DHL Learning and Development Program to Help Bridge the Skill Gap in Africa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> • Program is a key stimulus in the burgeoning skills gap in Africa, allowing local recruitment rather than expatriate staffing<br /> • Innovative learning platform has boosted employee morale and is one of the key reasons for DHL’s business growth in Africa<br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> • Delivered to over 100,000 employees across 220 countries and to nearly 4,000 employees in 51 countries in Sub Saharan Africa, making it one of the largest corporate training programs ever implemented<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dhl.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">DHL Express</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, a division of Deutsche Post DHL , has credited its innovative “Certified International Specialists” learning and development program (CIS) with being one of the principal factors in the company’s African and global performance. The program, which is delivered to every employee across the company’s global network, has also been a key intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa, bridging the skills divide and providing comprehensive training and education for the company’s employees.<br /><br />“In 2012, the DHL Express division recorded the highest earnings in its history, and this would not have been without an engaged workforce focused on international express delivery,” comments Charles Brewer, Managing Director for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa. “CIS has played a fundamental role in the business performance of the company and we’ve seen how a change management program can really contribute towards the bottom line. Our company in Sub-Saharan Africa posted double digit growth last year, continuing to drive the economic growth of the continent, and I believe that CIS is a big part of this growth and our success.”</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">The CIS program also aims to bridge the skills divide in Sub-Saharan Africa, which continues to widen as foreign direct investment increases and the demand for talent far outstrips supply.<br /><br />“One of the major challenges facing any multinational company operating in Sub-Saharan Africa is the lack of adequate training, and education systems which sometimes fall short of global standards,” comments Charles Brewer, Managing Director for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa. “While we believe we attract the best and brightest talent on the continent, we know there is a critical need to provide additional training and make our African employees feel part of the global network, while also giving them international experience. The CIS platform does just that.”<br /><br />The program employs innovative learning methodologies to train employees across all functions on the fundamentals of international shipping, enhancing their knowledge of essential aspects, such as import / export documentation, geography and global expertise, and transport regulations and processes, to name a few. The training sessions themselves are delivered by employees trained as facilitators. Through video interviews, it has also engaged former executives of the company in telling the story of the entrepreneurial roots of DHL and the values that helped the company to become a global leader in logistics.<br /><br />To date, CIS has been delivered to over 100 000 employees in more than 220 countries and territoriesworldwide, and to nearly 4 000 employees in 51 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, making it one of the largest corporate training programs ever implemented. The materials have been translated into 42 languages</span>.</div> <br /> Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of Deutsche Post DHL

DHL Learning and Development Program to Help Bridge the Skill Gap in Africa

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AfDB and its Partners to Focus on Africa’s Future at Annual Meetings in Morocco

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The 48th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) opened today in Marrakech, Morocco</div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /><span style="font-size: large;">The 48th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) opened on May 27 in Marrakech, Morocco, focusing on the need for Africa to turn economic growth into truly shared and sustainable economic transformation in the next half century.<br /><br />The quality of growth and the sustainability of growth” are the two main issues confronting Africa today, AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, said on May 25 at the African Union’s 50thanniversary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Annual Meetings are being held at a crucial time. For Kaberuka, “Africa is rising, and it needs a push. The rest of the world is languishing, and it too needs a push. Africa needs the world, and the world needs Africa. Each can give the other a push.”<br /><br />For the AfDB, Africa’s challenge is to bring its extraordinary progress of the last decade to scale are: a critical lack of infrastructure – transport, energy, water, telecommunications – which is the basis for all growth; a lack of regional economic integration between what are still fragmented national markets; and the pockets of serious fragility that still persist across the continent.<br /><br />“Africa, the African Development Bank and our international friends are on the case with all three,” Kaberuka says. “We have the will, we have the systems, but we still don’t have all the funds. The Bank can work magic with what it is given, raising nine dollars for every one of its own,” he adds.<br /><br />For Kaberuka, the Bank’s two main financial challenges are: “First, we need our non-African members’ full support in making a big injection into the Africa Development Fund – Africa’s fund, for Africa’s future.The ADF gives concessional loans and grants to our most vulnerable members, whose need is the greatest. Its track record is superb.<br /><br />With a serious push now, it can bring lasting change to our fragile states, as it has done in Liberia and Sierra Leone to name but two, and as it is in the process of doing in Somalia and Mali. Second, we need our African members’ support in a new initiative which we believe is a visionary solution to bring about the vision of transformation, and a revolutionary response to failings in finding, facilitating and funding infrastructure projects.” <br /><br />Furthermore, “Our new Jubilee infrastructure bond will combine public and private investment, both domestic and international, and bring projects to bankability. With a $10 billion start-up – that is just 2% of Africa’s combined foreign exchange reserves – it will allow us to finance $100 billion worth of projects, more than the entire Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Priority Action Plan for 2020, says Kaberuka.<br /><br />The Marrakesh meetings will also involve the AfDB Board of Governors decision on the Bank’s return to its original headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.</span></div> Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of the African Development Bank (AfDB)</div>

AfDB and its Partners to Focus on Africa’s Future at Annual Meetings in Morocco

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TAMKO LA CUF MTWARA

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div align="center" class="yiv0387128388MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_4446" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;"> <br /> <span style="font-size: 24px;"><b><u></u></b></span></div> <div align="center" class="yiv0387128388MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_4447" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;"> <span style="font-size: 24px;"><b><u>GHASIA ZA MTWARA</u></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">The Civic United Front (CUF – Chama Cha Wananchi) kimesikitishwa sana na vurugu zilizotokea Mtwara tarehe 22 Mei 2013 na uvunjaji mkubwa wa haki za binadamu uliofanywa na polisi tarehe 23 Mei 2013. Chimbuko la mgogoro wa gesi wa mikoa ya Lindi na Mtwara ni kushindwa kwa serikali ya CCM kutekeleza ahadi zaka za miradi ya kutumia gesi ya Msimbati na Mnazi Bay mkoani Mtwara na hasa ujenzi wa kituo cha kufua umeme wa MW 300 na kuiunganisha Mtwara, Lindi na Ruvuma katika gridi ya taifa.<br /><br />CUF inalaani vikali vitendo vya kihalifu vya kuchomea nyumba ya mwandishi wa habari wa Shirika la Utangazaji Tanzania (TBC), Kassim Mikongolo, na nyumba za baadhi ya viongozi wa CCM. Vile vile tunalaani vikali vitendo vya kuhujumu miundombinu muhimu likiwemo daraja la Mikindani linalounganisha Mkoa Mtwara na Mikoa ya Lindi, Pwani na Dar es Salaam. <br /><br />CUF imesikitishwa sana na taarifa za vifo vya askari wanne wa JWTZ kwa ajali ya gari iliyotokea Kilimahewa wakati askari hao wakisafirishwa toka Nachingwea kwenda Mtwara kusaidia kudhibiti vurugu.Tumepeleka salamu za pole kwa CDF Jenerali Mwamunyange na kupitia kwake kwa familia za marehemu. Tunawapa pole askari wote waliojeruhiwa na kuwaombea kwa Mwenyezi Mungu wapone haraka na waweze kurejea katika ulinzi wa taifa letu.<br /><br />Vilevile tumesikitishwa na kifo cha raia wawili kwa kupigwa risasi akiwemo mama mjamzito na raia wengi kujeruhiwa. Tunawapa pole familia za marehemu na kuwaombea wote waloumia wapone haraka na waendelee na shughuli zao.<br /><br />Taarifa za vyombo vya habari vinaeleza kuwa ghasia hizi zilianza baada ya hotuba ya bajeti ya Waziri wa Nishati na Madini iliyosomwa katika Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania na kusisitiza ujenzi wa bomba la kusafirisha gesi toka Mtwara kwenda Dar es Salaam.<br /><br />Taarifa tulizozipata toka Mtwara zinaeleza kuwa jana kuanzia asubuhi, wakati Waziri Nchimbi akisoma tamko la serikali bungeni kwa niaba ya Waziri Mkuu kuwa hali ya Mtwara sasa ni shwari askari wa Jeshi la Polisi walifanya vitendo vya kinyama kwa raia wasio na hatia. Polisi walipita katika nyumba za wananchi na kuwachomoa vijana, kuwapiga na kuwachukua kuwapeleka kituo cha Polisi. Mabomu ya machozi na risasi za moto zilipigwa hovyo hovyo. Aidha katika maeneo ambayo vijana hawakuwepo waliwapiga wake zao, watoto wadogo na hata wazee kwa madai kwamba vijana wao wanasumbua. Binti mjamzito aitwae Fatuma alipigwa risasi na kufariki. Katika eneo la Mkana Read, Polisi walichoma moto soko la wananchi, nyumba nyingi za raia zimechomwa moto na polisi wamepora mali za watu zikiwemo za maduka ya wafanyabiashara. Wananchi wengi wakiwemo wanawake wamelazimika kukimbia nyumba zao. Taarifa tulizopata zinaeleza vitendo vya kinyama vya polisi vilisita baada ya maafisa wa juu wa Jeshi la Polisi kufika Mtwara.<br /><br />Vurugu zilizotokea Mtwara tarehe 22 Mei hazihalalishi Jeshi la Polisi kupiga watu, kuua, kuchoma moto nyumba na vibanda vya biashara na kupora mali za watu wasio na hatia. Vitendo hivi vya polisi kupora mali na kuchoma vibanda vilitokea Tandahimba mwaka jana. Weledi ndani ya Jeshi la Polisi uko chini sana. Tunalaani vikali vitendo vya Jeshi la Polisi la kupiga watu, kuchoma nyumba na kupora. Uongozi wa Jeshi la Polisi uchukue hatua za kinidhamu na kisheria dhidi ya polisi waliohusika na vitendo hivyo. Tunatoa wito kwa asasi za haki za binadamu na wanaotoa misaada ya kisheria kuwasaidia wahanga wa Mtwara kudai haki zao.<br /><br />Pamoja na kulaani vitendo hivi vya kihalifu na kuchukua hatua za kisheria dhidi ya wale waliohusika na vitendo hivyo, Serikali itafanya makosa makubwa na kuingiza nchi katika mgogoro wa muda mrefu na wananchi wa mikoa ya kusini ikiwa itafumbia macho chimbuko la mgogoro huu na kushikilia hoja nyepesi kuwa mgogoro huu ni matokeo ya uchochezi wa wanasiasa wachache wanaojitafutia umaarufu. Narudia Chimbuko la mgogoro wa gesi wa mikoa ya Lindi na Mtwara ni kushindwa kwa serikali ya CCM kutekeleza ahadi za miradi ya kutumia gesi ya Msimbati na Mnazi Bay mkoani Mtwara na hasa ujenzi wa kituo cha kufua umeme wa MW 300 na kuiunganisha Mtwara, Lindi na Ruvuma katika gridi ya taifa. Mradi mwingine ni kuanzisha kiwanda cha mbolea kitakachotumia gesi kama malighafi kama ilivyopendekezwa na Wentworth resources wanaomiliki visima vya gesi ya Mnazi Bay na Msimbati. Kama miradi hii ingeanza kutekelezwa nina uhakika wananchi wengi wa mikoa ya kusini hawatapinga gesi ya ziada kusafirishwa Dar es Salaam.<br /><br />Kauli ya Waziri Nchimbi Bungeni kuwa serikali itawasaka waasisi wa vurugu hizi ndani na nje ya Mtwara ni juhudi za kutafuta mchawi badala ya kutathmini kwa nini wananchi wa Mtwara hawaiamini kabisa serikali ya CCM. Tumepata taarifa kuwa pana mpango kabambe wa kuwakamata viongozi mbalimbali wa CUF na kuuaminisha umma kuwa wanaohusika na kuchochea, kupanga na kutekeleza vurugu za Mtwara ni viongozi na wafuasi wa CUF. Serikali ya CCM imekubuu katika kubambikia kesi nzito watu wasiokuwa na hatia. CUF inafanya siasa kwa kujenga hoja. Katika suala la gesi tumejenga hoja za kiuchumi na maendeleo na uwajibikaji wa kisiasa kuhusu utekelezaji wa miradi ambayo CCM na serikali yake iliahidi kuitekeleza. Viongozi wa CUF hawajachochea vurugu wametumia majukwaa ya mikutano ya hadhara na maandamano ya amani kujenga hoja za kimsingi. <br /><br />Mimi binafsi nilienda Mtwara mwaka jana nikazuwiwa kufanya mkutano wa hadhara Mtwara mjini kwa madai kuwa hali siyo shwari wilaya ya Tandahimba. Wananchi wa Mtwara walitaka nifanye mkutano huo pamoja na kuwa umezuwiwa na polisi, nikawasihi tusifanye hivyo na wakakubali. Tarehe 14 Aprili 2013 nilikuwa Mtwara nikazuwiwa kufanya mkutano wa hadhara sikukaidi nikafanya mkutano wa ndani. Maalim Seif, Katibu Mkuu wa CUF na Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Zanzibar alitaka kufanya ziara ya mkoa wa Mtwara akaambiwa hana ruhusa ya kufanya mikutano ya hadhara mkoa wa Mtwara na hivyo akasitisha ziara yake.<br /><br />Kuwakamata viongozi wa CUF wa wilaya za Mtwara na Lindi na wa kitaifa hakutamaliza mgogoro kati ya serikali na wananchi wa Mtwara ikiwa serikali itaendelea kuwabeza, kuwadharau na kutowasikiliza. Badala yake itaongeza chuki dhidi ya serikali.<br /><br />Wakati wananchi wa Mtwara wamepoteza imani kwa uongozi wa CCM na serikali yake, Serikali imezuia vyama vingine vya siasa na asasi za kiraia kufanya shughuli za kuwasiliana na wananchi wa Mtwara na kwa hiyo kuunyima umma miongozo ya kisiasa za demokrasia. Umma uliokata tamaa na unaoamini unabezwa, kudharauliwa na kudanganywa na watawala unaweza kuchukua hatua zenye madhara hata kwa maslahi yao wenyewe.<br /><br />Serikali imekuwa inapotosha kwa makusudi madai ya msingi ya wananchi wa Mtwara ambayo ni kuwa serikali itekeleze miradi ya gesi iliyoahidi wananchi wa Mtwara. Badala yake wananchi wa mikoa mingine wanalishwa sumu kuwa Wananchi wa Mtwara hawataki raslimali ya gesi iwanufaishe Watanzania wengine. Umeme ukifuliwa Mtwara na kuunganishwa katika gridi ya taifa utatumiwa na wote waliounganishwa na gridi ya taifa. Kiwanda cha mbolea cha Mtwara kitazalisha mbolea itakayotumiwa nchi nzima. Wananchi wa Mtwara hawajasema Watanzania wengine hawana haki ya kwenda Mtwara kupata ajira au kufanya shughuli za kibiashara. Wanaobomoa umoja na mshikamano wa kitaifa ni wale wanaowabeza, kuwadharau na kuendelea kuwadanganya wananchi wa Mtwara na kupandikiza sumu kwa Watanzania wengine kwa kupotosha madai ya msingi ya wananchi wa Mtwara na kushindwa kwa serikali kuwajibika kisiasa kwa ahadi ambazo viongozi akiwemo Rais alizitoa kwa wananchi wa Mtwara.<br /><br />Wananchi wa Mtwara zaidi ya elfu 24 wameweka sahihi na kupeleka ombi (petition) kupitia Mhe. Habibu Mnyaa, Mbunge wa Mkanyageni kujadili kutekelezwa kwa miradi ya gesi ya Mtwara. Spika Anna Makinda kazuwia ombi hilo kujadiliwa. <br /><br />Bunge limeshindwa kuisimamia serikali na kuhoji kwa nini mradi wa kufua umeme MW 300 ambao katika mwaka wa bajeti wa 2011/12 ulitengewa na kutumia shilingi 540 milioni umesitishwa. Mpaka hivi sasa hakuna kamati ya Bunge iliyoenda kusikiliza kilio cha Wananchi wa Mtwara badala yake Spika amekuwa mstari wa mbele kuunga mkono vitendo vya serikali badala ya kuhakikisha kuwa Bunge linaisisimamia serikali.<br /><br />Katika hotuba ya bajeti ya mwaka huu, Waziri kaeleza serikali kupitia TANESCO kwa kwa kushirikiana na kampuni ya Symbion itajenga kituo cha kufua umeme cha MW 400 na kuunganisha Mtwara na gridi ya taifa kupitia Songea. Hata hivyo bajeti ya maendeleo haijautaja mradi huu wala kutenga hata shilingi 1 kwenye mradi. Wananchi wa Mtwara wanaona wanaendelea kudanganywa na serikali ya CCM. Mikogo, majigambo na kauli za kejeli za Waziri wa Nishati kuhusu uelewa mdogo wa wananchi wa Mtwara katika masuala ya gesi zinazidi kuongeza chuki na jazba za wananchi. Mpaka hivi sasa serikali imekataa kuweka wazi mkataba wa ujenzi wa bomba na upembuzi yakinifu wa mradi huu. Hotuba ya bajeti ya Waziri wa Nishati haielezi kama Wentworth Resources wanaoendesha visima vya gesi wataweza kuzalisha gesi kukidhi ukubwa wa bomba la kusafirisha gesi kutoka Mtwara kwenda Dar es Salaam na ahadi mpya za miradi ya kutumia gesi mkoani Mtwara.<br /><br />Linalonistusha na kunitisha ni kwa nini viongozi wa juu wa serikali hawataki kuwa wawazi kuhusu mradi huu na wako tayari kupotosha, kuwagawa wananchi na kudanganya alimuradi mradi huu utekelezwe na usihojiwe?<br /><br />Gesi ya Mnazi Bay, Mtwara iligunduliwa toka mwaka 1982 lakini mpaka hivi sasa haijatumiwa kikamilifu. Kampuni ya Artumas ilianza utaratibu wa kuichimba gesi mwaka 2006 na kuitumia kufua umeme wa Megawati 18. Tarehe 17 Oktoba 2007 kampuni ya Artumas ilitoa taarifa ya mpango wake wa kujenga kituo cha kufua umeme wa MW 300. Mpango huu ulitarajiwa kugharamiwa toka Mfuko wa Maendeleo wa Uholanzi - Netherlands Development Finance Company. Gharama za mradi wa kufua umeme zilikadiriwa kuwa dola za Marekani 225. Kampuni maalum ya kuendesha mradi huu ya Tanzania Generation Company Ltd (TANGEN) ilisajiliwa ili kujenga na kuendesha mradi huu. Kampuni hii ingekopa dola milioni 160 na dola milioni 65 zingechangiwa kama hisa na kampuni nyingine zikiwemo mifuko ya pensheni ya Tanzania na kampuni ya madini ya Barrick International.<br /><br />Kampuni nyingine maalum ilitarajiwa kuanzishwa ili ijenge msongo wa umeme (nguzo za nyaya za kusambaza umeme) na kuunganisha umeme wa Mnazi Bay kwenye gridi ya taifa. Mradi huu ungegharimu dola milioni 400. Mradi huu ulitarajiwa kugharamiwa na mifuko ya pensheni ya Tanzania na wawekezaji kutoka Mashariki ya Kati. Mpango huu ulikubaliwa na serikali na ukaingizwa katika Mpango Kabambe wa Taifa wa kufua na kusambaza umeme (National Power Development Master Plan). Mradi huu wa kufua umeme MW 300 Mtwara ulipangwa uwe umekamilika mwaka wa 2012. Tovuti ya Tanesco inaueleza mpango huu kuwa ni wa muda wa kati. Bila shaka serikali iliukabali mradi huu baada ya kuufanyia utafiti na upembuzi yakinifu.<br /><br />Mtikisiko wa sekta ya fedha na uchumi wa dunia wa mwaka 2008 uliathiri kampuni ya Artumas. Thamani ya hisa moja ya Artumas iliporomoka toka dola za Marekani 10.80 mwezi wa Aprili 2008 na kufikia dola 0.12 mwezi wa Machi 2009. Kampuni ilipata matatizo makubwa ya ukata na ilibidi serikali iisaidie dola milioni 7 ili iweze kuendelea na ufuaji wa umeme wa MW 18 Mtwara. Barrick International ilijitoa katika mradi wa TANGEN. Katika kujiunda upya Kampuni ya Artumas Group Inc. iliamua kubadilisha jina lake na kuwa Wentworth Resources Limited na kuteua menejimenti mpya.<br /><br />Tarehe 10 Juni 2009 Rais Kikwete alipokuwa anawahutubia Wabunge na Wananchi katika Ukumbi wa Kilimani Dodoma kuhusu athari za mtikisiko wa uchumi duniani alieleza “Kwa sababu ya matatizo ya uchumi uwekezaji wa vitega uchumi kutoka nje umepungua. Wawekezaji wamekuwa wanakosa fedha kutoka mabenki na masoko ya mitaji. Matokeo yake ni kuchelewa au kukosa kabisa au kuahirishwa miradi mikubwa ambayo ingetoa mchango muhimu kwa ukuaji wa uchumi wetu na ajira. Kwa mfano: Mradi wa umeme wa MW 300 kule Mtwara kwa sababu ya Barrick Gold Ltd. kujitoa na Artumas peke yake haina uwezo wa kifedha; mradi wa nickel Kabanga, mradi wa aluminium smelter, Mtwara; mradi wa usambazaji umeme mkoani Mtwara, miradi ya viwanda vya saruji na mbolea Mtwara.” Kwa kauli ya Rais ambayo wananchi wa Mtwara na Watanzania kwa ujumla waliisikia kwani hotuba hii ilirushwa live na Shirika la Utangazaji la Tanzania – Radio na Televisheni na vyombo vingine vya habari. Miradi ya kutumia gesi ni pamoja na kufua umeme MW 300, kutengeneza mbolea inayotumia gesi kama malighafi, aluminium smelter inayohitaji umeme mwingi, na kiwanda cha saruji ambacho kinatumia umeme na kinu chake kinaweza kutumia gesi. Wananchi wakamuamini Rais wetu na wakaelewa kuwa miradi hii imekwama kwa sababu ya mtikisiko wa uchumi na kwamba serikali inajitahidi kutafuta njia mbadala ya kujikwamua ili miradi hiyo iendelee.<br /><br />Wakati wa kampeni ya uchaguzi wa 2010, Rais Kikwete aliwaeleza wananchi wa Mtwara akichaguliwa ataendeleza miradi ya Mtwara itakayotumia gesi ya Mnazi Bay. Maelezo ya Ilani ya CCM ya Uchaguzi wa 2010, ibara ya 63 kifungu (j) Kuzalisha umeme (300MW) kutokana na gesi asili ya Mnazi Bay (k) Kupanua mitambo ya kusafisha gesi na bomba la kusafirisha gesi kutoka Songo Songo hadi Dar es Salaam. Mitambo ya kufua umeme ya Dar es Salaam ilitegemewa itumie gesi ya Songosongo kwani bomba la kutoka Songosongo hadi Somanga mpaka Dar es Salaam lingepanuliwa. Toka mwaka 2010 kampuni ya Globeleq- Songas ilijiandaa kutekeleza mradi wa kuongeza uwezo wa bomba la gesi kutoka Songosongo – Somanga – Dar es Salaam ili likidhi mahitaji ya gesi ya vituo vya kufua umeme Dar es Salaam kikiwemo kituo cha Kinyerezi. Serikali iliisitisha kampuni hiyo isiendelee na mradi huo ambao hivi sasa ungekuwa umekamilika na kuongeza uwezo wa kufua umeme kwa kutumia gesi kwa alau MW 200.<br /><br />Rais Kikwete alipoenda Mtwara kuhudhuria sherehe ya Mashujaa tarehe 25 Julai 2011 alizungumza na wananchi wa Mtwara na kueleza miradi ya maendeleo itakayotekelezwa kwa kutumia gesi ya Mnazi Bay ikiwemo ufuaji wa umeme wa MW 300 na kupanua bandari ya Mtwara.<br /><br />Tarehe 12 Oktoba 2011, Ikulu ilitoa taarifa kwa vyombo vya habari kuwa “Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Mheshimiwa Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete leo, Jumatano, Oktoba 12, 2011, amepokea ripoti kutoka makampuni mawili ya kimataifa kuhusu Mpango Kabambe ya mradi mkubwa wa umeme ambao utaunganisha kwenye Gridi ya Taifa mikoa yote sita ambayo kwa sasa haiko kwenye gridi hiyo. Rais Kikwete amepokea ripoti hiyo kutoka makampuni ya China National Machinery&Equipment Import&Export Corporation (CMEC) ya China na Siemens ya Ujerumani ambayo kwa pamoja yanatarajia kujenga kituo kikubwa cha kuzalisha umeme kutokana na gesi katika eneo la Mnazi Bay, mjini Mtwara na pia kujenga njia ya kusafirisha umeme ya kilomita 1,100 kutoka Mtwara hadi Singida. Mradi huo mkubwa wa umeme wa megawati 300 utakaogharimu karibu dola za Marekani milioni 684 na utakaozalisha umeme wa moja kwa moja na wenye nguvu kubwa ya 300 kV (300 kV High Voltage Direct Current – HVDC) utagharimiwa kwa pamoja na mkopo kutoka Benki ya Exim ya China na Serikali ya Tanzania.”<br /><br />Mikoa sita ambayo bado haijaunganishwa na gridi ya taifa ni Lindi, Mtwara, Ruvuma, Rukwa, Kigoma na Kagera. Mradi huu pamoja na kufua umeme wa MW 300 Mtwara ungekamilisha kuunganisha mikoa yote ya Tanzania kwenye gridi ya taifa. Taarifa iliendelea kueleza “Kuunganisha mikoa yote ya Tanzania kwenye Gridi ya Taifa ilikuwa moja ya ahadi kubwa zilizotolewa na Serikali ya Rais Kikwete wakati anaingia maradakani na kwa kuuunganisha mikoa hiyo sita kwenye Gridi hiyo, Serikali hiyo itakuwa imetimimiza ahadi hiyo.”<br /><br />Maelezo haya yametolewa na Ikulu na vyombo vya habari vikayatangaza na wananchi wa Mtwara wakasikia. Kutekeleza mradi wa kufua umeme kutaifanya Mtwara iwe na umeme wa kutosha kushawishi kampuni kuanzisha viwanda hasa ukizingatia ahadi ya Rais Kikwete ya kupanua bandari ya Mtwara. Mwaka wa fedha wa 2011/12 serikali ilitenga na kutumia shilingi 540 milioni fedha za maendeleo za mradi wa Mnazi Bay 300MW Development Project. Baada ya hapo mradi huu haukutengewa fedha tena. Badala ya mradi huu kuendelezwa kama Rais alivyowaahidi wananchi wa Mtwara na Watanzania kwa ujumla badala yake wanasikia serikali imezindua mradi wa kujenga bomba la kusafirisha gesi toka Mtwara kuja Dar es Salaam.<br /><br />Kwa taarifa ya Ikulu gharama za mradi wa kufua umeme wa MW 300 Mtwara na kuiunganisha mikoa sita katika gridi ya taifa gharama yake ni dola milioni 684. Mradi wa kutandaza bomba la gesi unagharimiwa na mkopo wa dola milioni 1220 kutoka Benki ya Export Import Bank ya China. Ni wazi gharama za kufua umeme Mtwara na kuunganisha mikoa sita kwenye gridi ya taifa ni ndogo zaidi kuliko gharama za kutandaza bomba la gesi.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />Msongo wa umeme za kV 400 unajengwa kuunganisha Iringa – Dodoma – Singida na Shinyanga. Mradi huu unatekelezwa na Benki ya Maendeleo ya Afrika. Nyaraka ya mradi unaonyesha gharama za kujenga umeme za kV 400 ni dola za Marekani 600,000 kwa kilomita 1. Gharama za kujenga bomba la gesi lenye kipenyo (upana wa nchi 36) ni dola 1,309,636 kwa kilomita 1. Kwa madhumuni ya kufua umeme, gharama ya kujenga bomba la gesi ni zaidi ya mara mbili ya gharama za kunganisha Mtwara na Dar es Salaam. Isitoshe unaweza kuongeza ufuaji wa umeme Mtwara na kusambaza kwa msongo huo huo. <br /><br />Ujenzi wa bomba la Dar es Salaam Mtwara umeanza bila kuwa na mipango ya kuhakikisha kuwa kutakuwepo na gesi ya kutosha kuisafirisha hadi Dar es Salaam. Bomba hili litakuwa na uwezo wa kusafirisha futi za ujazo bilioni 200. Uwezo wa gesi ya Mnazi Bay na Msimbati kwa hivi sasa ni futi za ujazo bilioni 80. Hakuna mpango unaoeleweka wa kupata futi za ujazo bilioni 120 ili bomba la gesi liweze kutumiwa kikamilifu.<br /><br />Mpaka hivi sasa gesi kiasi cha futi za ujazo trilioni 33.7 imegunduliwa katika bahari yenye kina kirefu. Uchimbaji wa gesi hii bado haujaanza. Inaweza kuchukukua miaka 7 – 10 kabla ya shughuli ya uchimbaji wa gesi kukamilika. Kampuni zilizogundua gesi bahari kuu bado hazijafanya uamuzi wa utaratibu wa kuichimba na kuisafirisha gesi hadi nchi kavu. Kwa kuwa gharama za kujenga bomba la gesi chini ya bahari ni za juu sana, kampuni hizi zitapendelea kutandaza bomba kwenda nchi kavu kwenye eneo lililo fupi kuliko yote. Statoil imegundua gesi nyingi eneo la Zafarani bahari kuu eneo la mkoa wa Lindi. Hivi sasa wanatazama maeneo ya Kilwa kuweza kuweka kituo cha nchi kavu. Bandari ya Lushungu kata ya Limalyao, wilaya ya Kilwa ambayo ina kina kirefu cha bahari yaelekea kuwavutia. Kwa hivi sasa hakuna uhakika gesi iliyogunduliwa bahari kuu itapelekwa Mtwara. Uamuzi wa kujenga bomba kubwa umefanywa haraka haraka bila kutathmini kikamilifu faida zake kiuchumi. Jambo la kujiuliza kwa nini uamuzi huu umechukuliwa na kuacha kutekeleza mradi wa kufua umeme Mtwara wenye mantiki kiuchumi, kijamii na uwajibikaji wa kisiasa?<br /><br />Wentworth Resources wamefanya upembuzi yakinifu (feasibility study) na kubaini kwamba njia nzuri ya kibiashara na kiuchumi ya kutumia gas wanayoweza kuzalisha Mnazi bay hivi sasa ni kuanzisha kiwanda cha kutengeneza mbolea na kemikali nyingine Mtwara. Kiwanda cha mbolea chenye faida kubwa kinaweza kuanzishwa na kuendeshwa hata kama akiba ya gesi iliyogunduliwa siyo kubwa sana kama ilivyo Mnazi Bay. Mradi wa kujenga kiwanda unaweza kukamilishwa kwa muda mfupi. Pamoja na mbolea kiwanda kitazalisha methanol yenye soko kubwa duniani. Kiwanda kitatumia hewa ukaa (carbondioxide) na kwa hiyo kuweza kupata fidia ya kuboresha mazingira. Uongozi wa Wentworth Resources una uzoefu wa miaka mingi katika miradi ya kutumia gesi. Wanajua wanalolieleza. Hata hivyo serikali imewamrisha kupeleka gesi watakayozalisha kwenye bomba la gesi la kwenda Dar es Salaam.<br /><br />Serikali imeanzisha mgogoro wa gesi kwa kuanza kutekeleza mradi mkubwa wa kutandaza bomba la mafuta na kuacha miradi yenye manufaa makubwa kiuchumi na kijamii kwa taifa letu. Uchunguzi huru na wa kina ufanyike kubaini sababu za serikali kuacha miradi ya kutumia gesi Mtwara na kukumbatia mradi wa kutandaza bomba. Ripoti aliyopewa Rais ya mradi wa kufua umeme Mtwara na kuunganisha mikoa 6 katika gridi ya taifa itolewe ili Watanzania waweze kuelewa mantiki ya mradi huu. Mkataba wa mkopo na utekelezaji wa mradi wa kutandaza bomba la gesi uwekwe wazi. Serikali iruhusu kampuni ya Wentworth resources kuendelea na mradi wa kiwanda cha mbolea. Rais aende Mtwara kuwaeleza wananchi kuwa ahadi alizoeleza za kutumia gesi Mtwara zitatekelezwa.<br /><br />Vyama vya siasa na asasi za kiraia viruhusiwe kufanya mikutano ya hadhara kueleza njia za kidemokrasia za kudai haki za kiuchumi za wananchi wa Mtwara. Bunge liunde kamati teule ya kuchunguza kwa nini Mradi wa Kufua umeme MW 300 umesitishwa na serikali, upembuzi yakinifu wa mradi wa bomba la gesi na mikataba yote inayohusiana na mradi huu.<br /><br />Sakata hili la gesi ya Mtwara linaonyesha wazi kuwa hatuna sera muafaka na mkakati wa kuendeleza sekta ya gesi kwa manufaa ya taifa letu na Wananchi wa kawaida. Badala ya gesi kuwa neema inaelekea kuwa itakuwa balaa na laana. Sera ya gesi inapaswa kuweka taratibu zitakazohakikisha kuwepo kwa uwekezaji wa kutosha katika sekta hii na utakaolinufaisha taifa letu bila kuathiri motisha kwa wawekezaji wenye teknolojia ya kutafuta na kuchimba gesi. Wananchi wa Mtwara wanahitaji kushirikishwa. Serikali iwe wazi na kutoa taarifa sahihi kuhusu miradi ya gesi.</span></div> <div class="yiv0387128388MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_4351" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 24px;"><span lang="SW" style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /> <div class="yiv0387128388MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_4342"> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_4350" style="font-size: large;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_4349"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_4348">Prof. Ibrahim Haruna Lipumba,</span></b></span></div> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /> <div class="yiv0387128388MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_4343"> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_4347" style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_4346">Mwenyekiti wa Taifa, Mei 24 2013.</span></span></div> </div>

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AfDB Returns to the Ugandan capital market with its second shilling bond

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3200"> <b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3199"><i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3198"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3197" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The UGX 12.5 billion bond is opened for subscription until the 27th of May</span></i></b><span class="yiv4265778285Style9"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></i></b></div> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3232">  </div> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3233" style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="yiv4265778285Style15" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3306"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3305" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3304" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3290" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.afdb.org/">The African</a> Development Bank (AfDB)  has launched its second Uganda-shilling denominated bond on the domestic capital market. The UGX 12.5 billion bond is opened for subscription until the 27th of May. It is the latest issuance under the UGX 125 billion Medium-Term Note (MTN) Programme originally established in mid-2012. The MTN approach was adopted to allow the Bank to regularly tap into the Ugandan capital market, issuing various tranches, rather than standalone transactions thereby minimizing costs for its clients and reducing the lead time necessary to access the market. </span></span></div> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3303" style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3235" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3234" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The AfDB return to the Uganda market reflects local demand for additional debt instruments and the need for local currency financing to push infrastructure and other development projects. Pierre Van Peteghem, the Bank Group Treasurer, heralds this issuance as just the beginning of his department’s push to avail more local currency to private sector clients. “The Bank has recently approved an additional five African currencies including the Ghanaian Cedi and the Franc CFA for both West and Central African zones as official lending currencies of the Bank. This brings the total number of African currencies in which we can on-lend to clients to ten. This will enable us to better respond to client needs, particularly with respect to mitigating foreign exchange risk posed by hard currency loans. We believe by directly issuing local currency bonds, we also play a key role in developing the local capital market.” </span></span></div> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3236" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3238" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3237" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Arranged by African Alliance and executed as a tap sale on the original UGX bond issued in July 2012, this most recent note will be linked to the new two-year bond that the Government of Uganda intends to launch on May 23, but will re-price every two years at 85% of the weighted average yield to maturity on the latest Ugandan government bond benchmark, noted Olivier Eweck, Manager of African Currency Funding in the Treasury Department of AfDB. Similarly to the first tranche, this issuance will also be launched at sub-government levels. “We expect a high demand from local and international investors, even higher than for last year’s first tranche,” says Eweck. The first re-pricing exercise will take place in August 2014. </span></span></div> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3239" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3310" style="text-align: justify;"> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3309" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The AfDB plans to launch two new MTN local currency programmes in Nigeria and Zambia in the coming months. Since its first African currency loan in 1998, the Bank’s local currency loan portfolio totals the equivalent to over USD 2.4 billion. The Bank is however keen to diversify its local currency portfolio across all African regions beyond the South African rand which now dominates the local currency loan book and is the multilateral lender’s third largest lending currency. As part of the Local Currency Initiative established in 2006, the AfDB has received approvals to issue in the local capital markets of Tanzania, Ghana and Kenya, among other countries and hopes to enter many of these markets in the short to medium-term.</span> </span></div> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3311"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">  </span></div> <div class="yiv4265778285MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3312"> <i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3328"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369503159788_3327" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of the African Development Bank (AfDB).</span></i></div> </div>

AfDB Returns to the Ugandan capital market with its second shilling bond

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Dhamira ya Mapinduzi ni kujitawala wenyewe:Maalim Seif

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Zanzibar Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad, amesema dhamira ya msingi ya ukombozi wa Zanzibar kupitia Mapinduzi ya Januari 12, 1964, ni Zanzibar kuweza kujitawala yenyewe na kuwa na mamlaka kamili. <br /><br />Maalim Seif ameeleza hayo katika ukumbi wa salama hoteli ya Bwawani, wakati akifungua kongamano la pili la kitaifa linalohusu Maridhiano ya Wazanzibari. <br /><br />Amesema dhamira hiyo ya Mapinduzi ilianza kukiukwa baada ya kutiwa saini kwa Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar ambao uliipunguzia Zanzibar mamlaka yake. <br /><br />Amesema wakati Wazanzibari wanapodai kuwa na mamlaka kamili wanatetea haki na maslahi ya nchi yao, na kwamba hakuna sababu ya kubezwa wala kupuuzwa. <br /><br />Amefahamisha kuwa akiwa ni kiongozi wa Zanzibar, atasimamia na kutetea mawazo ya wazanzibari waliowengi katika kupata haki zao za msingi ndani na nje ya Zanzibar. <br /><br />Akifafanua zaidi kuhusu msimamo wake amesema hiyo haina maana kuwa Wazanzibari hawataki Muungano, bali wanataka kuwepo kwa Tanzanyika na Zanzibar zenye mamlaka kamili, halafu kuwepo na muungano wa mkataba, ili kila nchi iweze kuendesha mambo yake kwa uhuru. <br /><br />“Kuwa na mamlaka kamili sio kwa maslahi ya watu wachache bali kwa watu wote, ni kama mvua, yaani inaponyesha mimea yote inanawirika”, alifafanua Maalim Seif na kuongeza, <br /><br />“Tunataka kurejesha heshima ya nchi yetu, tuwe na sera na Wizara yetu ya mambo ya nje, bendera yetu ipepee nchi za kigeni, Umoja wa Mataifa na Jumuiya nyengine za Kimataifa zikiwemo Jumuiya ya Madola, Umoja wa Afrika na Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki”. <br /><br />Amewataka wanakongamano hao kuwaongoza wajumbe wa mabaraza ya katiba katika kutetea maoni na maslahi ya Zanzibar. <br /><br />Akizungumzia kuhusu mafanikio ya maridhiano amesema yamerejesha umoja wa wazanzibari na kuondosha uhasama na chuki miongoni kwa wananchi. <br /><br />Ameipongeza kamati ya maridhiano chini ya Mwenyekiti wake Mzee Hassan Nassor Moyo kwa kazi kubwa wanayoifanya katika kuyaendeleza maridhiano hayo na umoja wa wazanzibari. <br /><br />Nae Mwenyekiti wa Kamati ya Maridhiano ambaye ni mwanasiasa mkongwe wa Zanzibar Mzee Hassan Nassor Moyo amesema maridhiano hayo yaliyoasisiwa na Rais Mstaafu wa Zanzibar dkt. Amani Abeid Karume na Katibu Mkuu wa CUF Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad, yameondoa fitna na chuki zilizodumu kwa muda mrefu miongoni mwa wananchi. <br /><br />Amesema kamati yake inaisubiri kwa hamu kubwa rasimu ya Katiba mpya itakayotolewa, ili waweze kuichambua kuona kama imezingatia maoni ya wananchi na maslahi ya Zanzibar. <br /><br />Akiwasilisha mapendekezo ya kamati hiyo Mzee Moyo amesema kila nchi katika Muungano inapaswa kuwa na uraia wake, sera yake ya mambo ya nje na Muungano uwe na JINA la “Muungano wa Jamhuri za Tanzania” au “United Republics of Tanzania”.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />Na. Hassan Hamad, OMKR </span></div> </div>

Dhamira ya Mapinduzi ni kujitawala wenyewe:Maalim Seif

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Balozi Seif antarajiwa kuzindua kampeni za uchaguzi mdogo wa jimbo la Chambani

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Mjumbe wa Kamati Kuu ya Halmashauri Kuu ya Taifa ya CCM Balozi Seif Ali Iddi kesho anatarajiwa kuzindua rasmi Kampeni za Uchaguzi Mdogo wa Jimbo la Chambani Mkoa wa Kusini Pemba kupitia Chama hicho kwa nafasi ya Kiti cha Ubunge. <br /><br />Uchaguzi huo mdogo wa Jimbo la Chambani umekuja kufuatia aliyekuwa Mbunge wa Jimbo hilo Marehemu Salim Hemed Khamis kufariki dunia kutokana na maradhi ya moyo mnamo Tarehe 26 Machi Mwaka huu. <br /><br />Balozi Seif ambae pia ni Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar atahutubia Wanachama wa CCM, Wapenzi na Wananchi wa Jimbo hilo katika Mkutano wa hadhara utakaofanyikia katika uwanja wa Michezo wa Ukutini Sokoni kwenye Kijiji cha Ukutini. <br /><br />Kampeni hizo za uchaguzi zitakazochukua takriban siku kumi na Tatu zinamalizika tarehe 15 ambapo uchaguzi huo mdogo unatarajiwa kufanyika tarehe 16 Juni Mwaka huu. <br /><br />Vyama Vinne vimethibitisha kusimamisha wagombea wake kwenye Uchaguzi huo ambao ni Ndugu Mattar Sarhan Said wa Chama cha Mapinduzi { CCM }, Ndugu Yussuf Salim Hussein wa Chama cha Wananchi { CUF }, Ndugu Said Miraji wa Chama cha ADC na Bibi Siti Ussi wa Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo { Chadema }. <br /><br />Chama cha Mapinduzi kimemteua Balozi Seif Ali Iddi kuzindua Kampeni hizo wakati ufungaji wa Kampeni hizo kwa chama cha Mapinduzi utafanywa na Rais mstaafu wa Jamuhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania wa Awamu ya Pili Mzee Ali Hassan Mwinyi. <br /><br />Othman Khamis Ame </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></div> </div>

Balozi Seif antarajiwa kuzindua kampeni za uchaguzi mdogo wa jimbo la Chambani

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Addhope Forum 2013: kick-off to a multi-lateral dialogue full of hope

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2158" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.addhopefoundation.org/">Placed</a> under the label of dialogue and philanthropy, the first edition of the Addhope Forum kept its promises by offering a space for exchange and discussions on the keys to successful development partnerships. On this occasion, 145 participants coming from NGOs, the private and public sectors, as well as academia, shared their experiences and best practices on the matter. </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2187" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2186" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">M. Zhang, Chairman, Sinopec-Addax Petroleum Foundation  and CEO, Addax Petroleum Corporation, opened the forum emphasizing his strong conviction that the foundation’s initiatives are deeply rooted in the Corporate Social Responsibility strategy of its Shareholder, the Sinopec Group. </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2189" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2188" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“Philanthropy should not be limited to its financial engagement” commented M. Zhang. “In order to be efficient, philanthropy should go beyond the pecuniary aspect and rather take the approach of sharing competencies. As a famous Chinese proverb goes ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”</span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2190" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2192" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2191" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">”That is why we are all gathered here today. We have gained a lot of experience working with our NGO partners over the years. But there is still room for improvement, and we can get even better at what we do by maintaining the continuous dialogue we have with partners from every sector. ” </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2193" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2195" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2194" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In his opening address H. E.  Haitao Wu, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Chinese Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Chargé d’Affaires a.i., Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for Disarmament Affairs, highlighted the efforts undertaken by China, the largest developing country in the world, to meet the Millennium Development Goals objectives. </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2196" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2198" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2197" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Plenary and interactive sessions took place throughout the morning and offered a forum where participants – organisations and individuals concerned by public good and the issues linked to partnerships between NGOs and the private sector – could openly share insights and experience. </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2199" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2200" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“As often in life, a partnership is not a given” commented Marie-Gabrielle Cajoly, Executive Director of the Sinopec-Addax Petroleum Foundation. “On the contrary, it is a trust relationship, based on mutual engagement, comprehension and dialogue.”</span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2201" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2203" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2202" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“We invited representatives from all horizons, and in particular a large number of NGOs, to join us for today’s forum. Their enthusiastic participation was fantastic and a strong sign of everyone’s interest in both the topics discussed and the approach taken.”</span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2205" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2204" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Indeed, the foundation was keen to give the floor to all actors involved on a wide range of themes such as: the opportunities and risks linked to multisectoral partnerships; how to monitor and measure projects more efficiently; how to best communicate around the work undertaken; and how to identify the changes in the developing landscape occurring today in order the adapt to them in the best possible way. </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Finally, an important focus was given to NGOs, especially in the interactive sessions, where they were invited to present more specific elements of their work.</span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv1600285006MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2208" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2207"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369477755348_2206" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of Addax Petroleum.</span></i></span></div> </div>

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SKYLIGHT BAND KUTUMBUIZA ZIFF

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Bendi iliyokuja kwa kasi na inayoendelea kutamba hapa nchini kwa sasa Skylight Band inatazamiwa kuwa kivutio kikubwa katika tamasha la filamu nchini ZIFF. <br /><br />Bendi hiyo inayoongozwa na mwanadada Aneth Kushaba, AK 47 inajipanga kupiga shoo kali ya karne katika Tamasha hilo la 16 la filamu za kimataifa litakalofanyika ndani ya Ngome Kongwe mjini Zanzibar. <br /><br />Akizungumzia ushiriki wao Aneth Kushaba alisema “Zanzibar patakuwa hapatoshi, tumefurahi kupata fursa ya kutumbuiza ZFF na tunasubiri kwa hamu kubwa kujitangaza kimataifa”. <br /><br />Skylight inayoundwa na wanamuziki kama Sam Machozi, Jonicho Flower na wengine kibao pia kwa sasa inatamba na vibao kama Karolina, Wivu, Nasaka Dough, na wimbo wao mpya Mbeleko<strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_14375"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_14374" style="color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">.</span></strong></span></div> </div>

SKYLIGHT BAND KUTUMBUIZA ZIFF

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Ethiopian airlines yadhamini Tamasha la Filamu la Kimataifa - Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Kampuni ya usafiri wa anga.. Ethiopian airlines imejitokeza kudhamini Tamasha la 16 la filamu Tanzania, ZIFF linalotazamiwa kufanyika Zanzibar, June 29 hadi July 7, 2013. Meneja na Mkurugenzi msaidizi wa Tamasha hilo Daniel Nyalusi maarufu kwa kifupisho cha Dean alisema wanajisikia furaha sana kushirikiana na Kampuni hiyo, na kwamba anatarajia ushirikiano huo utafungua njia kwa makampuni mengine. <br /><br />Aidha Dean alisema Ethiopian Airlines ndio wamekuwa wadhamini rasmi wa usafirishaji wa watengenezaji filamu na wageni wote wa ZIFF kimataifa na kuongeza kuwa Tamasha la ZIFF 2013 linatarajiwa kufana zaidi kutokana na maandalizi yake na udhamini huu mkubwa wa Ethiopian Airline. <br /><br />Pamoja na Ethiopian Airlines kampuni nyingine iliyojitosa kwenye udhamini wa Tamasha hilo ni ZUKU TV, hii itakuwa mara ya pili kampuni hii kushiriki katika kuunga mkono Tamasha hilo, ambalo kwa miaka 16 iliyopita limesherehekea kazi za sanaa nchini na kuwezesha uzalishaji wa filamu hapa Tanzania na duniani kote. Akizungumziaa ushirikiano huo, Meneja wa ZIFF, Daniel Nyalusi alisema “ ZUKU inadhamini dola laki moja kila mwaka kwa miaka 10 kuanzia mwaka jana na itaangalia jinsi ya kupanua udhamini wake kadri muda unavyoendela” Dean alisema “Tunakaribisha wadhamini wengine kushirikiana na ZIFF na matumaini yetu ni kwamba wadhamini wataweza kufaidika kutokana na ushirikiano huu kwani ni nguzo ya masoko ya ubunifu kwa ajili ya wawekezaji na wafanyabiashara ambao wana maono kwa ajili ya ukuaji wa uchumi na ajira katika sekta zote, hasa utalii na burudani. Kwa kazi ya kukuza sekta ya burudani, ZIFF na Makampuni shiriki yatasaidia kujenga ajira kwa watengenezaji wa filamu, wazalishaji na watendaji katika kanda nzima.” Tamasha la ZIFF hupokea wageni zaidi ya 6000 toka nje kila mwaka na zaidi ya watu 45,000 wakati likiendelea Zanzibar.</span></div> </div>

Ethiopian airlines yadhamini Tamasha la Filamu la Kimataifa - Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF)

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Balozi Seif awapongeza Madaktari wa China

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi ameipongeza Timu ya Madaktari Bingwa wa Jamuhuri ya Watu wa China kwa umakini wake wa kutoa huduma za Kiafya katika Hospitali mbali mbali hapa Zanzibar. <br /><br />Pongezi hizo alizitoa wakati wa hafla maalum ya Chakula cha Usiku alichowaandalia Madaktari hao ambao wanatarajia kuondoka Nchini Mwezi ujao baada ya kumaliza muda wao wa kutoa huduma za afya wa miaka miwili hapa Zanzibar. <br /><br />Hafla hiyo fupi iliyohudhuriwa pia na Waziri wa Afya Zanzibar Mh. Juma Duni Haji ilifanyika katika Hoteli ya Zanzibar Beach Resort iliyopo Mazizini nje kidogo ya Mji wa Zanzibar. <br /><br />Balozi Seif alisema Wananchi wa Zanzibar wamekuwa wakifarajika kutokana na huduma nzuri wanazozipokea kutoka kwa madaktari Bingwa wa China wakati wanapofuata huduma za Afya katika Hospitali tofauti kubwa hapa Zanzibar. <br /><br />Alifahamisha kwamba huduma za afya ndani ya Visiwa vya Zanzibar zimekuwa zikipanuka siku hadi siku kutokana na kuimarishwa kwa mbiundo mbinu katika sekta ya Afya kunakotekelezwa kwa pamoja kati ya Wananchi na Serikali. <br /><br />Balozi Seif alieleza kuwa mfumo huo wa miundo mbinu umekuwa ukipata nguvu za ziada za misaada ya vifaa, Utaalamu pamoja na uwezeshaji unaofanywa na mashirika, wahisani na Mataifa rafiki miongoni mwao likiwemo la Jamuhuri ya Watu wa China. <br /><br />“ Tumekuwa tukishuhudia kwa muda mrefu ndugu zetu wa China wanavyotuunga mkono katika masuala mbali mbali ya Maendeleo na Uchumi lakini Sekta ya Afya wameipa umuhimu zaidi Kivifaa na hata uwezeshaji “. Alifafanua Balozi Seif. <br /><br />Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif alifahamisha kwamba Serikali ya Jamuhuri ya Watu China imekuwa ikiipatia Zanzibar Madaktari Mabingwa wa fani tofauti katika mpango maalum iliyouweka Nchi hiyo kusaidia huduma za Afya mara tu baada ya mapinduzi ya Zanzibar ya mwaka 1964. <br /><br />Alisema hatua hiyo imeendelea kujenga nguvu za Kihistoria kwa wananchi na Viongozi wa Pande hizi mbili zinazoimarisha zaidi uhusiano uliopo wa kidugu wa mataifa haya rafiki. <br /><br />Balozi Seif aliwahakikishia Madaktari Mabingwa hao wa Jamuhuri ya Watu wa China kwamba Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar itaendelea kutoa kila msaada kwa Timu za Madaktari wa chi hiyo wanaopangiwa kuja kutoa huduma za afya hapa Zanzibar. <br /><br />Akitoa shukrani kwa niaba ya Timu hiyo ya Madaktari Mabingwa wa China Afisa wa Ubalozi wa Jamuhuri ya Watu wa China hapa Zanzibar Bwana Zhang Zhiqiang alisema juhudi zilizochukuliwa na Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar katika kuwajengea mazingira mazuri madaktari hao zimewawezesha kutekeleza vyema majukumu yao kwa kiwango kikubwa. <br /><br />Bwana Zhang alisema uungwana huo utabakia kuwa chachu ya upendo kati ya Madaktari hao na Zanzibar itakayoendelea kudumu ndani ya nyoyo zao katika uhai wote wa maisha yao. <br /><br />Timu hiyo ya Madaktari Mabingwa 12 kutoka Jamuhuri ya Watu wa China ikiongozwa na Dr. Lu Jian Lian inatarajiwa kuondoka Nchini Tarehe 18 mwezi ujao wa Juni kurejea nyumbani mara baada ya kuwasili Timu nyengine mpya katika ule mpango maalum wa Wataalamu wa afya wa China kuja kutoka huduma za afya Zanzibar. <br /><br />Wakati huo huo Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif alikutana kwa mazungumnzo na Balozi wa Norway Nchini Tanzania Bibi Ingunn Klepsvik hapo ofisini kwake Vuga Mjini Zanzibar. <br /><br />Katika mazungumzo yao Balozi Seif aliiomba Norway kuangalia uwezekano wa kuisadia Zanzibar kitaaluma katika sekta ya Uvuvi wa Bahari Kuu kwa vile Nchi hiyo imepiga hatua kubwa katika eneo hilo. <br /><br />Alisema Zanzibar imezunguukwa na bahari pembe zote rasilmali ambayo ikitumika vyema inaweza kusaidia kutoka ajira katika kiwango kikubwa zaidi na kusaidia pia uchumi wa Taifa sambamba na kupunguza umaskini. <br /><br />Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar alimueleza Balozi huyo wa Norway Nchini Tanzania kwamba Serikali ya mapinduzi ya Zanzibar katika azma yake ya kuimarisha uchumi sekta ya Uvuvi imepewa msukumo na kinachoangaliwa zaidi wakati huu ni kuwashawishi washirika wa Maendeleo na Nchi hisani kuunga mkono sekta hiyo. <br /><br />Aliipongeza Norway kwa juhudi zake za kuendelea kuunga mkono harakati za maendeleo za Zanzibar kupitia Shirika lake la Maendeleo la Norad ambapo Zanzibar tayari inaendelea kufaidika na sekta za nishati na mawasiliano ya bara bara kutokana na mchango wa Taifa hilo Hisani. <br /><br />Naye kwa upande wa Balozi wa Norway Nchini Tanzania Bibi Ingunn Klepsvik alimuhakikishia Balozi Seif kwamba Nchi yake itahakikisha kwamba sekta zilizopata msaada wa Nchini hiyo zitaendelea kuungwa mkono zaidi. <br /><br />Balozi Ingunn alizitaja baadhi ya sekta zilizoungwa mkono na Serikali yake hapa Zanzibar kuwa ni pamoja na Sekta ya mawasiliano ya Bara Bara Kisiwani pemba pamoja na Sekta ya Nishati Vijijini. <br /><br />Othman Khamis Ame <br />Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></div> </div>

Balozi Seif awapongeza Madaktari wa China

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AfDB Approves a USD 100 million Risk Participation Agreement with Commerzbank AG to Boost Trade Finance in Africa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QbvCi2Ft-Jw/UZ833YoECiI/AAAAAAAAC1c/m5kdxVrJEXU/s1600/african-development-bank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="352" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QbvCi2Ft-Jw/UZ833YoECiI/AAAAAAAAC1c/m5kdxVrJEXU/s640/african-development-bank.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="yiv7132181684MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9972"> <b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9971"><i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9970"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9969" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This facility will help address critical market demand for trade finance in Africa</span></i></b><span class="yiv7132181684Style9"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></i></b></div> <div class="yiv7132181684MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9982">  </div> <div class="yiv7132181684MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9974" style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://www.afdb.org/"><span class="yiv7132181684Style15" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9981"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9980" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9979" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9973" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.afdb.org/">The Board of Directors</a> of the African Development Bank (AfDB)  approved on Tuesday, May 22, a USD 100 million unfunded Risk Participation Agreement (RPA) between the AfDB and Commerzbank AG under which the two banks will share the default risk on a portfolio of qualifying trade transactions originated by issuing banks in Africa and confirmed by Commerzbank AG. This facility will help address critical market demand for trade finance in Africa by providing support for trade in vital economic sectors such as agribusiness and manufacturing. It will foster financial sector development, regional integration, and increase government revenue generation ultimately improving Africa’s sustainable economic growth.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="yiv7132181684MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The majority of African banks have small capital bases which constrain their ability to obtain adequate trade limits from international confirming banks and to undertake sizeable transactions that have significant development impact. Moreover, despite the growth in trade risk distribution globally, local banks in Africa have not significantly benefitted from this growth. AfDB’s additionality lies in the use of its “AAA” rating to share trade risk and expand the trade finance capacity of banks in Africa, thereby expanding trade and strengthening regional integration. </span></span></div> <div class="yiv7132181684MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv7132181684MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This RPA facility, running over a 3-year period, is 50/50 risk sharing arrangement that will enable Commerzbank AG to match AfDB’s undertaking in every transaction, thereby creating a maximum portfolio of up to USD 200 million. The facility will also result in the provision of significant support to African banks and SMEs. Counting roll-overs, it is expected to facilitate about USD 1.2 billion of trade in equipment, raw materials, intermediate and finished goods over the 3-year period.</span></span></div> <div class="yiv7132181684MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div> <div class="yiv7132181684MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Moreover, the proposed facility aligns with AfDB’s Regional Member Countries’ priorities to promote trade as was reaffirmed by the African Union at its 18th Ordinary Session in January 2012. It is also in line with the Bank’s Ten-year Strategy and Regional Integration Strategies which seek to consolidate its engagement in trade finance in Africa.</span></span></div> <div class="yiv7132181684MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_10000"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">  </span></div> <i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9998"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369387830692_9997" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of the African Development Bank (AfDB)</span></i></div>

AfDB Approves a USD 100 million Risk Participation Agreement with Commerzbank AG to Boost Trade Finance in Africa

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Kidevu amwagiwa Tindikali

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Sheha wa Shehia ya Tomondo Wilaya ya Magharibi Bwana Mohd Omar Said { Maarufu Kidevu } anaendelea kupatiwa huduma za matibabu katika Hospitali Kuu ya Mnazi Mmoja baada ya kumwagiwa Tindi kali { Acid } na mtu asiyejuilikana. <br /><br />Mkasa huo umempata jana usiku mara baada ya kurejea ibada ya sala ya Isha wakati akiendelea na harakati za kutafuta huduma za maji na kumwagiwa tindi kali hiyo iliyoathiri eneo la kifua chek, Bega pamoja na sehemu za jicho la kulia. <br /><br />Hili ni tukio la tatu kutokea ndani ya mkoa wa mjini Magharibi likiwahusisha aliyewahi kuwa Mkurugenzi wa Baraza la Manispaa Ndugu Rashid Ali Juma pamoja na Katibu wa Fufti Mkuu wa Zanzibar Sheikh Fadhil Suleiman Soraga. <br /><br />Sheha huyo wa Tomondo Bwana Mohd Omar Kidevu akizungumza na Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi aliyefika Hospitali hapo kumfariji pamoja na kumpa pole alisema alijikuta akimwagiwa tindi kali majira ya saa 2.00 za usiku na mtu asiyemfahamu. <br /><br />Bwana Mohd Kidevu alisema Mtu huyo alianza kutimua mbio baada ya kufanikiwa kufanya dhambi hiyo kitendo ambacho akalazimika kuomba msaada kwa wasamaria wema lakini hatimae ilishindikana kutokana na kuzidiwa kwa maumivu makali yenye kuchoma kama moto. <br /><br />Sheha huyo wa Shehia ya Tomondo aliendelea kumfahamisha Balozi Seif kwamba hali yake hivi sasa inaendelea vyema na ameshaanza kupata matumaini kufuatia jicho lake kuanza kuona ingawa bado anakabiliwa na maumivu katika sehemu yake ya usoni. <br /><br />Naye Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif alimuomba Sheha huyo wa Tomondo kuwa na moyo wa subra wakati wa kipindi hichi kigumu cha huduma za matibabu. <br /><br />Balozi Seif alimuhakikishia Bwana Mohd Kidevu kwamba Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar itaendelea kufuatilia ushauri utakaotolewa na Madaktari kuhusu tiba ya afya yake na kutoa msaada wowote utakaohitajika ili kuendeleza nguvu za huduma ya tiba yake. <br /><br />“ Tutafuatilia ushauri watakaotupa Madaktari kuhusu afya yao. Na kama kuna wazo la kukusafirisha iwe Hospitali ya Rufaa Muhimbili au Nje ya Nchi basi sisi kama Serikali tuko tayari kulitekeleza hilo “. Balozi Seif alimuhakikishia Sheha Mohd Kidevu. <br /><br />Akizungumza na vyombo vya Habari nje ya Wodi ya Mapinduzi Kongwe katika Hospitali Kuu ya Mmnazi Mmoja Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi alisema Serikali Kuu imesikitishwa na vitendo hivi viovu vinavyoleta athari kwa Binaadamu. <br /><br />Balozi Seif alisema tabia hii mbaya inayoonekana kuanza kuchipua hapa Nchini ikibeba ufinyu wa imani inaanza kuleta hofu miongoni mwa wananchi katika kuendelea na harakati zao za kimaisha za kila siku. <br /><br />Alisema Serikali kupitia vyombo vyake vya ulinzi itaendelea na uchunguzi wa kufuatilia matukio hayo na haitasita kuwachukulia hatua za kisheria kwa kuwafikisha katika mkondo wa sheria. <br /><br />Othman Khamis Ame <br />Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></div> </div>

Kidevu amwagiwa Tindikali

Sheha wa Shehia ya Tomondo Wilaya ya Magharibi Bwana Mohd Omar Said { Maarufu Kidevu } anaendelea kupatiwa huduma za matibabu katik...

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Wakauliwa watakiwa kuwa makini kwenye kilimo ili wapate mazao bora

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Zanzibar Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad amewataka wakulima kisiwani Pemba kuyatumia mafunzo wanayopewa katika kujiongezea ufanisi wa shughuli zao. <br /><br />Akizungumza wakati akitoa majumuisho ya ziara yake ya siku mbili katika Wizara ya Kilimo na Maliasili kwenye ukumbi wa kituo cha mazunzo ya Amali Fidel Castro, Maalim Seif amesema mafunzo hayo yanayotolewa kwa wakulima pamoja na utafiti shirikishi ni miongoni mwa juhudi za serikali katika kuwakomboa wakulima. <br /><br />Amesema iwapo mafunzo hayo yatatumika vizuri, yatawasaidia wakulima kuweza kulima kilimo cha kisasa, kutumia mbegu bora na pembejeo kama inavyotakiwa. <br /><br />Amepongeza juhudi za Wizara ya kilimo katika kuwashirikisha wakulima na wafugaji katika utafiti wa mazao mbali mbali, hatua ambayo inakuza uelewa kwa wakulima na kuweza kuongeza kipato chao. <br /><br />Hata hivyo amesema Wizara ya Kilimo bado inakabiliwa na upungufu mkubwa wa wafanyakazi hasa mabwana na mabibi shamba, hali inayopelekea mtendaji mmoja kuhudumia hadi shehia tatu. <br /><br />Katika majumuisho hayo Maalim Seif ameigiza Wizara hiyo kufanya utafiti wa pembejeo na mahitaji ya wakulima kwa kila shehia ili kuwawezesha wakulima kupata mahitaji kamili, sambamba na kusambaza matokeo ya tafiti za kilimo kwa wakulima wote. <br /><br />Kwa upande mwengine Maalim Seif ameitaka Wizara ya kilimo kufikiria namna ya kuirejesha miti ya asili ikiwemo mifuu na mizambarau, ili kuirejeshea Zanzibar hadhi yake ya kuwa nchi ya kijani. <br /><br />Kuhusu misumeno ya moto, amewataka wananchi kushirikiana kuifichua misumeno hiyo ambayo ni adui wa mazingira na binadamu. <br /><br />Akiwa katika ziara ya kutembelea shughuli za kilimo Mkoa wa Kusini Pemba, wakulima waliomba kupatiwa mikopo ili waweze kuendeleza shughuli zao kwa uhakika. <br /><br />Katika Mkoa wa Kusini Pemba ambako pia aliambatana na Naibu Waziri wa Wizara ya Kilimo, Mtumwa Kheri Mbarak na Katibu Mkuu Affan Othman Maalim, alitembelea maendeleo ya shmaba darasa la wakulima wa migomba Kuukuu Kangani, vitalu vya mikarafuu Mjimbini na Chanjaani pamoja na uzalishaji wa mbegu za muhogo Mfikiwa Chake chake. <br /><br /><br /><br />Hassan Hamad, OMKR</span></div> </div>

Wakauliwa watakiwa kuwa makini kwenye kilimo ili wapate mazao bora

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Kamati ya maadili yasikitishwa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Kamati ya kusimamia Ofisi za Viongozi Wakuu wa Kitaifa imeelezea kusikitishwa kwake na tabia ya baadhi ya watendaji wa Serikali kuendelea kudharau Maagizo yanayokuwa yakitolewa na Viongozi Wakuu wa Serikali katika Taasisi na maeneo tofauti Nchini. <br /><br />Wajumbe wa Kamati hiyo waliokuwa chini ya Makamu Mwenyekiti wake Mh. Saleh Nassor Juma Mwakilishi wa Jimbo la Wawi walieleza hayo wakati wakizungumza na Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi mara baada ya kukutana na Uongozi wa Wizara ya Nchi Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar kupokea Taarifa ya utendaji ya Ofisi hiyo. <br /><br />Walisema wamekuwa wakishuhudia uzorotaji mkubwa wa kusimamia maagizo hayo hasa katika masuala ya migogoro ya ardhi jambo ambalo huendelea kuleta malalamiko kwa wananchi wanaokumbwa na matatizo ya migogoro hiyo. <br /><br />Walieleza kwamba baadhi ya watendaji hao wa Serikali wamekuwa wakionyesha chuki za wazi dhidi ya Waheshimiwa wakati wanapofuatilia au kulalamikia utendaji mbovu. <br /><br />Walifahamisha kwamba wao sio polisi bali wanachokifanya ni kutekeleza majukumu waliyopangiwa ndani ya Kamati zao ambazo zimeteuliwa kwa mujibu wa taratibu na Kanuni za Baraza la Wawakilishi lililoundwa kwa mujibu wa Katiba ya Zanzibar kusimamia utekelezaji wa shughuli za Serikali. <br /><br />Wajumbe hao wameipongeza Wizara ya Nchi Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar kwa utekelezaji mzuri wa majukumu yake ambayo yameleta faraja kwa Kamati hiyo na kusisitiza kuendelezwa kwa ushirikiano wa sehemu zote mbili ili lile lengo la kuwahudumia Wananchi lifanikiwe vyema. <br /><br />Akitoa shukrani zake Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi akiwa ndiye Mtendaji Mkuu wa Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar aliwakumbusha Wajumbe wa Kamati hiyo kuwa wakali wanapotekeleza wajibu wao wa kila siku. <br /><br />Balozi Seif alisema Kamati za Baraza la Wawakilishi zimeundwa kwa lengo la kufuatilia mwenendo wa shughuli za Serikali katika Taasisi zake ili zishauri, zikosoe na hata kuelekeza njia ya kuleta ufanisi utakaostawisha na kunufaisha Jamii Nchini. <br /><br />“ Hili suala la kufuatilia maagizo yanayotolewa na Viongozi wakuu wa Serikali limo ndani ya mamlaka yenu na kamwe hakutakuwa na kiongozi mwengine atakayekuwa na mamlaka ya kujipangia utekelezaji huu “. Alisisitiza Balozi Seif. <br /><br />Baadae Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif alifanya ziara fupi ya kukagua matengenezo ya majengo ya Kiwanda cha Idara ya Mpiga chapa Mkuu wa Serikali kinachotarajiwa kuhamia hapo Maruhubi Nje kidogo ya Mji Zanzibar. <br /><br />Uamuzi wa Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar wa kukihamisha Kiwanda hicho hapo Mtaa wa Mkele na kuhamia Maruhubi umekuja kufuatia kiwanda hicho baadhi ya wakati kufungwa kutokana na mashine zake kuharibika kwa sababu ya mafuriko ya maji wakati wa msimu wa mvua za masika. <br /><br />Naibu Mkurugenzi wa Idara ya Mpiga Chapa Mkuu wa Serikali Ndugu Mohd Mzee alimueleza Balozi Seif kwamba matengenezo ya majengo hayo chini ya Kampuni ya Kimataifa ya CRJ ya Nchini China yalipangwa kukamilika mwezi huu lakini yatachelewa kidogo kutokana na ufinyu wa bajeti yake. <br /><br />Hata hivyo Ndugu Mzee alifahamisha kwamba Kampuni ya CRJ imethibitisha kwamba upatikanaji wa fedha za kukamilishia matengenezo yaliyobaki zikipatikana kwa wakati harakati hizo zinaweza kuchukuwa muda miezi miwili au mitatu kuanzia sasa. <br /><br />Naye Waziri wa Nchi Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Mh. Mohammed Aboud Mohammed alisema matengenezo ya majengo hayo ya Kiwanda cha Idara ya Mpiga Chapa Mkuu wa Serikali yanatarajiwa kugharimu jumla ya Shilingi Bilioni mbili kutoka Mfuko Mkuu wa Serikali. <br /><br />Wakati huo huo Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif alikutana na Uongozi wa Kampuni ya Mafuta Tanzania { State Oil Tanzania } ukiongozwa na Bwana Bjorn Rasmussen hapo Ofisini kwake Vuga Mjini Zanzibar. <br /><br />Katika mazungumzo yao Uongozi huo wa mafuta ambao umekuwa ukiendesha mafunzo mbali mbali ya uhifadhi wa mazingira kwa kushirikisha wadau wa mafuta na wana taaluma wa vyuo vikuu Nchini umekuwa ukisisitiza umuhimu wa suala hilo. <br /><br />Mwakilishi huyo wa Kampuni ya Mafuta Tanzania Bwana Bjorn alifahamisha kwamba harakati za miradi ya mafuta na gesi hufanikiwa vyema na kuleta faida kubwa pale wahusika na wadau wakuu wa sekta hiyo wanapozingatia vyema msingi mkuu wa mazingira. <br /><br />Naye Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar aliitahadharisha jamii nchini kufahamu kwamba rasilmali yoyote inayopatikana popote pale huwa ni ya taifa na wala si ya wakaazi wa eneo husika pekee. <br /><br />Balozi Seif alieleza kwamba upo ufinyu wa mawazo kwa baadhi ya wananchi kuhisi kuwa rasilmali inayopatikana katika maeneo yao haiwahusu wananchi wengine jambo ambalo ni kosa. <br /><br />Othman Khamis Ame. </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></div> </div>

Kamati ya maadili yasikitishwa

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message on the International Day for Biological Diversity 22 May 2013

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">As the international community strives to accelerate its efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a post-2015 agenda, including a set of goals for sustainable development, water and biodiversity are important streams in the discussion. <br /><br />Although seemingly abundant, only a tiny amount of the water on our planet is easily available as freshwater. We live in an increasingly water insecure world where demand often outstrips supply and where water quality often fails to meet minimum standards. Under current trends, future demands for water will not be met. <br /><br />Biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides are central to achieving the vision of a water secure world. Ecosystems influence the local, regional and global availability and quality of water. Forests help regulate soil erosion and protect water quality and supply. Wetlands can reduce flood risks. Soil biodiversity helps maintain water for crops. Integrating nature-based solutions into urban planning can also help us build better water futures for cities, where water stresses may be especially acute given the rapid pace of urbanization. <br /><br />Recognizing the importance of biodiversity, the United Nations General Assembly has encouraged the use of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Targets in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda. Last year’s Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development also recognized the role of ecosystems in maintaining water quantity and quality. Where once the focus was on trade-offs between water use and biodiversity, today we are coming to understand how biodiversity and water security are mutually reinforcing. <br /><br />This shift from conflict to synergy is particularly welcome in this, the International Year of Water Cooperation. <br /><br />On the International Day for Biological Diversity, I also call on all Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity who have not already done so, to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization, and therefore help us all to work toward the future we want.</span></div> </div>

message on the International Day for Biological Diversity 22 May 2013

As the international community strives to accelerate its efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a post-2015 agenda...

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Maalim Seif anataka kuimarisha msako wa misumeno

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Zanzibar Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad, amewataka wananchi kushirikiana kuisaka misumeno ya moto popote ilipo ili iweze kutokomezwa kabisa katika visiwa vya Unguja na Pemba. <br /><br />Ameeleza hayo katika kampeni maalum ya kutokomeza misumeno ya moto ambapo misumeno 23 imechomwa moto mbele ya kiongozi huyo, baada ya kukamatwa na maofisa wa Idara ya misitu. <br /><br />Amesema kila mtu ana wajibu wa kushirikiana na jamii katika kufichua misumeno iliyobakia, ili kuhakikisha kuwa haitumiki tena na kusababisha athari za kimazingira. <br /><br />“Kila mtu ana wajibu wa kuwafichua watumiaji wa misumeno hii, lakini mashena na polisi jamii muna jukumu kubwa zaidi, na nina hakika mukiamua munaweza kuwabaini wote wenye misumeno ya moto”, alisema Maalim Seif. <br /><br />Amesema iwapo misumeno hiyo haitodhibitiwa inaweza kuiathiri nchi kwa kiasi kikubwa kutokana na uwezo wake wa kukata miti kwa muda mfupi. <br /><br />Uchomaji huo wa misumeno ya moto 23 umefanyika katika ofisi za Idara ya misitu iliyoko Kizimbani Kisiwani Pemba. <br /><br />Kwa upande wake Katibu Mkuu Wizara ya kilimo na maliasili Affan Othman Maalim amesema misumeno ya moto ipatayo 270 bado inakisiwa kuwepo Zanzibar, na kwamba kampeni hiyo itasaidia kuitokomeza. <br /><br />Kwa mujibu wa Affan, kisiwa cha Pemba kinaongoza kwa kuwa na misumeno mingi ya aina hiyo ipatayo 150, huku Unguja kukiwa na misumeno zaidi ya 120. <br /><br />Amefahamisha kuwa takriban ekari 1000 za miti hupotea kila mwaka visiwani Zanzibar kutokana na kukatwa ovyo na kuongezeka kwa kasi hiyo kutokana na matumizi ya misumeno ya moto. <br /><br />Naibu Waziri wa Kilimo na Maliasili Mtumwa Kheir Mbarak, amesema misumeno hiyo ambayo ni adui wa muda mrefu wa mazingira, inaweza kuiweza kuifanya nchi kuwa jangwa kwa muda mfupi na ni hatari pia kwa afya ya binadamu. <br /><br />Maalim Seif yuko kisiwani Pemba kwa ziara ya kikazi ya siku mbili ambako anatembelea shughuli za kilimo kwa lengo la kuwahamasisha wakulima kuendeleza kilimo chenye tija kwa kutumia utaalamu wa kisasa na mbegu bora. <br /><br />Katika Mkoa wa Kaskazini Pemba ambako alianza ziara yake alitembelea shamba la utafiti wa uzalishaji wa mpunga wa mbegu ya nerika liloko Gombeume mchangamdogo, skuli ya wakulima iliyoko Kiongweni Kambini, shamba la viazi vitamu Makangale na skuli ya wakulima juu ya nishati mbadala iliyoko Kinyasini. <br /><br /><br /><br />Hassan Hamad, OMKR. </span></div> </div>

Maalim Seif anataka kuimarisha msako wa misumeno

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Vyombo vya ulinzi vyatakiwa kuimarisha ulinzi

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Zanzibar Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad, amevitaka vyombo vya ulinzi nchini kusimamia vyema majukumu yake ili kuhakikisha kuwa bahari na mipaka ya nchi inakuwa salama. <br /><br />Amesema Zanzibar ikiwa nchi ya visiwa, inakabiliwa na changamoto moto nyingi za kiulinzi na usalama kuhakikisha kuwa magaidi hawaingii nchini, sambamba na kukabiliana na vitendo vya uharamia na usafirishaji wa dawa za kulevya. <br /><br />Maalim Seif ameeleza hayo ofisini kwake Migombani alipokuwa na mazungumzo na Mkuu wa Brigedi ya Nyuki Zanzibar, Brigedia Jenerali S S Othman. <br /><br />Amesema katika siku za hivi karibuni kumekuwa ni tishio la vitendo vya kigaidi katika Pembe ya Afrika, jambo ambalo linapaswa kuzingatiwa ili vitendo hivyo visije kuiathiri Zanzibar. <br /><br />“Suala la ulinzi halina mbadala, kitu cha msingi ni kwa vyombo vya ulinzi na dola kushirikiana kuhakikisha kuwa nchi iko salama kwa maslahi ya wananchi na taifa kwa ujumla”, alisisitiza Maalim Seif. <br /><br />Kuhusu vitendo vya uharamia vinavyofanywa katika bahari ya hindi, Maalim Seif amesema vinaathiri shughuli za kibiashara na uchumi na vinastahiki kupigwa vita kwa nguvu zote. <br /><br />Kwa upande wake, Mkuu wa Brigedi ya Nyuki Zanzibar, Brigedia Jenerali S S Othman, amesema suala la ulinzi ndio jukumu la msingi kwa vyombo vya ulinzi, na kuahidi kushirikiana na vyombo vya dola na wananchi katika kutekeleza jukumu hilo kwa ufanisi zaidi. <br /><br />Jererali Othman ambae pia ni Mwenyekiti wa kamati ya Ulinzi na usalama Zanzibar, amesifu mashirikiano anayoyapata kutoka kwa viongozi wa nchi na watendaji wengine katika kufanikisha jukumu hilo la kiulinzi. <br /><br /> Jererali Othman pia amekutana na Waziri wa Nchi, Ofisi ya Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais, Fatma Abdulhabib Fereji na kubadilishana mawazo juu ya majumu ya ofisi hiyo. <br /><br />Waziri Fereji amesema katika kukabiliana na majukumu ya ofisi hiyo, wanahitaji mashirikiano ya karibu na vyombo vya ulinzi katika kukabiliana na na vitendo viovu vikiwemo udhalilishaji wa watu wenye ulemavu, uchafuzi wa mazingira na matumizi ya dawa za kulevya. <br /><br />Amevishauri vyombo vya ulinzi kujiimarisha zaidi ili kuweza kukabiliana na makundi ya kihalifu yakiwemo yale yanayojihusisha na uchimbaji wa mchanga kinyume na utaratibu. <br /><br />“Ukweli ni aibu kusema kuwa jeshi la polisi linashindwa kuwakamata wachimbaji wa mchanga kwa sababu wana pamanga na marungu au mawe, wakija wakiamua kuingia barabarani je mutawafanyaje?”, alihoji Waziri Fereji. <br /><br />Kuhusu UKIMWI, Waziri Fereji amesema licha ya kuwa kiwango cha maambukizi bado ni chini ya asilimia moja, lakini athari kubwa inajitokeza kwa makundi hatarishi likiwemo lile linalojihusisha na biashara haramu ya ukahaba. <br /><br /><br /><br />Hassan Hamad, OMKR. <br /></span></div> </div>

Vyombo vya ulinzi vyatakiwa kuimarisha ulinzi

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Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi akizungumza na Kiongozi wa Timu ya Viongozi Waandamizi wa Sudan na Sudan ya Kusini Bwana Lazaro Sumbeiywo aliyefika Ofisini kwake kumpa muhtasari wa Ripoti ya Azimio lao baada ya kukamilisha Mkutano wao hapo Sea Cliff KAMA

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Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi akizungumza na Kiongozi wa Timu ya Viongozi Waandamizi wa Sudan na Sudan ya Kusini Bwana Lazaro Sumbeiywo aliyefika Ofisini kwake kumpa muhtasari wa Ripoti ya Azimio lao baada ya kukamilisha Mkutano wao hapo Sea Cliff KAMA

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Mwenyekiti wa CCM Taif asema siri kubwa ya wabunge kubakia majimboni mwao ni kuwa karibu na wapiga kura wao

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Mwenyekiti wa Chama cha Mapinduzi Taifa ambae pia ni Rais wa Jamuhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete amesema siri kubwa kwa Wabunge kuendelea kuungwa mkono Majimboni ni kuwa karibu na Wananchi pamoja na kutekeleza ipasavyo Ilani na ahadi walizozitoa wakati wa kampeni za uchaguzi.<br /><br />Dr. Kikwete amesema hayo wakati akiifungua Semina ya Wabunge wa Bunge la Jamuhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania kupitia Chama Tawala cha Mapinduzi iliyofanyika katika Ukumbi wa Makao Makuu ya Chama hicho { White House } uliopo Mkoani Dodoma. <br /><br />Alisema yapo matatizo kadhaa yanayowasumbua wananchi katika maeneo yao ambayo baadhi yake yaliahidiwa na baadhi ya Wabunge wakati wakiomba ridhaa ya kuwaongoza lakini matokeo yake huleta balaa ndani ya chama kwa kukosa kutekelezwa na wabunge hao. <br /><br />Dr. Kikwete alifahamisha kwamba wabunge hao wakiamua kutekeleza vyema ilani na ahadi hizo wanajengea uwezo zaidi wa kuendelea kuungwa mkono na wananchi wao kitendo ambacho hata idadi ya watu wanaoamua au kutaka kuomba nafasi hiyo wakati wa uchaguzi inakuwa ndogo. <br /><br />“ Hakuna kitu kinachomuangusha vibaya Mbunge katika wadhifa wake isipokuwa ile tabia ya kutowatembelea Wananchi wa jimbo lake hali inayosababisha wananchi hao kuwa na maswali mengi ya kumuuliza hasa ule wakati anapokwenda tena kuomba kura “. Alisisitiza Dr. Kikwete. <br /><br />“ Kama Ilani ya Uchaguzi ya Chama cha Mapinduzi haijatekelezwa vyema Majimboni inaweza kuleta balaa katika maeneo hayo hata ndani ya Chama chenyewe. Hivyo tunapaswa kuwa na hadhari na suala hilo “ Alieleza Dr. Kikwete. <br /><br />Aliwataka Wabunge hao kuhakikisha wanaziorodhesha ahadi zote zilizotolewa na Wagombea Urais, Ubunge, Uwakilishi na hata Udiwani wakati wa kampeni ndani ya Majimbo yao ili kujenga mikakati ya pamoja na kuzikamilisha ahadi hizo. <br /><br />“ Tuko kati kati ya safari yetu tuliyoianza Oktoba Mwaka 2010 hadi mwaka 2015 tukiwa na lengo moja tuu la kukijengea mazingira ya ushindi wa chaguzi zote Chama cha Mapinduzi “. Dr. Kikwete aliwakumbusha Wabunge hao. <br /><br />Mwenyekiti huyo wa CCM Taifa alisisitiza kwamba masuala mapya yanayowakereketa wananachi ndani ya majimbo yao pia yanapaswa kuainishwa na hatimae kuangalia mbinu za kuyatekeleza kadri hali itakavyoruhusu. <br /><br />Dr. Kikwete aliwataka Wabunge hao wa CCM kuendelea kuwashawishi wananachi katika majimbo yao kuwaunga mkono ili kupata nguvu za kutekeleza vyema majukumu yao. <br /><br />Aliiwaasa baadhi ya Wabunge wenye tabia ya kuwazuia wanachama wengine wasigombee nafasi hiyo kuacha mfumo huo ambao unawanyima haki wanachama hao pamoja na wananachi kumchagua Yule wanayeridhika naye. <br /><br />“ Hakuna namna ya kuwazuia watu wasigombee uongozi wala wanachama kuchaguwa Viongozi wawapendao tena kwa uhuru na uwazi “. Alifafanua Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete. <br /><br />Mwenyekiti huyo wa Taifa wa CCM aliwapongeza Wabunge hao wa Chama cha Mapinduzi kwa kutekeleza vyema wajibu wao ndani ya Vikao vya Bunge licha ya baadhi ya Wabunge wa upande mwengine kufanya vioja vinavyoleta maswali mengi miongoni mwa wananchi. <br /><br />Aliwataka wabunge hao kuendelea kuikosoa Serikali katika utaratibu na mazingira bora ya kujenga kwa lengo la kuwapa matumaini wananachi waliowachagua. <br /><br />Mapema akitoa Taarifa fupi ya Kamati ya Wabunge hao wa CCM Katibu wa Kamati hiyo Mh. Jenister Muhagama alisema utendaji wa kazi za Wabunge wa CCM ndani ya Vikao vya bunge imekuwa mfano kwa Viongozi wengine wa Kisiasa hapa Nchini. <br /><br />Mh. Jenister alisema nidhamu ya Wabunge wa CCM ndani ya Bunge itaendelea kuimarika siku hadi siku licha ya baadhi ya wenzao hivi sasa kuihamishia siasa kutoka majimboni hadi ndani ya Vikao hivyo. <br /><br />Mh. Jenister Muhagama kwa niaba ya Wabunge wenzao wamelaani vitendo vinavyoashiria sura ya ugaidi ambavyo vinaonekana kuinyemelea amani iliyopo Nchini ambayo inaweza kutoweka mara moja iwapo hakutakuwa na juhudi za pamoja za kudhibiti matendo hayo. <br /><br />Katibu huyo wa Kamati ya Wabunge wa Chama cha Mapinduzi Mh. Muhagama aliiomba Serikali kuu kujizatiti katika kukabiliana na vitendo hivyo kwa kuwadhibiti wahusika wa matendo hayo sambamba na kuwachukulia hatua kali za kisheria. <br /><br />Othman Khamis Ame </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar<br /></span></div> </div>

Mwenyekiti wa CCM Taif asema siri kubwa ya wabunge kubakia majimboni mwao ni kuwa karibu na wapiga kura wao

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Wanawake watakiwa kuwa wastahamilivu

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Wanawake nchini wamehimizwa kuvuliana na kuaminiana katika kuendeleza shughuli zao za ushirika. <br /><br />Wito huo umetolewa na Mke wa Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Zanzibar Mama Awena Sinani Massoud kwa nyakati tofauti, wakati akiangalia mandeleo ya vikundi vya akinamama katika Mkoa wa Kaskazini Pemba. </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Amesema hali ya kuvuliana na kuaminiana ni nyenzo muhimu ya kuendeleza vikundi vya ushirika, na kuwataka waliopewa dhamana ya kuongoza katika vikundi hivyo kuwa waadilifu. <br /><br />Pia Mama Awena amekemea tabia ya ubaguzi katika kuendeleza vikundi hivyo, na kuwasisitiza kuwa kitu kimoja na kushirikiana bila ya kujali itaikadi za vyama, dini au eneo. <br /><br />Ameelezea kufurahishwa kwake na hatua zilizochukuliwa na akinamama hao katika kujikwamua kiuchumi, na kuwashajiisha kuongeza juhudi katika kujiletea maendeleo. <br /><br />Katika ziara hiyo Mama Awena ametembelea vikundi vya maendeleo ya wanawake kikiwemo kikundi cha Fahari kinachojishughulisha na kazi za mikono na utengenezaji wa sabuni, na kikundi cha “Gando Livestock and Snacks Producers” kinachojishuhulisha na mapishi ya vyakula. <br /><br />Amewahimiza akinamama hao kuzihifadhi vizuri bidhaa wanazozizalisha, ili kuvutia wateja na kuweza kukabiliana na ushindani wa soko. <br /><br />“packing au uhifadhi ni muhimu sana katika kuuza bidhaa zenu, bila ya kuwa na uhifadhi mzuri bidhaa zinaweza kudoda hata kama zina ubora kiasi gani, kwa hiyo hizo packing zinazidisha ubora wa bidhaa zinapoingia sokoni”, alisisitiza Mama Awena. <br /><br />Amefahamisha kuwa wanawake wana uwezo mkubwa wa kuleta maendeleo ili wataamua kufuta ile dhana ya kuwa mwanamke ni mtu wa kukaa nyumbani tu na kusubiri kuletewa kila kitu. <br /><br />Katika risala ya kikundi cha Fahari iliyosomwa na katibu wake Bi. Maryam Mbarouk, akinamama hao wamesema malengo yao ni kuzalisha bidhaa tofauti na kuongeza ubora wa bidhaa hizo. <br /><br />Amesema pia wamekusudia kuongeza ajira binafsi ili kuipunguzia mzigo serikali dhidi ya wazururaji na kuwawezesha wanakikundi hao kujiongezea kipato . <br /><br />Hata hivyo amesema wanakabiliwa na changamoto nyingi zikiwemo ukosefu wa masoko, upatikanaji wa mali ghafi na vifaa vya kisasa vya kufanyia kazi. <br /><br />Hivyo wameiomba Wizara ya Kazi, Uwezeshaji wananchi kiuchumi na Ushirika kuwapatia wataalamu ili kuweza kujifunza zaidi na kufanya kazi zao kwa uhakika na zenye ubora zitakazoweza kuendana na soko la kibishara. <br /><br />Na. Mauwa Mohd-Pemba.</span></div> </div>

Wanawake watakiwa kuwa wastahamilivu

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Makamo wa Kwaza wa Rais Zanzibar asisitiza maadili kwa walezi na walimu wa madrsa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Zanzibar Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad, amewahimiza wazazi, walezi na walimu kushirikiana kutika kurejesha maadili na malezi bora kwa watoto. <br /><br />Maalim Seif ametoa wito huo wakati akizungumza katika hafla ya maulid ya Mtume Muhammad (SAW), yaliyoandaliwa na Madrasat Ghulam Islamia ya Muembe Makumbi mjini Zanzibar. <br /><br />Amesema maadili ya kiislamu na malezi bora kwa watoto yanaweza kurejeshwa iwapo jamii itakubali kushirikiana katika malezi, sambamba na kushajiisha elimu ya madrasa kwa vijana. <br /><br />“Sisi wakati wetu mtoto alikuwa akilelewa na jamii nzima, yaani kama mtoto akikosea au kuondosha nidhamu na heshima kwa mzee mwengine basi alikuwa na uwezo wa kumrudi mtoto yule, na akienda kushtaki kwao basi mzazi wake atamuongeza kutokana na kosa hilo, lakini leo wapi, mambo yamebadilika”, alieleza Maalim Seif huku akitoa historia ya malezi ya zamani. <br /><br />Aidha amesifu juhudi za walimu wa madrasa katika kuwaendeleza watoto kitaaluma, licha ya kukabiliwa na mazingira magumu, na kuwataka walimu hao kujipanga katika kukabiliana na changamoto zinazowakabili ikiwemo ukosefu wa mishahara. <br /><br />Amewataka wazazi na walezi wa wanafunzi kuthamini mchango wa walimu wa madrasa kwa maendeleo ya watoto wao, na kushajiika kuchangia ili kuwawezesha walimu hao kufanya kazi zao vizuri. <br /><br />Akizungumzia kuhusu Umoja wa Wazanzibari Maalim Seif ametoa wito kwa wananchi kushikamana na mafunzo ya dini katika kuendeleza umoja na mshikamano ili kulinda umoja uliopo. <br /><br />Amefahamisha kuwa umoja huo umeijengea heshima kubwa Zanzibar kitaifa na kimataifa, sambamba na kurejesha umoja wa Wazanzibari uliokuwa hatarini kwa kipindi kirefu. <br /><br />Maalim Seif pia alitumia fursa hiyo kuwatanabahisha wananchi juu ya athari za uchafuzi wa mazingira na utumiaji wa dawa za kulevya. <br /><br />“Serikali haijazuia uchimbaji wa mchanga lakini imeweka utaratibu maalum na kuruhusu baadhi ya maeneo. Lengo letu ni kulinda mazingira yetu yasiathirike kwa faida zetu wenyewe ikizingatiwa kuwa nchi yetu ni kisiwa na ardhi inapungua kila siku huku idadi ya watu ikiongezeka kila mwaka”, alitanabahisha Maalim Seif. <br /><br />Katika risala yao iliyosomwa na ustadh Amour Mgeni, madrasa hiyo yenye wanafunzi wapata 150 imesema imepata mafanikio makubwa tangu kuanzishwa kwake mwaka 2009, ikiwa ni pamoja na kuweza kujenga jengo la madrasa hiyo. <br /><br />Hata hivyo wamesema jengo hilo kwa sasa limekuwa dogo kulingana na idadi ya wanafunzi, na kuwaomba watu wenye uwezo kusaidia upanuzi wa madrasa hiyo, sambamba na kuipatia vikalio na vitendea kazi vya kisasa. <br /><br />Hassan Hamad (OMKR). </span></div> </div>

Makamo wa Kwaza wa Rais Zanzibar asisitiza maadili kwa walezi na walimu wa madrsa

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Uchumi wa mataifa machanga watarajiwa kuimarika

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: right;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Uchumi wa Mataifa machanga yanayolenga kuelekea kwenye maendeleo ya haraka utazidi kuimarika iwapo Mataifa hayo yatajikita zaidi katika matumizi ya Mfumo wa Teknolojia ya Kisasa ya Mawasiliano ya moja kwa moja kati yao au hata kushirikiana pamoja na yale Mataifa yaliyoendela. </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />Hayo yaliibuka wakati wa mazungumzo kati ya Ujumbe wa Kampuni ya Vifaa vya Teknolojia ya Mawasiliano { Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment } {ZTE } yenye Makao Makuu yake Nchini China ulioongozwa na Makamu wa Rais wa Kampuni hiyo Bwana Chen Jinsong pamoja na Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi hapo Ofisini kwake Vuga Mjini Zanzibar. <br /><br />Bwana Chen Jinsong ambae Kampuni yake ya ZTE ndiyo inayojenga na kusimamia mradi wa Mkongo wa Taifa hapa Zanzibar alimueleza Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif kuwa mfumo huu wa mawasiliano hutoa fursa kwa wataalamu wa pande mbili walio Nchi tofauti kufanya kazi pamoja kwa kutumia mtandao wa kisasa wa mawasiliano ya Teknolojia. <br /><br />Alifahamisha kwamba hatua za Kiuchumi , Biashara, Afya pamoja na harakati za maisha ya Jamii za kila siku zina nafasi na fursa nzuri ya kutumia Mtandao wa Serikali { E. Government } wakati utakapokamilika matengenezo yake Mfumo huo. <br /><br />“ Uwezo wa Wataalamu mfano wa sekta ya Afya unaweza kukua mara dufu kwa kushirikiana katika masuala ya mikutano { Group Discution } na hata baadhi ya operesheni za wagonjwa wakiwa nchi tofauti kwa kutumia mitandano ya Kisasaya Teknolojia “. Alifafanua Makamu wa Rais huyo wa Kampuni ya ZTE. <br /><br />Bwana Chen alieleza kwamba katika kuunga mkono Mataifa ya Bara la Afrika kuingia katika mfumo huu wa mawasiliano ya Kisasa ya Teknolojia Uongozi wa Kampuni yake umeshaanza kusambaza huduma zake katika Baadhi ya Mataifa hayo ya Bara la Afrika. <br /><br />Alimueleza Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar kwamba Zhong Xing Telecommunicationa Equipement tayari imeshafungua Ofisi yake Nchini Tanzania likiwemo pia tawi lake moja hapa Zanzibar. <br /><br />Alisisitiza kwamba miradi inayoanzishwa na Kampuni hiyo mbali ya kuongeza ushirikiano na Mataifa hayo lakini pia umelenga kusaidia kutoa ajira kwa wazalendo walio wengi kwenye Mataifa hayo rafiki. <br /><br />Akitoa shukrani zake Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif alisema mradi mkubwa ulioanzishwa na Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar wa Mtandao wa Serikali { E. Government } chini ya Kampuni hiyo ya ZTE utaisaidia kuirusha Zanzibar kuingia katika mfumo wa Teknolojia ya Kisasa ya Mawasiliano Duniani. <br /><br />Balozi Seif aliupongeza Uongozi wa Kampuni hiyo ya ZTE kwa kusimamia kukamilisha awamu ya kwanza ya mradi huu wa Mtandao wa Serikali hapa Zanzibar hatua ambayo itazidi kuimarisha ushirikiano wa muda mrefu uliopo kati ya Zanzibar na Jamuhuri ya Watu wa China. <br /><br />“ Tunashukuru na kufarajika kuona kwamba Nchi zetu mbili Zanzibar na China bado zinaendelea kushirikiana kwa karibu miaka 50 sasa mara tuu baada ya Mapinduzi matukufu ya Zanzibar ya mwaka 1964 “. Alisisitiza Balozi Seif. <br /><br />Wakati huo huo Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif alikutana na Mwenyekiti wa Kampuni inayoendesha Miradi ya Hoteli za Kimataifa Afrika Mashariki iitwayo Mada Hotels yenye Makao Makuu yake Mjini Nairobi Nchini Kenya Bwana Tinu Mhajan. <br /><br />Bwana Tinu Mhajan ambae amefika Zanzibar kuangalia uwezekano wa Kampuni yake kutaka kuwekeza Vitega uchumi vyake hapa Zanzibar katika maeneo ya Hoteli alisema Utalii utaendelea kukua na kuimarika kwa kupitia mfumo wa kubadilisha vivutio vitakavyowapa ushawishi zaidi watalii kupenda kutembelea eneo hili. <br /><br />Mwenyekiti huyo wa Kampuni ya Mada Hotels alimueleza Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif kwamba Taasisi yao imelenga kutoa huduma zake ndani ya Ukanda wa Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki. <br /><br />Naye Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif alisema Zanzibar bado ina fursa nzuri za uwekezaji katika maeneo ya Utalii ambayo Mada Hotels inaweza kuzitumia ipasavyo fursa hizo. <br /><br />Balozi Seif alimfahamisha Mwenyekiti huyo wa Mada Hotels kwamba Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar imeipa kipaumbele sekta ya Utalii ili isaidie uchumi wa Taifa ambao hadi sasa unategemea zaidi zao la Karafuu. <br /><br />Othman Khamis Ame </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></div> </div> </div>

Uchumi wa mataifa machanga watarajiwa kuimarika

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Orange inaugurates a new Campus in Dakar dedicated to managerial development

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;">With the creation of a new <a href="http://www.orange.com/">Orange Campus</a> site in Senegal, the France Telecom-Orange Group , which is present in some 20 African countries, reaffirms its commitment to strengthening its worldwide managerial community and to supporting managers in their daily responsibilities.<br /><br />Located in the Dakar technology park, the first priority of the Orange Campus international site will be to offer development programmes to the 1,000 managers of the Group’s subsidiaries in Western Africa (Mali, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal). Managers from other Orange subsidiaries in French-speaking Africa – the Central African Republic, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – may also benefit from the programmes on offer. In addition, the site will host managers from all of the Group’s countries through its international programmes, fostering diversity, which is integral to Orange Campus’s identity.<br /><br />In 2013, more than 20 different managerial development programmes are scheduled at Orange Campus Dakar<br /><br />The new Orange Campus site consists of several classrooms, a library area and an amphitheatre, and was designed to be configurable to the different teaching methods used during the sessions. Located next to the Orange-Sonatel Competency Development Centre, the site’s surface area of more than 300m2 can accommodate up to 160 people.<br /><br />The programmes to be offered at the Orange Campus Dakar site are focused on three main priorities that are designed to strengthen the international approach favoured in Africa. These include:</span><ul> <li><span style="font-size: large;"> basic courses to give new managers the ability to take up their responsibilities quickly</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: large;">collective development programmes – the “collective challenges” – to enable executive managers to mobilize and develop their teams</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: large;">individual development programmes and management fundamentals to reinforce key managerial practices</span></li> </ul> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />In addition, a “made-to-measure” offering builds on existing programmes while targeting the managerial priorities of each country and adapting to the number of managers participating in the session. <br /><br />The creation of Orange Campus Dakar is an expression of the Group’s commitment to preparing its international subsidiaries to take charge of certain training events directly by supplying them with all the necessary educational components and offering them special training sessions for local instructors, both internal and external. Eight internal instructors have already been certified in Africa. These measures will be applied to each country, based on their needs and resources. Each country will receive the necessary support to allow them to independently deploy the Orange Campus programmes.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />For all that, the development of the Group’s managers in Africa is not new. Since 2011, more than 1,000 managers in 11 countries of Africa, the Middle East and Asia have already benefitted from Orange Campus programmes through sessions organized within the subsidiaries.</span><br />Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of France Télécom-Orange.</div> </div>

Orange inaugurates a new Campus in Dakar dedicated to managerial development

With the creation of a new Orange Campus site in Senegal, the France Telecom-Orange Group , which is present in some 20 African countries...

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