Umuhimu wa Urithi

<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YZ1xKvou0Kc/TeKJHMdl39I/AAAAAAAAAb4/VbSBtkt06vU/s1600/Waziri.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YZ1xKvou0Kc/TeKJHMdl39I/AAAAAAAAAb4/VbSBtkt06vU/s320/Waziri.JPG" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mashirikiano kati ya jumuiya Uhifadhi ya Mji Mkongwe pamona na taasisi zisizo za kiserikali na zile za kiserikali ni jambo la muhimu kwani huwaweka watu waishi ndani ya mazingira ya mji mkongwe wa Zanzibar kuendelea kubakia katika orodha ya miji iliyomo kawenye urithi wa ramani ya dunia</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Waziri wa Habari Utamaduni, Utalii na Michezo Zanzibar, Mhe Abdallah Jihadi Hassan alisema kwamba jamii yote ya Zanzibar infahamu kwamba Mji Mkongwe ndio mji pekee kwa uapande wa Zanzibar ambao upo kwenye orodha ua urithi wa duni hivyo ni vyema kila mwananchi awe na ufahamu mzuri kwa kuulinda na kutunza kumbuku na tamaduni zilizomo ndani ya mji mkongwe kiwe ni kielezeo tosha kwa vizazi vijavyo.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mhe. Jihad alisema kuwa “ sote tunajuwa kwamba mji mkongwe wa Zanzibar umeingizwa kwenye orodha ya urithi ya miji mikongwe ambayo ndio iliyopelekea UNESCO mwaka 2000” alisema Mhe.Jihadi</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lakini mbali na hayo, Mhe, Jihadi alifafanuwa kwamba itakuwa ni faraja kubwa kwa Wazanzibar kuweza kuutunza na kuuenzi mji wao mbali ya matatizo madogo madogo yanayojitokeza ambayo kwa sasa yanahitaji ushirikiano kati ya jumuiya zisizo za kiserikali kama hii ya Uhifadhi wa Mji Mkongwe kwa kuweza kushirikiana na Serikali katika kutafuta mbinu bora za kuweza kulinda na kuuhifadhii mji mkongwe usijeukapoateza hadi yake </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Umuhimu wa Urithi

Mashirikiano kati ya jumuiya Uhifadhi ya Mji Mkongwe pamona na taasisi zisizo za kiserikali na zile za kiserikali ni jambo la muhimu kwani ...

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Barry Braverman ndani ya ZIFF

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oP6_H24NSLw/TeB526ryg-I/AAAAAAAAAb0/rB7kXE-4_Yk/s1600/BarryBraverman+HD+camera+workshop+at+ZIFF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oP6_H24NSLw/TeB526ryg-I/AAAAAAAAAb0/rB7kXE-4_Yk/s1600/BarryBraverman+HD+camera+workshop+at+ZIFF.jpg" t8="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Barry Braverman is a veteran cinematographer with over thirty years experience in television documentaries and feature films. Notable credits include National Geographic, ABC News, HBO, and The Discovery Channel. Recent titles include THE DARJEELING LIMITED BEHIND THE SCENES (2009) and THE MAKING OF BOTTLE ROCKET (2008)) in addition to music videos for TANGERINE DREAM, STEVIE WONDER and YANNI. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A member of Hollywood cinematographer’s guild, Braverman is currently conducting a series of master workshops throughout the Asia and the Middle East. His latest book VIDEO SHOOTER 2nd Edition (2009) from Focal Press explores the art and craft of video storytelling with latest-generation HD cameras</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Either, Barry Braverman, Author, Cinematographer and HD Video Producer to a 5-day workshop during <a href="http://www.ziff.or.tz/">ZIFF</a> 2011 (18-26 June 2011).</span></div>

Barry Braverman ndani ya ZIFF

Barry Braverman is a veteran cinematographer with over thirty years experience in television documentaries and feature films. Notable credi...

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Tamasha la kumi na nne la ZIFF

<div style="text-align: justify;">The 14th annual <a href="http://www.ziff.or.tz/">Zanzibar</a> International Film Festival (ZIFF) June 18-26, 2011 on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">High-profile film makers such as Oscar Nominated Producer Donald Ranvaud (City of God, The Constant Gardner), Documentary Maker Nick Broomfield (Kurt & Courtney, Soldier Girls, His Big White Self), and Emmy award winning journalist and film producer Danny Schechter are all involved in an exciting programme of Workshops at ZIFF 2011. The focus will be on Documentary Film Making, with award winning British Documentary Maker Nick Broomfield lending his expert knowledge to a Master class. Broomfield is ranked as one the world’s top documentary makers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Grammy Award winning reggae star Shaggy will headline a dynamic Performing Arts program. He is the only certified Diamond-selling Dancehall Reggae artist, denoting worldwide sales of more than 10 million copies of an album (‘Hot Shot’). Legendary world music star Oliver Mtukudzi is another highlight. His soulful, hypnotic rhythms are undeniably contagious, his lyrics politically and socially relevant and beloved worldwide. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">East Africa’s largest Arts festival, ZIFF celebrates the unique cultural heritage of Africa and the Dhow countries of the Indian Ocean. “A Season of Visions” is the inspiring theme of the 2011 festival, with over 60 films programmed from the Dhow countries, and internationally – for competitive and non-competitive categories with full details to be announced on May 15th.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">No film festival in the world can compete with the spectacular setting of Stone Town’s UNESCO preserved amphitheatre, known as the Old Fort. ZIFF has captivated serious followers of international film and travellers interested in arts-centered fun for the last 14 years and is now recognized as an international Arts event. The Festival events in Stone Town typically attract 45,000 foreign visitors and more than 123,000 local guests; while the total number of people attending all the Festival events held throughout Zanzibar and Pemba is 150,000.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Tamasha la kumi na nne la ZIFF

The 14th annual Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) June 18-26, 2011 on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania. High-profile film makers ...

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Bushfire Festival Boycott

<div style="text-align: justify;">On the subject of the cultural boycott of <a href="http://www.arterialnetwork.org/">Swaziland</a>, our position is informed by our work across the African continent as a network of creative practitioners, cultural workers, activists, creative enterprises and NGOs active in the creative sector and its contribution to development, democracy and human rights on the continent. With 22 national chapters and a further 8 nascent chapters in all five African regions, Arterial Network operates as an independent, civil society movement precisely because of the experience of arts practitioners across the continent of governments that are notoriously unsympathetic to freedom of creative expression, and who generally do not support the arts or artists except when they may be used for state entertainment purposes or to boost the image of the country abroad.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In recent weeks, we have seen the arrest of theatre-makers in Zimbabwe, the detention of rap artists in Angola and the release of a Cameroonian musician after three years in prison for music that was deemed too critical by the ruling party.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Given Arterial Network’s constitutional principles including a commitment to democracy and to human rights and freedoms as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we support the cultural isolation of repressive regimes that violate human rights and that deny or restrict democratic freedoms to its citizens.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The recent scrambling by international artists to return or donate to charity their earnings from performing for the Libyan dictator, Gaddafi, underscores the need for artists to refrain from giving credibility to governments and political parties that notoriously abuse human rights and freedoms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Similarly, we would caution artists generally, and Arterial Network members in particular, against lending their talent, art and celebrity to political parties engaged in electoral contests even in democracies. Too often, artists are used to solicit the support of ordinary people as voting fodder during elections, only for parties – once elected – to serve the interests of elites, and to ignore not only those who voted them into power, but also the interests of artists who helped to put them there. Our preference would be for artists and cultural workers to maintain an independence that would allow them to speak truth to power whenever those in power abuse such power and do not use it to serve the interests of the majority of citizens.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cultural workers across the continent tell a similar story of rampant exploitation, poor working conditions, an absence of regulatory protection and a lack of recognition of their rights. Even in democratic societies, artists experience these and encounter censorship through political, economic and other forms of intimidation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is for these reasons that artists, cultural workers and others engaged in the African sector are organising themselves across the continent to advance and protect their interests. These interests coincide with the interests of those in other sectors of societies where struggles for democracy, for human freedoms and for the eradication of poverty are taking place. This is the background for Arterial Network’s imminent establishment of Artwatch, a regularly-updated website to monitor and expose violations of freedom of creative expression in African countries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">While we support the cultural isolation of repressive regimes and their elite beneficiaries, we believe that blanket cultural boycotts do not take account of the complexities of the struggles for democracy. Arts festivals play a variety of roles in Africa including economic and social integration, but they are also key platforms for democratic expression. Because of this, festivals in some countries are under threat by repressive regimes that seek to control and limit the content of such festivals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Bushfire Festival in Swaziland is a valued member of Arterial Network and as such, is a signatory to the organisation’s statement of principles. As an independently organised platform, it not only provides opportunities for Swazi artists that they would not otherwise have, and allows artists to express what they want, but it also channels significant funds to the AIDS sector in the country that has the lowest life expectancy in Africa. The Bushfire Festival is an exemplary combination of freedom of artistic expression, local artistic development and social engagement.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are delighted therefore, that after a meeting between the Festival organisers and the Swaziland Democracy Campaign, the boycott of the Bushfire Festival has been called off. We urge artists and the public to support this Festival in its own right and for the wider impact that it has.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Arterial Network believes that in our pursuit of democracy and human rights on the African continent, rather than the arts sector always having to abide by what others decide for the sector, all sectors need to engage with each other democratically and work together in devising and implementing the most effective strategies to realise our common goals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, where a cultural boycott is being proposed, we believe that cultural workers and their representative structures in the affected country have to be consulted and integrated into the formulation and implementation of the strategy in the same way that cultural workers and their organisations were a key mechanism for vetting cultural activity in the course of implementing the cultural boycott in South Africa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally, we call upon Arterial Network members and national chapters to engage and cooperate with other forces for democracy and human rights in their respective societies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Bushfire Festival Boycott

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Call for Papers

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.arterialnetwork.org/">Arterial Network</a> will host its first annual continental conference on the African Creative Economy in September 2011, which will coincide with its third biannual conference. The aims of the conference are to provide a theoretical and statistical overview of the African creative economy as a basis for future interventions and advocacy purposes, and to identify and develop African expertise in this area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Interested speakers are invited to submit expressions of interest in the topics listed below. While anyone is invited to submit such expressions of interest, preference will be given to African speakers who are based on the continent and who have the relevant expertise, experience or potential in these fields. Where necessary, Arterial Network may fund research and the preparation of papers on particular subjects.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Interested parties are required to submit:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">a. a letter expressing interest in a particular theme (interest in more than one theme may be expressed);</div><div style="text-align: justify;">b. a Curriculum Vitae (CV) detailing relevant expertise, your contact details, city and country of current location;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">c. the methodology of the approach that will be taken in dealing with the subject (not more than one page) methodology?;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">d. the names and contact details of two referees familiar with your work;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">e. the language in which you will present (English, French, Portuguese and Arabic are the preferred languages);</div><div style="text-align: justify;">f. an indication of whether you are a member of Arterial Network or not;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">g. whether you will require funding to undertake research in preparing the paper or not.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Submissions are to be send to Espera Donouvossi at espera@arterialnetwork.org by 17 June 2011</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The topics and formats are:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Keynote addresses (30 minutes maximum each)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1.1 An overview of the contemporary global creative economy in the context of global political and economic conditions;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1.2 An overview of the African creative economy;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1.3 Building international markets for African creative goods and services – the possibilities and constraints;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1.4 Building regional African markets for local creative goods and services – the possibilities and constraints.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Panel discussions (15 minutes maximum each, up to five case studies)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2.1 The contribution of creative cities to regional and national economies (actual case studies);</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2.2 The contribution of arts festivals and events to national and regional economies (case studies of actual festivals).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Roundtable discussions (up to two presenters per theme; 20 minutes each)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.1 The UNESCO Convention on cultural diversity and its relevance to the African creative economy;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.2 An introduction to the African Union’s Plan of Action on Cultural Industries;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.3 Developing cultural policy in support of the creative economy;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.4 Culture and Development: what does it mean in and for Africa today?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.5 The challenges of north-south cultural collaboration and exchange in the context of inequitable resource allocation and power relations;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.6 Old colonialists, new colonialists: what BRICS could mean for the African creative sector;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.7 The state and challenge of cultural statistics and creative economy research in Africa;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.8 Creative industries in Africa: what conditions are necessary for their viable sustainability3.9 Intellectual property rights from an African perspective and their relevance to the creative econom3.10 The challenges and possibilities of the emphasis on the creative economy to artists’ rights, freedom of expression and art for its own sake.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Call for Papers

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Decade of African women

<div style="text-align: justify;">The 7th Session of the Committee on Women and Development (CWD) opened on Tuesday at the Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Under the theme “Closing Gaps, Maximizing Opportunities: Beyond Beijing + 15”, more than 100 participants have convened for the four-day-meeting to discuss progress made, challenges faced and strategies required regarding gender equality and women’s advancement with a special focus on the Banjul Declaration (2009) and the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA). </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In her opening statement, Jennifer Kargbo, ECA’s Deputy Executive Secretary, underlined that the meeting should contribute towards crystallizing the strategies that will guide the work of governments, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), CSOs and partners in the coming years. “The task before us is challenging given the range of issues covered in the Banjul Declaration and the tremendous urgency to meet the objectives of the Beijing Platform for Action and the MDGs”, she said. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although there are still major challenges and even regressions, one of the remarkable achievements of the last years is increased representation and participation of women in all areas of decision-making, “with Rwanda leading the league with 56% women MPs, followed by South Africa and Mozambique with over 30%”, Kargbo noted. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another important step on the way to gender equality was the launch of the United Nations newest organization - “UN Women” - earlier this year. “This is a milestone in the global effort in addressing gender issues and ensuring women benefit from development initiatives”, said Mr. Kajali Sonko, the Chair of the CWD Bureau in The Gambia. “This new entity comes at the most crucial time of the MDG process.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The meeting will serve as a forum for technical input and strategic thinking and as a platform for the exchange of best practices and the discussion of new strategies, according to ECA’s Information and Communication Service. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Litha Musyimi-Ogana, the Director of Women and Gender at the AUC, assured the attendees that “the African Union will facilitate the outcomes of this meeting to be tabled at the 4th Ordinary meeting of Ministers of Gender and Women’s Affairs which will be convened in October this year.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;">For her part, Florence Butegwa, the UN Women Representative to the AUC and the ECA stated that the agenda of this session is important, not just for the ECA, but for all members of the UN Family, which, she said “individually and collectively are obligated to support the efforts of countries in the implementation of international and regional commitments on gender equality and women’s empowerment.” She urged the participants, which included experts from Gender and Women’s Affairs Ministries, RECs, the ECA, UN Agencies, the AUC and the African Development Bank, to “revisit the strategies agreed on in Banjul, and make urgent recommendations in this area.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Decade of African women

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KEEPING PROMISES

<div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="http://www.everywomaneverychild.org/accountability_commission">United Nations</a> Commission on Information and Accountability forWomen’s and Children’s Health presented their report, Keeping Promises, Measuring Results, andrecommendations to increase the likelihood that pledges for women's and children's health are honoured andthat resources are spent in the most effective way to save lives. The advance copy of the report was presented at a technical briefing today during the 64th World Health Assembly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"All partners are accountable for the promises they make and the health policies and programmes they design and implement," says President Jakaya Kikwete, from the United Republic of Tanzania and one of the co-chairs of the Commission. "Tracking resources and results of public health spending are critical for transparency, credibility and ensuring that much-needed funds are used for their intended purposes and to reach those who need them most."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The report's ten recommendations include:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. increasing the number of countries with well-developed systems to measure births, deaths and causes of</div><div style="text-align: justify;">deaths;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. measuring against 11 common indicators on reproductive, maternal and child health;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. helping countries integrate the use of Information and Communication Technologies in their national health information systems;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. countries with high maternal and child deaths track and report resource indicators;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. country governments and major development partners put "compacts" in place that require reporting, based on country format, on externally funded expenditures and predictable commitments;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. all governments have the capacity to regularly review health spending and to relate spending to</div><div style="text-align: justify;">commitments;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">7. countries have established national accountability mechanisms that are transparent, inclusive of</div><div style="text-align: justify;">stakeholders and recommend action as necessary;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">8. all stakeholders are publicly sharing information on commitments, resources provided and results</div><div style="text-align: justify;">achieved annually at both national and international levels;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">9. the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Development Assistance Committee</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(OECD-DAC) agree on how to better capture all reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health</div><div style="text-align: justify;">spending by development partners;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">10. an independent Expert Review Group is reporting regularly to the UN Secretary-General on results and</div><div style="text-align: justify;">resources related to the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health and progress of the</div><div style="text-align: justify;">implementation of these recommendations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The Commission has developed bold yet practical measures that will help save the lives of mothers and children living in the world's poorest countries," says Prime Minister Stephen Harper from Canada, the other co-chair of the Commission. "Through our collective efforts we will ensure tangible progress in achieving our goals, but only if we remain fully committed to making the recommendations in this report a reality."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Accountability is an essential element of the UN Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health aimed at saving the lives of 16 million women and children under five years of age by 2015. The 30 members of the Commission were tasked to develop a mechanism for holding donors accountable for their pledges and holding countries responsible for how well the money is spent to accelerate progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The report and its recommendations are a major achievement for public health and will help us to save the lives of women and children," explains Dr Margaret Chan, the World Health Organization's Director-General and covice chair of the Commission. "But our work is only beginning. One of our top priorities must be investing in helping countries build the capacity needed to capture this health information – that means giving them the financial and technical resources required to monitor things such as births, deaths and causes of deaths, and achieve the mutual accountability needed to save women and children from dying.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;">New information and communication technologies (ICTs) will play an important role in improving the collection, sharing and analysis of health data.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"With mobile connectivity now widespread in even the world's poorest countries, ICTs offer a unique and powerful opportunity to bridge the health development gap," says the International Telecommunication Union's Secretary-General and other co-vice chair of the Commission, Dr Hamadoun Touré. "In addition to facilitating data gathering, sharing and analysis, platforms like the Internet and social media can also be used as tools to create safe and empowering spaces for women, where they can obtain accurate, up-to-the-minute health information in a confidential, multilingual environments."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The report is the result of more than five months of in-depth discussions and work across a high-level group of global leaders and health experts. Having concluded it's work, the Commission will present it's report to the Secretary-General.</div>

KEEPING PROMISES

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Mipango ya muda mrefu ya kuutokomeza ugonjwa wa malaria ndio iliyopelekea leo hii kuonekana kwa Visiwa hivyo kupiga hatua katika kuhakisha kwamba wananchi wanaishi bila ya malaria, nembo hiyo ni ile ambayo ilitumika katika kampeni za mwanzoni mwa miaka ya themani

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Mipango ya muda mrefu ya kuutokomeza ugonjwa wa malaria ndio iliyopelekea leo hii kuonekana kwa Visiwa hivyo kupiga hatua katika kuhakisha kwamba wananchi wanaishi bila ya malaria, nembo hiyo ni ile ambayo ilitumika katika kampeni za mwanzoni mwa miaka ya themani

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kampuni ya simu za mikoni ya ZANTEL yakabidhi baskeli ya magurudumu matatu kwa Umoja wa Watu Wenye Ulemazi Zanzibar ambapo baiskeli hizo kumi na tano zimegahrimu jumla ya shilingi milioni kumi

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kampuni ya simu za mikoni ya ZANTEL yakabidhi baskeli ya magurudumu matatu kwa Umoja wa Watu Wenye Ulemazi Zanzibar ambapo baiskeli hizo kumi na tano zimegahrimu jumla ya shilingi milioni kumi

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Hii ni kwa wale ambao wanajihusisha na mambo ya Turathi duniani kote

Public Administration International (PAI) Study Programme <br /> <br /> “<a href="http://www.publicadmin.co.uk/seminars/heritage/heritage11af">Heritage and Culture</a>: challenge and innovation in policy and practice” <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">The Public Administration International Study Programme based on “Heritage and Culture: challenge and innovation in policy and practice” is a UK-based study programme which is scheduled to run from 27 June to 1 July 2011. This one-week study programme will take place in central London and is designed for policy-makers and senior experts working in government ministries and agencies and in non-governmental organisations concerned with the promotion and funding of heritage conservation and culture. Applications will also be welcome from those in the voluntary and private sector who wish to gain insights into the role of heritage and culture in economic development and to engage in dialogue with officials with responsibilities in this field. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The programme will broaden participants’ knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding heritage and cultural policy; examine the relationships between heritage and culture and other government priorities such as education, housing, tourism development, and economic development and raise awareness of the issues, opportunities and challenges surrounding heritage and culture and suggest ways in which they can be effectively addressed in different country contexts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Contact: tel.: +44 (0)20 7580 3590, fax: +44 (0)20 7580 4746 or email: pai@public-admin.co.uk</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Hii ni kwa wale ambao wanajihusisha na mambo ya Turathi duniani kote

Public Administration International (PAI) Study Programme “ Heritage and Culture : challenge and innovation in policy and practice” The ...

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Nafasi ya kazi African Union

<div style="text-align: justify;">Co-ordinator, African Union Center for Linguistic and Historical Studies by Oral Tradition (CELHTO) (10001361)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Due date: 27 June 2011</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The African Union (AU), established as a unique Pan African continental body, is charged with spearheading Africa's rapid integration and sustainable development by promoting unity, solidarity, cohesion and cooperation among the peoples of Africa and African States as well as developing new partnerships worldwide. Its headquarters is located in Addis Ababa the capital city of Ethiopia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In seeking to achieve this objective, the African Union Commission (AUC) intends to build its capacity to deliver, among others, the implementation of its organisational structure by filling up vacancies. The Commission is therefore inviting applicants who are citizens of Member States of the African Union to apply for the position within the Department of Social Affairs. Read more: </div><div style="text-align: justify;">http://www.au.int/en/sites/default/files/Coordinator,%20CELHTO%20-%20English.pdf </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Nafasi ya kazi African Union

Co-ordinator, African Union Center for Linguistic and Historical Studies by Oral Tradition (CELHTO) (10001361) Due date: 27 June 2011 The Af...

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Fursa Muhimu kwa watunzi wa sanaa za maigizo

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><i>AFRICAN PLAYWRIGHTS’ PROJECT</i></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Arterial Network, in association with TeatrNowy in Poland, the National Theatre Studio in London and South Africa’s National Arts Festival and ARTSCAPE Theatre, hereby calls for the submission of scripts by African playwrights living in Africa as part of a project to promote African theatre on the African continent, in Europe and indeed globally.<br /> <strong>Aims</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The primary aims of the project are:<br /> 1.to introduce African theatre-makers (writers, directors and actors) to regional and international theatre markets in a manner that builds and sustains the presence of African theatre in these markets on a medium- to long-term basis;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2.to establish formal partnerships and collaborative projects between theatres, festivals and theatre institutions in Europe and Africa in order to learn from each other, influence the content and form of each other’s work and increase global market access for African theatre in particular ;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.to contribute to the emergence and upskillingof new African playwrights, and to provide platforms to project excellent theatre work from Africa to Europe and beyond;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4.to engage in debates, research and intellectual and aesthetic rigour through seminars, residencies and exposure to each other’s work as a means of contributing to global and continental debates about the practice and future of theatre-making in an ever-changing, globalised world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Outcomes</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The projected outcomes of this project for 2011 are:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1.the selection of 4-8 African playwrights to participate in dramaturgical workshops at </div><div style="text-align: justify;">the National Theatre Studio (see <a href="http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/11771/studio/introduction.html">http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/11771/studio/introduction.html</a>);</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2.the selection of at least 5 plays for inclusion in an African Play Series publication, a version of which will be produced annually;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.staged readings of some of the selected work at theatres in Africa and Europe;<br /> 4.the selection of at least one play for production in Europe and/or Africa in 2012.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Submissions</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Plays may be submitted on any theme, and in any genre, style and language. If the play is not in English, it will be read in its original language. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">As 2011 marks the initiation of this project, we are not looking for entirely new, un-staged or unpublished work. The aim of the project in 2011 is to identify African playwrights who have the best potential to stage their work in regional and international arenas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All scripts should be typed (no handwritten submissions will be accepted).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Submissions are to include the writer’s full name, email address, postal address, country of residence and telephone number (country code, city code and number). Each writer may submit only one script.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Submissions may be sent by email to Rebecca Radford (Subject line: African Playwrights’ Project) rradford@nationaltheatre.org.uk. Submissions may also be sent by post to African Playwrights’ Project, Arterial Network, Union House, 25 Commercial Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa. <strong>The deadline is 31 May 2011.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Fursa Muhimu kwa watunzi wa sanaa za maigizo

AFRICAN PLAYWRIGHTS’ PROJECT Arterial Network, in association with TeatrNowy in Poland, the National Theatre Studio in London and South Afri...

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Tamasha la Utamaduni Uganda

<div style="text-align: justify;">The organizing committee of the Uganda Annual Conference on Arts and Culture (UACAC) would like to invite you to its 2nd Annual Conference on 16th and 17th May, 2011 at the National Theatre to define and raise the state of Ugandan arts and culture under the theme: “We don't care about Ugandan Art and Culture”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The overarching purpose of the UACAC is to raise the profile of arts and culture in Uganda, making them relevant to national development. The organizing committee of the Annual Conference strongly believes that increased and enhanced cooperation between actors within the sector is the key to accomplish this. To achieve tangible results, the 2nd Annual Conference aims at developing plans and guidelines for the next five years that aim raising awareness of the role and value of arts and culture and increasing support towards arts and culture.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 2nd Annual Conference is scheduled for Monday 16th (from 9:00am till 6:30pm) and Tuesday 17th (From 9:00am till 3:00pm) May 2011 at the National Theatre. Attached is the draft agenda for the two days.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the first day, stakeholders within the sector will meet to jointly examine and determine the current state of arts and culture in Uganda with a view to define problems and challenges and to develop a strategy for cooperation to address those. During the second day, the public is invited to join for the discussions and provide their input into the process from their perspective.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You are warmly welcomed as a stakeholder to join for the two days of this year’s Conference. Please confirm your participation by informing the coordinator for the Conference, Ms. Rikke Johnsen by phone (0414-591670 or 0788-019970) or email (conference@bayimba.org).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Tamasha la Utamaduni Uganda

The organizing committee of the Uganda Annual Conference on Arts and Culture (UACAC) would like to invite you to its 2nd Annual Conference o...

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Kuhusu Babu

<div style="text-align: justify;">Suala la tiba ni kitu muhimu kwa kila mwanadamu na nndio maana Serikali imekua ikitafuta kila njia katika kuhakisha kwamba raia wake wanaishi katika hali ya afya njema</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ingawaje kwa sasa kila mtu ambaye anaishi ndania ya Mipaka na nje ya mipaka ya Tanzania utakapomuuliza kuhusu Arusha hapana shaka yoyote atakwambia kuhusu Babu wa loliondo ambaye ndio kwa sasa amekuwa ndio kioo na tengemeo la wakaazi wengi wa Tanzania na hii inaonekana kwamba wananchi wengi wa Tanzania ni wongonjwa na hawana tiba rasmi na ndio maana wameamuwa kwenda Loliondo</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Si vibaya mtu kutafuta njia muafaka kwa ajili ya kujipatia tiba, lakini kitu cha msingi kwa mujibu wa sheria za Tanzania ni kwamba mtu au taasisi yoyote ile ambayo itakuwa inataka kutoa tiba ni lazima iwe imesajailiwa kisheria, kinyume chake babu wa Loliondo hada sasa sidhani kama atakuwa amesajiliwa rasmi katika wizara husika ambayo ni Wizara ya Wizara ya Mambo ya Ndani ya Nchini suala ni kwamba jee Bubu wa loliondo amesajiliwa wapi?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ingawaje suala hili lipo zaidi katika imani za kidini, si dhani kama ni sahihi, lakini suala la kujiuliza jee kupitia dini ndio kigezo cha kuvunja sheria? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Kuhusu Babu

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Ni masalia ya Magofu(Turathi ) ya Msikiti wa Siyu-Kenya

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Tamasha la fila la ZUKA STUDENTS' FILM FESTIVAL, UGANDA

<div style="text-align: justify;">Zuka Foundation Uganda, is proud to announce the dates for the 2ndZUKA Students' Film Festival that is due to take place on 23rd - 25thSeptember, 2011.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">ZUKA Students' Film Festival is the only student founded festival thatis purposed to raise a platform for all students within East Africa;in film schools and other institutions, to echo their voices regardingissues affecting them in their respective societies through film,performing and creative visual arts, poetry, music and dance, and anyother form of communicative art.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The festival is an annual event which started in 2010 as a one dayevent. This year, we have organised an eventful three day festival. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wehope to showcase films by students from within East Africa, Creativeart performance by different talented students, and exhobitions aswell.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is therefore a call for all students and schools willing toparticipate to submit their films not later than 21 July, 2011.for further information write to us on: zukafilmfestival@gmail.com</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Tamasha la fila la ZUKA STUDENTS' FILM FESTIVAL, UGANDA

Zuka Foundation Uganda, is proud to announce the dates for the 2ndZUKA Students' Film Festival that is due to take place on 23rd - 25thS...

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OSAMA ANYAMAZISHA DUNIA KWA YALIYOTOKEA LIBYA

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="SW" style="mso-ansi-language: SW;">Ni hivi karibuni <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>duniani kote kulifanyika maadhimisho ya siku ya waandishi wa habari duniani na hapa Tanzania yalifanyika karibu kila pembe ya nchini na kila mtu aliweza kutoa maani yake juu ya maadili ya habari, upatikanaji na utoaji wa habari pamoja na upotoshwaji wa habari zenyewe</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Si rahisi kwa mtu ambaye ufahamu wake ni mdogo kuweza kukubali kwamba kunakiasi kikubwa cha upotoshaji wa habari kwa vyombo vya ndani na vile vya nje ya nchi.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kwa kweli ni kichekesho kikubwa na udanganyifu mkuwa uliofanywa na vyomva vya magharibi pale ambavyo walivishushia lawama vikosi vya NATO kwa kuwauwa wajuu watatu na mtoto mmoja wa karnal Mughamari Gaddaffi wa Libya kutokana na uvamizi walivyovifanya hivi karibuni katika bara laAfrika.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mara baada ya kuona lawama zimekuwa nyingi katika mataifa hayo yaliyofanya uvamizi nchini Libya ndipo uongo ukatungwa na vyomba vya habari kuchukuwa nafasi ya kutangaza uongo huu kwa kudai ati Osama bin Laden ameuliwa na vikosi vya marekani na mwili wake kuzikwa baharini maana amekuwa samaki ambaye hufa baharini na kuzikwa baharini ila samaki wakati mwengine huliwa na binadamu</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kichekesho kikubwa katika igizo hili la kifo cha Osama ni kile kinachodaiwa kwamba Osama amezikwa baharini kwa sababu eti hakutakiwa katika taifa lake na jamii ya kiislam huu ni uongo wa kwanza, lakini mbaya </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kwa kweli huu ni uongo wa mwaka katika kuwanyamazisha watu wasihoji mauwaji ya Libya ambayo watu wanauliwa bila hatia, lakini kwa sababu vyombo vya habari vipo kwa ajili ya kuwadanya wananchi ndio maana watu wote duniani wameamini kwamba kilichofanyika Libya si tatizo bali tatizo ni kifo cha anaedaiwa kuwa ni Osama bin Laden.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lakini hebu tujielieze Osama huyu amekufa mara ngapi? Kwa sababu kwa mara ya kwanza kifo cha Osama kilitangazwa mwaka 2000, mara ya pili 2005 na sasa ni mara ya tatu 2011 na pengine 2015 atakufa tena, hili linawezekana.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ingwaje sherehe za uhuru wa vyombo vya habari ni sherehe za kimataifa lakini kwa waandishi wa mataifa ya magharibi sherehe kubwa ni kuipotosha jamii juu ya suala zima la Libya na Osama kama vile ilivyokuwa kwa Sadamu Hussein na silaha za nyuklia kule Iraq.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Uongo huu wa waandishi wa habari hata Yesu (Issa bin Mariam) alikwisha utanabahisha zamani kwenye biblia “ Mtakapo washinda waandishi na mafarisayo ufalme wa Mungu mtaupata” aya nyingine ni “Sikuja kutenguwa taurati lakini tazama kalamu zenye uongo za waandishi zimeifanya taurati ya bwana kuwa ni UONGO” hizi ni aya mbili ambazo kila moja imekuwa ikisisitiza kuhusu suala zima la waandishi na sasa tunawaita waandishi wa habari</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ingawaje wa si rahisi sana mtu kuweza kukubalia na hilo lakini ipo haja kwa mwanadamu yoyote ambaye ufahamu wake upo makini kuweza kujiuliza mara kwa mara hivi Osama kama lini na wapi? Kwa sababu kama ndugu msomaji utawakuwa uanafuatiali kwa makini, hata hao Wanaomuogopa Osama wamekuwa wakitofautiana kimawazo na taarifa, kuhusiana na kifo cha Osama bin laden ambae inasadikiwa kuwa ni miongoni mwa viongozi muhimu katika kundi lake</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Si jambo la kushangaza sana kuhusu siku hii muhimu kwa wanahabri wote unia, badala ya kuadhimisha siku yao ya UHURU WAVYOMBO VYA HABARI kinyume chake, waandishi wa habari karibu duniani kote waliadhimisha siku hiyo kwa kuandika habari za kifo cha Osama ambaye mpaka sasa hakuna ushahidi wakutosha kama kweli kafa au la? Hii ni kutokana na taarifa zenywe zilivyo na umuhimu wa Osama kwa taifa la Marekani iweje mtu ambaye anatafutwa kwa uvumba na udi akamatwe na kuuwawa bila ya kuonesha picha halisi la tukio lenyewe, hii haingii akilini kwa sababu hata walipomkamata Sadam Hussein walimuonesha hadi siku waliyomnyonga, lakini kwa Osama bado ni kitendawili kizito ambacho kwa kweli hakina muaguzi.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Si tu kwamba kitandawili hicho kimekosa mtu wa kukiaguwa bali kichekesho chengine ni kile kuripotiwa kwa ushahidi wa DNA za Osama ambzo pia hukuwa na jibu sahihi juu ya taarifa za uhunguzi wa damu hiyo hatukatai kwamba wenzetu wapo mbali kwa taaluma hiyo lakini, kama ni kweli taarifa hizo za uchunguzi wa DNA zilipaswa kutolewa malezo na Daktari aliyehusika, hospitali na vitu vyengine kama hivyo, lakini leo hii Muandishi wa habari alisimama na kuwa Daktari na kushindwa hata kuhoji kulikoni?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kwa kweli yapo masuala mengi sana ya kujiuliza juu ya kifi hicho na uhuru wa vyombo vya habari lakini kwa upande mwengine wa shilingi hapa nchini napo kumekuwa na kizazaa kikubwa cha kuifumba macho jamii ya Kitanzania na hasa katika masula muhimu ambayo kwa kiasi fulani yamekuwa yakiitikisa serikali ya Tanzania kama vile Wizi na Ubadhirifu wa Mali ya ummah ( ufisadi) yote hayo kwa njia zile zile ambazo vyombo vya habari vya magharibi wamekuwa wakitumia kuwazuga wananchi, lakini kwa Tanzania haikuwa Osama bin Laden kwani alikuja kabla lakini kwao si kitu kingine bali BABU WA LOLIONDO na tiba yake ya kikombe</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ni kihekesho jamii ambayo inahitaji kufahamu ukweli juu ya matumizi halali na nini kinachoendelea bungeni matokeo yake wamekuwa wakimbia tiba ya babu na sasa kuna uwezekano wa kutumia fedha kwa ajili ya ujenzi wa kumuwezesha babu kutoa tiba hiyo ipasavyo. Kuna haja ya kujiuliza kwa kupitia huu uhuru wa vyombo vya habari na upatikanaji wa habari zenyewe, hivi ujenzi ambao unafikiriwa kule Loliondo ni wa kudumu au ni wa muda? Hii ni kwa sababu mtoaji ndawa ni mtu mmoja tu na si zaidi ya hapo kwa mojibu wa tarifa zilizokuwa zikisomwa na kuchapiswa kunywe vyombo vya habari tofauti nchini. Jee Mungu akichukuwa amana yake (kufa kwa babu) hayo majengo yatafanyiwa nini? Yatakuwa magofu ya kihistoria? Nyumba za kukaa wanyama? Ndege au maharamia? Haya ndio masuala muhimu ya kujiuliza kabla ya ujenzi kuanza huko Loliondo kwani nahofia fedha zinaweza zikatumika nyingi halafu majengo yakabakia kuwa ni vihame visivyofaa</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Si kama napingana na ujenzi huu wa kuimarisha majengo ya tiba huko Loliondo, bali ninachokiangalia ni ule ujenzi wamajengo ya kudumu katika eneo hilo wakati Babu mwenyewe amekwisha toa tahadhari kwamba hakuna mtu mwengine ambaye anaweza kutengeneza wala kutoa dawa hiyo ispokuwa ni yeye peke yake, lakini kunamabadiliko mengine basi ni vizuri kwa ajili ya kuwasaidia wananchi katika kupata tiba hiyo ya jadi</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ipo haja kwa jamii pia kuweza kufahamu umuhimu wa vyombo vya habari nchini, ingawaje wapo wanaodhani kwamba vyombo hivyo vipo kwa ajili ya Serikali na wanasiasa tu, kwa kweli hayo siyo mawazo sahihi na ipo haja ya kuweza kufahamu kwamba vyombo vya habari vipi kwa kila mtu ambaye yupo tayari kutoa taarifa ambazo ni za kweli na ni sahihi si kama zile a kifo cha Osama ambaye taarifa zake zimekuwa zikikhitilafiana kila wakati zipo taarifa za kufa kwa osama kwama 2000,2005 na sasa 2011 na pengine 2015 anaweza kufa tena</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

OSAMA ANYAMAZISHA DUNIA KWA YALIYOTOKEA LIBYA

Ni hivi karibuni   duniani kote kulifanyika maadhimisho ya siku ya waandishi wa habari duniani na hapa Tanzania yalifanyika karibu kila pemb...

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Poor countries bid to halt the cycle of poverty (9 May in Istanbul)

<div style="text-align: justify;">UNITED NATIONS talks on a new ten-year programme for the world’s poorest nations are underway as Heads of State, lawmakers, civil society organizations, the private sector and chiefs of international agencies gather in Istanbul, Turkey, early this month. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Negotiators for the least developed countries (LDCs) are looking to put in place measures for building infrastructure to attain economic self-sufficiency, push back poverty and create decent jobs in these 48 nations (33 in Africa, 14 in Asia and one (Haiti) in the western hemisphere). </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Such steps would include continued LDC progress on economic reform, governance and tapping domestic resources. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Internationally, the most economically vulnerable countries in the world are looking for the world’s larger economies to open up market access for LDC exports; to continue to increase development aid and better target it toward infrastructure and leveraging new investment; and to provide incentives for companies thinking of investing in LDCs. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Around 40 heads of State and Government have so far been confirmed for the UN’s fourth global conference on the LDCs in as many decades, and 24 chiefs of UN and international agencies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Second decade of 21st century a swing point for LDCs</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With decade-long growth rates higher than the emerging market average, possession of a significant share of the world’s strategic resources (petrol, metals, minerals and arable land), young workforces and growing buying power among consumers, the LDCs are attracting private sector interest. Among the features of the 9-13 May UN conference will be an LDC trade fair as well as a private sector forum and CEO summit on international business opportunities in these countries. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">But the LDCs average a 50 per cent rate of extreme poverty, are victimized by deadly disease and climate change and remain highly vulnerable to political or external economic shocks. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">A report released in late March by an expert panel appointed by the UN Secretary-General warned of continued marginalization of these countries. Chaired by former President of Mali Alpha Oumar Konare and former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, the panel said that continuation of a two-track world, with advancing developed and emerging market economies, on the one hand, and poor countries falling behind, would have serious security implications. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rising food prices pose a severe challenge and an opportunity. Most LDCs are net food importers and one third of their populations are chronically malnourished. But if modern infrastructure is in place and local farmers have access to necessary support, they might benefit from firm prices and launch a turnaround in low-productivity agriculture.<br /> The UN’s Chief Executives Board (CEB), the highest level coordinating mechanism within the UN system and chaired by the Secretary-General, has taken the initiative to issue a joint statement supporting the Fourth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries and its outcome. The CEB statement will be issued on 9 May on behalf of 35 heads of UN-affiliated agencies and organizations, including of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, and of UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States Cheick Sidi Diarra has been appointed the Secretary-General of UN LDC IV.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Poor countries bid to halt the cycle of poverty (9 May in Istanbul)

UNITED NATIONS talks on a new ten-year programme for the world’s poorest nations are underway as Heads of State, lawmakers, civil society or...

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Taarifa kutoka Harare International Festival of the Arts

<div style="text-align: justify;">Zimbabweans have lived through a strange and bitter period of history since the fight for freedom achieved national independence in 1980. They have seen much trauma in their lives: from a stable, peaceful and independent country to a ‘crisis country’. The crisis has driven 3-4 million Zimbabweans to seek refuge and escape in other countries. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2005 ‘Operation Murambatsvina’ (Clean up the Filth) ...- a politically motivated paramilitary operation - was implemented to remove ‘opposition’ strongholds in the urban areas by destroying informal homes and businesses. It left seven hundred thousand of the poorest people homeless, without livelihood and destitute. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Operation Murambatsvina displaced almost a third of Harare's population - the hidden story of the capital city, and one that is rarely told, an unspoken scar on the psyche of the people of Zimbabwe. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The people affected, after the event, were not giving television interviews or demanding compensation from the courts. They could not fight for their story to be told, and their loss to be recognised; they were simply struggling to eat. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is in some ways, as if the displacement of almost a million people never happened. Because those affected were not wealthy, and did not have democratic rights, the entire operation which destroyed hundreds and thousands of homes and livelihoods, has largely passed without any response from the cultural community. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">‘HARARE FILES ‘ is a one-person theatre production which tells seven of the 700,000 stories of Murambatsvina. It focuses on seven selected first-hand stories of the women affected by Operation Murambatsvina, told in their own words. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. The narrative drama and poignancy of these true and personal stories is overwhelming, sometimes shocking, even choking, but always transcending: how women dealt with such destruction to their lives and their sanctity. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">This testimony is brought to the stage by TONDERAI MUNYEBVU, adapted from ‘In My Own Words: Zimbabwean Women’s encounter with Operation Murambatsvina’, directed by Sarah Norman, and produced by Pamberi Trust. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">That these stories are brought to life and to stage by a young, male actor, solo, is another kind of testimony, not only an extraordinary artistic exploration in identity that challenges traditional ‘taboo’ around gender, but an insight of what it means, really, to step inside the life of the victim, in the words of the victim, and understand. <br /> The play runs for 3 nights at the famous ‘Mannenberg’ in the Zimbabwean capital, and 2 performances at the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) at the end of April. Harare Files was presented at HIFA by the British Council and is brought to GoetheonMain by the Goethe-Institut South Africa in association with Pamberi Trust and African Synergy Trust.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Taarifa kutoka Harare International Festival of the Arts

Zimbabweans have lived through a strange and bitter period of history since the fight for freedom achieved national independence in 1980. Th...

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Uhuru wa Habari na Osama bin Laden

<div style="text-align: justify;">maadhimisho ya siku ya uhuru wa habari yameadhimishwa karibu duniani kote hapa Tanzania yalifanyika karibu kila pembe ya nchini na kila mtu aliweza kutoa maani yake juu ya maadili ya habari, upatikanaji na utoaji wa habari pamoja na upotoshwaji wa habari zenyewe</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Si rahisi kwa mtu ambaye ufahamu wake ni mdogo kuweza kukubali kwamba kunakiasi kikubwa cha upotoshaji wa habari kwa vyombo vya ndani na vile vya nje ya nchi.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kwa kweli ni kichekesho kikubwa na udanganyifu mkuwa uliofanywa na vyomva vya magharibi pale ambavyo walivishushia lawama vikosi vya NATO kwa kuwauwa wajuu watatu na mtoto mmoja wa karnal Mughamari Gaadaffi wa Libya kutokana na vita vyao vya uvamizi walivyovifanya hivi karibuni katika bara laAfrika.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mara baada ya kuona lawama zimekuwa nyingi katika mataifa hayo yaliyofanya uvamizi nchini Libya ndipo uongo ukatungwa na vyomba vya habari kuchukuwa nafasi ya kutangaza uongo huu kwa kudai ati Osama bin Laden ameuliwa na vikosi vya marekani na mwili wake kuzikwa baharini maana amekuwa samaki ambaye hufa baharini na kuzikwa baharini humo humo</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kwa hakikai huu ni uongo wa mwaka katika kuwanyamazisha watu wasihoji mauwaji ya Libya ambayo watu wanauliwa bila hatia, lakini kwa sababu vyombo vya habari vipo kwa ajili ya kuwadanya wananchi ndio maana watu wote duniani wameamini kwamba kilichofanyika Libya si tatizo bali tatizo ni kifo cha anaedaiwa kuwa ni Osama bin Laden.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lakini hebu tujielieze Osama huyu amekufa mara ngapi? Kwa sababu kwa mara ya kwanza kifo cha Osama kilitangazwa mwaka 2000, mara ya pili 2005 na sasa ni mara ya tatu 2011 na pengine 2015 atakufa tena, hili linawezekana.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ingwaje sherehe za uhuru wa vyombo vya habari ni sherehe za kimataifa lakini kwa waandishi wa mataifa ya magharibi sherehe kubwa ni kuipotosha jamii juu ya suala zima la Libya na Osama kama vile ilivyokuwa kwa Sadamu Hussein na silaha za nyuklia kule Iraq.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Uongo huu wa waandishi wa habari hata Yesu (Issa bin Mariam) alikwisha utanabahisha kwenye bibili “ Mtakapo washinda waandishi na mafarisayo ufalme wa Mungu mtaupata” aya nyingine ni “Sikuja kutenguwa taurati lakini tazama kalamu zenye uongo za waandishi zimeifanya taurati ya bwana kuwa ni UONGO” hizi ni aya mbili ambazo kila moja imekuwa ikisisitiza kuhusu suala zima la waandishi na sasa tunawaita waandishi wa habari</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ipo haja kwa waandishi wa habari kuwa wakweli katika kazi zao kuliko kuendekeza propaganda za wanasiasa </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Uhuru wa Habari na Osama bin Laden

maadhimisho ya siku ya uhuru wa habari yameadhimishwa karibu duniani kote hapa Tanzania yalifanyika karibu kila pembe ya nchini na kila mtu ...

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Osama afa mara tatu kwa vipindi tofauti

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ngjwaf4_g8g/Tb7rHHgnfAI/AAAAAAAAAas/dsf7rjeS82Q/s1600/r145993_512250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ngjwaf4_g8g/Tb7rHHgnfAI/AAAAAAAAAas/dsf7rjeS82Q/s320/r145993_512250.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xpHpDY-X9e8/Tb7rKaCdJ4I/AAAAAAAAAaw/RDYRIB4sBnQ/s1600/6883-2024-osama-bin-laden-dead-pics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xpHpDY-X9e8/Tb7rKaCdJ4I/AAAAAAAAAaw/RDYRIB4sBnQ/s320/6883-2024-osama-bin-laden-dead-pics.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">kwa mwanadamu kufa ni jambo la kawaida kutoka na mktaba aliofunga na mola wake tangu siku aliyokubali yeye kuja kusihi duniani</div><div style="text-align: justify;">lakini kitu kibaya zaidi ni pale mtu au taifa moja kuwa na uwezo wa kuidangaya duniani kwa nyakati tofauti, sipingani na kauli za vyomba vya habari lakini hivi ni kweli mtu anaza kufa zaidi ya mara moja? hii ni miujiza au niudanganyifu tosha kutoka kwa wale wanaojiita wasomo na wababe wa dunia, haiwezekani hata kidogo binaadamu mmoja kufa mara tatu, kama ni hivyo tuambiwe inakuwaje hadi anafufuka kutoka kaburini na iuendelea kuishi?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">kwa mfano mara ya kwanza karibu dunia kote ilitangazwa Osama bin Laden amefariki mwaka 2000, kama hiyo haikutosha mwaka 2005 tukatangaziwa tena na sasa mwaka huu wa 2011 pia amefariki tena katika mazingira yale yale ya mashambulizi ya makombora ya NATO</div><div style="text-align: justify;">kibaya zaidi huku ni kutaka kumfananisha na Yesu ambaye atafufuka kutoka kwenye wafu siku ikifika, jee hii inaingia akilini au ni usanii tu wa kiahabari na kutaka sifa ambazo hazina ukweli? kwa hakika tunapswa kufahamu mtu mwenye akili timamu unaweza ukafanywa mpumbavu kwa wakati mmoja na si kwa wakati wote kama ambavyo hizi taarifa zinazodai kufa kwa kiongozi wa Al qaida Osama bin Laden</div><div style="text-align: justify;">sote tunafahamu kwamba vita ni ujanja lakini siyo kwa aina hii ya kuidanganya dunia</div>

Osama afa mara tatu kwa vipindi tofauti

kwa mwanadamu kufa ni jambo la kawaida kutoka na mktaba aliofunga na mola wake tangu siku aliyokubali yeye kuja kusihi duniani lakini kitu ...

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Goethe-Institut Tanzania Program of Films May 2011

Film Thursday 05 May 2011 <br /> <br /> Kirschblüten – Hanami (Cherry Blossoms – Hanami), 7 pm <br /> Director: Doris Dörrie, colour, 127 min., 2007/08<br /> (Elmar Wepper) is unaware that he is suffering from cancer and only has a few weeks left to live. The doctor has only informed his vivacious, esoteric wife Trudi (Hannelore Elsner) of his diagnosis, and she decides that they should take a last holiday together. When they arrive on the Baltic coast, Trudi dies unexpectedly – and Rudi fulfils her lifelong dream of visiting Japan and seeing Mount Fuji. <br /> Film Thursday 12 May 2011 <br /> Im Winter ein Jahr (A year ago in Winter), 7 pm <br /> Director: Caroline Link, colour, 128 min., 2008 <br /> <br /> Interior designer Eliane Richter commissions Max Hollander to paint a picture of her two children. Her daughter Lilli is not keen on the idea, because her brother Alexander committed suicide and the portrait of the two would be nothing more than a decorative illusion. The project changes everyone directly and indirectly involved with the painting. <br /> <br /> Film Thursday 19 May 2011 <br /> Sonnenallee, 7pm, <br /> Director: Leander Haußmann, colour, 94 min., 1998/99 <br /> The film "Sonnenallee" ventures a look back to GDR times – it is not a maudlin portrayal, but an unabashedly sentimental and fabulously exaggerated one. It is the story of young people, forbidden music and dances, and of that special love that changes everything. <br /> <br /> Film Thursday 26 May 2011 <br /> Annas Sommer (Anna´s summer) 7pm, <br /> Director: Jeanine Meerapfel, colour, 114 min., 2001 <br /> <br /> When 50-year old photo journalist Anna Kastelano arrives on the small Greek island Symi, she is not yet aware that she will be turning the page to a new chapter in her life. As she is confronted with her past she experiences the present in a new way.

Goethe-Institut Tanzania Program of Films May 2011

Film Thursday 05 May 2011 Kirschblüten – Hanami (Cherry Blossoms – Hanami), 7 pm Director: Doris Dörrie, colour, 127 min., 2007/08 (Elma...

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