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{UAH} A Reflection on the Sunday Bible Readings: November 3rd, 2013 - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time:

 

Lover of Souls

Readings:
Wisdom 11:22-12
1 Psalm 145:1-2, 8-11, 13-14
2 Thessalonians 1:11-2:2
Luke 19:1-10

Our Lord is a lover of souls, the Liturgy shows us today. As we sing in today's Psalm, He is slow to anger and compassionate towards all that He has made.

In His mercy, our First Reading tells us, He overlooks our sins and ignorance, giving us space that we might repent and not perish in our sinfulness (see Wisdom 12:10; 2 Peter 3:9).

In Jesus, He has become the Savior of His children, coming himself to save the lost (see Isaiah 63:8-9; Ezekiel 34:16).

In the figure of Zacchaeus in today's Gospel, we have a portrait of a lost soul. He is a tax collector, by profession a "sinner" excluded from Israel's religious life. Not only that, he is a "chief tax collector." Worse still, he is a rich man who has apparently gained his living by fraud.

But Zacchaeus' faith brings salvation to his house. He expresses his faith in his fervent desire to "see" Jesus, even humbling himself to climb a tree just to watch Him pass by. While those of loftier religious stature react to Jesus with grumbling, Zacchaeus receives Him with joy.

Zacchaeus is not like the other rich men Jesus meets or tells stories about (see Luke 12:16-21; 16:19-31; 18:18-25). He repents, vowing to pay restitution to those he has cheated and to give half of his money to the poor.

By his humility he is exalted, made worthy to welcome the Lord into his house. By his faith, he is justified, made a descendant of Abraham (see Romans 4:16-17).

As He did last week, Jesus is again using a tax collector to show us the faith and humility we need to obtain salvation.

We are also called to seek Jesus daily with repentant hearts. And we should make our own Paul's prayer in today's Epistle: that God might make us worthy of His calling, that by our lives we might give glory to the name of Jesus.

Yours in Christ,



Scott Hahn, Ph.D.

Paul Mugerwa

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{UAH} AFRICAN QUEEN TO SET SAIL AGAIN ON COMMERCIAL CRUISES UP UGANDA’S NILE

AFRICAN QUEEN TO SET SAIL AGAIN ON COMMERCIAL CRUISES UP UGANDA'S NILE

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{UAH} Uganda: Nurse-to-Nurse Global Initiative - And then they ask for bribes

Uganda: Nurse-to-Nurse Global Initiative

Submitted by Steven Chin on October 31, 2013 - 12:00

Some of the 25 participants, including licensed nurses, master's students and faculty of Makerere University, at the 2013 Summer Partnership-Building Workshop. Photo courtesy of Schola Matovu.

By Schola Matovu and Linda Gregory

In the summer of 2013, as doctoral students at UCSF, we committed to initiate the first collaborative partnership with Makerere University's Department of Nursing in Uganda under the Nurse-to-Nurse Global Initiative (NTNGI).

The summer workshop was one of the first steps towards NTNGI's mission of fostering international collaborations through collegial dialogue and exchange of knowledge between nurses in the United States and those in developing countries, starting with East Africa.

Nursing is the largest professional sector of the global health care workforce and delivers the majority of primary care in sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is a shortage of nurses in this region, which can partly be attributed to the exodus of highly trained nurses to more affluent countries.

This inability to develop a sustainable workforce is influenced by other professional barriers, such as inadequate educational advancement, lack of promotion and leadership opportunities, unsafe practice environments and poorly funded health care systems.

Consequently, nurses in sub-Saharan Africa routinely confront daunting challenges that are beyond their control. Nevertheless, they are responsible for delivering quality care to a large population vulnerable to a myriad diseases.

The Nurse-to-Nurse Global Initiative is committed to the development of workforce capacity and empowerment of nurses as leaders, scholars and research scientists in sub-Saharan Africa through collaborative partnerships.    

For more information on the Nurse-To-Nurse Global Initiative, contact Schola Matovu at Schola.Matovu@ucsf.edu or Linda Gregory at Linda.Gregory@ucsf.edu.

Schola Matovu, RN, BSN, and Linda Gregory, RN, MSN, are doctoral students in the School of Nursing.

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{UAH} Fears grow for the life of Rwandan accused of treason

Fears grow for the life of Rwandan accused of treason

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  Joel Mutabazi was seized from a safe house in UgandaJerome Starkey

Jerome Starkey, Africa Correspondent and Tabu Butagira in Kampala

Last updated at 12:01AM, November 1 2013

A Rwandan refugee who fled his job in President Kagame's personal bodyguard has been abducted in Uganda and forcibly returned to his home country, where rights groups fear that he may be tortured and killed.

Joel Mutabazi escaped from Rwanda in 2011 after claiming that he suffered 17 months of torture and solitary confinement in the infamous Kami military prison, on the outskirts of Kigali. He had been accused of supporting an exiled Rwandan general

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{UAH} How babies will be born in future

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{UAH} Kenya rape sentence protests

Kenya rape sentence protests

Hundreds of protesters have marched through the Kenyan capital of Nairobi to demand justice for a 16-year-old girl who was the victim of a brutal gang-rape.

Protesters march to demand justice for rape victim

Hundreds of protesters have marched through the Kenyan capital of Nairobi to demand justice for a 16-year-old girl who was the victim of a brutal gang-rape.

The men accused of gang-raping the girl, referred to under the pseudonym 'Liz', were ordered by police to cut grass as a punishment.

The punishment sparked national outrage and calls for justice from numerous women's campaign groups.

Protesters wore t-shirts and held placards reading 'Justice for Liz' Credit: RTVProtesters gathered outside the office of the Inspector of Police to demand action. Credit: RTVProtesters chanted 'No more rape' as they marched through Nairobi. Credit: RTV

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Protests due after Kenyan rapists are made to 'cut grass'

Activists are set to take to the streets to demand action after three men accused of gang-raping a 16-year-old girl in Kenya were reportedly made to cut grass as a punishment before being released.

The girl, referred to as 'Liz', was walking home from her grandfather's funeral when she was attacked by six men who repeatedly raped her before throwing her down a toilet pit.

The online petition titled 'The World's worst punishment for rape' has gained more than 1.3 million signatures. Credit: Avaaz

Police ordered three of the men who were caught to cut the grass in the police compound before being released sparking national outrage.

The girl is now confined to a wheelchair as a result of injuries sustained during the attack, the local Daily Nation newspaper reported.

More than a 1.3 million people have now signed an online petition, published by campaign group Avaaz, calling on the Kenyan police chief to take action.

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{UAH} Tr : Mozambique may need some prayers!

Le Vendredi 1 novembre 2013 3h02, Yahoo! Merber Service. <ghkkolokolo@yahoo.fr> a écrit :

This southern African country really needs Providence at hand!

The recent reconversion to guerila activity by former rebel group Renamo, hitherto 

a peaceful Parliamentery opposition front, now a self-acclaimed 

militant revolutionary group ready to act militarily in order to see

that wealth in the country is equitably shared by all, is something that

 now creates concern in many circles! Unless the positive is allowed to triumph

there is worry of another bloody episode that may bring chaos to the stage!

I hope the leaders will come out and give assurance to the led so that the worst is

averted! Let's hope so!

Otherwise this is the country which had taken off very well and its economy is growing

very steadily ( 7.5 % last year and 8% next year, according to UN estimates)

Mozambique was now attracting back its ancient Portugues colonizers who are flocking

to the country in their thousands! Maputo City is expanding at an unprecedented rocket speed and

one just sees skyscrapers mushrooming in every corner of the ancient city which has now even leisurely

opted to constructing those Manhattan-like upper scale residences that are rented at 6000 US$ per month

and there are tycoons from all over the globe to rent them. Streams of industrialists, businessmen,

financial experts, bankers, etc land in every day and start competing for the endless contracts in

every aspect of the economy! 

The country has very much to offer: tourism, trade, mining, agriculture, construction, investment in 

all sectors of the nation's life, etc... 

The most important area of attraction is now in the natural gas extraction. This is what will make every

Mozambican have a feel at a real Western life, if at all the assets are goodly utilized for  every citizen's

national interest ( will Mozambique succeed where Cabinda, which was anticipated to levy on its citizens 

a special standard of living equal to that of Britain was led to fail ?) If Mozambique fails, it will be a big betrayal

to her revolution! The ball is now in the camp of her leaders. The country has now been rated with an estimated

150 trillion cubic feet of gas ( compare that to rich Libya's total 55 trillion cubic feet of the product!), and has petrol

and practically all types of rich marketable minerals! 

What shocks is the impression shared a number of natives who foresee more poverty in all these riches that may

not pull up the already much impoverished natives! A which may give Renamo justification for a cause! Terrible!

G.H.K.

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{UAH} WEST SECRETLY BACKING AL-QAEDA IN SYRIA

West Secretly Backing al-Qaeda In Syria

 

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{UAH} LIKE THE PHEONIX, A NEW VERSION OF M23 WILL RISE AGAIN.

Shortly after, the M23 emerged and Museveni was behind it despite the repeated denials. Currently, Museveni is manipulating Uhuru Kenyata, Silva Kiir and Paul Kagame into the fast tracking of the East African political federation so that he becomes its first president. 

The curving out of another state out of Eastern DRC that would be part of East African Community seems to be delaying. Tanzania under the AU Brigade is delaying this plan by defeating the M23. As has always been the case, a new version of M23 will soon emerge and restart the distablisation process. But for now the M23 will establish bases in the Virunga Mountains from where they will adopt guerilla tactics with direct support from both Kagame and Museveni. 

In the long run, Kagame and Museveni will interfere into Tanzania's internal affairs by sowing seeds of discontent and secessionist sentiments among the communities of North-western Tanzania. This is what Kagame alluded to sometime back in reference to the standoff with Tanzania when he stated that "I wait and hit you at the right time". 

Both Museveni and Kagame know that their downfall will come from across the border with DRC. Incidentally, the same Eastern DRC is supposed to be their safe heavens in case they are militarily pushed out of power. Eastern DRC will only stabilize when the two leaders are no longer in power.

Are we witnessing a geopolitical dilemma that Gen. Saleh predicted? 

INFORMATION IS POWER.

Posted by Uganda - A Change of Guards! 

Viele GruBe

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{UAH} Mwalimu Nyerere in his own words! - Opinion/Editorial - thecitizen.co.tz

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Mwalimu Nyerere in his own words! - Opinion/Editorial

In Summary

"At the World Bank the first question they asked me was 'how did you fail?' I responded that we took over a country with 85 per cent of its adult population illiterate.

For the last 14 years on every October 14th Tanzanians mark another year without their beloved founding president, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. One of the best ways to honor this great Tanzanian, the son of Africa, is by recalling what he said during his lifetime. Here is one sample of what he said when he was interviewed by Dr Ikaweba Bunting.

Briefly, Dr Bunting, is an African American who lived in Tanzania for almost three decades following Nyerere's invitation when he visited Harlem, New York, in the late 1960s.

Dr Bunting also served in the Burundi Peace Negotiation Facilitation Team under Mwalimu and later under Nelson Mandela. He knew Mwalimu very well!

Dr Bunting interviewed Nyerere in December 1998 at his Butiama Village. Thus, on January 1, 1999, the first day of the year that Mwalimu died, the London-based magazine, New Internationalist, published a along article titled - 'The Heart of Africa' which Nyerere addressed the key issues that haunt Tanzania and Africa even today.

This was one of Bunting's questions that many people would certainly have asked Nyerere even presently: "Does the Arusha Declaration still stand up today?"

Nyerere replied: "I still travel around with it. I read it over and over to see what I would change. Maybe I would improve on the Kiswahili that was used but the Declaration is still valid: I would not change a thing. . . The Arusha Declaration was what made Tanzania distinctly Tanzania."

Mwalimu was proud of his achievement when he observed: "The Arusha Declaration and our democratic single-party system, together with our national language, Swahili, and a highly politicized and disciplined national army, transformed more than 126 different tribes into a cohesive and stable nation."

We must say no. We can't deny everything we accomplished.

The floundering of socialism has been global. This is what needs an explanation, not just the Tanzanian part of it." On the unification of East Africa in particular, Nyerere dropped a bombshell: "I respected Jomo immensely. It has probably never happened before in history; two heads of state, Milton Obote and I, went to Jomo and said to him: 'let's unite our countries and you be our head of state'. He said no. I think he said no because it would have put him out of his element as a Kikuyu Elder."

Dr Bunting at one time asked: "What were your main mistakes as Tanzanian leader? What should you have done differently?" Nyerere started by saying: There are things that I would have done more firmly or not at all. For example, I would not nationalize the sisal plantations. This was a mistake. I did not realise how difficult it would be for the state to manage agriculture."

On his failure and success, Nyerere gave a story of his encounter at the World Bank in Washington: "At the World Bank the first question they asked me was 'how did you fail?' I responded that we took over a country with 85 per cent of its adult population illiterate. The British ruled us for 43 years. When they left, there were two trained engineers and 12 doctors. This is the country we inherited. When I stepped down there was 91percent literacy and nearly every child was in school. We trained thousands of engineers and doctors and teachers."

Nyerere continued: "In 1988 Tanzania's per-capita income was $280. Now, in 1998, it is $140. So I asked the World Bank people what went wrong. Because for the last ten years Tanzania has been signing on the dotted line and doing everything the IMF and the World Bank wanted. Enrolment in school has plummeted to 63 per cent and conditions in health and other social services have deteriorated. I asked them again: 'what went wrong?' These people just sat there looking at me."

This is how Mwalimu finished his story: "Then they asked what could they do? I told them have some humility. Humility – they are so arrogant!"

 

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{UAH} BEIJING GOES TO UNITED STATES FOR A SHOPPING SPREEE

What will China buy? Beijing goes shopping in the U.S.

October 28, 2013, 10:23 PM

China is forecast to spend roughly $1 trillion over the next decade buying up foreign assets, including about $15 billion to $20 billion a year on U.S. investments, according to the Kiplinger Letter.

But what, exactly, are Chinese firms buying?

Kiplinger offers its best guess as to which sectors will be targeted, based on recent acquisitions:

1) Energy: With China relying on imported energy, it may seek assets here. Kiplinger cites state-owned Sinochem’s $1.7 billion purchase for a share of Texas shale formations owned by Pioneer Natural Resources Co. /quotes/zigman/185808 /quotes/nls/pxd PXD

2) Financial Services: Some Chinese interests may look for purchases that offer U.S. financial expertise, “as the Asian giant prepares for the more open financial markets that will come with a consumer economy,” the investment letter said.

3) Food Production: Here, the main impetus is securing food supplies not tainted with the litany of food-safety scandals that plague the Chinese market. Case in point: Shuanghui Group’s $4.8 billion deal for Smithfield Foods Inc. (Read Craig Stephen’s column of China’s food-safety ambitions.)

4) Real Estate: While the appetite for U.S. property among individual Chinese investors is well known, Kiplinger also sees more purchases ahead in the commercial real-estate space, along the lines of Fosun International Ltd. /quotes/zigman/39512 HK:656 snagging One Chase Manhattan Plaza, or the Chinese consortium which bought the General Motors building, also in New York.

5) Manufacturing: This front involves China seeking “to hang on to work that is, in some cases, moving back to the U.S.,” according to Kiplinger, citing a recent investment in a U.S. auto-parts plant by Chinese firm Yanfeng USA.

— Michael Kitchen

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{UAH} THE HYPOCRISY OF ICC CONTINUES TO BE APPALING

Is The Hague making a mockery of justice so the CIA and MI6 can save face?

Robert Fisk investigates an alleged double standard over two prominent Libyans accused of crimes against humanity

Robert Fisk

Thursday 31 October 2013

There’s a spot of skulduggery going on in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. Not to put too fine a point upon it, a lot of questions are being asked about why the worshipful judges have, at least publicly, demanded a trial in Europe for Saif el-Islam al-Gaddafi – son of the late Muammar – but have blithely accepted that the dictator’s ruthless security boss, Abdullah al-Senussi, should be tried in the militia-haunted chaos of Libya.

Was this because the court didn’t want to upset Libya’s anarchic authorities by insisting that it try both men at The Hague? Or is there an ulterior, far more sinister purpose: to prevent Senussi blurting out details in The Hague of his cosy relationship with Western security services when he was handling relations between Gaddafi, the CIA and MI6?

Ben Emmerson, who is Senussi’s UK counsel – and, by chance, the UN’s special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights – has described this month’s pre-trial decision by the International Court to refuse to try Senussi in The Hague as “shocking and inexplicable” because there is “overwhelming evidence… that the Libyan justice system is in a state of total collapse and that it is incapable of conducting fair trials”.

While making no assumptions about the reasons for the pre-trial hearing’s decision, Mr Emmerson told The Independent that when lawyers for Senussi demanded to know if MI6 operatives had interrogated him during his stay in Mauretania – and before his illegal rendition to Libya – Foreign Secretary William Hague declined to reply. Senussi was deported to Libya, according to several Libyan parliamentarians, after the Mauretanians received a bribe of $200m; the state should have handed him over to The Hague tribunal. And since Senussi has been held in Tripoli, Mr Emmerson and the defendant’s other lawyers have been refused permission to see him.

Senussi’s 20-year-old daughter, Anoud, has described to The Independent how she saw her father in prison in Libya “apparently beaten on the eyes and nose, very weak and weighing less than 35 kilos”. After arriving in Libya in late 2012, Ms Senussi was imprisoned on charges of using a false passport, but on her release last month, she was kidnapped on her way to the airport “for her own protection” by armed men. Freed unharmed later in the same week, she said she was not sure who had abducted her – but reports suggested one group of Libyan policemen had kidnapped her from other Libyan security men.

“When I saw my father, I was not allowed to be alone with him and I couldn’t talk to him out of earshot,” she said. “He had been threatened he would be hurt if he spoke about his treatment. There will not be a safe court for my father in Libya with the present government – which is powerless to do anything.” Ms Senussi is now living in Cairo.

No one doubts that Senussi is a man who holds many secrets – nor that he had a reputation as one of Muammar Gaddafi’s fiercest and most loyal henchmen. He is wanted for crimes against humanity, and there is no doubt that the torture of Libyan exiles – after their rendition to Libya with the help of MI6 and other Western security agencies after Tony Blair’s “deal in the desert” with Gaddafi – fell under his remit. Senussi was, in effect, the receiving end of the renditions and of the information about Libyan exiles furnished by the West to Gaddafi.

Human rights activists regard Senussi as the black box recorder of the secret liaison between MI6, the CIA and Gaddafi’s security regime. And the longer Senussi remains imprisoned and incommunicado in Libya, banned from meeting his international lawyers, unable to speak freely even to his own daughter and liable to face a fraudulent Libyan “trial” – always supposing it takes place – the secrets of MI6 and the CIA are likely to remain safe. An open trial at The Hague could reveal the full and scandalous relationship between Gaddafi’s thugs and British and American intelligence agencies.

Ben Emmerson is outraged at Senussi’s predicament: “All international monitors have found evidence of systematic torture, abduction and even killings inside Libyan jails and… the Libyan Prime Minister himself was abducted by armed militias,” Mr Emmerson said in Cairo after meeting Anoud earlier this month. Even Libya’s own foreign minister said about this incident that ‘in the absence of a functional, strong and humane criminal justice system in Libya, these things could happen any time’. The Prime Minister confessed that Libya ‘is not a failing state… the state of Libya doesn’t exist yet’.”

Mr Emmerson remarked that a photograph of Senussi taken at his last Libyan court appearance on 3 October – eight days’ before the ICC refused to try him at The Hague – showed him to have lost “a significant amount of weight and his face appeared bruised.”

He had been detained for 14 months in Libya “without access to any lawyer despite his repeated requests to see a lawyer”.

“By any standards, this is an appalling and totally unacceptable violation of fundamental due process,” said Mr Emmerson. “We, the ICC defence team, have been prevented by the Libyan authorities from having any contact with Mr Senussi. It is astonishing that Libya has simply refused to allow us, as Mr Senussi’s defence lawyers, to consult in any way with our client.”

The ICC had ruled that Libya was “not fit to try Saif Gaddafi”, said Mr Emmerson. “The same standard must equally apply to Mr Senussi who is charged in the same case with Saif Gaddafi in Libya.”

Human rights groups suspect that the ICC, anxious to maintain its prestige after criticism from African states that it is concentrating only on African defendants, is also fearful that if it appeals to the UN Security Council – of which the US is a voting member – to have Senussi’s trial held in The Hague, it may be rebuffed.

A notice of appeal has been lodged by Mr Emmerson and his colleagues at The Hague to prevent domestic proceedings continuing in Libya.

Senussi is widely believed by Libyans to have been responsible for the 1996 massacre of more than a thousand prisoners at the Abu Salim jail, and he has been convicted in absentia in France for his alleged role in the 1989 bombing of a French UTA passenger airliner in which 170 people were killed.

Senussi married the sister of Gaddafi’s wife. During the 2011 insurrection in which Gaddafi was himself murdered by rebels, Senussi was blamed for the deaths of regime opponents in Benghazi.

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{UAH} WE HAVE HAD AN INTERESTING DAY IN THE CITY

Police seize Rob Ford video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack

By Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – 2 hours 0 minutes ago

TORONTO - Allegations of a "crack cocaine" video that have for months swirled around the mayor of Canada's largest city came to a head Thursday with a stunning police revelation that they have uncovered the video.

The surprise police announcement came just hours after the release of a court document detailing allegations that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is connected to accused drug dealers and users, allegedly through his friend, Alexander Lisi.

Ford has repeatedly waved off allegations of drug use as a vendetta from the city's largest newspaper, after reports of the video surfaced in May in the Toronto Star and U.S. website Gawker.

But even in the face of an announcement by Toronto's police chief that investigators have seized the alleged video, the mayor wasn't prepared to substantively address the turmoil.

"I wish I could come out and defend myself," he said. "Unfortunately, I can't because it's before the courts and that's all I can say right now."

Toronto's four major newspapers called on Ford to step down and city councillors predicted he couldn't ignore the scandal any longer.

But he appears prepared to do just that.

"I have no reason to resign," Ford said. "I'm going to go back and return my phone calls. I'm going to be out doing what the people elected me to do and that's save taxpayers money and run a great government."

And despite the pressure on Ford, municipal law makes no provision for his forced removal from office unless he's convicted and jailed for a criminal offence. The next municipal election is a little less than a year away.

Ford was swept into office on the backs of a core group of staunch supporters, who praised his honesty and integrity. Whether the new revelations put a dent in that support remains to be seen, and could depend on whether Torontonians get a chance to view the video before they next go to the polls.

Ford has previously denied using crack cocaine and suggested the video does not exist.

But a "disappointed" Police Chief Bill Blair all but confirmed the video's existence, saying that forensic investigators were recently able to recover a previously deleted file on a hard drive seized in June in "Project Traveller," a drugs and weapons investigation.

"That file contains video images which appear to be those images which were previously reported in the press," Blair said.

"As a citizen of Toronto I'm disappointed," Blair said. "This is a traumatic issue for the citizens of this city and for the reputation of this city and that concerns me."

Blair said they have no "reasonable" grounds to criminally charge the mayor based on the video.

Police have, however, charged Ford's friend Lisi with extortion over alleged efforts to retrieve the video. It will be presented in court as part of Lisi's extortion case, Blair said.

Blair, who has personally watched the video, said it's believed to relate to events at a home on Windsor Drive. That home figures prominently in a lengthy court document released Thursday in a pending drug case, including a marijuana trafficking charge, against Lisi.

A confidential informant refers to it as a "crack house" belonging to "a couple of crack heads," where people go to "chop crack or just hang out and get drunk."

The police allegations also suggest the home is where a photo was taken showing Ford posing with Anthony Smith, who was later shot and killed, and two men who were subsequently arrested and charged with weapons and drug offences as part of Project Traveller.

Features of the house in the background of that photo match that of the Windsor Road home, police allege. Some of the members of the Basso family, who live there, have lengthy criminal records, including for drug offences.

The police document shows that friends and former staffers of Ford were concerned that Lisi was "fuelling" the mayor's alleged drug use.

The document details evidence police collected in order to get a search warrant for Lisi. The document contains allegations that have not been proven in court.

Former Ford staffer, Chris Fickel, told police he didn't know where Ford got marijuana from, but "has heard that 'Sandro' may be the person who provides the mayor with marijuana and possibly cocaine," the document alleges.

However, Fickel added, he has never seen Lisi provide the mayor with drugs. The mayor would call Fickel and tell him to tell "Sandro" that "I need to see him," Fickel told police.

Payman Aboodowleh, a volunteer football coach at Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School, where Ford coached the team, told police that Lisi met Ford through him. He told police he was "mad at Lisi because he was fuelling the mayor's drug abuse," the document says.

Hours after the Gawker and Toronto Star articles were published, phone records show Lisi called Mohamed Siad, who the police report says "is believed to have been one of the people trying to sell Mayor Ford crack video." He also called one of the residents of the alleged "crack house" several times.

The Toronto Star has identified Siad as one of the men it says showed its reporters the alleged video. Siad was also arrested in June as part of Project Traveller.

According to the document, police were conducting surveillance on Lisi and documented several meetings between him and Ford.

On June 26 police saw Lisi meet with the mayor at a soccer field. They spoke for a few minutes then Lisi returned to his vehicle, retrieved a white plastic bag, which he put in Ford's SUV, then walked back to meet up with Ford, the documents allege.

On July 11 Ford is seen on surveillance cameras parking at a gas station then walking straight to the washroom. Shortly after, Lisi arrives at the gas station. Lisi is seen walking near the mayor's SUV holding a manila envelope.

"Lisi appears to be looking around, possibly scoping out the area," the document says.

Lisi is then seen walking along the passenger side of the mayor's vehicle then goes out of the surveillance tape frame and isn't seen again. Ford spends about six minutes in the washroom then buys a pack of gum and drives away.

On July 28 police watched Lisi and Ford meet behind a school. After they left police seized garbage that Ford threw out and it contained two empty vodka bottles.

On July 30 police observed Lisi and Ford meet in the parking lot of the same gas station as the July 11 incident. They saw Lisi get into Ford's SUV with a white gift bag and leave a few minutes later without the bag.

An Ontario Superior Court judge ordered the release of the document Wednesday following an application by media lawyers, who argued it contains information that is in the public interest.

— With files from Paola Loriggio.

           Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
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{UAH} IF RICH COUNTRIES WANT TO HELP AFRICA, STOP POACHING OUR DOCTORS

IF RICH COUNTRIES WANT TO HELP AFRICA, STOP POACHING OUR DOCTORS

By Kassahun Desalegn, Reuters, October 30, 2013 A child is given an injection as part of a malaria vaccine trial at a clinic in the Kenya coastal

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Donor nations should spend aid cash at home to recover stolen assets – OECD

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South Sudan's 'Bullet-Bangle' Artists Make Art Out of War

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More than 10,000 Congolese civilians flee to Uganda to escape fighting in North Kivu

By  Elias Ntungwe Ngalame, Reuters, October 30, 2013 A farm-to-market road

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{UAH} Ruto defence accuses Kibaki of betrayal - Politics - nation.co.ke

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Ruto defence accuses Kibaki of betrayal - Politics

By Walter Menya
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Deputy President William Ruto Thursday accused former president Mwai Kibaki of betrayal and sowing seeds of discord by allowing ethnicity and corruption to permeate his government, leading to a vote of resentment in 2007.

Mr Ruto's defence said the former president betrayed the high hopes Kenyans had in the Narc administration when they overwhelmingly voted for him in 2002, only for him to fail to tackle corruption and ethnicity.

Defence counsel David Hooper, who was cross-examining prosecution witness 268, said the former president also interfered with the electoral process, starting as early as 2007 when he appointed individuals who could help him retain power to the defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya.

Mr Hooper cited the promises which the Narc administration failed to fulfil, including the pledge to change the constitution — a key plank of the 2002 Kibaki campaign — by turning his back against devolution of power.

He further said Mr Kibaki betrayed the memorandum of understanding he had entered into with Liberal Democratic Party leader Raila Odinga to serve one term, then support the latter for the presidency.

Mr Hooper said once Mr Kibaki got into State House, he refused to honour part of the agreement to create the position of Prime Minister that would have been occupied by Mr Odinga.

"In terms of constitutional reforms, the essential idea was that the constitution would be amended to reduce power of the president," said Mr Hooper, adding that the victory Narc secured in 2002 was based on these promises of a better future.

"What happened subsequently was reneging on the promises he had made. Is that right?" he asked the witness, who responded in the affirmative.

Instead of fulfilling the constitutional reforms Narc had promised, Mr Hooper said, the former president went on to water down the very proposals that had been put forward, leading to the emergence of the Orange movement against the draft constitution in 2005.

Mr Hooper said even in the 2005 referendum, the people who voted for the draft constitution, which was defeated, were mainly from Mr Kibaki's Central Province backyard.

After the referendum in 2005, Mr Hooper said, Mr Kibaki remained mainly with officials from his Kikuyu community, who surrounded him.

The lawyer said the 2005 referendum period also coincided with the time people from non-Kikuyu ethnic groups were being sacked from the civil service, the police and the armed forces.

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{UAH} Pojim the return of KANU! Kenyan MPs pass draconian media law - Politics - nation.co.ke

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Kenyan MPs pass draconian media law - Politics

By JOHN NGIRACHU 
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Kenyan parliament has passed a new draconian media law that imposes harsh penalties on journalists.

Journalists now face punitive measures for violating the Code of Conduct for journalists, including fines of up to Sh20 million.

They also risk being deregistered and their bank accounts frozen.

MPs Thursday evening voted to create a tribunal that will handle complaints against the media and have power to impose the harsh penalties.

This happened through the introduction of a surprise change to the Kenya Information and Communication Bill, which was passed last evening with 17 per cent of MPs (60) present in the chambers in the National Assembly.

The House accepted a proposal by the Energy, Information and Communication Committee for the creation of Communications and Multimedia Appeals Tribunal.

The Tribunal would have the power to "impose a fine of not more than Sh20 million on any respondent media enterprise…adjudged to have violated either that law or the Code of Conduct for the Practice of Journalism."

It has the power to fine individual journalists "not more than Sh1 million" for violating the same code.

It would also get worse because the fine would be a debt, meaning the person or organisation found to have broken the law would be liable to have his bank accounts raided or their property sold off for misreporting.

The tribunal also has the power to "recommend the suspension or removal from the register of the journalist involved."

It has also been granted the power to make any orders it feels would be necessary to carry into effect the orders or directives it would make.

Proposed by Energy Committee chairman Jamleck Kamau, the creation of this tribunal was among amendments introduced with a mere 28 MPs in the chambers.

Only a handful shouted aye when the vote was called for but the fact that there was no one in opposition was taken as evidence that all were in agreement.

As they were going through the amendments, Majority Leader Aden Dualle and Mr Kamau detected that the Bill was not going to be passed without the quorum of 50 MPs and they rushed out to get the rest to come in.

"This is a controversial and good law but the members are not here. This House is more full when passing other Bills," Mr Dualle would later say.

After that, the 32 who hadn't been in the House came in and helped bring the numbers up to 60 and then Speaker Justin Muturi called for the verbal vote, the ayes had it and the Bill was passed.

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{UAH} Pretense

When I look at the circus in UNAA today, it reminds of a joke we had about civil servants when I was still in school in Uganda.  We used to say that "the government of Uganda pretended to pay civil servants and civil servants pretended to work".

1. UNAA members like to pretend that the association is governed according to a constitution. The reality is that we are governed according to the whims of ONE person.

2. UNAA Council members like to pretend that the Council matters but we currently have TWO Councils and they can't meet...yet we pretend that we need a Council. The realisty is that ALL important decisions are taking place OUTSIDE the Council. 

3. the constitution provides that Council meetings can only take place if there is quorum (2/3 of the Council members must be present). Currently, half the Council members are boycotting the meetings...so the Wilson/Kwesiga camp told Mr Nicholas Wakou power to cast NINE votes by himself...i.e he votes for any member that is not at the meeting and then pretends that THEY have voted!

4. we pretend that we have THREE branches of government with EQUAL powers but the reality is that Mr Moses Wilson is more powerful than all the other Board of Trustees AND the boycotting Council members put together!  What the Board and the boycotting Council members say is ignored...we go by what Mr Wilson decides. 

5. we pretend that the election commission is independent but the reality is that it is controlled by the Wilson/Kwesiga camp

6. we pretend that power belongs to the members but members can NOT change anything unless the Council allows to...and now, it is the Wilson/Kwesiga HALF of the Council that has to give us permission to discuss things relating to the constitution...and THEY get their orders from "him".

7. Francis' camp pretends that they can stop the march to dictatorship in UNAA but the reality is that they are helpless...

8. both camps pretend that most members are AWARE of what is going on but the reality is that MOST members are NOT aware or interested.

9. We like to pretend that we need the constitution but the reality is that we don't. Our leaders are ignoring the constitution but that has not slowed convention preparations. 

10. we like to pretend that the Council approved the hotel contract but a Board member had already approved it and tld the President to sign it.

11. we like to pretend that the Council approved the Directors but the reality is that Mr. Tim Gaburungyi had already started his work.

12. we like to pretend that pass the budget and choose a host city for 2015 but the reality is that the Council will play NO role!

13. we like to pretend that UNAA has a disciplinary committee appointed by the Board but the reality is that Tim appointed himself that non-existent committee and no one cares/dares ask him.

14. we pretend that we own unaalist since it is paid for using our membership money but the reality is that the Wilson/Kwesiga camp owns it and kick off anyone that opposes them.

15. we like to pretend that Mr Kwesiga is our leader but the reality is that Mr Wilson is our leader. 

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{UAH} KANSIIME WEDS HER CHOLI BWOY ON A TREE - What is it with Kigaz and forests?

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"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower

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{UAH} Let’s bow our heads and pray for our country

The grade three hospital in Hoima, Bukala which was shown on NTV akawungeezi 7:00pm on 27/10/2013 has one midwife, no doctor, no drugs, no ELECTRICTY in the delivery rooms. They use torches and ka-touch phones to help mothers deliver their babies!!! The hospital annual budget is 35 million shillings. Isn't that a salary of one Member of Parliament and Namusisi's salary minus benefits???? Indeed M7's vision 2050 for Uganda and women at large is one big Joke!

Fighting child mortality rates in this country is just Katemba! Mbu Abeewo why would he be here if just a simple thing like equipping a grade 3 hospital has failed the best he can do is approve salaries for members of parliament who just sleep, only to wake up to vote for his useless ideas that do not benefit us or ask for supplementary budgets for ministry of defence to go fight useless wars that do not matter to us.

Ugandans pay taxes and need services. The hospitals in Uganda are sick! Govt has been aware since so many years, how much long and more do they need to be aware to act? How do you expect us to be happy when mps are getting good cars, ipads etc when mothers are dying during delivery?

l don't hate anyone. The problem with some of you people in NRM is that when service delivery flaws are identified, you rush to conclude that the critics hate gov't. Do you know that every state of the nation address contains messages about govt putting right service delivery? When exactly are you going to handle? The problem is that most of them are devil worshipers so this misery plays into their creed.

So many questions we shall never be able to answer and situations we shall never comprehend in this country called Uganda. NTV runs these stories every Sunday. I see them every time and my conclusion now is that for us to keep hoping that the govt as it is can fix this problem is the same as hoping that someone can catch a cloud and pin it down.

Let's bow our heads and pray for our country. All leaders of different religious sectors should call On God for total deliverance of our country.

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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that  we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic  and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
---Theodore Roosevelt

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