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Police pepper-spray crowds in Kansas City as Trump vows to press on

Republican frontrunner praises supporters and blames ‘these other people’ for disorder after protests forced him to call off Chicago appearance on Friday

Police used pepper spray on crowds outside a Donald Trump rally in Kansas City as the Republican frontrunner continued to face angry protests that a day earlier forced him to call off a major campaign appearance in Chicago.

As Trump’s electoral machine regrouped after a humiliation at the University of Illinois Chicago Pavilion, there were further disruptions inside the Midland Theatre in Missouri. Trump was just a few minutes into his speech on Saturday night when the protests began. “I’ve got plenty of time. ... We’re in no rush. We’re in no rush,” he told the crowd.

The protesters appear to be scattered throughout the theater and Trump remarked on how many were in the crowd, bemoaning they were taking seats from his supporters, “thousands” of whom were waiting outside.

Kansas City police confirmed pepper spray was used amid protests in the streets around the theater and also said a “fogger” was deployed to disperse “two large groups (200+) preparing to fight”. 

Chief Darryl Forte of Kansas City police defended the use of pepper spray as “better than a riot with mass casualties”. On Twitter he praised the majority of protesters who had “lawfully expressed themselves, while lawfully assembling”.

Trump’s campaign has vowed to carry on with a rally in Cincinnati on Sunday after the billionaire postponed a Chicago event on Friday night. After the announcement, a tense but largely non-violent scene descended into chaotic clashes between supporters and anti-Trump protesters.

Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump, on Saturday denied a Reuters report that he had canceled an Ohio rally because of security concerns. Trump himself later tweeted that the rally would go as planned – even after secret service agents briefly swept up to his podium out of concern someone would rush the stage.

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The rally in Cincinnati is due to take place on Sunday afternoon, two days before Tuesday’s Ohio primary, in which the Republican frontrunner will seek to knock Ohio governor John Kasich from the presidential race. The heightened tensions were visible at a rally Trump spoke at in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday: at one point four secret service agents rushed onto the stage to prevent anyone from reaching him there.

Political leaders on both sides of the party divide, meanwhile, tried to dress wounds that were opened in Chicago. Hillary Clinton said “violence has no place in our politics”, and Republicans Kasich and Ted Cruz blamed Trump for the inflammatory rhetoric.

Friday’s Trump event saw myriad protesters, including students and people affiliated with the black lives matter movement, demonstrate against Trump’s policies on immigration and racially tinged comments.

The protest, which produced scuffles and arrests, including that of an Indian American CBS reporter who was charged with resisting arrest, came after days of escalating political rhetoric and violent incidents at Trump events.

Last week a Trump supporter sucker-punched a black protester leaving an event with security. An allegation of assault against a reporter by Trump’s campaign manager is being investigated by Florida police.

Trump himself has suggested in recent months that protesters at his events should be “taken out on stretchers”, and said he would like to punch a demonstrator in the face.

On Saturday, Trump wrote on Twitter: “The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our first amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!”

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He also told a crowd in Vandalia, Ohio, that his supporters in Chicago “were so nice” and “caused no problem”. He instead blamed “these other people”, naming Bernie Sanders supporters specifically, as the culprits who “taunted” and “harrassed” his fans.

Trump’s Republican rivals were quick to condemn his speech. On Saturday, Marco Rubio, whose last presidential hopes rest with his home state, which also votes on Tuesday, hedged on whether he would support Trump as the Republican nominee.

Addressing reporters ahead of a rally in Largo, Florida, the senator offered a blistering critique of frontrunner’s incitement of violence.

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“It’s called chaos, anarchy and that’s what we’re careening toward,” Rubio said. “We are being ripped apart at the seams now, and it’s disturbing. I am sad for this country. This country is supposed to be an example to the world.”

Asked if he would still support Trump if he were the party’s nominee, as he pledged to do at a debate in Detroit a week ago, the senator responded: “I don’t know. I intend to support the Republican nominee, but [it’s] getting harder every day.”

Kasich also appeared to waver on the question of backing Trump, according to reporters with the governor in Sharonville, Ohio, on Saturday. “It makes it extremely difficult,” he said, of the violence in Chicago.

On Friday night, Cruz, Trump’s nearest rival for the nomination, accused the billionaire developer of whipping up tensions.

“When you have a campaign that is accused of physical violence against members of the press,” the Texas senator said, “you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discord.”

The Trump rally in Illinois was cancelled 30 minutes after it was scheduled to begin, due to what an announcer called “security concerns” as protesters mingled with Trump supporters in the hall.

The billionaire claimed, in direct opposition to what Chicago police told reporters, that law enforcement advised him to cancel the rally.

“Commander George Devereux of the CPD was informed of everything before it happened,” Trump said on Saturday. “Likewise, secret service and private security firms were consulted and totally involved.”

The Trump campaign later said the decision was taken “for the safety of all”, though the Chicago police department said it had not advised the postponement and would have been able to cope.

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Trump later said he thought it was a better idea to call off the rally than to “let people mix it up”. “I didn’t want to see anybody get hurt,” he said. “I think we made the right move.”

Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, called for calm. In a statement issued on Saturday, she said: “Violence has no place in our politics. We should use our words and deeds to bring Americans together.”

Clinton said divisive rhetoric should be of “grave concern to us all”, before tying events in Chicago to inflamed cultural and racial tensions after the murder of nine people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, last June.

“All of us,” she said, “no matter what party we belong to or what views we hold, should say loudly and clearly that violence has no place in our politics.”

Trump, however, said he had no regrets bringing up contentious issues.

“You have so much anger in the country. I mean it’s just anger in the country. I don’t think it’s directed at me or anything,” he told CNN on Friday.

Illegal immigration, Trump said, “is an important subject and if I didn’t bring it up, people wouldn’t even be talking about it. I’m proud I brought it up.”

Trump also defended his comments about taking out protesters “on stretchers”.

“These were rough, tough guys and they did damage,” he said. “It happens, not often, but it happens. When it happens I will talk about them, but mostly we just have fun.”

Trump also suggested that though images from the Chicago rally broadcast nationally could lead to higher voter turnout at the polls in Illinois, Florida and Ohio, he could not “even have a rally in a major city anymore”.

Outside the rally venue in Chicago, violence flared as Trump supporters were cornered in a parking garage. Inside the arena, punches were thrown amid scuffles.

February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' amount

Warnings of climate emergency after surface temperatures 1.35C warmer than average temperature for the month

Drought-hit land in Thailand. Stefan Rahmstorf, from Germany’s Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, says the global temperatures for February are ‘unprecedented’. Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

Damian Carrington andMichael Slezak

February smashed a century of global temperature records by “stunning” margin, according to data released by Nasa.

The unprecedented leap led scientists, usually wary of highlighting a single month’s temperature, to label the new record a “shocker” and warn of a “climate emergency”.

The Nasa data shows the average global surface temperature in February was 1.35C warmer than the average temperature for the month between 1951-1980, a far bigger margin than ever seen before. The previous record, set just one month earlier in January, was 1.15C above the long-term average for that month.

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“Nasa dropped a bombshell of a climate report,” said Jeff Masters and Bob Henson, who analysed the data on the Weather Underground website. “February dispensed with the one-month-old record by a full 0.21C – an extraordinary margin to beat a monthly world temperature record by.”

“This result is a true shocker, and yet another reminder of the incessant long-term rise in global temperature resulting from human-produced greenhouse gases,” said Masters and Henson. “We are now hurtling at a frightening pace toward the globally agreed maximum of 2C warming over pre-industrial levels.”

The UN climate summit in Paris in December confirmed 2C as the danger limit for global warming which should not be passed. But it also agreed agreed to “pursue efforts” to limit warming to 1.5C, a target now looking highly optimistic.

Climate change is usually assessed over years and decades, and 2015 shattered the record set in 2014 for the hottest year seen, in data stretching back to 1850. The UK Met Office also expects 2016 to set a new record, meaning the global temperature record will have been broken for three years in a row.

One of the world’s three key temperature records is kept by Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Giss) and its director Prof Gavin Schmidt reacted to the February Giss temperature measurements with a simple “wow”. He tweeted:

— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin)March 12, 2016

Normally I don't comment on individual months (too much weather, not enough climate), but last month was special.https://t.co/nALWMlNDcP

“We are in a kind of climate emergency now,” said Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research in Germany. He told Fairfax Media: “This is really quite stunning ... it’s completely unprecedented.”

“This is a very worrying result,” said Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics, noting that each of the last five months globally have been hotter than any month preceding them.

“These results suggest that we may be even closer than we realised to breaching the [2C] limit. We have used up all of our room for manoeuvre. If we delay any longer strong cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, it looks like global mean surface temperature is likely to exceed the level beyond which the impacts of climate change are likely to be very dangerous.”

A major El Niño event, the biggest since 1998, is boosting global temperatures, but scientists are agreed that global warming driven by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions is by far the largest factor in the astonishing run of temperature records.

Prof Adam Scaife, at the UK Met Office, said the very low levels of Arctic ice were also helping to raise temperatures: “There has been record low ice in the Arctic for two months running and that releases a lot of heat.” He said the Met Office had forecast a record-breaking 2016 in December: “It is not as if you can’t see these things coming.”

Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, UK, said: “It is a pretty big jump between January and February, although this data from Nasa is only the first set of global temperature data. We will need to see what the figures from NOAA and the Met Office say. It is in line with our expectations that due to the continuing effect of greenhouse gas emissions, combined with the effects of El Niño on top, 2016 is likely to beat 2015 as the warmest year on record.”

The record for an annual increase of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, was also demolished in 2015.

Fossil fuel-burning and the strong El Niño pushed CO2 levels up by 3.05 parts per million (ppm) to 402.6 ppm compared to 2014. “CO2 levels are increasing faster than they have in hundreds of thousands of years,” said Pieter Tans, lead scientist at Noaa’s Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network. “It’s explosive compared to natural processes.”

UNDP YAZINDUA RIPOTI YA KAZI NA MAENDELEO YA BINADAMU, MAVUNDE AAGIZA KAZI YENYE STAHA

Naibu Waziri Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (Sera, Bunge, Kazi, Vijana, Ajira na Walemavu), Mh. Anthony Mavunde (katikati) akiwasili kwenye uzinduzi wa ripoti ya Maendeleo ya Watu ya mwaka 2015 (Human Development Report 2015) huku akiwa ameambatana na Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP), Alvaro Rodriguez (kushoto) pamoja na Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Taasisi ya Utafiti wa Kiuchumi na Kijamii (ESRF), Dk. Tausi Kida (kulia) uliofanyika Machi 11, 2016 jijini Dar es Salaam.(Picha zote na Zainul Mzige wa Modewjiblog)

Naibu Waziri Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (Sera, Bunge, Kazi, Vijana, Ajira na Walemavu) Antony Mavunde ametaka kuondolewa kwa changamoto maeneo ya kazi ili kazi isaidie maendeleo ya binadamu badala ya kujikimu.

Naibu Waziri huyo alitoa kauli hiyo wakati akizungumza na waandishi wa habari baada ya kuzindua ripoti ya maendeleo ya binadamu ya mwaka 2015 inayoelezea kazi kwa maendeleo ya binadamu.

Alisema kwa sasa kuna figisu kubwa katika kazi nchini hasa kutokana na waajiri wengi kugeuza kazi kama sehemu ya kujikimu kwa wafanyakazi wao kwa kutowapa stahiki husika ikiwamo mikataba ya ajira.

Alisema kazi inapokuwa ni ya kujikimu kunakuwa na migogoro mingi na kuvurugika kwa uzalishaji na kutishia maendeleo ya taasisi husika na maendeleo ya mtu binafsi.

Alisema Tanzania imefurahishwa na yaliyomo katika ripoti hiyo ya Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Maendeleo (UNDP) kutokana na kuzungumzia jinsi kazi zinavyoweza kusaidia upatikanaji wa maendeleo.

Alisema wakati Tanzania inaelekea kujipanga kwa uchumi wa kati, Ripoti inaonyesha ni jinsi gani kazi inaweza kuboresha maisha ya Mtanzanzania kwa kuondoa kazi na kuwapatia wananchi kazi zenye staha na zinazoweza kuwasaidia wao binafsi na hivyo kukuza uchumi na ustawi wa jamii.

Alisema amekuwa akizungumza katika maeneo mengi ya kazi na kukutana na changamoto nyingi zikiwemo za kukosekana kwa mikataba, mazingira mabaya ya kufanyakazi, ujira usiokidhi na kutaka waajiri kufuata sheria za kazi kwa kuwapatia mikataba ya kazi na pia kuhakikisha kazi zinakuwa na staha.

Awali akizungumza na wageni waalikwa katika hafla hiyo iliyofanyika mwishoni mwa wiki mjini Dar es Salaam, alisema kwamba uzinduzi wa kitaifa ambao unafuatia uzinduzi wa kimataifa uliofanyika mwaka jana mjini Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ni faraja kubwa kwa wadau wa maendeleo nchini.

Alisema uzinduzi huo unaweka ripoti hiyo karibu zaidi na wananchi na kuahidi serikali kuifanyia kazi kutokana na umuhimu wake hasa wa kuhakikisha kazi inasaidia maendeleo ya watu.

Naibu Waziri Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (Sera, Bunge, Kazi, Vijana, Ajira na Walemavu), Mh. Anthony Mavunde (kushoto) akibadilishana mawazo na Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP), Alvaro Rodriguez (katikati) pamoja na Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Taasisi ya Utafiti wa Kiuchumi na Kijamii (ESRF), Dk. Tausi Kida (kulia) kabla ya kuelekea kwenye uzinduzi rasmi wa ripoti ya maendeleo ya watu ya mwaka 2015 (Human Development Report 2015) uliofanyika Machi 11, 2016 jijini Dar es Salaam na kuratibiwa na ESRF.

Anasema ripoti hiyo inaonesha namna ambavyo kazi inaweza kuchangia maendeleo na ustawi wa jamii.

Alisema wakati Tanzania inaelekea kuwa taifa ambalo limejengeka katika msingi wa maendeleo ya watu kama ilivyokusudiwa tangu kupatikana kwa Uhuru wake 1961, Ripoti hiyo ni chanzo kizuri cha maarifa katika kufanikisha mabadiliko yanayotakiwa kufanikisha maendeleo ya watu.

Alisema kazi ni msingi wa maendeleo kwa hiyo ni vyema kuboresha mazingira ya kazi na wafanyakazi ili kuleta maendeleo kusudiwa kwa kuwa na kazi zenye staha.

Alipongeza UNDP na wadau wengine kwa kufanikisha uzinduzi huo ambao alisema umeenda sanjari na dhima ya serikali ya kutumia maarifa yote yaliyopo kusaidia maendeleo ya watu.

Ripoti hiyo ya UNDP imetazama kwa undani kuhusu kazi, mahusiano ya kazi na maendeleo ya binadamu.

Mshehereshaji wa uzinduzi wa Ripoti ya Maendeleo ya Watu ya mwaka 2015 (Human Development Report 2015) akisherehesha uzinduzi huo uliofanyika Machi 11, 2016 jijini Dar es Salaam na kuratibiwa na ESRF.

Aidha imeangalia masuala ya usalama wa kazi na mahitaji ya utaalamu; masuala ya kulipwa na kutolipwa kazini, uangalizi, kujitolea ubunifu na kazi endelevu.

Pia ripoti hiyo inatoa majumuisha yanayostahili kufanywa bali mapendekezo ya utengenezaji wa sera unaotanua uzalishaji kwa kutoa fursa na kulinda wafanyakazi, ubora wa kazi, ujira stahiki, kazi yenye staha na kazi endelevu kwa kizazi cha sasa na kijacho.

Kimsingi Ripoti hiyo inapendekeza kuongeza faida za maendeleo ya binadamu, kupitia utendaji kazi, kwa kupendekeza mikakati ya kujenga fursa za ajira, ili kuhakikisha ustawi wa wafanyakazi, na kuendeleza maeneo yaliyolengwa, ambayo yatabadilisha hali halisi ya sasa.

Aidha ainaangalia Sera zilizopendekezwa, kuhakikisha utendaji kazi bora, utendaji kazi endelevu, ambayo inachangia usawa, badala ya kujenga ukosefu wa usawa, na kazi ambayo inaheshimu haki za wafanyakazi, na kuhakikisha usalama wao.

Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP), Alvaro Rodriguez akisoma taarifa kwenye uzinduzi wa Ripoti ya Maendeleo ya Watu ya mwaka 2015 (Human Development Report 2015) uliofanyika jijini Dar es Salaam Machi 11, 2016 na kuratibiwa na ESRF.

Kwa mujibu wa ripoti hiyo kuna hatua njema kwenye maendeleo ya watu katika ukanda wa Kusini mwa Jangwa la Sahara, Tanzania ikiwamo lakini ipo haja ya kuangalia pengo kubwa lililopo katika fursa mbalilmbali zikiwamo za kazi.

Imeelezwa ndani ya ripoti hiyo kwamba toka mwaka 2000 nchi ziloizo kusini mwa Jangwa la Sahara zimekuwa na ukuaji wa maendeleo ya binadamu( Human Development Index -HDI) wa kazi wa kiwango cha asilimia 1.7 kati ya mwaka 2000 na 2010 : asilimia 0.9 kwa mwaka 2010 na 2014.

HDI ni kipimo kinachotathmini maendeleo ya muda mrefu ya afya na maisha marefu, elimu na maisha yenye staha.

Kwa Tanzania kumekuwepo na ongezeko la HDI la asilimia 1.18% kati ya mwaka 1985 na 2014, ikiongezeka kutoka 0.371 hadi 0.521, ikiwa ni ongezeko la asilimia 40.5 juu ya ongezeko la nchi zilizo kusini mwa Jangwa la Sahara la 0.518.

Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Taasisi ya Utafiti wa Kiuchumi na Kijamii (ESRF), Dk. Tausi Kida akizungumza machache kabla ya kumkaribisha mgeni rasmi Naibu Waziri Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (Sera, Bunge, Kazi, Vijana, Ajira na Walemavu), Mh. Anthony Mavunde (hayupo pichani) kuhutubia wageni waalikwa kwenye hafla ya uzinduzi wa Ripoti ya Maendeleo ya Watu ya mwaka 2015 (Human Development Report 2015) uliofanyika jijini Dar es Salaam Machi 11, 2016 na kuratibiwa na ESRF.

Mratibu wa Umoja wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa nchini Tanzania na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP), Alvaro Rodriguez akizungumza katika uzinduzi huo alisema kwamba ongezeko hilo si haba.

Hata hivyo aliwaambia wadau waliokuwepo kushuhudia uzinduzi huo kwamba Taifa bado linakabiliwa na changamoto nyingi zikkiwemo umaskini uliokithiri, kutanuka kwa pengo la usawa na kushindwa kuhimili matukio ya mabadiliko ya tabianchi na uchumi.

Aidha alisema kwamba :”Ripoti ya maendeleo ya binadamu ya mwaka 2015, inaonyesha kuwa, kuimarisha maendeleo ya binadamu, kupitia utendaji kazi, inahitaji sera na mikakati katika maeneo makuu matatu: kujenga fursa za ajira, kuhakikisha ustawi wa wafanyakazi na kuendeleza maeneo yaliyolengwa. Hii inaongeza kasi ya kutengeneza ajira nchini Tanzania.”

Tanzania ikiwa na zaidi ya watu milioni 12 wakiishi katika umaskini na wengi wao uliokithiri changamoto kubwa kwa Tanzania, ni kutafsiri uwezo huu katika miundombinu inayoonekana, kwa kujenga mazingira mazuri, na kuongeza ujuzi wa watu wake kama ilivoainishwa katika Ripoti ya Maendeleo ya Binadamu mwaka elfu mbili na kumi na tano.

Naibu Waziri Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (Sera, Bunge, Kazi, Vijana, Ajira na Walemavu), Mh. Anthony Mavunde akisoma hotuba ya uzinduzi wa Ripoti ya Maendeleo ya Watu ya mwaka 2015 (Human Development Report 2015) kwa niaba ya Waziri Jenista Mhagama, uliofanyika jijini Dar es Salaam Machi 11, 2016 na kuratibiwa na ESRF.

Alisema changamoto zote hizo ni za kweli na zenye uhusiano na maendeleo ya binadamu na ni vyema ilivyowekwa katika Muono wa maendeleo ya Tanzania kufikia 2025 na utekelezaji wa malengo ya maendeleo endelevu (SDGs).

Katika hotuba yake ya shukurani Mkurugenzi Mkazi wa UNDP nchini, Awa Dabo, alisema kwamba taasisi yake ipo tayari kusaidia Tanzania na nchi nyingine kuwezesha kutambua uhusiano kati ya kazi na maendeleo ya binadamu katika utekelezaji wa Maendeleo endelevu (SDGs).

Mgeni rasmi Naibu Waziri Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (Sera, Bunge, Kazi, Vijana, Ajira na Walemavu), Mh. Anthony Mavunde (katikati) na meza kuu wakijiandaa kuzindua ripoti hiyo. Kutoka kushoto ni Mkurugenzi wa Shirika la Kazi Ofisi ya Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda na Burundi, Bi. Mary Kawar, Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP), Alvaro Rodriguez, Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Taasisi ya Utafiti wa Kiuchumi na Kijamii (ESRF), Dk. Tausi Kida pamoja na Mkurugenzi Mkazi wa Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Awa Dabo.

Mgeni rasmi Naibu Waziri Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (Sera, Bunge, Kazi, Vijana, Ajira na Walemavu), Mh. Anthony Mavunde (katikati) akizindua rasmi Ripoti ya Maendeleo ya Watu ya mwaka 2015 (Human Development Report 2015) kwenye hafla iliyofanyika jijini Dar es Salaam, Machi 11, 2016.

Mgeni rasmi Naibu Waziri Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (Sera, Bunge, Kazi, Vijana, Ajira na Walemavu), Mh. Anthony Mavunde akionyesha ripoti hiyo kwa wageni waalikwa na waandishi wa habari (hawapo pichani).

Kutoka kushoto ni Mkurugenzi wa Shirika la Kazi Ofisi ya Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda na Burundi, Bi. Mary Kawar, Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP), Alvaro Rodriguez, Mgeni rasmi Naibu Waziri Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (Sera, Bunge, Kazi, Vijana, Ajira na Walemavu), Mh. Anthony Mavunde, Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Taasisi ya Utafiti wa Kiuchumi na Kijamii (ESRF), Dk. Tausi Kida pamoja na Mkurugenzi Mkazi wa Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Awa Dabo kwa pamoja wakiwa wameshikilia ripoti hiyo.

Muonekano wa Ripoti ya Maendeleo ya Watu ya mwaka 2015 (Human Development Report 2015). Kwa picha zaidi bofya link hii

SHULE YA KIBUGUMO YAPOKEA MSAADA KUTOKA BANGO SANGHO WENYE THAMANI YA MIL. 20

Meza kuu kwenye uzinduzi wa kambi ya upimaji afya kwa watoto walio na umri chini ya miaka mitano iliyofadhiliwa na Umoja wa Watu kutoka Bengali, India wanaoishi Tanzania (Bango Sangho) katika shule ya Msingi Kibugumo iliyopo Kigamboni jana jijini Dar es Salaam. Kutoka kushoto ni Mratibu wa kambi hiyo ya upimaji kutoka Kliniki ya Al Hilal, Dk.Ali Mzige, Mwenyekiti wa Umoja wa Jamii ya watu kutoka India, Bengali waliopo Tanzania (Bango Sangho), Kunal Banerjee, Mwalimu Mkuu wa Shule ya msingi Kibugumo, Mzamilo Ally, Mgeni rasmi Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Sophia Mjema pamoja na Mbunge wa Jimbo la Kigamboni, Dk. Faustine Ndungulile.(Picha na Zainul Mzige wa Modewjiblog).

Umoja wa Watu kutoka Bengali, India wanaoishi nchini (Bango Sangho) umetoa msaada wa kompyuta, printa, tanki la maji la lita 5000, umeme, madarasa saba yaliyofanyiwa ukarabati, madaftari na kalamu katika Shule ya Msingi Kibugumo iliyopo Kigamboni ulio na thamani ya shilingi Milioni 20 pamoja na huduma ya kupima afya kwa watoto walio na umri chini ya miaka mitano.

Akizungumzia msaada huo, Mwenyekiti wa Bango Sangho, Kunal Banerjee alisema wameamua kutoa msaada huo kwa shule ya Msingi Kibugumo na huduma ya kupima bure kwa kutambua umuhimu wa afya na elimu bora kwa maendeleo ya sasa na baadae kwa taifa.

Alisema wamekuwa wakitoa misaada katika shule hiyo kwa mwaka wa tatu mfululizo na mwaka huu waliamua kuwaletea tena na huduma ya upimaji afya bure kwa watoto walio na umri chini ya miaka mitano ili wazazi wapate fursa ya kutambua hali ya afya za watoto wao lakini pia kuwajengea utaratibu wa kuwapeleka watoto wao katika vituo vya afya ili kujua hali zao za kiafya,

“Sisi tunapenda kuona hali nzuri ya elimu na tumeshasaidia kwa muda shule hii tumeshatoa madawati 100 na tulijenga madarasa mawili na leo tumeleta msaada mwingine na pia awamu hii tena tumeleta huduma ya afya ili watoto wapimwe afya zao,” alisema Banerjee.

Mwenyekiti wa Bango Sangho, Kunal Banerjee akisoma risala ya Umoja huo mbele ya mgeni rasmi Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Sophia Mjema na Mbunge wa Jimbo la Kigamboni, Dk. Faustine Ndungulile.

Nae mgeni rasmi katika halfa hiyo ya kupokea msaada kutoka Bango Sangho, Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Bi. Sophia Mjema aliwashukuru Bango Sangho kwa msaada huo ambao wameotoa katika shule hiyo na huduma ya kupima afya kwa watoto walio na umri chini ya miaka mitano na kuwaomba kama ikiwezekana wawapelekee huduma hiyo ya kupima afya kila baada ya miezi mitatu.

Alisema wilaya yake bado ina changamoto nyingi katika sekta ya elimu na kupitia msaada huo utaweza kusaidia kuboresha elimu kwa wanafunzi wa shule hiyo na kuwaomba kuendelea kuwasaidia.

“Wilaya yetu bado ina changamoto nyingi na kwa msaada huuu naomba niwashukuru sana na ninaomba muendelee kuwa na moyo huo,” alisema Bi. Mjema.

Aidha Bi. Mjema aliwataka wananchi wa wilaya yake ya Temeke kuwa na utaratibu wa kupima afya zao angalau mara moja kwa mwaka ili waweze kutambua magonjwa waliyonayo kabla hayajaanza kuwasumbua na hata wengine kupelekea kupoteza maisha kutokana na kutokuwa na utaratibu wa kupima hadi wanapoanza kusumbuliwa.

Nae Mratibu wa kambi ya upimaji, Dkt. Ali Mzige alisema kupitia huduma hiyo ya upimaji wa afya kwa watoto walio na umri chini ya miaka mitano wanataraji kupima watoto sio chini ya 400 na huduma zitakazotolewa ni kupima uzito, wingi wa damu, ushauri kuhusu lishe, afya ya kinywa na watoto watakaobainuka kuwa na matatizo watapewa rufaa kupelekwa Hospitali ya Wilaya ya Temeke.

Alisema kupitia huduma hiyo wataweza kutambua magonjwa waliyonayo watoto lakini pia kuwapa elimu wazazi jinsi ya kuwalea watoto katika mfumo bora wa kiafya.

“Tunafanya huduma hii kwa watoto sababu asilimia 32 ya watoto nchini walio na umri chini ya miaka mitano wamedumaa na pia tutaweza kuwapa vipeperushi wazazi ili wajue jinsi ya kulea watoto na wanapougua wajue nini cha kufanya,” alisema Dkt. Mzige.

Nae mwalimu wa afya katka shule ya Kibugumo, Tatu Mhina aliwashukuru Bango Sangho kwa misaada ambayo wamekuwa wakiwapatia tangu mwaka 2014 mpaka sasa na kuwaomba kuendelea na moyo huo wa kusaidia elimu katika shule hiyo na kuzidi kuwapelekea huduma za kiafya katika jamii inayozunguka shule hiyo ili wanafunzi waweze kuwa na afya njema.

Mbunge wa Jimbo la Kigamboni, Dk. Faustine Ndungulile akisisitiza jambo kwenye uzinduzi huo kabla ya kumkaribisha Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Sophia Mjema kutoa nasaha katika ufunguzi wa kambi hiyo.

Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Sophia Mjema akitoa neno la ufunguzi wa kambi ya upimaji afya kwa watoto wenye umri chini ya miaka mitano iliyofadhiliwa na Umoja wa Watu kutoka Bengali, India wanaoishi Tanzania (Bango Sangho) katika shule ya Msingi Kibugumo iliyopo Kigamboni jana jijini Dar es Salaam.

Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Sophia Mjema (katikati) akimpima uzito mtoto Shafii Haji (mwaka mmoja na nusu) mkazi wa Kibugumo Darajani, kama ishara ya kuzindua kambi ya huduma za upimaji afya kwa watoto walio na umri chini ya miaka mitano iliyofadhiliwa na Umoja wa Watu kutoka Bengali, India wanaoishi Tanzania (Bango Sangho) katika shule ya Msingi Kibugumo iliyopo Kigamboni jana jijini Dar es Salaam. Kushoto ni Mratibu wa kambi hiyo kutoka Kliniki ya Al Hilal, Dk. Ali Mzige, Mbunge wa Jimbo la Kigamboni, Dk. Faustine Ndungulile (wa kwanza kulia) pamoja na Muuguzi wa Zahanati ya Kibugumo, Agnes Mokiwa (wa pili kulia) wakishuhudia tukio hilo.

Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Sophia Mjema (katikati) akiwa amembeba mtoto Shafii Haji (mwaka mmoja na nusu) mkazi wa Kibugumo Darajani, baada zoezi la kumpima uzito wakati akizindua kambi ya huduma za upimaji afya kwa watoto walio na umri chini ya miaka mitano iliyofadhiliwa na Umoja wa Watu kutoka Bengali, India wanaoishi Tanzania (Bango Sangho) katika shule ya Msingi Kibugumo iliyopo Kigamboni jana jijini Dar es Salaam.

Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Sophia Mjema akikagua kadi ya kliniki ya maendeleo ya mtoto Shafii Haji (mwaka mmoja na nusu) mkazi wa Kibugumo Darajani (hayupo pichani) mara baada ya kuzindua kambi ya upimaji afya kwa watoto walio na umri chini ya miaka mitano iliyofadhiliwa na Umoja wa Watu kutoka Bengali, India wanaoishi Tanzania (Bango Sangho) katika shule ya Msingi Kibugumo iliyopo Kigamboni jana jijini Dar es Salaam. Kushoto ni Mratibu wa kambi hiyo kutoka Kliniki ya Al Hilal, Dk.Ali Mzige na Kulia ni Muuguzi wa Zahanati ya Kibugumo, Agnes Mokiwa.

Wanafunzi wa Shule ya Msingi Kibugumo iliyopo Kigamboni jijini Dar es Salaam wakigaiwa madaftari yaliyotolewa kama zawadi na Umoja wa Watu kutoka Bengali, India wanaoishi Tanzania (Bango Sangho).

Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Sophia Mjema akielekea kuzindua moja ya madarasa yaliyokaribatiwa na kuwekewa umeme na Bango Sangho.

Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Sophia Mjema akikata utepe kuzindua moja kati ya madarasa yaliyokarabatiwa na Bango Sangho huku Mwenyekiti wa Bango Sangho, Kunal Banerjee (kushoto) na Mbunge wa Jimbo la Kigamboni, Dk. Faustine Ndungulile wakishuhudia tukio hilo.

Muonekano wa vyumba vya madarasa katika shule ya Msingi Kibugumo baada ya kupakwa rangi na kuwekwa umeme na Umoja wa Watu kutoka Bengali, India wanaoishi Tanzania (Bango Sangho).

Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Temeke, Sophia Mjema akikagua moja ya darasa lililokarabatiwa na Bango Sangho. 

Man Nearly Reaches Stage at Donald Trump Rally

A man arrested Saturday after he tried to get on the stage at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Ohio reportedly told police he planned to grab the microphone and yell that Trump is a racist but didn't intend to hurt anyone.

The Dayton Daily News reported that it obtained a report from Dayton police that included comments 22-year-old Thomas DiMassimo of Fairborn made to officers after his arrest. The newspaper said DiMassimo told officers he gave his car keys to his girlfriend before he rushed the stage because he anticipated being arrested.

The newspaper said DiMassimo vaulted over waist-high metal railings, muscled past security guards and nearly got on the stage at the end of Trump's rally before Secret Service agents tackled and handcuffed him. Video shows Trump, the front-runner in the Republican presidential campaign, turning around after hearing the commotion followed by agents surrounding him protectively. Trump was campaigning ahead of Tuesday's Ohio primary

DiMassimo was released on bail Saturday after being charged with inducing panic and disorderly conduct. DiMassimo, an acting major in the theater program at Wright State University, couldn't be reached for comment Sunday. It's unclear if he has an attorney.

The Daily News also reported DiMassimo was involved in an anti-racism protest at Wright State in April. Video from the protest shows him dragging an American flag behind and then standing on it.

Trump on Twitter thanked the Secret Service for acting so quickly on and implied that DiMassimo has ties to the Islamic State group, an assertion dismissed by experts.

Donald Trump apparently used a doctored video to allege the suspect accused of rushing on the stage at his rally in Ohio had ties to ISIS.

Thomas Dimassimo was arrested and charged Saturday with disorderly conduct and inducing panic after the incident. He had hopped over a guardrail and was grabbed by Secret Serviceagents before he could reach the stage Trump was speaking from.

"Then one of my people said, wow. They found his name, and it was probably ISIS or ISIS-related. Do you believe it?" Trump told supporters at a later rally in Kansas City, Missouri.

Trump also tweeted a video appearing to show Dimassimo, 22, dragging an American flag across a sidewalk, saying he had "ties to ISIS."

The video Trump tweeted has since been removed from YouTube. It’s unclear who doctored or uploaded the video.

The footage in the video Trump tweeted appeared to be from a video Dimassimo had uploaded -- without the ISIS flag and playing different music -- to his YouTube page in April 2015. He wrote the video was taken from a protest at Wright State University supporting Eric Sheppard, a college student arrested last year for walking on the American flag.

“I thought it would ruffle some feathers, but I did not anticipate how tense the backlash would become,” Dimassimo told The Dayton Daily News last year. “If anything, all that has shown is that people in this area and people on the Internet care more about a symbolic piece of cloth, than they do a black person’s life … or, even beyond that, our Constitutional rights.”

When asked about the video Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump defended the posting, though he was unable to definitively say anything about Dimassimo's alleged ISIS ties.

"All I know is what's on the internet," said Trump.

William Philpott/ReutersU.S. Secret Service agents detain a man after a disturbance as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at Dayton International Airport in Dayton, Ohio, March 12, 2016.

Nada Bakos, a former CIA targeting officer and analyst, said the video is "clearly dubbed over."

"Overlaying Arabic music does not make a terrorist video," she said.

Bakos said she worries about Trump’s judgment, saying what’s posted on the internet isn’t always accurate.

"It's disturbing to me that Donald Trump will take things at face value," she said. "If he's [president and] reading intelligence that comes to his desk ... that's imperfect information. How is he going to discern what's true and what's not?"

Bakos said ISIS wants to make Muslims in America feel unwanted and "Trump is playing perfectly into that strategy."

"I think they [ISIS] would be the last people that want to hurt him at this point,” she added.

ABC News has found nothing tying Dimassimo to ISIS. Former White House counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke said it's unlikely Dimassimo would have been released from jail if he had ties to the terror group.

"If the federal government thought he was a supporter of ISIS, it is unlikely he would be allowed to walk," said Clarke, an ABC News consultant.

The Secret Service, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security have not yet responded to requests for comment on Trump's allegation.

Dimassimo was released on bail Saturday evening. It was not clear if he entered a plea or had an attorney.

ABC News was unable to find a phone number listed to Dimassimo. Calls to his parents weren't returned.