that you are falling in love get another lover. If you do fall in love with your lover your spouse will know very fast because it will to show.

4. Be sweet to your spouse when you are cheating. If your spouse demands something, give it to them without being irritated even if it means getting them the moon. Check Nakumatt or Duty Free Shop at UNON orVillage Market as they may just be having a promotion for those who want to get the moon for their spouses .

5. Avoid keeping contact details of your lovers anywhere near home. Phone numbers in diaries or email addresses on receipts is a no no. If you have business cards use these instead and keep them at the office.

6. Never switch off your phone or be protective of it when at home. If a call or an sms comes let your spouse answer the phone for you. You have to tell your lovers not to call you when you are at home. Try to use the company phone for those important calls.

7. Never raise your spouses suspicion. If you say you are going to see a friend that the spouse knows make sure you see the friend first and then proceed to see your lover then return to your friends house, if it is the bar return to the bar. If you lie about being in a certain place and you are not there when a follow up is made then you are screwed.

8. Never let your spouse know all your sources of income. Always maintain a secret account, A sort of CIA operations Account. You need it to finance you covert operations.

9. If you are going to be in a public place always go with a wingman (ormerchie) who is not married.

10. The only time you ever admit cheating is when you are caught red handed. All other allegations "kufwa na no", whether you have cum on your slacks, lipstick on the collar or a used cartridge in the jacket or in the car.

11. Always destroy incriminating evidence before going home. This might include erasing (some) call records, going to the gym to sweat off the sweet perfume. If you drink always rinse off you privates with a beer(preferably the smelliest drink you can find) if you going home drunk.You might just black out in the matrimonial bed smelling of cheap Condoms from Nakumatt (its unmistakable). Remember to always have perfume or deodorant in your car or office make sure it is the same fragrance as the one you regularly use.

12. Whatever you do never neglect your spouse. if you need to buy your lover a RAV4 make sure you get your wife a better SUV such as Honda or anything better than what you get your lover.

13. Never slacken your game in bed (remember a good Whiskey such as Gleinfidic Single Malt or Glod Label helps). Even if you are from havinga sex festival with your lover, always do a repeat performance at home. You might need to act a little to pull it off though.

Kwa kweli Mmarekani ana sababu ya kuwa na wasiwasi, tazama jinsi Mchina alivyojipanua kibiashara Afrika katika kipindi kifupi sana.

" Bwana sisi uhuru tumeupigania sasa tutulie na hapa hatuondoi mtu"

Mama Malkia Wetu ana maisha marefu!

Amewapokea Maraisi 10 wa Marekani na bado anadunda!!!!

Hivi haya Makampuni yanawalipa hawa wenye nyumba kwa haya matangazo kwenye kuta au ndio Bongo style - "free advert." ?

Wakubwa wanapokuwa wanasindikizwa!

INTERNET TURNS 40 WITH BIRTHDAY BASH!

Technology and media stars, pundits and entrepreneurs joined the Internet's father to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child.
"It's the 40th year since the infant Internet first spoke," said University of California, Los Angeles, professor Leonard Kleinrock, who headed the team that first linked computers online in 1969.
Kleinrock led an anniversary event at the UCLA campus that blended reminiscence of the Internet's past with debate about its future.
"There is going to be an ongoing controversy about where we have been and where we are going," said Arianna Huffington, co-founder of the popular news and blog website that bears her name.
"It is not just about the Internet; it is about our times. We are going to need desperately to tap into the better angels of our nature and make our lives not just about ourselves but about our communities and our world."
Huffington was on hand to discuss the power the Internet gives to grass roots organizers on a panel with Kleinrock and Social Brain Foundation director Isaac Mao.
"The Internet is a democratizing element; everyone has an equivalent voice," Kleinrock said. "There is no way back at this point. We can't turn it off. The Internet Age is here."
Kleinrock never imagined Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube that day four decades ago when his team gave birth to what is now taken for granted as the Internet.
"The net is penetrating every aspect of our lives," Kleinrock said to a room of about 200 people and an equal number watching online.
On October 29, 1969, Kleinrock led a team that got a computer at UCLA to "talk" to one at a research institute.
Kleinrock was driven by a certainty that computers were destined to speak to each other and that the resulting network should be as simple to use as telephones.
US telecom colossus AT&T ran lines connecting the computers for ARPANET, a project backed with money from a research arm of the US military's Advanced Research Projects Agency.
ARPANET grew into what is known today as the Internet.
"It feels to me like the alumni meeting of the framers of the US Constitution," Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow said as he addressed the gathering.
"There are a lot of people in this room who are honest to god uncles and aunts of the Internet. What you did is conceivably the most important technological event since the capture of fire."
Barlow, whose nonprofit legal organization fights for online freedom, maintained that Internet access is on the verge of becoming an inalienable human right.
"The reality today is that the Internet is like a new life; it is organic," said Regina Dugan, director of what became DARPA when "Defense" was added to the agency's name.
"It is inherently beautiful. It challenges us all to think about ourselves, about others, about ethics, and about the future."
To test the power of the Internet, DARPA will release 10 "very large balloons" in the continental US and then pay 40,000 dollars to the first person or team to pinpoint their locations using online tools or networking.
The balloons will be afloat for two days and visible only during daylight hours.
"Individuals can make information go viral," Dugan said. "Then it was an Internet challenge, today it is a network challenge."
The competition will be tracked on wildly popular microblogging service Twitter, according to DARPA.
Kleinrock, who is now 75, sees the Internet spreading into everything.
"The next step is to move it into the real world," Kleinrock said. "The Internet will be present everywhere. I will walk into a room and it will know I am there. It will talk back to me."

Very good!! watoto wako njiani kuelekea shuleni, lakini je! hayo magaloni ni ya nini? Sitaki kuamini kuwa pengine ni ya kuwasaidia kuwachotea maji walimu...

Hivi ndivyo taratibu taratibu mabarabara yetu yanavyomegeka na kurudi kuwa vumbi tupu. "Usipoziba ufa utajenga ukuta."

Janet Jackson

Serena Williams
Hivi ni kwa nini hawa watu mashuhuri uwa na vituko?

Mimi nadhani kama Wamasai wakicheza mpira wa vikapu(basketball) uwenda wangekuwa mabingwa wa kudunk! Tazama jinsi walivyo na uwezo wa kuruka juu...

Usiku wa tarehe 7-Nov-2009 na 8-Nov-2009

Kutakuwa na chereko! chereko ya Usiku wa utamaduni wa Mtanzania uliopewa jina

la Tanzanight

Tamasha hilo litafanyika Mjini Tampere, Finiland,

Wadau msikose Kujichanganya katika ukumbi maarufu Klub,Tampere

SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO COULD VANISH IN 20 YEARS:

The snows capping Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, are shrinking rapidly and could vanish altogether in 20 years, most likely due to global warming, a US study published Monday said.

The ice sheet that capped Kilimanjaro in 1912 was 85 percent smaller by 2007, and since 2000 the existing ice sheet has shrunk by 26 percent, the paleoclimatologists said.
The findings point to the rise in global temperatures as the most likely cause of the ice loss. Changes in cloudiness and precipitation may have also played a smaller, less important role, especially in recent decades, they added.

"This is the first time researchers have calculated the volume of ice lost from the mountain's ice fields," said study co-author Lonnie Thompson, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University,
"If you look at the percentage of volume lost since 2000 versus the percentage of area lost as the ice fields shrink, the numbers are very close," he said in the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

While the yearly loss of the mountain glaciers is most apparent from the retreat of their margins, Thompson said an equally troubling effect is the thinning of the ice fields from the surface.
The summits of both the Northern and Southern Ice Fields atop Kilimanjaro have thinned by 1.9 meters (6.2 feet) and 5.1 meters (16.7 feet) respectively. The smaller Furtwangler Glacier, which was melting and water-saturated in 2000 when it was drilled, has thinned as much as 50 percent between 2000 and 2009, the study said.
"It has lost half of its thickness," Thompson said. "In the future, there will be a year when Furtwangler is present and by the next year, it will have disappeared. The whole thing will be gone."

The scientists said they found no evidence of sustained melting anywhere else in the ice core samples they extracted, which date back 11,700 years.
They said their findings show that current climate conditions over Mount Kilimanjaro are unique over the last 11 millennia.

KWA WADAU WOTE!!

SAMAHANI KWA KUTOKUWA MTANDAONI KWA KIPINDI CHA SIKU KADHAA KWA KUWA NILIKUWA SAFARINI MJINI COLUMBUS, OHIO AMBAKO NILIKWENDA KUMUUGUZA MDOGO WANGU MPENDWA SALEHE KOMBO ALLY MAKANYAGA AMBAYE SIKU YA ALHAMISI TAREHE 29 OCTOBA 2009 ALIPATA "STROKE" (KIHARUSI) ILIYOTOKANA NA HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE(SHINDIKIZO LA DAMU) YAKE KUWA JUU SANA. ILIBIDI AFANYIWE SURGERY YA HARAKA ILI KUOKOA MAISHA YAKE.

NINGEPENDA KUWAFAHAMISHA KWAMBA HALI YAKE INAENDELEA KUWA NZURI INGAWA BADO ATAKUWA NA KIPINDI KIREFU CHA MATIBABU.

NAWAOMBA TUMUOMBEE NDUGU YETU ILI APATE NAFUU NA KUPONA KABISA ILI TUWE NAE TENA KATIKA JAMII YETU. NAWAOMBA SALA NA MAOMBI YENU WAKATI WA KIPINDI HIKI KIGUMU.

-FUNDI WA KOMBO-