Wachimbaji wote wa
mgodi wameokolewa baada ya mgodi kuporomoka katika eneo la Nyarugusu
wilayani Geita kaskazini mashariki mwa Tanzania.
Jumla ya wachimbaji 15 wa mgodi walikuwa ndani ya mgodi huo akiwemo raia mmoja wa China wakati uliporomoka.
Juhudi za kuwaokoa wachimbaji hao zimekuwa zikifanyika tangu wafukiwe usiku wa kuamkia Januari 26..
Wafanyakazi 15 wa mgodi waokolewa Tanzania
Wafanyakazi 15 wa mgodi waokolewa Tanzania
Wafanyakazi 15 wa mgodi waokolewa Tanzania
Speaking
to reporters at the party’s youth wing, Bavicha, meeting in Dar es
Salaam yesterday, member of the central committee and former prime
minister, Edward Lowassa said since the party did well in urban areas
where it clinched several parliamentary seats, it was now time to direct
energy and resources to rural areas. He also expressed surprise by the police banning political rallies, saying that it is contrary to the country’s constitution. Lowassa
said that there is need to go to rural areas to hold discourse with
people about development and establish new roots where none exists. The
meeting was held to assess the country’s security, rule of law, human
and political rights that are being broken in the country. “There are many democracy infringements occurring in the country and possible power abuse by appointed leaders,” he said. The
police prohibited Chadema youth meetings and rallies after President
John Magufuli imposed a ban on all political activities for five years. Lowassa
commended Bavicha for what they did in Dodoma saying that the message
was sent but also praised Chadema youth for not disrupting the peace. “The people are wondering why Chadema is barred from holding its meetings but CCM is allowed,” he said. He
urged youth leaders to “respect their leaders because you do not want
to take away the power you have handed to someone. We do not need to
start internal wrangled, we must protect”. He also criticised the
president’s appointment of regional commissioners, district
commissioners and district executive directors. “If you are not a CCM
supporter you do not get to be appointed. Public officials should be
appointed due to partisan leanings, this is not good for the country,
and it should be discouraged,” he said. Lowassa outlined three key points that will make Chadema to take power in the 2020 election. First
he urged BAVICHA to establish the party in rural areas noting that
during the last elections many youth won elections in rural areas. He
noted as an example James Milya from Simanjiro, Joseph Mkundi from
Ukerewe, John Heche from Tarime Rural and Anthony Komu in Moshi Rural,
just to name just a few. “We must go where voters are, develop a
schedule to visit rural areas where people face many challenges. It is
important to strengthen the party and discuss about development,” he
added. Secondly he called on members to be united and ward off
efforts to divide the party.“We must stick together to move forward
without breaching the peace,” he said. And the third point, he said, was for Ukawa to play an integral part in ensuring the opposition wins the coming elections. “We must agree on a coalition if you need changes,” he observed. For
his part, BAVICHA director of protocol, communication and foreign
affairs, John Mrema condemned the declaration of RC Makonda to do a
house-to-house search to identify individuals who are idle. “That is wrong, illegal, abuse of power and what would someone be charged with once he/she is arrested at home?” he questioned.
The former Sofapaka team striker Ndayisenga, joins three other players
from West Africa, Niger duo of Mohamed Chicoto, Mossi Moussa Issa and
Cote d’Ivoire’s Ibrahima Fofana. Azam’s Spaniard coach Zeben
Hernandez is assessing fitness and prowess of the above mentioned
players before coming into decision to absorb them for utilisation in
new season that kicks off next month. With strong quest to win their
second premiership title of the Mainland league, Azam, are busy
recruiting players as they offload others to form a formidable squad. The
all-Spaniard technical staff with the exception of Dennis Kitambi, are
now busy to shape up their team before embarking on title winning bid in
the new season. Foreign players are received at the club with wide arms as the club has lost interest in poaching from the domestic front. Breeding
their own players from the teenage inventories is Azam’s highly
supported agenda before promoting them to the senior category. The
maximum number of foreign players a premiership side can deploy for a
single season has been raised from five to seven during the previous
season but Azam look well set to claim more. Azam have already
started pre-season trials after breezing past weak Ashanti United with
2-0 goals over the weekend in Dar es Salaam. The ice-cream makers are
expected to shift their training camp to Zanzibar next week to gear up
for the Community Shield clash against Mainland champions Young Africans
at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on August 17. On several occasions Azam have been losing this match which is used as a curtain raiser of the Mainland premiership season.
Decline in funding risks the world plunging back to 16 years ago,UNAids Executive Director Michel Sidibe says.
A woman living with HIV/Aids takes her dosage of antiretroviral drugs. There are 900,000 Kenyans on treatment.
Donors have been told it is not right time to withdraw their HIV/Aids funding which would see a “rebound in the epidemic.” This is after HIV donor funding to support low and middle-income countries like Kenya decreased by over Sh100 billion. The
decrease, which fell for the first time in five years from USD8.6
billion to USD7.5billion, will specifically affect the plans to reach
more patients with lifesaving medicine. A high profile panel led by
UNAids Executive Director Michel Sidibe said the decrease in funding
comes in the back drop of new infections in adults and thus “going back
will be a disaster.” He pleaded: “If we don’t continue with global
solidarity and shared responsibility, then millions of people will
develop drug resistance. I do not see any country Zambia, Malawi, South
Africa and Kenya managing alone.” PAY MORE LATER He said the world will lose all the investment they have made in the fight, adding they will have to pay more later. “We
saw this with malaria, we reached a level where we were able to feel
that we have defeated malaria. Today we have to pay more again because
we stopped,” he said. At least 2.5 million people have been infected
in the past decade according to the Global Burden of Disease 2015 (GBD
2015) study, published today in The Lancet HIV journal. “I
am scared that today we are back in South Africa again in difficult
times. The world is facing many other competing priorities like
terrorism and migration,” said the executive director. Mr Sidibe said more young girls are being infected and it is a major area of concern. He
further said the decline in funding would risk the world plunging back
to 16 years ago where hospitals were full of people dying of HIV/Aids. “We
were called to ensure that treatment could be made available for the
people, at the time less than one million people were on treatment.
Today, 11 million people are on antiretroviral treatment, “he shared. South Africa Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said despite the successes, the fight against HIV, Aids and TB is not over. “Too
many people living with HIV do not know their status. Too many do not
have access to treatment. The rate of infection remains stubbornly
high, particularly among the most vulnerable populations.” He said
there was need to ensure that the adolescents and young adults both
male and female receive information and advice on how to access condoms
and, pre-exposure prophylaxis (which prevents HIV infection) and this
would be affected by the slashed budgets.
Kenya is seeking to offset trade imbalance
with South Africa by focusing on services where the East African
country has a comparative advantage.
Kenya is seeking to
offset trade imbalance with South Africa by focusing on services where
the East African country has a comparative advantage. Industrialisation
secretary Adan Mohamed on Tuesday met South Africa’s minister of Trade
and Industry Rob Davies to discuss a framework for engagement before
the end of the year. According to the Export Promotion Council,
Kenya’s imports from South Africa have increased from $287.7 million in
2003 to $ 477.4 million in 2007, a rise of about 66 per cent while
exports have been decreasing from $51 million in 2004. This means that the share of Kenya’s total exports in the South Africa’s global imports has remained below one per cent. During
bilateral talks with Mr Davies, Mr Mohamed agreed to hold match making
meetings between business delegations from Kenya and South Africa
during a state visit later in the year. Mr Davies said South Africa was keen on building trade in services with its African counterparts which it has not explored. “We
want to have measurable and tangible progress because countries meet
sign frameworks but have very little follow-up activity,” he said. The
South African minister said the country had come up with Trade
Investment African arm to encourage the countries companies to expand
trade into the continent. Kenya is also seeking access into the South African market for mainly tea and avocado exports. Mr
Davies said this could happen if the countries speed up implementation
of the tripartite free trade agreement that would bring together the
East African Community, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern
Africa (Comesa) and Southern African Development Community. “I know
Kenya wants a bilateral with us on tea and avocado but how do we do it,
it will be addressed under the tripartite,” he said. Mr Mohamed has also been holding sideline bilateral talks with governments to build networks for future engagements. Yesterday,
he was scheduled to meet Sri Lanka minister of Industry and Commerce
Risad Badhiutheen and International Trade Centre chief executive Arancha
Gonzalez and hosted a high level CEO matchmaking breakfast and textile
sector. Kenya is also backing African Union intra-African trade
where President Uhuru Kenyatta called for the establishment of a
Continental Free Trade Area. The President said boosting
intra-African trade would accelerate integration, develop larger markets
and foster competition which will help in poverty reduction, growth
and sustainable development. “Equally, pooling economies and
markets through regional integration will provide a sufficiently wide
economic and market space to make new economies of scale,” said
President Kenyatta. He expressed concern that while 40 per cent of
North American trade is with other North American countries and 63 per
cent of trade by countries in Western Europe is with other Western
European nations, only about 12 per cent of African trade is with other
African nations. State Department of Trade PS Chris Kiptoo also
called on the wealthy commonwealth nations to increase investment in
vital infrastructure that would make a substantial impact on exports
and strengthen the resilience of Africa’s member countries’ economies
to shocks. He said increased trade partnerships with African member
countries would boost their integration to the global economy as
capital intensive infrastructure are a trade barrier between to
increased trade between the partner nations. “While the continent is
spending over $131 billion on infrastructure-related construction
which is expected to grow to $200 billion by 2015, there’s an existing
funding gap that needs to be addressed,” said Dr Kiptoo said during
the Commonwealth ministerial meeting.
Jumla ya wachimbaji 15 wa mgodi walikuwa ndani ya mgodi huo akiwemo raia mmoja wa China wakati uliporomoka.
Wafanyakazi 15 wa mgodi waokolewa Tanzania
Wafanyakazi 15 wa mgodi waokolewa Tanzania
Wafanyakazi 15 wa mgodi waokolewa Tanzania 
