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Henry Okah, four others attempt jail break in South Africa

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The Leader of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) Henry Okah, serving a 24-year jail term for terrorism in South Africa and four other inmates, attempted breaking jail, yesterday.

The Spokesman for South Africa's Department of Correctional Services, Manelisi Wolela, who confirmed the botched effort told  reporters: 'I can confirm that Okah is one of the five inmates that attempted to escape and whose efforts were foiled.'

He did not give details of the attempted escape from Leeukop Prison in Northern Johannesburg that is said to have taken place last month.

Okah was convicted last year and sentenced on a 13-count charge of terrorism, including twin bombings that killed 12 people in Abuja during the country's 50th Independence anniversary in 2010.

He was arrested, tried and convicted in South Africa where he has permanent residency.

The department said most of the offenders involved in the botched escape bid were serving life sentences for serious offences, including murder, kidnapping and robbery.

Correctional services officials, however, said security at the prison, which recorded 11 attempted jail breaks in the 12 months until March, last year, had been tightened.

Judge Neels Claaseen, last year, sentenced Okah to 24 years in prison having found him guilty in the 13-count charge of acts of terrorism.

The judge stated that the struggle of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), 'is politically motivated and as a result a maximum sentence for Okah will be inappropriate.'

He said South Africa, being a signatory to the UN Treaty on Terrorism Acts allowed the convict to be tried in South Africa though the events took place in Nigeria.

'As a signatory, South Africa is duty-bound to adopt the treaty and incorporate it into the laws of South Africa, in other words domicile the treaty,' Mr. Claaseen said.

He asserted it was the responsibility of the court in sentencing the convict to take into account the feelings of the world community and to make South Africa unpalatable for terrorists to operate within the jurisdiction as member of the community of nations.

Mr. Claaseen said all the 13 counts Mr. Okah was convicted of  were related to three events:

'The first event was the March 15, 2010 bomb attack, where two car bombs occurred at the venue of a political gathering which was being attended by the Delta State Governor in Warri, Delta State, where one person died and several others were injured.

'The second event occurred on October 1, 2010, in Abuja, where two car bombs exploded, killing eight people with several others injured.

'Third event is the threat to the Nigerian government.

'All these three events were targeted at embarrassing President Goodluck Jonathan,' Mr. Claaseen said.

He said these acts were very serious crimes which must be punished in accordance with the terrorism laws. 

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KENYA GAYS PROTEST AGAINST UGANDAN BILL,DOUBLE CLICK AND READ MORE ON DRIVE HOT NEWS.

Posted by Unknown Senin, 10 Februari 2014 0 komentar
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The gay community in Kenya is the latest to pile pressure on the Ugandan government over the anti-homosexuality bill that was passed by parliament in December.
A section of the Kenyan gay community on monday protested outside the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi calling on President Yoweri Museveni to veto the signing of the bill.
The activists marched to the High Commission with placards that called on the president to veto the bill in a bid to meet the Ugandan High Commisioner to Kenya Angelina Wapakhabulo. They were, however, not allowed to get in.
The protests join a string of other diplomatic calls made to President Museveni no to assent to the bill now before his table after it was passed on December 20. Desmond Tutu, the retired archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel peace prize winner, is among the leaders that have called on Museveni to veto the bill.
Parliament in December passed the anti-gay bill which seeks to imprison, for life, gay people in the country. The bill has been described as outrageous by human rights organisations around the world.
On December 28th 2013, President Museveni wrote back to parliament asking them to explain the scientific nature of homosexuality to him. He also condemned parliament for passing the legislation without the required quorum. The president, however, maintained that homosexuals are abnormal people and that the society needs to find a remedy for them.
Legislators led by Dr Chris Baryomunsi and Medard Bityekerezo  say they have authored a report for the president on the scientific  nature of homosexuality and that they will present it before the caucus of the ruling party NRM currently ongoing at the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi.

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Kocha wa Mgambo aelezea jinsi alivyoifunga Simba

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Dar es Salaam. Kocha wa Mgambo Shooting, Bakari Shime ameanika siri ya kikosi chake kuitungua Simba bao 1-0 katika pambano baina ya timu hizo lililopigwa mwishoni mwa wiki kwenye Uwanja wa Mkwakwani jijini Tanga.
Akizungumza na Mwananchi, Shime alisema timu yake iliishinda Simba kwa vile wachezaji wake walijituma muda wote na kucheza kama timu bila kutegemea uwezo wa mchezaji mmoja mmoja.
“Kabla ya mchezo niliwaambia wachezaji wangu Simba ni timu ya kawaida kama zilivyo timu nyingine hivyo tunachotakiwa kufanya ni kucheza kitimu yaani kwa ushirikiano.
“Niliwaambia kila mchezaji wa Simba wamuone ni hatari si kuelekeza nguvu kuwakaba Tambwe na Messi (Ramadhani Singano) pekee na kweli tulifanikiwa,”alisema Shime.
Aliongeza:”Unajua tatizo la timu nyingi zikikutaka na Simba akili zao zinafikiria kuwadhibiti kina Tambwe na Messi matokeo yake zinafungwa kirahisi, lakini ukiangalia jana (juzi) sisi tulikimbia sana uwanjani kuliko Simba.”
Kocha huyo wa zamani wa timu ya vijana ya Coastal Union alisema makali ya timu yake yataendelea kuziathiri timu nyingine itakazokutana nazo.
“Tumedhamiria kubaki kwenye ligi, tumejiandaa kwa ajili ya timu zote za Ligi Kuu,”alisema Shime.

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Way forward to EAC federation

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Arusha. The East African Community (EAC) partner states will have to amend their constitutions to allow for the envisaged political federation in the bloc, experts have recommended.
At the same time, they want efforts made to address fears, concerns and challenges which have dogged the process since it was set in motion in 2004 following recommendations by the Wako team which wanted it fast-tracked.
A report presented to the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) session in Kampala recently suggested the legitimate and people-centred political federation would only be realised through consensus by all parties. It is proposed that the Federal State be constituted by a two-tier structure composed of the Federal and Constituent States.
The Federal State will be responsible for Federal matters while the Constituent States will remain autonomous in matters that do not fall within the Federal competence. The report, whose copy was availed to The Citizen in Arusha, proposed that the Federal State be composed of a Federal executive, Federal Legislature and a Federal Judiciary.
The Federal Legislature is proposed to be bicameral with the envisaged Senate composed of equal representation from the Constituent States which are Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda.
The Federal State is proposed to have a Presidential system of government with a president and vice president, added the experts in a report by Eala’s Committee on Legal, Rules and Privileges on Good Governance and status of EA Political Federation’.
However, they insisted that the agreed structure of the political federation will be negotiated and subjected to a referendum by the 130 million people of the five partner states.
The process would require that a Treaty for establishing the East Africa Political Federation will have to be developed and negotiated by the EAC member countries.
Although the powers and functions proposed for the Federal Government will be informed by the international practice,the experts did not rule out them colliding with those of the Constituent States.
“The draft model structure of the East African Political Federation appreciates that in some areas there will be concurrent competencies between the Federal and Constituent States,” the report said.
Defence and security, foreign affairs and international trade, immigration, infrastructure development and Federal public service, among others will be under the Federal government while local government, land, education, health and agriculture, will be among the dockets to fall under the Constitute States.
Another report containing comments from the partner states on the action plan and model structure of the EAC Political Federation was tabled before the Heads of State Summit in Kampala, Uganda last November.

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South Sudan peace talks postponed amid rebel threats

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South Sudan rebels on Monday threatened to stall peace talks aimed at ending nearly two months of fighting, demanding the release of detainees and the withdrawal of foreign troops as officials said a new round had been postponed.
The talks between South Sudan's government and the rebels that were due to open in Ethiopia are aimed at building on a shaky ceasefire agreement and bringing about a comprehensive and durable solution by addressing the root causes of the conflict.
"The talks are not resuming today," South Sudan government spokesman Michael Makuei told AFP, without explaining the delay. A government official from host country Ethiopia confirmed the postponement.
Makuei said the talks were now set to begin on Tuesday afternoon.
"We are informed that his excellency the prime minister of Ethiopia wants to attend the opening session. We are told that it is tomorrow afternoon," Makuei said.
South Sudan rebels demand the release of detainees and the withdrawal of foreign troops, the opposition said Monday.
"We are abstaining from participating in the next round of peace talks," Taban Deng, head of the opposition delegation, said in a statement.
Deng demanded the release of four detainees who remain in prison following the release of seven of their colleagues in late January.
He also called for the immediate withdrawal of Ugandan troops, who have been in the country at the request of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir since the conflict erupted on December 15.
FEAR OF REGIONAL CONFLICT
The demand was echoed by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, who called for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from South Sudan, warning of a threat of regional conflict.
"Because of this intervention, the conflict might end up as a regional conflict because there are other interests also from other sides," Hailemariam told reporters.
"I hope for the cessation of hostilities. ... Ugandan forces and all other external forces must withdraw from that area phase by phase," he said.
Peace delegates loyal to Kiir and supporters of rebel leader Riek Machar, a former vice president, signed a ceasefire on January 23, although fighting has continued in the oil-rich but impoverished country, which won independence from Khartoum in 2011.
The conflict, which started in the capital Juba and spread rapidly to different parts of South Sudan, has left thousands dead since mid-December and has caused nearly 900,000 to flee their homes.
It has also had a tribal dimension, with the two largest ethnic communities, the Dinka, to which Kiir belongs, and Machar's group the Nuer both carrying out ethnic massacres.
Eleven South Sudanese political figures were arrested in Juba when the fighting broke out. Seven of them were freed at the end of January and are set to take part in the new negotiations, according to IGAD, the regional grouping that is helping mediate the talks.
The government side wants to try the four who are still detained, along with two other political figures -- including Machar himself -- who are on the run.
During the two-week break in talks IGAD said its mediators briefed the heads of state of member countries, and that the first IGAD officials tasked with monitoring the implementation of the ceasefire were also deployed.
Analysts warned against over-optimism on the talks.
"The negotiations are a stopgap measure at best: the institutional deficiencies that have brought about the violence remain," wrote Peter Biar Ajak, director of the Center for Strategic Analysis and Research in Juba.
"For its (own) sake and the sake of this young country, the political leadership of South Sudan must complete the task it aborted of building basic institutions of governance," Ajak said in an op-ed in the International New York Times last week.

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3,000 buses, coaches with Internet for Dar

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The over 4 million Dar es Salaam residents still depend on a woefully inadequate public transport system. PHOTO | FILE


Dar es Salaam. The country’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, will have 3,000 modern buses that are furnished with an Internet café, wireless Internet and a mini-restaurant by the end of this year, The Citizen Website has learnt
Public transport in Dar es Salaam—home to about 4.5 million people and which has been in a shambles for years, is awash with sub-standard buses owned by desparate transporters and operated by mainly irresponsible, reckless drivers and touts.
With demand exceeding supply, using public transport in the city especially during the peak hours, is normally chaotic and sometimes dangerous to commuters.
Currently, there are 9,541 mini-buses, famously known as daladala, licensed to provide public transport, but 20 per cent of these are often grounded due to mechanical faults, according to data obtained by The Citizen.
However, the Dar-es-Salaam Regional Transport Licensing Authority (DRTLA) says the number of privately owned buses is estimated to be between 6,000 and 7,500.
Bus service accounts for about 70 per cent of public transport in Dar es Salaam, according to latest statistics obtained by The Citizen.
At least 40 per cent of these vehicles are substandard, meaning they aren’t fit to carry passengers. This situation, when added to the maddening traffic jams, creates nightmarish scenarios that hapless commuters in the city have to contend with on a daily basis.
But, one man, Mr Simon Robert Kisena, an entrepreneur who have acquired the former State-owned transport firm, UDA, short for “Usafiri Dar es Salaam” (Transport in Dar es Salaam), says he wants to fix the current city public transport woes within the next twelve months.
Yesterday, Mr Kisena whose acquisition of UDA attracted a lot of criticism, especially from those who had vested interests in the firm, launched 200 buses, which will ply Dar’s roads effective today (Monday).
The 200 buses, with the capacity to carry 40 passengers each, are part of the 1,100 PSVs the businessman has purchased in a Sh100 billion-plus deal. He told The Citizen that within the next three months, there would be more than 700 modern buses.
Before the end of the year, Mr Kisena told The Citizen, there would be a fleet of 3,000 buses operating in Dar es Salaam City and its environs.
His plan is to make UDA the leading public transport provider in Dar es Salaam before it expands operations countrywide. “We want to control 50 per cent of the market share…we want to revolutionise the way people travel in Dar.”

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Woman arrested over drug trafficking at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport

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Police have arrested a South African woman suspected of drug trafficking at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
The 31-year-old was arrested after landing at around 4am on Monday.
She was on transit to Gaborone, Botswana from Brazil.
Her passport showed Monday was her third time to travel through Kenya.
“The suspect was placed under observation and at around 12 pm, she started emitting pellets believed to contain narcotic drugs. So far she has emitted three pellets,” said head of criminal investigations at the airport Mr Joseph Ngisa.
Analysts from the government chemist were called to the airport to carry out tests to establish the type of drugs.
Mr Ngisa said initial observations showed the drugs were either cocaine or heroin.

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