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MUGABE AOMBA DOLA BILLIONI MIA TANO!!

HARARE, Zimbabwe – President Robert Mugabe and a longtime opposition leader-turned-finance minister made an unusual joint appeal Thursday for $5 billion (euro3.66 billion) in international aid to revive Zimbabwe's shattered economy.
The two men presented an economic recovery program that scraps the stringent price controls which have fueled a black market and spiraling inflation. It also sets up "safety nets and social protection for vulnerable groups exposed to market forces," Finance Minister Tendai Biti said, without offering details.
The longtime opponents disagreed, however, over the causes of the country's economic meltdown.
Biti said Zimbabwe had to do its part by restoring democratic freedoms and the rule of law — and demanded that a new wave of seizures of white-owned farms in recent weeks blamed on Mugabe loyalists stop.
"For the economy to turn around, we need to have good governance. Our politics must be right," he told business leaders and government officials in Harare. "We are asking our international friends to help us."
Mugabe said economic recovery required foreign aid and the removal of Western economic sanctions.
"We wish to appeal to all those countries which wish us to succeed to support our national endeavor. Friends of Zimbabwe, please come to our aid," he said. "I appeal for the removal of your sanctions which are inhuman, cruel and unwarranted."
Britain, the former colonial power, the European Union and the United States insist their official sanctions — travel and visa restrictions on Mugabe and more than 200 of his party leaders, officials and loyalists — have little bearing on the country's economic crisis.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the current U.S. aid priority was to respond to Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis.
The U.S. is awaiting evidence that Zimbabwe was "firmly and irrevocably on a path to inclusive and effective governance, and as well as respect for human rights and the rule of law," he said.
"But this government has to show more before we will consider ... removing any targeted sanctions or for putting together ... an aid package," Wood said.
Some whites have been driven violently from their properties and homes and farms have been looted since Mugabe ordered a land redistribution campaign in 2000. The former regional breadbasket now faces chronic shortages of food, gasoline, basic goods, power and water. It also has the world's highest inflation rate by far.
International donors are already helping Zimbabwe cope with hunger and cholera crises. But, suspicious of Mugabe, they have hesitated to pour in development aid until they see that Biti's party has real authority in the new unity government.
In addition, the global financial crisis is likely to dampen the response. Last month, Biti appealed to Zimbabwe's neighbors in the Southern African Development Community for $2 billion (euro1.46 billion). The bloc promised to help but has not yet amid the economic downturn.
Private farm organizations say militants aided by police and troops have targeted at least 100 of some 400 farms remaining in the hands of white farmers this year.
Farmers "must be given security on their land and a chance to grow their crops," Biti said Thursday.
The finance minister presented a $1 billion budget to parliament Wednesday that sharply cut a $1.7 billion interim budget proposal by Mugabe's party in January, saying Zimbabwe must live within its means.
Mugabe signed a power-sharing deal with Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change Sept. 15 after disputed elections earlier that year. After protracted negotiations on the allocation of key ministries, the coalition was sworn in last month with Mugabe, in power since independence in 1980, remaining president and Tsvangirai taking the new post of prime minister.
Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe stood in for Tsvangirai at Thursday's presentation. Tsvangirai is recuperating in neighboring South Africa from injuries in a March 6 car accident that killed his wife of 31 years, Susan. He is expected to return shortly, party officials said.

NAIBU WAZIRI WA HABARI,MICHEZO NA UTAMADUNI,JOEL BENDERA(KULIA)AKIONGEA NA VYOMBO VYA HABARI JUU YA UZINDUZI WA VODACOM DAR MARATHONI ZITAKAZOTIMUA MBIO MWEZI WA SITA TAREHE 21.(KATIKATI)MKUU WA UDHAMINI NA MAWASILIANO WA VODACOM TANZANIA,GEORGE RWEHUMBIZA,(KUSHOTO)MKURUGENZI WA MASOKO WA VODACOM TANZANIA EPHRAIM MAFURU.

NAIBU WAZIRI WA HABARI,MICHEZO NA UTAMADUNI,JOEL BENDERA NA MKUU WA UDHAMINI NA MAWASILIANO WA VODACOM TANZANIA,GEORGE RWEHUMBIZA,WA PILI KUTOKA KULIA WAKISHIKILIA BANGO KUONYESHA INSHARA YA UZINDUZI WA MBIO ZITAKAZOJULIKANA KAMA VODACOM DAR MARATHON,ZITAKAZOTIMUA MIBIO MWEZI WA SITA TAREHE 21(KULIA)KATIBU MKUU WA CHAMA CHA RIADHA TANZANIA SUILEMAN NYAMBUI,(KUSHOTO)MKURUGENZI WA MASOKO WA VODACOM TANZANIA EPHRAIM MAFURU

Jamaa anajua sana kula "good time".

Wajapani wamefanikiwa kutengeneza robot ambalo linaweza kuonyesha mshangao kwa kufungua mdomo na macho pamoja na mambo mengine mengi. Wamelitengeneza kwa kulifananisha na mwanamke wa Kijapani mwenye uzito wa paundi 95.

A defiant Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir called on Wednesday for Darfur rebels to lay down their arms, during a visit to the conflict-torn region where he stands accused of war crimes.
Vowing to develop the region that has been prey to six years of conflict and decades of neglect, Beshir addressed thousands of jubilant militiamen two weeks after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest.
"We want to reunify the people of Darfur and we call on all our sons and brothers who bear arms to put them down," Beshir said on his second visit to Darfur since the warrant was issued.
"We tell them you have taken up arms to demand development and development has now started and it continues," Beshir said, outlining various infrastructure projects already under way.
"Our response (to the ICC) is to bring electricity to Darfur, more buildings, schools, water, more hospitals. We want a reunification of the people of Darfur."
"It's not the US or Britain who chooses the president of Sudan but the Sudanese people," Beshir thundered against two of the countries he sees as the driving force behind his arrest warrant.
"O Beshir, we sacrifice our soul and blood," the crowd replied.
The ICC on March 4 issued an arrest warrant for Beshir for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Darfur conflict, including murder, torture, rape and pillage.
Sudan has vowed not to cooperate with the court.
The United Nations says 300,000 people have been killed and more than 2.7 million people have fled their homes since ethnic minority rebels rose up against the Arab-dominated Khartoum government in February 2003.

Baba na mwana!!

Vijana wa Jangwani enzi hizo. Naomba msaada kama atakayeweza kunitambulisha kikosi kizima.

Wamasai ni kabila linaloongoza kwa makabila ya Waafrika yanayojulikana sana duniani.

Kilevi cha bia ni biashara mojawapo kubwa sana nchini mwetu lakini bidhaa zetu hizi pamoja na umaarufu wake hatujaweza kuziingiza kwenye soko la dunia.

Kweli Waafrika kwa ubunifu hatuko nyuma...

Mchekeshaji Steven Nyerere(katikati) akiwa amebariz na vimwana.

Matangazo Dar es Salaam!

Sanamu la Baba wa Taifa Mwl. Julius Kambarage Nyerere pale Dodoma. Mwalimu ni mmoja kati ya viongozi wachache wa Afrika aliyeitumikia nchi yake na Afrika kwa ujumla kwa moyo mkunjufu usio na ubinafsi.

Mwajamii mmoja ametoa analysis ya posting ya Thursday (03/12/09) kuhusu serikali za mseto Afrika, ambayo kwa kweli imenivutia sana hivyo imebidi niiweke hewani. Asante ndugu kwa kuchukua muda wako na kwa kutoa maoni yako mazuri sana.

- Fundi Kombo -

Hello Mr. Fundi Kombo, Kwanza hongera kwa kazi nzuri unayoifanya kwenye hii blog yako. Also, thank you very much for bringing up this important and critical issue in African politics. Coalition government is quite common in countries such as Italy, Israel, Germany, Nordic, as well as Switzerland, a country which has been run by a four party coalition since 1959. Coalition governments are formed during crisis or when election results are disputed and remain unresolved as we have seen in Kenya, Israel, and Zimbabwe. A coalition government is often seen as a more democratic because not a single party has a majority, and therefore, brings check and balance inside the administration. Kwa upande wa Africa, hard to tell, Our political leaders are always motivated by greed, selfishness, nepotism and lack of patriotism. In short, no one care about a common man. If we look at the two newly coalition government in Africa; Kenya and Zimbabwe, you will find that they are all destined to fail. In Zimbabwe: Shaky coalitions in which Prime Minister Morgan Tsivangira’s senior party’s members are still in detention, and also a power sharing agreement where power is unequally shared between Muagabe and Tsivaangira. In Kenya, well its the same story, Politicians in that country only care about themselves rather than those who elected them. First of all, the government is too big with more than 90 ministers, deputy, secretary generals. Their salaries ni maradufu ya watu wanaowawakilisha bungeni, the culture of impunity is still rampant, those police who killed many innocent civilians during the 2007/8 election have not been brought to justice, millions of people suffer from hunger and malnutrition, and human rights violation against innocent civilians is still order of the day.Kwa mtazamo wangu, Bara letu la Africa bado tuna safari ndefu sana, na hii ni kwa sababu, hatuna viongozi wenye moyo na mapenzi na bara letu na wananchi wetu. Wengi wa viongozi wanaingia kwenye siasa kwa lengo la kujinufaisha wenyewe na familia zao badala ya kuleta maendeleo kwa wananchi. Most African leaders lack vision,discipline and patriotism.

Mwanamme mmoja huko Uingereza ambaye alichoshwa na malalamishi ya mkewe aliweka hili tangazo na ikatokea kwamba watu wengi walimjibu kutaka kumnunua mkewe.

Hizi zinaweza kuonekana kama ni picha za kawaida tu, lakini ukweli ni kwamba kwa sasa kweli Dunia inatisha. Ikiwa tumefikia katika hali ambayo wanyama wanakuomba au kupigania chakula na binadamu inaonyesha kiasi gani hali ya maisha inavyozidi kuwa ngumu.