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Let some one translet Nziza nogetiating with assissins to Kill Gen Kayumba in South Africa at $ 250,000
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*A positive mind is a courageous mind, without doubts and fears, using the experience and wisdom to give the best of him/herself.
We must dare invent the future!
The only way of limiting the usurpation of power by
individuals, the military or otherwise, is to put the people in charge - Capt. Thomas. Sankara {RIP} '1949-1987
*"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
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*A positive mind is a courageous mind, without doubts and fears, using the experience and wisdom to give the best of him/herself.
We must dare invent the future!
The only way of limiting the usurpation of power by
individuals, the military or otherwise, is to put the people in charge - Capt. Thomas. Sankara {RIP} '1949-1987
*"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable"**… *J.F Kennedy
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Things had been bubbling beneath the surface, but broke out after Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete suggested publicly Kigali should hold talks with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), who are based in eastern DR Congo.
Kikwete also proposed that Uganda talk to its Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels, who are also holed up in the DRC.
Kigali considers the FDLR irredeemably toxic, in part because it is the rump of the groups that carried out the 1994 genocide in which nearly one million people were slaughtered.
Already a tall man, President Paul Kagame quickly hit the roof and said some very strong words about Kikwete.
Uganda was less vexed about Kikwete's proposal in part because, for all the many things that are wrong about President Yoweri Museveni's leadership, his government generally maintains a pagan and cynical pragmatism about such things.
When the lights are out and no one is looking, they will talk to anybody.
However, East African affairs took a boyish turn from there.
In late June, Museveni called an "infrastructure summit" in Entebbe. He invited Kagame and Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta. It seems Kikwete and Burundi's Pierre Nkurunziza, a close ally of Dar es Salaam, didn't get any letters.
Talk of an "East African Three" started to do the rounds.
Then, on August 7, Kenyatta hosted a Great Lakes summit in Nairobi. Kikwete and Nkurunziza didn't show up. Last week, Kenya commissioned a new berth at Mombasa port, a key regional infrastructure project. Kikwete and Nkurunziza were a no show again. Museveni and Kagame were there.
The Tanzanians said Kikwete wasn't invited. Kenyan officials said he was.
A war broke out on the blogs, with Tanzanians accusing "The Three" of the same narrow-mindedness and "greed" that broke up the first East African Community in 1977.
Yet I sense a lot of good will come of the quarrel. To begin with, hinterland nations like Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo have generally been badly served by both Mombasa and Dar.
While Tanzania has lately been high-handed in its treatment of Kenyan trucks entering the country, Kenya also sometimes does Uganda bad.
At the height of the elections early in the year, it blocked Uganda sugar from entering Kenya, with officials alleging it was going to be used to bribe voters!
This spat between "The Three" and "The Two" will hopefully make Kenya mollycoddle Uganda and Rwanda more; and Tanzania will pamper Burundi to keep it in its corner of this feud.
With its permissive ways, Uganda will be sending subtle signals to Tanzania that it remains open to be courted by Dar too. So Tanzania could offer Uganda dinner and flowers.
After many years of prevarication, Tanzania may eventually be forced to move quickly on building berths 13 and 14 at Dar port. And that mega port at Bagamoyo? This competition to show who can deliver on infrastructure could also force Tanzania to get serious on it.
This kind of malicious competition is exactly what the doctor ordered for East Africa. We were in danger of getting too comfortable with each other and descending into a common pool of mediocrity.
Charles Onyango-Obbo is Nation Media Group's executive editor for Africa & Digital Media. E-mail: cobbo@ke.nationmedia.com. Twitter: @cobbo3
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Obama should lose Noble Peace Prize
August 31, 2013 Wenceslaus Murape International
Barack Obama
MOSCOW/NEW YORK. — US President Barack Obama should be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize if the United States carries out a military strike on Syria, Alexei Pushkov, head of the Russian parliament’s International Affairs Committee, said yesterday.“If the United States attacks Syria without UN approval, the global community should demand that the Nobel Committee strip Obama of his peace prize,” the senior lawmaker wrote on his Twitter page.
He added that the United States did not have the right to speak on behalf of NATO or the global community.
“The United Kingdom’s refusal to support aggression against Syria is a serious blow to the arguments of (armed intervention) supporters in both Nato and the US,” Pushkov wrote.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron suffered a historic defeat in a vote on Syrian intervention on Thursday, when the UK parliament voted down a motion calling for a “strong humanitarian response” to the two-year civil war. Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” according to a statement on the prize’s website.
Activist site RootsAction.org has gathered nearly 24 000 signatures on a petition to revoke Obama’s peace prize because “his increasing intervention in Syria promises the loss of even more than the nearly 100,000 lives already needlessly sacrificed.”
Meanwhile, United States Secretary of State John F. Kerry made a forceful case yesterday for US military intervention in Syria, saying that US intelligence has information pinning responsibility for last week’s chemical weapons attack squarely on the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
In a speech at the State Department, Kerry said that for three days before the August 21 attack, the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons personnel “were in the area, making preparations” for the strike. He also said that “regime elements were told to prepare for the attack by putting on gas masks” and taking other precautions.
And he said US intelligence knows that the rockets containing the poison gas were launched only from “regime-controlled areas.”
The attack killed more than 1,400 Syrians, including 426 children, Kerry said.
“The American people are tired of war,” Kerry said, adding that he is also. “But fatigue does not absolve us of our responsibility.” He said that “history would judge us all extraordinarily harshly” if the United States does not respond to the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.
Kerry spoke after French President Francois Hollande said yesterday that his country is prepared to act in Syria despite Britain’s surprise rejection of military action, potentially making a nation that turned its back on Washington during the war in Iraq the primary US ally in a possible strike against Syrian forces. — RIA Novosti/Washington Post.
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"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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Tamil Nadu's baby Rahul sets on fire by himself
IANS Chennai,
Three-month-old Rahul, who is admitted in the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital (KMCH) in Chennai with 10 degree burn injuries because of a condition called spontaneous human combustion (SHC), is stable, doctors said on Saturday.
"The baby is stable and treatment is on for burn injuries and scars. Life-saving support systems are there for Rahul in the intensive care unit," R. Narayana Babu, head of pediatrics at the hospital told on Saturday.
He said the baby will be under observation and may be discharged after two weeks depending on his condition.
Three-month old infant Rahul who suffers from a rare medical condition that sets him on fire.
Doctors say that in SHC, burns are caused as the body catches fire because of the excretion of gases.
"The mother told us that the baby has suffered four episodes of such spontaneous fire and suffered burn injuries. The last episode was a month back. The baby was admitted to the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) (in Puducherry)," R. Jayachandran a professor in the department of pediatrics at KMC said.
"The family does not have any medical records and we have to check with JIPMER for the case sheet," Jayachandran said.
According to Babu, the baby has burn injuries in the abdomen and chest. The injuries are on the front of the body.
"We have only the mother's version. The baby has to be carefully observed. We have to investigate whether the ailment is genetic. We will carry out tests to find out the kind of gases generated by the baby," Jayachandran said.
Doctors said some of the tests needed were very costly and may have to be done elsewhere.
The doctor said until a proper diagnosis is made, the baby would be given treatment that is only symptomatic, with the administration of antibiotics.
The baby's parents, Rajeswari and Karna, are agricultural labourers at Villupuram district, around 160 km from the state capital. Rahul has a two-year-old sister.
The Villupuram district collector referred the baby to KMCH, a hospital that is well known for treating burn injuries.
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"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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MPs learned that government hospitals may no get new beds as money for them was spent.
State Minister for Health Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye on Thursday made a passionate plea to Parliament to ask government to allocate money to buy hospital beds and mattresses.
Dr Tumwesigye told the Health Committee led by Kenneth Omona, MP Kaberamaido, that the National Medical Stores (NMS) in the financial year 2011/2012 had planned to procure beds and mattresses for all health facilities in Uganda at a cost of 16 billion shillings.
The money was diverted by Ministry of Health to facilitate what it termed priorities and urgent needs worsened by a budget cut off in the fourth quarter hence failure to procure beds.
Government needs a total of 31,305 beds to cover two national referral hospitals with 1200 beds for both adults and children.
13 Regional Referral hospitals require 3250 beds, 48 general hospitals 6000 beds, 170 heath centres IV 6,800 beds and 937 health centres III's need 14,055 beds.
The grand total including delivery and assembling at the health facility requires 22.4 billion shillings.
The State Minister then dropped the bombshell that funds have not been provided to procure beds and mattresses this financial year.
Dr Tumwesigye noted that this is a critical area and appealed that if the committee could get money from another sector and avail beds.
Moses Kamabare the National Medical Stores Executive Director, explained to the committee that in 2012 government had an understanding with Global Fund to procure drugs under the long term institutions procurement.
However since there was no decision made between Global Fund and government to acquire the money, the government went ahead to spend the 16 billion meant for mattresses with hope that it would get reimbursed as soon as Global Fund releases the funds for HIV/AIDS.
Kamabare adds that in the third quarter of the financial year 2012/2013 Global Fund did not honour its promise and instead decided to provide actual medical supplies to different facilities.
The Ministry of Health also used the money for what they determined as priorities and the balance was used to buy other urgent needs.
Kabasharira Naome, Ntungamo Woman MP, suggested that since government is not going to be able to afford to get the 22 billion shillings, the ministry should identify the critical areas such as Kitagata hospital and buy the mattresses.
The unit cost of each adult bed and mattress is 292.5 dollars with a total cost of 6.689,703 million dollars. Meanwhile the total cost of the paediatric bed is 232 dollars with a total of 1.961.137 million dollars.
*A positive mind is a courageous mind, without doubts and fears, using the experience and wisdom to give the best of him/herself.
We must dare invent the future!
The only way of limiting the usurpation of power by
individuals, the military or otherwise, is to put the people in charge - Capt. Thomas. Sankara {RIP} '1949-1987
*"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable"**… *J.F Kennedy
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By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS | Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:04pm EDT
(Reuters) - Rwanda blocked a joint U.S.-French proposal to impose U.N. sanctions on two senior commanders in the M23 rebel group in eastern Congo, arguing that the evidence against the men was weak, Rwandan and other U.N. envoys said on Wednesday.
The latest diplomatic wrangling in New York came as U.N. helicopters and artillery attacked M23 rebel positions near the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday in support of an offensive by the Congolese armed forces. One U.N. peacekeeper from Tanzania was killed and three other blue-helmeted troops were wounded.
The United States and France submitted documents to the U.N. Security Council's Congo sanctions committee last week explaining why M23's Colonel Vianney Kazarama, military spokesman for the rebel group, and Erick Mboneza, an M23 commander, should be hit with U.N. sanctions.
Among other things, those documents, seen by Reuters, cite a July Human Rights Watch report that accused Mboneza of ordering the summary execution of a 24-year-old man he said was a thief.
The documents also refer to a U.N. Group of Experts report that says Mboneza and an M23 Colonel Kaina, who is already subject to a U.N. travel ban and asset freeze for his activities in the rebel group, were seen meeting with Rwandan military officers between March and May 2013.
The Group of Experts has repeatedly accused Rwanda of supporting M23, an allegation Kigali vehemently rejects. The cross-border accusations underscore the M23 rebellion's roots in a complex web of local politics and regional conflicts over ethnicity, land and minerals.
Rwanda's deputy U.N. ambassador, Olivier Nduhungirehe, told Reuters that Kigali blocked the proposed blacklisting because it would have undermined regional efforts to bring peace to eastern Congo and Kampala talks between M23 and Congo's government.
He added that the evidence supporting the U.S.-French proposal was "very poor."
Diplomats said Rwanda, a temporary council member, was the only one of the 15 member nations that opposed the idea of blacklisting the two men.
The Security Council's sanctions committee works on the basis of consensus, which means Rwanda was able to singlehandedly block the proposed blacklisting.
In theory, council members could vote on the blacklistings in a Security Council resolution that Rwanda would be unable to block. It was not clear if the council was prepared to do that.
'DEEPLY REGRETTABLE'
Separately, Rwanda has repeatedly rejected council efforts to issue a public statement condemning M23 attacks on U.N. peacekeepers last week, U.N. diplomats said. Rwanda complained that the Western-drafted statement was unbalanced and unfairly targeted the M23 while ignoring attacks by the Congolese army.
Kigali initially criticized the statement for not mentioning shelling onto Rwandan territory last week, though later drafts, all seen by Reuters, did ask for the council condemn the firing into Rwanda.
A new draft of the statement was rejected by Rwanda on Wednesday. A Rwandan delegate said in an email to other Security Council members that it could not support some of the language in the latest draft text.
One council delegation responded to the Rwandan rejection by saying , "It would be the first time when attacks on U.N. peacekeepers are not condemned by the Security Council. This situation is deeply regrettable," according to a copy of the email, seen by Reuters.
But Nduhungirehe said negotiations on a statement were continuing. "We are now close to an agreement," he said.
A 3,000-strong U.N. intervention brigade, with a tough new mandate to protect civilians and neutralize armed groups in the mineral-rich central African nation, sprang into action last week after it accused the M23 rebels of shelling Goma. The violence has been escalating there in recent days.
(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
*A positive mind is a courageous mind, without doubts and fears, using the experience and wisdom to give the best of him/herself.
We must dare invent the future!
The only way of limiting the usurpation of power by
individuals, the military or otherwise, is to put the people in charge - Capt. Thomas. Sankara {RIP} '1949-1987
*"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable"**… *J.F Kennedy
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*A positive mind is a courageous mind, without doubts and fears, using the experience and wisdom to give the best of him/herself.
We must dare invent the future!
The only way of limiting the usurpation of power by
individuals, the military or otherwise, is to put the people in charge - Capt. Thomas. Sankara {RIP} '1949-1987
*"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable"**… *J.F Kennedy
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Rev. Jessica
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous.
Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." (Joshua 1:9)
