SINZA’S BRIGITTE CROWNED MISS TANZANIA 2012

Monday, 05 November 2012 10:38

Brigitte Alfred who won the Miss Tanzania 2012 edition. The much anticipated contest was held at the Blue Pearl Hotel in Ubungo, Dar es Salaam, on Saturday night. PHOTO I SALHIM SHAO By Edward Qorro The Citizen Reporter Dar es Salaam. Glitz and glamour filled the Blue Pearl Hotel on Saturday night as Brigitte Alfred from Sinza got crowned the new Miss Tanzania for 2012 at a hotly contested final. Brigitte, who walked home with a Toyota Noah and Sh8 million, outsmarted other 29 contestants at the colourful gala. Eugene Fabian from the lake Zone emerged the first runner up, and bagged Sh6 million while the third spot went to Edda Sylvester from Temeke, who walked away with Sh4 million. “I’m so happy and excited for the award, I promise not to let Tanzanians down in the Miss World event,” said the elated queen as she stood in front of her grand prize. Brigitte could not hide her joy, as the outgoing Miss Tanzania, Salha Israel relinquished the crown to her. Brigitte becomes the eighteenth contestant to take the Miss Tanzania crown since its re-inception in 1994. Brigitte’s mother Verdiana Mashingia, who accompanied her daughter during the contest, could not hide her joy as she told The Citizen of how honoured she was to witness her daughter making her and the country proud. “We are all happy tonight, Brigitte has done us proud and I’m certain that she will do just the same for her country,” said the emotional mother. The director of Miss Tanzania organising committee, Dr Ramesh Shah, told the ecstatic audience that it was yet another night of proving how the country was ready to produce a talent to battle it out in the global arena, later this year. “We have been staging this event for the past 18 years and it is evident that we all want to have the best for the Miss World contest and make our country proud,” noted Dr Shah, amid a round of applause.

NYERERE SPEECHES ON WORKERS DAY

Tanzania Rejects Western Domination 1978 Tanzania Rejects Western Domination 1978, Statement by President Julius K. Nyerere I have been very concerned indeed about world reactions to recent events in Africa, and it seems to me to be necessary that I should make Tanzania's position clear. For the events of the past few weeks have once again demonstrated that although, our legal independence is officially recognized, our need and our right to develop our countries and our continent in our own interests has not yet been conceded in practice. The habit of regarding Africa as an appendage of Western Europe has not yet been broken. Soviet Forces in Africa: In Angola the M.P.L.A. did almost all the fighting against the Portuguese colonialists. As independence approached after the Revolution in Portugal, various Western countries-led by the United States of America decided to try to prevent the establishment of an M.P.L.A. Government in that country.

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Women's vote carries Obama to victory

Women's vote carries Obama to victory on historic election night

Women gave Obama 55% to Romney's 43%, a proportion that was unchanged from the president's lead among women in 2008. Photograph: Cengiz Yar Jr/AFP/Getty

Election 2012 is already being billed as a historic moment for women. Their votes re-elected Barack Obama for a second term, sent more women than ever before to Congress and delivered a powerful message to conservative politicians that attempts to redefine rape or interfere with hard-won reproductive and other rights will not be tolerated.
Women voted in record numbers, and the gender gap between the two candidates could not have been more profound. Unmarried women backed the president by an incredible 38 percentage-point margin over Romney, a statistic which was one of the most striking of Tuesday night.
But the driving force behind female voters was not so-called "women's issues" – it was the economy.
Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organisation for Woman, said: "It is economic issues. Sure, at a certain point it's also about rights, but at a more immediate level it's about survival.
"When you look at unmarried women, they are very often the head of their families or taking care of elders. What they saw in Mitt Romney was someone who had disdain for them – as part of the 47%. He wanted to cut after-school programmes, Head Start, food stamps and job training programmes."
She said that the Republican's so-called "war against women" including Romney's pledge to get rid of Planned Parenthood, a key women's healthcare provider that also provide abortions, was important to unmarried women for economic reasons.
"Planned parenthood offers medical services at a low price. When you are struggling economically, that sort of thing is your bread and butter. Two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women – and the minimum wage has not gone up in the last few years," O'Neill said. "If you don't have access to reliable reproductive healthcare you are going to have a hard job surviving. One in three women under the age of 45 in the US have an abortion. It's common and it's necessary."
Women gave Obama 55% to Romney's 43%, a proportion that was unchanged from the president's lead among women in 2008.
During the 2012 election campaign, the Republican party has been accused of a "war against women" over issues like birth control and abortion. It has come to a head countless times, but most prominently after comments by senior Republican candidates which caused widespread offence.
Todd Akin, running for the US senate in Missouri, suggested that women had biological ways to "shut down" pregnancy after a "legitimate rape", a claim made to support his opposition to abortion in any circumstances including pregnancy from rape. Richard Mourdock, the Republican Senate candidate in Indiana, said that pregnancies resulting from rape "is something that God intended to happen". Both men were defeated by their Democratic opponents.
Lisa Maatz, the policy director of the American Association of University Women, which published recent research showing a massive gender gap in earnings over time between college men and women, said that 2012 was a wake-up call for young women.
"In this election, young women really understood what their mothers have been saying about the rights they have fought for," Maatz said. "They are not set in stone. When young women hear politicians say that birth control should be illegal – like Rick Santorum did – and all-male panels talking about birth control, it all adds up.
"But these unmarried women are not all young women, they are all ages, and some of them are worried about social security and medicare. What they have in common is they are more economically vulnerable."
Birth control was a "huge economic issue" said Maatz. "Women did not vote with their ladyparts, they voted with their pocketbooks like they always do".
Among those joining the Senate will be Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, who made history twice over. She will be the first openly gay member elected to the Senate and the first Wisconsin woman elected there.
In New Hampshire, voters elected a female governor, and becomes the first state with an all-female congressional delegation. Carol Shea-Porter and Ann McLane Kuster,  defeated Republican incumbents on Tuesday night to win the state's two House seats. They will join the state's senators, both women, Jeanne Shaheen and Republican senator Kelly Ayotte.
Maatz said: "I don't know what they put in the Kool-Aid in New Hampshire, but I want some."
Celinda Lake, Democratic pollster and president of Lake Research Partners, said it was a "historic election for women" in a number of ways. "It proves that you don't make women angry."
She said that women's votes drove a number of women – at the last count 20 – to the Senate, and also won the races for Claire McCaskill, who was up against Akin and Joe Donnelly, who was up against Mourdock, after both men were widely criticised after making comments on abortion and rape.
 and it was overwhelmingly from women aged between 18-44. A majority of Missouri voters supported abortion and three-quarters of Missouri voters came out for McCaskill.
Polling for the Donnelly/Mourdock contest showed a similar pattern.
Fifty-two per cent of women voted for Donnelly in Indiana, with 42% voting for Mourdock. Male voters were almost deadlocked, 
The election result could also leave a profound impact on reproductive rights indirectly through the supreme court. Four of the current justices - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer – are all in their 70s, so its seems likely that the president over the next four years will get to nominate at least one and quite possibly two replacements. A Romney win could have led to the court being tilted decisively against Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision guaranteeing the right to abortion under most conditions.

MATUMLA BELIEVE HIS VICTORY

Spirited Matumla on revenge mission

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Dar es Salaam. Veteran professional boxer, Rashid “Snake Man” Matumla, believes his victory over Patrick Amote of Kenya will spur him to revenge all defeats. Matumla stopped Kenyan Amote after recording a 79-72 point win in the fight held in Mtwara under the supervision of Tanzania Professional Boxing Organisation (TPBO). Speaking with The Citizen on Saturday, Matumla expressed his delight, stressing that he is back to his best after a lengthy intensive training.He said that he lost the bout against Maneno “Mtambo wa Gongo” Oswald due to fitness problems for he underrated his long-time archenemy.“What happened in the bout against Oswald was my mistake because I didn’t train intensively for the bout, but I have decided to go differently and my age does not prevent me from fighting,” said Matumla. He said that he is planning to revenge against Oswald before fighting against Karama Nyilawila and later Francis ‘SMG’ Cheka. “My intention is to revenge against them after training hard. I know that it would be a tough thing to beat them, but I want to regain my reputation in the game,” he said.Matumla said that he is yet to think about quitting boxing claiming that he has yet to see a professional boxer who can follow his footsteps after he resigns. “You cannot think about resigning when you are still dominating the game. I won various bouts at this age and promoters  still need me to fight, I cannot stop them, I have to agree with them as there are people who want to see me continue fighting,” he said.

KENYAN HOPEST HAILS OBAMA'S

Kenya hails Obama’s victory, hopes to deepen relationship

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Nairobi. President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga yesterday congratulated US President Barack Obama for his re-election.In his message President Kibaki said the re-election was a re-affirmation of the confidence the American people have in President Obama’s leadership skills.Kibaki wished US President Obama best wishes during his second term in office and prayed for God’s blessings. “On behalf of the Government and people of Kenya and on my own behalf I convey our congratulations to you, for your well deserved victory. I commend the American people for showing their confidence in your leadership. Kenya, as always is proud of our association with you. We look forward to the deepening of relations between our two countries during your second term in office,” Kibaki said. PM Odinga said the re-election of US President Barack Obama had electrified the world."It is a tribute to the people of the United States that they have re-elected an African American President amidst an intensely trying economic environment that would have tested any incumbent. It is therefore also an outstanding personal triumph for President Obama," said PM Odinga. Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka also said Obama's re-election was a big win for a free world."It is our hope that he uses his second term to work for peace and to bear positive influence across the globe," he said Meanwhile, Mama Sarah Obama has congratulated the American people for re-electing his 'grandson'. While addressing Kogelo residents who kept vigil at her home from Tuesday night to early Wednesday, she said the action taken by the American people was a great honour and would motivate more people with African roots to participate in global politics. “Much as I must thank the American people for this gesture, victory is Africa’s as it solidifies our position in world leadership.” she said.Obama’s re-election as US president threw the entire Kogelo village, Siaya County into a jamboree. According to Mama Sarah Obama, a combination of many factors handed her grandson victory.“It is God’s plan and most of all, he is an outstanding gentleman.” she said.

HIV/AIDS PROJECT DONATES 25M EQUIPMENT TO MUFINDI

The US President`s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) being implemented in the country under the 'Tunajali' project has donated working items worth 25,160,000/-.

The Obama administration, through US Agency for International Aid (USAID), plans to reach a total of 5,408 people living with HIV/Aids in Mufindi District, Iringa Region.

The project manager for Iringa region, Edna Diallo, said at a brief ceremony to hand over the donated equipment that 148 home-based service providers would be using them, adding that the move by the US government had helped to change people's mindsets in Iringa Region who believed that donor support never reached the targeted people in rural areas.

The arrangement to make physical contacts and provide services in rural areas has exposed some urban-based civic organisations that mismanage donations and support targeting rural-based people living with HIV and those living in difficult environments.

"In its programme to improve the provision of quality HIV and Aids services, the Tunajali programme being funded by PEPFAR has handed over bicycles, boots and rain coats, all worth 25,160,000/-, thus helping people do away the misconceptions," said Diallo.

Earlier, District Executive Director Limbakisye Shimwella said that the commitment of President Obama's programme was a big challenge to civic organisations which have been receiving lots of resources but very little of it reached the targeted groups.

“You witnesses this right here. The Tunajali programme has demonstrated that it is possible to take the donations down to the targeted people. We want other organisations to learn from this initiative," emphasised Shimwella.

Some service providers who spoke to this paper were optimistic that the initiative will help to improve Iringa Region's HIV status.

“I think under such initiatives, we may find ourselves doing better in our ranking on HIV/Aids issues. Having 400 people offering home-based services to victims is a big step forward," said one An

AFRICAN SCHOLARS IN KIGALI TO DISCUSS REGIONAL CONFLICTS

POLICY analysts, scholars and researchers from Africa and beyond are converging in Kigali today to explore and understand the root causes and possible solutions to the persistent conflicts in the Great Lakes Region and their effect on governance.
The two-day high event that is organised by the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) is held under theme, "Governance and Security in Africa: Assessing the Imperatives of Peace and Stability in the Great Lakes Region."
Addressing a news conference yesterday, Prof. Anastase Shyaka, Chief Executive Officer of RGB said the event will provide a platform to find a solution to ongoing insecurities in the region.
"The high level policy dialogue is of an academic nature seeking to find scholarly solutions to the challenges of regional insecurity and instability. We hope to come up with alternative approaches to pacifying the region, not to succeed the ongoing political, diplomatic and military efforts, but to supplement them," he explained.
Shyaka observed that, inter-state diplomatic dialogue, joint military operations, intervention of regional bodies and international peace keeping missions have not yielded sustainable solutions to the conflicts in the Great Lakes region.
The forum brings together eminent academics, researchers, political leaders, representatives of international organisations, university students and youth community representatives and the media among others.
The region continues to face persistence of conflicts mainly in the eastern DRC
Rwanda has been at the receiving end of repercussions resulting from the conflict and instability that has plagued the eastern DRC.
"Regional member states have not been in total agreement as to how the insecurity threat should be tackled. Failure to fully understand the nature of the challenge makes it impossible to come up with workable remedies," he stressed.
Shyaka added: "Over the last twenty years several efforts have been made using varied approaches, still lasting peace is not about to be realised. The Conference is not intended as an end in itself but rather an opportune moment to come up with the new shared generated ideas and knowledge to find a lasting solution to the conflicts in the region."
The forum will examine the possibility of pursuing the fundamental solutions to the regional conflicts in the face of a worsening insecurity and instability in the Great Lakes region.

IS IT OBAMA OR MCCAIN?

Obama, Romney predict victory on eve of election

 

US President Barack Obama (Left) greets Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both confidently predicted victory on Monday, as they rallied supporters in the dying hours of a bitter White House race, which the US president leads by a whisker.

The foes, drained by fatigue, charged through the swing states that will dictate their fates, taking final shots hours before polls open in an election that will decide whether Obama wins a second White House term.

"We need to have new leadership and new vision for the country," said Romney, the Republican nominee, at his penultimate campaign event in an aircraft hangar in Columbus in the potentially pivotal swing state of Ohio.

"President Obama promised change, but he couldn't deliver it," Romney told thousands of cheering supporters, who chanted "One More Day, One More Day" under a huge banner that read "Victory in Ohio."

Earlier, Romney -- despite trailing in polls of the battleground states that will decide the election -- forecast he would win, and urged supporters in Virginia to help get out the vote on Tuesday.

"We thank you and ask you to stay with it all the way until we win tomorrow night," Romney said, sparking wild cheers.

The Republican candidate was holding his final rally in New Hampshire, though scheduled get out the vote stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania on election day.

Obama, barnstorming with rock legend Bruce Springsteen and rapper Jay-Z, delivered a similar message in the liberal college town of Madison, Wisconsin, pleading with supporters to stick with him in a final push to the finish.

"If you're willing to work with me again, and knock on some doors with me, make some phone calls for me, turn out for me, we'll win Wisconsin. We'll win this election. We'll finish what we started," he said.

Obama is hoping to defy historic precedents which suggest that presidents who preside over shaky economies and high unemployment fail to win re-election.

Later, the president held his last rally of the campaign in Ohio, and repudiated Romney's claim to be a candidate of change.

"You know that I know what real change looks like because you've seen me fight for it," Obama said.

"I've got the scars to prove it. I've got the gray hair to prove it."

Obama was later to wind up his re-election bid with his last-ever campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa, the city where his unlikely quest for the presidency began in early 2007.

Then, he was headed home to Chicago for election day.

Election eve polls cemented the impression that Obama has the slightest of leads after a campaign that has cost billions of dollars, but cannot take victory, and the historical validation of re-election, for granted.

The final national polls showed an effective tie, with either Romney or Obama favored by a single point in most surveys, reflecting the polarized politics of a deeply divided nation.

Obama however led by three points in national polls conducted by Pew Research and by the Washington Post and ABC News, suggesting that if either candidate could boast of 11th-hour momentum, it was the 44th US president.

MISS TANZANIA IS NOW OFFICIAL

before 4th nov either of these beautiful girls was sure or somehow optimistic that it could be her to grab the tittle of miss redds Tanzania but now everyone knows...............

Arrested over 'racist' gesture at Chelsea game

 

PHOTO | GLYN KIRK Manchester United's Mexican striker Javier Hernandez (L) celebrates scoring their second goal with English striker Danny Welbeck during the English League Cup Fourth Round football match between Chelsea and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge in London, on October 31, 2012. Several British newspapers have printed a picture appearing to show a fan making a monkey gesture at striker Welbeck during the game

 

• Several British newspapers last week printed a picture taken during Chelsea's dramatic 5-4 League Cup win over Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday which appeared to show a fan making a monkey gesture at striker Danny Welbeck
• Chelsea said last Thursday that they were holding their own separate investigation into the incident and appealed for anyone who could identify the fan to contact the club

KAGAME TALKS AGAIN THIS TIME FOR AFRICA

nsform natural wealth into development, Africa told

Wednesday, 31 October 2012 23:29

MR PAUL KAGAME, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA. By Veneranda Sumila The Citizen Reporter Kigali. With an annual turnover of about $0.5 trillion from its natural resources, Africa needs to invest just five per cent of the bulk on key development sectors for the continent to kiss goodbye foreign aid dependence, it has been said.African Development Bank (AfDB) president Dr Donald Kaberuka said on Tuesday – during the ongoing Africa Economic Conference here -- that investing five per cent of Africa’s natural resource returns in sectors like agriculture and infrastructure will hasten the pace of the continent’s economic development. “It is a shame for African countries to beg for assistance from countries whoes natural resources cannot not match with those of Africa,” Dr Kaberuka said in his opening remarks at the Economic Conference here. He urged African countries to cooperate and stop working individually. “Among the reasons why we don’t achieve economic growth is because countries concentrate on solving their individual problems and they forget to focus on continental ones, which if they were to jointly solved them, they would do so with a bigger impact in the continent’s economic development,” argued Dr Kaberuka. He urged Africans to own their continent’s decision-making mechanism, saying the solution to African problems rests in mobilisation of internal resources. He said governments must invest in sectors that employ the majority of the population. Earlier, officiating the conference, Rwandan President Paul Kagame called upon Africans to learn a thing or two from their failed past economic development initiatives, urging countries to build confidence over home-grown economists and other experts. “If countries were to work on advice given by their own economists, the continent would reach far. Let Africans talk and find solutions to their problems because they know their continent a lot better than anyone else,” said Mr Kagame. For her part, Ms Helen Clark, an administrator with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said leadership transformation is key to attaining economic development in the continent. “Despite the challenges we face in the economic growth, Africa also needs to work on the challenge of leadership transformation. Countries must also invest adequately in the education of the young,” she said.

BRIGITTE ALFRED IS 2012`S HOTTEST DIVA

SINZA’S BRIGITTE CROWNED MISS TANZANIA 2012

Monday, 05 November 2012 10:38

Brigitte Alfred who won the Miss Tanzania 2012 edition. The much anticipated contest was held at the Blue Pearl Hotel in Ubungo, Dar es Salaam, on Saturday night. Dar es Salaam. Glitz and glamour filled the Blue Pearl Hotel on Saturday night as Brigitte Alfred from Sinza got crowned the new Miss Tanzania for 2012 at a hotly contested final. Brigitte, who walked home with a Toyota Noah and Sh8 million, outsmarted other 29 contestants at the colourful gala. Eugene Fabian from the lake Zone emerged the first runner up, and bagged Sh6 million while the third spot went to Edda Sylvester from Temeke, who walked away with Sh4 million. “I’m so happy and excited for the award, I promise not to let Tanzanians down in the Miss World event,” said the elated queen as she stood in front of her grand prize. Brigitte could not hide her joy, as the outgoing Miss Tanzania, Salha Israel relinquished the crown to her. Brigitte becomes the eighteenth contestant to take the Miss Tanzania crown since its re-inception in 1994. Brigitte’s mother Verdiana Mashingia, who accompanied her daughter during the contest, could not hide her joy as she told The Citizen of how honoured she was to witness her daughter making her and the country proud. “We are all happy tonight, Brigitte has done us proud and I’m certain that she will do just the same for her country,” said the emotional mother. The director of Miss Tanzania organising committee, Dr Ramesh Shah, told the ecstatic audience that it was yet another night of proving how the country was ready to produce a talent to battle it out in the global arena, later this year. “We have been staging this event for the past 18 years and it is evident that we all want to have the best for the Miss World contest and make our country proud,” noted Dr Shah, amid a round of applause.