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Saturday, 26 September 2015
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LOWASSA AOMBOLEZA KIFO CHA CELINA KOMBANI
Mgombea Urais kupitia tiketi ya Chadema Edward Lowassa ametweet kwenye Tweeter kuomboleza kifo cha aliyekuwa Waziri wa Nchi,Ofisi ya Rais Menejimenti ya Utumishi wa Umma Celina Kombani aliyefariki dunia nchini India alikokuwa akipatiwa matibabu.
"Mimi na Regina tumeunishwa na tunaomboleza kifo cha Mhe Celina Kombani.Mungu awape nguvu, faraja na kuwaimrisha ndugu, jamaa na marafiki."
"Regina and I are filled with sorrow as we mourn the death of Hon Celina Kombani. May God Comfort and strengthen her family and friends."
Kwa kujibu wa taarifa, Waziri Kombani ambaye pia alikuwa mgombea ubunge jimbo la Ulanga Mashariki kupitia chama cha Mapinduzi, mwili wake umewasili nchini leo Jumamosi ya Septemba 26 mwaka huu. Mungu ailaze roho ya marehemu mahala pema peponi, amina.
Huruma Mhapa: Biogesi imeongeza upendo ndani ya nyumba
Mfugaji na mkulima wa kijiji cha Ibumila kata ya Kichiwa wilayani Njombe Huruma Mhapa (kulia) akielezea namna alivyo nufaika na matumizi ya biogesi kwa kutumia samadi alipotembelewa na kamati ya uhamasishaji wa matumizi ya biogesi (NBSC) pamoja wataalum kutoka Programu ya uenezi wa mitambo ya biogesi ngazi ya kaya (TDBP). Maadhimisho biogesi kitaifa yalifanyika katika Kitongoji cha Lunyunyu, Halmashauri ya Mji Njombe mkoani Njombe jana. (Picha na Friday Simbaya)
Mratibu wa Program ya Biogesi Tanzania (TDBP), Lehada Shilla.
Mwandishi wa Habari Friday Simbaya akijaribu kukoroga kinyesi cha ng'ombe kwa ajili ya kuzalisha biogesi.
Na Friday Simbaya, NJOMBE,
Huruma Mhapa amekuwa akijaribu kumshawishi mumewe kumsaidia kukusanya kuni—hata hivyo, jitihada zake ziligonga mwamba kwa kuwa mumewe anaona kazi hiyo ni ya wanawake.
Hata hivyo, licha ya kuzongwa na majukumu mengi, Huruma, mkulima kijiji cha Ibumila, mkoa wa Njombe, Nyanda za juu kusini, alikuwa akitumia masaa mawili kila siku kukusanya kuni ili kukidhi mahitaji ya nishati nyumbani.
“Ilikuwa inachosha sana kusema ukweli, nilikuwa natembea umbali mrefu sana kukusanya kuni. Ni baridi sana hapa wakati wa usiku,” alisema.
Hata hivyo, tangu afunge mtambo wa gesi anuai unaotumia mbolea ya ng’ombe, miaka micheche iliyopita ikiwa ni sehemu ya mradi unaofadhiliwa na Programu ya Biogesi Tanzania (TDBP) kwa shirikiana chuo kikuu cha sokoine (SUA), kumetokea mapinduzi makubwa sana ya kijinsia kuhusu matumizi ya nishati kwa familia.
Alisema Mumewe Huruma, ambaye alikuwa akidharau kazi za nyumbani, sasa hivi anashiriki kuendeleza mtambo wa gesi anuai, na nyakati zingine hupika kwa gesi—akimwacha mkewe aendelee na majukumu mengine shambani.
“Mtambo huu umerahisisha sana kazi, mume wangu na mimi tunajivunia sana mradi huu,” alisema.
“Licha ya harufu nzito ya mbolea inayooza, mzee Huruma hufurahia sana kutifua mbolea ya ng’ombe na kuitumbukiza kwenye mtambo uliojengwa nje kidogo ya nyumba yao.
Mchakato huo huhusisha kuchanganya maji na mbolea na kuondoa uchafu unaoweza kudhorotesha uzalishaji wa gesi.
Mtambo huo unauwezo wa kuzalisha gesi ya kutosha kupikia na kuwasha taa za karabai, alisema, na mabaki ya mbolea hutumika kama mbolea kwenye shamba lake la mahidi.
Kwa upande wake Mratibu wa Programu ya Biogesi Tanzania (TDBP) Lehada Shilla alisema kuwa biogesi imebadili mwelekeo wa familia nyingi, huku wanaume wakionekana kushiriki kikamilifu kulisha mbolea kwenye mtambo na hata kutumia gesi yenyewe na kurahisisa mzigo wa majukumu yanayowakabili wake zao—hasa kukusanya kuni.
Mratibu huyo alitoa kauli hiyo wakati wa maadhimisho ya biogesi Tanzania ambayo alifanyika kitaifa mkoani Njombe hivi karibuni.
Pia alisema kuwa matumizi ya biogesi yamepunguza garama ya kununua nishati mbadala kama vile mafuta ya taa.
Watu wengi waishio vijijini Tanzania ambao hawana umeme, hutegemea kuni na mafuta ya taa kupikia na kuwashia.
Kwa mujibu wa serikali, ongezeko kubwa la mahitaji ya kuni limeweka shinikizo kwenye matumizi ya misitu na kuathiri vyanzo vya maji.
Shila Lehada, mratibu wa Tanzania Domestic Biogas Programme, mradi unaofadhiliwa na wahisani, amesema kuacha kutumia kuni na mafuta ya taa huwezesha familia zinazotumia gesi hifadhi hadi shilling 600000 ($375) kwa mwaka na kutoa fursa kwa wanawake na watoto kusoma na kufanya shughuli zingine za kuwaingizia kipato kwa familia.
Kwa mujibu wa wakulima, kiwango cha gesi kinacho zalishwa hukidhi mahitaji ya familia.
Mratibu huyo alitoa wito kwa Watanzania kuanza kutumia nishati mbadala ya biogesi kwa kupitia kilimo hifadhi ambacho alisema ni mkombozi kwa wakulima.
Awamu ya kwanza ya program hii ulilenga kusimkia mitambo 4000 lakini awamu hii ya pili imelenga kusimika mitambo ya biogesi kwenye kaya 27,000 ili kuweza kuhifadhi misitu.
Kaulimbiu,“biogesi kwa maisha bora na uhifadhi wa mazingira”
Student union blocks speech by 'inflammatory' anti-sharia activist
Warwick University union says Maryam Namazie could incite hatred on campus if allowed to take up secularist society invitation
Maryam Namazie during a meeting of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian
Richard Adams Education editor
A human rights campaigner has been barred from speaking at Warwick University after organisers were told she was “highly inflammatory and could incite hatred”.
Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month. But the student union blocked the event, telling the society that Namazie’s appearance could violate its external speaker policy.
In an email to the society’s president, Benjamin David, a student union official said the decision had been taken “because after researching both her [Namazie] and her organisation, a number of flags have been raised”.
It went on: “We have a duty of care to conduct a risk assessment for each speaker who wishes to come to campus. There a number of articles written both by the speaker and by others about the speaker that indicate that she is highly inflammatory, and could incite hatred on campus.”
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The student union’s policy says external speakers are “not permitted to encourage, glorify or promote any acts of terrorism” or “spread hatred and intolerance in the community” and “must seek to avoid insulting other faiths or groups”.
David said he felt embarrassed by the student union’s move and had lodged an appeal against the decision. “Maryam has always campaigned against violence and discrimination and has done so passionately for many years – something that should have been taken on board when the student union’s assessment was made,” he said.
Namazie said she hoped to go ahead with the event if Warwick changed its mind. “The student union seems to lack an understanding of the difference between criticising religion, an idea or a far-right political movement on the one hand and attacking and inciting hate against people on the other,” she wrote on her blog. “Inciting hatred is what the Islamists do; I and my organisation challenge them and defend the rights of ex-Muslims, Muslims and others to dissent.”
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The student union said that as a charity it was required to conduct risk assessments of any external speakers proposed by its societies. “It is crucial to note, however, that the decision-making process is currently incomplete, and a final decision on this issue will be reached by the organisation’s most senior members of staff in the coming days,” it said in a statement.
“The initial decision was made in deference to the right of Muslim students not to feel intimidated or discriminated against on their university campus … rather than in the interests of suppressing free speech or freedom of expression.”
Namazie, who has written for the Guardian, is the spokesperson for One Law for All, a group that campaigns against sharia and religious laws, and a member of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and the Worker-Communist party of Iran.
In 2005 she won the National Secularist Society’s prize for secularist of the year, presented by the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee.
NJOMBE FARMERS FEELS THE PRESENCE OF TDBP
TDBP Coordinator Leheda Shilla (PHOTO BY FRIDAY SIMBAYA)
NJOMBE: The Tanzania Domestic Biogas Program (TDBP) presence is being felt by farmers at the National Biogas Day Celebrations held in Njombe Region recently.
During the celebration a lot of local farmers testified about the benefits of using biogas and its byproduct called bio-slurry has changed their lives as compared to the years back before the program.
They said that the use of biogas has transformed their lives especially women who used to go in the forest to look for firewood which led to environmental destruction.
They are now using biogas for cooking and lighting therefore; it has relieved them from the burden of hunting for kerosene, firewood and charcoal as domestic energy for cooking.
Huruma is one of farmers at Ibumila Village in Njombe District, who said that she has seen a lot of benefits of biogas including reduction of firewood consumption, increase the value of fertilizers, multiplied love in the house, reduced time of washing plates and dishes, building a modern shed for cattle, pesticide and increased from six to 28 bags per acre.
She said that using bio-slurry which is the byproduct of biogas she has increased the harvest of crops tremendously.
Bio slurry is an organic fertilizer used in a lot of aspects of farming for instance, it is used as pesticide, use to produce fodder and it is used as fertilizer for vegetable production and used as chicken feeds.
She said by using biogas technology, she has managed together with her husband to take their three children to better schools and it has made her to travel up to Italy to learn how to produce fodders and animal husbandry.
According to the Tanzania Domestic Biogas Program (TDBP) Coordinator Leheda Shilla, biogas is changing people’s lives in Tanzania where over 90 percent of the population relies on wood-based fuel for domestic use as households collect firewood and charcoal for cooking, and lighting.
Shilla said that biogas is a clean, combustible, renewable gas produced by organic waste. Agriculture experts say it is much cheaper than traditional fossil fuel since farmers can obtain it from their own resources.
He said that while most urban areas depend on charcoal, the setting in rural villages’ gears for firewood and the task of fetching is almost exclusively left for women and girls.
“Cooking on wasteful traditional open fires daily has serious consequences for women's lives related to health, safety, economic circumstance, as well as the destruction of the natural environment on which millions of Tanzanians depend,” he said.
Shilla explained that the purpose of the celebration of national biogas in Njombe region was to encourage citizens who are not aware of the benefits of biogas to join the network of people using biogas and bio-slurry in order to minimize the impact of the deforestation in the country.
He said that another objective of the celebration is to sensitize cattle farmers who have not started using biogas plants to start using them because it will increase the livestock value chain.
He said first phase of this program focused on putting up 4000 plants biogas but this second phase aims to set up biogas plants up to 27,000 at household lever in order to preserve the forest.
The theme, "biogas for a better life and environmental conservation"
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John McDonnell: Labour will match Osborne and live within our means
John McDonnell will address the Labour conference on Monday. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian
John McDonnell, the new shadow chancellor, will tell the Labour conference that Britain must always live within its means as he announces that the party will vote in favour of a new fiscal charter proposed by George Osborne.
In a sign of the new Labour leadership’s determination to restore the party’scredibility on the economy, McDonnell has told the Guardian that the party will manage the economy carefully.
“We accept we are going to have to live within our means and we always will do – full stop,” the shadow chancellor said ahead of the Labour conference, which opens in Brighton on Sunday. He added: “We are not deficit deniers.”
To the possible surprise of some on the left, McDonnell will announce that Labour MPs will be expected later this autumn to vote for the chancellor’s fiscal charter unveiled in the budget in July.
It commits the government to delivering an overall surplus by 2019-20 and to running an overall budget surplus in “normal times”. The shadow chancellor said: “We will support the charter. We will support the charter on the basis we are going to want to balance the book, we do want to live within our means and we will tackle the deficit.”
But McDonnell makes clear that he takes a radically different approach to theausterity measures of the Tories, whose deficit reduction plan is achieved mainly through spending cuts, as he says that Labour would ease the burden on low- and middle-income earners.
Labour would also stimulate economic growth by borrowing to invest in infrastructure projects, McDonnell said. “We will tackle the deficit but the dividing line between us and the Tories is how we tackle it. Our basic line is we are not allowing either middle or low earners or those on benefit to have to pay for the crisis. It is as simple as that.”
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, will also come close to accusing David Cameron of lying during the general election campaign, when the prime minister said he had no plans to cut child tax credits.
Corbyn will highlight the prime minister’s remarks, made in a special general election edition of Question Time on 30 April, when Cameron said that child tax credits had increased by £450 under his government, adding: “That’s not going to fall.” Just over two months later George Osborne announced in the summer budget that tax credits and universal credit will be limited to the first two children from April 2017.
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The new Labour leader, who is to launch a campaign highlighting the impact ofthe government’s cuts to tax credits, said: “This raises fundamental questions of honesty in politics. It is difficult to believe David Cameron did not know that the Tories were planning to make these cuts when he made those comments to the British people during the general election.”
Corbyn will be hoping that his new campaign, in which he will say that cuts to tax credits will have a particular impact on the self-employed, will show to the Labour conference that his office has a renewed sense of direction after a bumpy first two weeks as leader.
In his interview with the Guardian, McDonnell indicates the extent of preparations for the party conference when he makes clear:
• Corbyn is expected to issue an apology for Labour’s role in the Iraq war in 2003. McDonnell and Corbyn both voted against the war but believe the party needs to acknowledge that its leader at the time sanctioned Britain’s involvement.
• The Labour conference should vote this week on whether Britain should renew its Trident nuclear deterrent.
• All Labour MPs, including frontbenchers, could be given a free vote on whether to support extending Britain’s involvement in airstrikes against Islamic State targets from Iraq to Syria on the grounds that votes on armed conflict are a matter of conscience.
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McDonnell indicates that his main message to the conference in his speech on Monday will be designed to reassure voters that Labour is committed to tackling the deficit. But he indicates that his support for the charter is qualified because he believes that only the current account should be balanced to give the government space to borrow to fund infrastructure projects.
He says of Osborne’s plans to deliver an overall surplus: “There is an economic illiteracy about this. If you have a surplus in that sense you are actually taking capacity out of the economy.”
McDonnell added: “We will oppose all the tax cuts that the Tories are bringing forward. We will make sure that we look at how we tackle the tax evasion and tax avoidance.”
In a further move to reassure voters who felt Labour could not be trusted on the economy, he is to ask Osborne to open up the Treasury and the Office for Budget Responsibility to run a health check on Labour’s plans. He said: “Everything we put forward as a policy we are going to test and test again rigorously.”
The shadow chancellor, who along with Corbyn, his friend and ally, has a long record of campaigning for unilateral nuclear disarmament, makes clear that it is right that the Labour conference votes on whether to maintain Trident.
McDonnell, who estimates between £80bn to £100bn could be saved by scrapping the programme, said: “I think there should be a debate about Trident at this party conference and if it comes to it I shall be advising people to scrap Trident ... Conference is the sovereign body so when it comes to a decision like Trident I think that it should be taken into account seriously by those that represent the party and that includes the parliamentary Labour party.”
Jeremy Corbyn with John McDonnell in 2001. Photograph: Peter Jordan/PA
He added: “There is going to be discussion and debate. Don’t mistake democracy for division. It’s not. That is the nature of discussion and that it is how it will be from here on in.”
McDonnell said that frontbenchers should be bound by the conference decision on Trident. But he said that MPs should have a free vote on whether to support British military action. “My own personal view – not the shadow cabinet view – is that going to war is such a moral issue it should be on the basis of conscience.” If this were to be instated, it would give Labour MPs a free vote should Cameron ask MPs to back a bombing campaign in Syria.
Holding out the prospect that Corbyn will apologise for the Iraq war, McDonnell said: “I think people expect us to move on and we will not be able to move unless we admit the mistake that was made. I am hoping at this stage people will understand there is contrition on behalf of the party that we ever got into this”. Asked if the apology should come at this conference he agreed the apology needed to be “sooner rather than later”.
He also declined to advocate that Labour councillors refuse to set a budget next year, saying there was little point. In the 80s many leftwing councils refused to set budgets in protest at government cuts, and some leftwing groups are calling for Labour to refuse to set budgets in the face of local government cuts imposed by the Treasury. McDonnell said: “The situation the councils are now in is if they don’t set a budget, a council officer will do it for them. There is no choice for them any more.”
To coincide with the Labour women’s conference, which opens on Saturday, McDonnell said that he is to establish a review to address the discrimination faced by women in the economy.
The shadow chancellor said: “We will be undertaking a major review of the economy from the perspective of women. Women have had to endure the brunt of austerity cuts and we want to bring forward a concrete programme that addresses the impact of austerity and discrimination of women in our economy.”
MAKAHAMA YA BRAZIL IMEZUIA MALI ZA NEYMAR
Mahakama ya Brazil imezuia mali za mchezaji wa Barcelona Neymar ambazo zina thamani ya $48 million. Mahakama ya huko Sao Paulo imetangaza ijumaa hii mali za mchezaji huyu mwenye miaka 23 ana makosa ya kukwepa kodi ya kiasi cha $16m kati ya mwaka 2011 na 2013.
Neymar alihamia Barcelona akitokea Santos kwa kiasi cha pesa ambacho bado kinafanyiwa uchunguzi na asasi za Hispania kuhusu swala la kodi kwasababu wanadhani kuna udanganyifu ulifanyika.
Jaji Carlos Muta ametangaza kwamba mali zenye thamani ya $5m zitashikiliwa hadi pale swala la kodi litakapowekwa sawa. Neymar amepewa agizo la kulipa kodi na faida juu kutokana na kosa hilo.
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