Ajali Kubwa Katika Machimbo ya Dhahabu Congo Yaua Watu Zaidi ya 50

 Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -  Officials say more than 50 people are dead after landslides caused the collapse of three artisanal gold mines near the city of Kamituga in eastern Congo's South Kivu province on Friday. Heavy rains for days led to the disaster. The mayor says that the diggers and the transporters of the stones were swallowed up by the waters. A team of rescuers with motor pumps came to recover the bodies of the victims. Mining quarries are often unsafe in eastern Congo and the Kasai region. Women and children also work in the mines to make ends meet.

Recount Demanded in Congo Election

Martin Fayulu

By MATHILDE BOUSSION and SALEH MWANAMILONGO
Associated Press

   KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's presidential runner-up Martin Fayulu on Saturday said he has asked the constitutional court to order a recount in the disputed election, declaring that "you can't manufacture results behind closed doors."

   He could be risking more than a court refusal. Congo's electoral commission president Corneille Nangaa has said there are only two options: The official results are accepted or the vote is annulled - keeping President Joseph Kabila in power until another election.

   "They call me the people's soldier ... and I will not let the people down," Fayulu said. The court filing includes evidence from witnesses at polling stations across the country, he said.

   Rifle-carrying members of Kabila's Republican Guard deployed outside Fayulu's home and the court earlier Saturday. It was an attempt to stop him from filing, Fayulu said while posting a video of them on Twitter: "The fear remains in their camp."

   Fayulu has accused the declared winner, opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi, of a backroom deal with Kabila to win power in the mineral-rich nation as the ruling party candidate did poorly.

   The opposition coalition for Fayulu, a businessman vocal about cleaning up widespread corruption, has said he won 61 percent of the vote, citing figures compiled by the Catholic Church's 40,000 election observers across the vast Central African country.

   Those figures show Tshieskedi received 18 percent, the coalition said.

   The church, the rare authority that many Congolese find trustworthy, has urged the electoral commission to release its detailed vote results for public scrutiny. The commission has said Tshisekedi won with 38 percent while Fayulu received 34 percent.

   Earlier on Saturday, the commission announced that Kabila's ruling coalition had won an absolute majority of national assembly seats. That majority, which will choose the prime minister and form the next government, sharply reduces the chances of dramatic reforms under Tshisekedi.

   Congolese now face the extraordinary situation of a presidential vote allegedly rigged in favor of the opposition. "This is more than an electoral farce; it's a tragedy," the LUCHA activist group tweeted, noting a ruling party majority in provincial elections as well.

   This could be Congo's first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960, but observers have warned that a court challenge could lead to violence.

   The Dec. 30 election came after more than two turbulent years of delays as many Congolese worried that Kabila, in power since his father was assassinated in 2001, sought a way to stay in office to protect his sprawling assets.

   "Even if Tshisekedi's presidency survives these court challenges, he will be compromised beyond repair and reliant on Kabila, whose patronage network controls most of the country's levers of power, including the security forces," professor Pierre Engelbert, a fellow with at the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, wrote on Friday.

   Statements on the election by the international community, including African regional blocs, have not congratulated Tshisekedi, with some looking forward to final detailed results and many urging against violence.

   Congo's 80 million people have been largely peaceful since the vote, though the U.N. peacekeeping mission reported at least a dozen deaths in protests in Kwilu province. Authorities also noted demonstrations in Kisangani and Mbandaka cities.

   Internet service has been cut off across the country since election day.

   Tshisekedi had not been widely considered the leading candidate. Long in the shadow of his father, the late opposition leader Etienne, he broke away from the opposition's unity candidate, Fayulu, to stand on his own.

   After election results were announced, Tshisekedi said Kabila would be an "important partner" in the transition.

   Fayulu, who was backed by two popular opposition leaders barred by the government from running, is seen as more of a threat to Kabila's interests.

   The difference between Tshisekedi and Fayulu in official results was some 684,000 votes. One million voters were barred from the election at the last minute, with the electoral commission blaming a deadly Ebola virus outbreak. Elsewhere, observers reported numerous problems including malfunctioning voting machines and polling stations that opened hours late.

   The presidential inauguration will be on Jan. 22, the electoral commission said Saturday.

UN Investigating Deaths of 14 Tanzanian Peacekeepers in Congo

  UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. is launching an investigation into attacks on peacekeepers in a part of Congo where the deadliest single assault on a U.N. peacekeeping mission in almost 25 years unfolded last month.

   Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Friday he's appointing longtime U.N. peacekeeping official Dmitry Titov to lead a special investigation into attacks around the town of Beni.

   The probe will focus on the Dec. 7 rebel attack that killed 15 peacekeepers and wounded over 40 others at a base near Beni. The dead were Tanzanian.

   The attack has been blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces, one of various armed groups in the mineral-rich region.

   The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo is the world's largest. The investigation will evaluate its preparedness and response to attacks and provide recommendations on preventing them.

In December, at an emotional ceremony held to commemorate the dead, the prime minister, Kassim Majaliwa said Tanzanians want to know what exactly happened and ‘ legal actions taken against those involved’.

‘‘The government of Tanzania is calling on the UN to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation for the spilled blood of Tanzanian soldiers, in order to know and justice be attained. It is our hope that will be done within the shortest time.’‘

Bodies of Murdered Peacekeepers returned to Tanzania for burial

Wanajeshi Kutoka Tanzania Walinda Amani wa UN Wauawa Congo

UN Tanzanian Peacekeepers

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO and EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press

   KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - In the deadliest single attack on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in nearly 25 years, rebels in eastern Congo killed 15 peacekeepers and wounded over 50 others in an assault on their base that was launched at nightfall and went on for hours.

   U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed "outrage and utter heartbreak" and called the attack a war crime, urging Congolese authorities to swiftly investigate. The State Department's Bureau of African Affairs said it was "horrified."

   U.N. peacekeeping spokesman Nick Birnback said it was the deadliest attack on a U.N. peacekeeping mission since June 1993, when 22 Pakistani soldiers were killed in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

   The peacekeepers killed Thursday were from Tanzania. Tanzanian President John Magufuli expressed his shock and prayers for the wounded, three of whom are in critical condition. At least five Congolese soldiers also were killed in the attack Thursday evening that has been blamed on one of the region's deadliest rebel groups.

   Three peacekeepers were missing, the U.N. said. More than 20 were evacuated for medical treatment in the regional capital, Goma.

   Birnback, the U.N. peacekeeping spokesman, called the assault "a determined and well-coordinated attack by a well-armed group."

   It was not clear when military reinforcements arrived after the attack, the U.N. said. Conditions in the region are "very, very challenging," said U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix, who said the attack followed a recent increase in activities by various armed groups. He called the assault a response to the U.N. mission's own "increasingly robust posture."

   "We are disturbing them," he said. "They do not like it."

   The peacekeeping base is about 45 kilometers (27 miles) from the town of Beni, which has been repeatedly attacked by the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, rebel group. The ADF is suspected of being behind Thursday's assault. The base is home to the U.N. mission's rapid intervention force, which has a rare mandate to go on the offensive against armed groups in the vast, mineral-rich region.

   The U.N. mission in Congo is the largest and most expensive in the world. It has also been a high-profile target of the Trump administration's cost-cutting efforts. The mission has a budget of $1.14 billion and over 16,500 soldiers. Nearly 300 peacekeepers have been killed since the mission arrived in 1999, according to U.N. data.

   Members of the U.N. Security Council, which authorized the peacekeeping mission, stood in silent tribute to the victims at the start of a meeting Friday afternoon on a five-nation force in Africa's Sahel region.

   Later, the council condemned the attack "in the strongest terms," underlined that deliberate attacks targeting peacekeepers may constitute war crimes, and called on Congo's government to ensure that the perpetrators "are swiftly brought to justice."

   "This attack, the worst on U.N. peacekeepers in recent years, is a reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices made by these brave women and men every day," the council said.

   Birnback said U.N. flags will fly at half-staff Monday all over the world in memory of those killed or injured.

   Congo, the size of Western Europe, has seen immeasurable cruelty and greed as a result of its mineral resources while more than 80 percent of the population lives below the absolute poverty line of $1.25 a day. The nation suffered through one of the most brutal colonial reigns ever known before enduring decades of corrupt dictatorship. Back-to-back civil wars later drew in a number of neighboring countries.

   Many rebel groups have come and gone during the U.N. mission's years of operation, at times invading the regional capital.

   One of the greatest threats now comes from the ADF. While the fighters are mainly Muslim, experts say there are no proven links between the rebels and other extremist organizations in Africa.

   The ADF "has an agenda both ideological and extremist in nature, but also focused ... on exploitation of illegal resources," Lacroix said. He accused the rebels of preying on the local population.

   The rebels once aimed to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni's regime in neighboring Uganda. By the 1990s, they had established themselves in Congo.

   Human rights groups say at least 1,000 people have been killed in the last three years as the ADF intensified attacks in Congo. About a dozen rebels have been sentenced to death on charges related to participating in an insurrection movement.

   The U.N. mission in 2006 helped carry out Congo's first free and fair elections in 46 years. Since then, the winner of that vote, President Joseph Kabila, has become entrenched in power. Anger has grown as presidential elections originally set for late last year have been repeatedly delayed. The government has blamed insecurity for the delays.

   The U.N. secretary-general in October warned that without real progress toward elections, Congo "is likely to enter a period of extreme volatility."

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   Lederer reported from the United Nations. Associated Press writer Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro in Beni, Congo contributed.

Plane Crash in Congo Kills 10

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Authorities in Congo say at least 10 people have died after a military cargo plane crash shortly after takeoff from the capital. Government spokesman Lambert Mende confirmed the crash of the Antonov cargo plane at N'djili International Airport on Saturday morning based on reports from airport officials. Local media report that at least 10 people are believed to have been on the plane bound for Bukavu in Congo's east. Media reports say there were no survivors.

 The cause of the crash was not immediately known. The plane reportedly suffered a technical problem after takeoff and lost contact with the control tower. The crash site is about seven miles (12 kilometers) east of Kinshasa. Media reports say no one who wasn't on the plane is thought to have been killed.

Angola Expels Congolese

   JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Angola has expelled more than 8,000 Congolese who entered the southern African country while fleeing deadly violence at home, the United Nations says in a new report.

   The humanitarian report says more than 30,000 Congolese have fled to Angola during months of violence in Congo's central Kasai regions that began in August.

   Catholic officials in Congo have estimated that more than 3,300 people have been killed in the unrest. On Friday, the U.N. Human Rights Council voted to send experts to the region to investigate alleged abuses that include beheadings.

   More than one million Congolese have been displaced inside the country by the fighting blamed on militias and government forces, the U.N. says.

   The report says militias have used an estimated 500 girls and boys as fighters or "human shields."

   Aid access to the region has been limited by the violence, the U.N. said.

   On Saturday, Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Italy is contributing 300,000 euros ($335,000) for U.N. refugee agency efforts to `'respond to the dramatic humanitarian emergency" in the Kasai regions to help Congolese refugees in Angola, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

   Alfano said the aid will go toward health care, food security, education and `'promoting the reliance of the vulnerable refugee populations." He said the aid aims to `'ease the burden that weighs on the Angolan government in assuring assistance and protection to the refugee population."

   The U.N. says the overall emergency aid appeal of $64 million for the Kasai crisis "remains poorly funded." The U.N. refugee agency has requested $6 million to help the Congolese in Angola.

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Madereva wa Malori Watekwa Nyara huko Congo!

   DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - Tanzania's government and a transport group say an armed group operating in eastern Congo has seized six Tanzanian and four Kenyan truck drivers and is seeking ransom.

   Tanzania's foreign ministry said in a statement Thursday that it is working with Congo's government to secure the release of the Tanzanians.

   Angelina Ngalula, who leads the Tanzania Truck Owners Association, says an armed group blocked 12 cargo trucks carrying cement between Tanzania and Congo on Wednesday, setting four trucks ablaze and seizing the drivers. Two of the 12 drivers escaped.

   Ngalula says four of the truckers are from Kenya.

   She says the armed group is demanding $4,000 per driver in ransom.

   Eastern Congo has a number of armed groups active in a vast and mineral-rich region.

  

Waziri wa Congo Afukuzwa Kazi Baada ya Kupiga Punyeto Ofisini

Naibu Waziri wa Habari, Mawasiliano na Teknolojia wa Congo, Enock Ruberangabo Sebineza amefukuzwa kazi baada ya kupiga punyeto ofisini kwake. Kitendo hicho kilinaswa na kamera aka webcam!

Two Congolese Warlords Jailed

Germain Katanga

Thomas Lubanga

ICC Sends 2 Convicted Warlords to Congo Prison

   THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The International Criminal Court has sent two militia leaders convicted of committing war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo to that country to serve the remainder of their prison sentences.

   The court announced that Thomas Lubanga and Germain Katanga were transferred to a Congolese prison on Saturday.

   Lubanga was sentenced in 2012 to 14 years for using child soldiers in his militia during fighting in the mineral-rich eastern region of Ituri. Katanga was sentenced in 2014 to 12 years for crimes including being an accessory to murder.

  Katanga's punishment was reduced by appeals judges and he is due to complete his sentence Jan. 18.

  

Tunamkumbuka Mh. Patrice Lumumba

 Mh. Patrice Lumumba alikuwa Waziri Mkuu wa Congo baada ya nchi hiyo kupata Uhuru kutoka Ubelgiji. Aliuawa na CIA, na maiti yake iliyeyshhwa kwenye pipa la tindikali.  Wadau, wazungu waliuumiza sana maendeleo ya Afrika miaka ya 1960's-1970's wakati nchi nyingi za Afrika zilikuwa changa. 

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Kutoka THE GUARDIAN

Patrice Lumumba: the most important assassination of the 20th century

The US-sponsored plot to kill Patrice Lumumba, the hero of Congolese independence, took place 50 years ago today

Patrice Lumumba became the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960, and was killed in 1961. Photograph: EPA

Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated 50 years ago today, on 17 January, 1961. This heinous crime was a culmination of two inter-related assassination plots by American and Belgian governments, which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry out the deed.
Ludo De Witte, the Belgian author of the best book on this crime, qualifies it as "the most important assassination of the 20th century". The assassination's historical importance lies in a multitude of factors, the most pertinent being the global context in which it took place, its impact on Congolese politics since then and Lumumba's overall legacy as a nationalist leader.
For 126 years, the US and Belgium have played key roles in shaping Congo's destiny. In April 1884, seven months before the Berlin Congress, the US became the first country in the world to recognise the claims of King Leopold II of the Belgians to the territories of the Congo Basin.
When the atrocities related to brutal economic exploitation in Leopold's Congo Free State resulted in millions of fatalities, the US joined other world powers to force Belgium to take over the country as a regular colony. And it was during the colonial period that the US acquired a strategic stake in the enormous natural wealth of the Congo, following its use of the uranium from Congolese mines to manufacture the first atomic weapons, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.
With the outbreak of the cold war, it was inevitable that the US and its western allies would not be prepared to let Africans have effective control over strategic raw materials, lest these fall in the hands of their enemies in the Soviet camp. It is in this regard that Patrice Lumumba's determination to achieve genuine independence and to have full control over Congo's resources in order to utilise them to improve the living conditions of our people was perceived as a threat to western interests. To fight him, the US and Belgium used all the tools and resources at their disposal, including the United Nations secretariat, under Dag Hammarskjöld and Ralph Bunche, to buy the support of Lumumba's Congolese rivals , and hired killers.
In Congo, Lumumba's assassination is rightly viewed as the country's original sin. Coming less than seven months after independence (on 30 June, 1960), it was a stumbling block to the ideals of national unity, economic independence and pan-African solidarity that Lumumba had championed, as well as a shattering blow to the hopes of millions of Congolese for freedom and material prosperity.
The assassination took place at a time when the country had fallen under four separate governments: the central government in Kinshasa (then Léopoldville); a rival central government by Lumumba's followers in Kisangani (then Stanleyville); and the secessionist regimes in the mineral-rich provinces of Katanga and South Kasai. Since Lumumba's physical elimination had removed what the west saw as the major threat to their interests in the Congo, internationally-led efforts were undertaken to restore the authority of the moderate and pro-western regime in Kinshasa over the entire country. These resulted in ending the Lumumbist regime in Kisangani in August 1961, the secession of South Kasai in September 1962, and the Katanga secession in January 1963.
No sooner did this unification process end than a radical social movement for a "second independence" arose to challenge the neocolonial state and its pro-western leadership. This mass movement of peasants, workers, the urban unemployed, students and lower civil servants found an eager leadership among Lumumba's lieutenants, most of whom had regrouped to establish a National Liberation Council (CNL) in October 1963 in Brazzaville, across the Congo river from Kinshasa. The strengths and weaknesses of this movement may serve as a way of gauging the overall legacy of Patrice Lumumba for Congo and Africa as a whole.
The most positive aspect of this legacy was manifest in the selfless devotion of Pierre Mulele to radical change for purposes of meeting the deepest aspirations of the Congolese people for democracy and social progress. On the other hand, the CNL leadership, which included Christophe Gbenye and Laurent-Désiré Kabila, was more interested in power and its attendant privileges than in the people's welfare. This is Lumumbism in words rather than in deeds. As president three decades later, Laurent Kabila did little to move from words to deeds.
More importantly, the greatest legacy that Lumumba left for Congo is the ideal of national unity. Recently, a Congolese radio station asked me whether the independence of South Sudan should be a matter of concern with respect to national unity in the Congo. I responded that since Patrice Lumumba has died for Congo's unity, our people will remain utterly steadfast in their defence of our national unity.

Romeo na Juliet wa Congo Wajinyonga!

Wadau, mnajua ile hadithi ya Romeo na Juliet? Vijana wawili  walioishi Uingereza mwaka 1597 waliopendana sana lakini wazazi wao walikataa wasifunge ndoa kwa vile mwanaume alitokea ukoo maskini. Romeo na Juliet walijiua kwa kunywa sumu.   Sasa, huko Congo hao wapenzi wamejinyonga pamoja baada ya wazazi wao kukataa wasifunge ndoa! Rest in peace.

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KUTOKA MASAI NYOTA MBOFU BLOG

http://www.masainyotambofu.blogspot.ca/

NAOMBENI RADHI KWA PICHA HII: TUKIO LA KUHUZUNISHA! MVULANA NA MSICHANA WAJINYONGA HADI KUFA BAADA YA WAZAZI KUKATAA WASIOANE!!! SOMA HAPA

 

 

 

 Mkasa huu umetokea huko Congo.

 

Wapenzi hawa wawili waliamua kuchukua jukuma la kujinyonga kwa kujininginiza kwenye mti hadi kufa baada ya wazazi wa mvulana kukataa mtoto wao asimuoe msichana huyo.

 

Baada ya jitihada zao za kuwashawishi kushindikana basi waliamua kuchukua hatua hiyo ya kujinyonga....Wazazi tuwe makini na maamuzi yetu mbele ya watoto

Uchaguzi Congo - Fujo Zaanza

Kiongozi Mpinzani wa Congo,  Etienne Tshisekedi

(AP) - Congo's leading opposition presidential candidate has spent the first half of the monthlong electoral campaign in South Africa, but that did not stop him sending a bombshell from afar: Etienne Tshisekedi proclaimed himself president and ordered his followers to stage jailbreaks to free detained colleagues.

 His declarations, made by telephone from Johannesburg and broadcast live on a Kinshasa TV station on Sunday, have angered people near and far, with some suggesting it is a political death warrant.

On Thursday, when he finally left South Africa and launched his campaign belatedly in the northern provincial capital of Kisangani, he issued more combative statements, inciting his followers to "terrorize them because they have been terrorizing us for a long time."

 "That's it. I'm voting for Kabila," one enraged former supporter fumed at the website Congo Siasa, referring to President Joseph Kabila.

 Information Minister Lambert Mende called Tshisekedi's statements possible treason and criminal. He shut down the offending pro-Tshisekedi Radio Lisanga TV station.
 
The Ministry of Justice said it is investigating whether action should be taken against Tshisekedi, the 79-year-old venerable voice of opposition in Congo who is running for president for the first time.

On Friday, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, warned that the court in The Hague has jurisdiction in Congo.

  "We are paying particular attention to reports of inciting hatred, exclusion and physical violence by various political figures," he said.

While Tshisekedi remained in South Africa, the campaign at home has become increasingly violent, drawing concerned comments from dozens of civil society groups, the United Nations, the European Union, the African Union and the United States.

  A U.N. report this week blamed most violence on politically manipulated security forces. Mende criticized the report, saying it wanted to make martyrs of the opposition.

Since the electoral campaign opened Oct. 28, Tshisekedi's supporters have had clashes, some deadly, with police and Kabila supporters in several towns. Last week in Kinshasa, the capital, gunmen fired on Tshisekedi campaigners putting up posters, wounding two. In the southern mining city of Lubumbashi, Tshisekedi supporters had street battles with a rival opposition party. Sixteen people were wounded. Young people in the eastern city of Goma took to the streets and gunfire erupted after popular folk musician Fabrice Mumpfiritsa was kidnapped, reportedly by government intelligence agents. Mumpfiritsa, who had refused to sing songs supporting Kabila, was found three days later, legs and eyes bound and so badly beaten he had to be hospitalized.

  U.S. Ambassador James Entwistle wrote an article in which he exhorted all candidates "to put the good of the nation before personal, political ambitions" and to renounce the use of violence and incendiary statements.
 
The Nov. 28 elections for a president and for legislators are critical for the future of the mineral-rich but impoverished nation of nearly 72 million as it struggles to recover from back-to-back civil wars that killed an estimated 5 million. It drew in the armies of half a dozen countries before the conflict ended in 2003, though numerous rebel and militia groups still terrorize eastern Congo.
  
How the elections unfold will be a likely indicator of whether Congo is consolidating its fledgling democracy or returning to a state of widespread instability, according to the International Crisis Group.
 
Back in South Africa, Tshisekedi was meeting with members of the governing African National Congress as well as South African mining and agricultural companies. Spokesman Leonard Mulunda said Tshisekedi was campaigning for support.
 
Other aides indicated that needed to be in the form of money, partly to fund chartered jets for campaigning.

The aides, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the issue is sensitive, indicated Tshisekedi had come to charter a jet for campaigning. They charged parties in Kabila's ruling coalition had commandeered all available planes in Congo - charges that have been denied.
 
Congo has few tarred roads and planes are the only viable means of campaigning in a country that straddles an area the size of Western Europe.
 
Civil aviation authorities also denied a claim that they had refused landing rights to Tshisekedi, when he failed to arrive in Kisangani for a rally Wednesday.
   Congo analyst Jason Stearns, author of the book "Dancing in the Glory of Monsters," has predicted a close race, though Kabila appears assured of victory after Parliament revised the constitution to allow only one round of voting, instead of two. The opposition acknowledges they need to field a single candidate to have any chance at beating Kabila, but personal ambitions have got in the way of any agreement. Tshisekedi is backed by 18 parties and is considered the leading opponent among 11 presidential candidates.
 
This is probably Tshisekedi's only shot at the presidency, given his advanced age. He formed Congo's first opposition party in 1982 to combat the longtime dictatorship Mobutu Sese Seko. Back in the 1990s he first declared himself president, saying Mobutu needed to be "rendered harmless."
 
He again made the assertion during this year's campaign.

He claimed Kabila had lost all support and argued that "in a democracy, it is the majority who leads and I'm the head of the majority. So, I'm the president of (Congo), I am the actual head of state."

He went on to urge his supporters to forcefully free party members jailed in Kinshasa, Mbuji-Mayi and Lubumbashi, and to attack police or soldiers who tried to stop them.
 
If militants were not freed by Tuesday, he said his supporters should "mobilize everywhere and set free the supporters and other opponents and break all the prisons.

"And if, unfortunately, police officers and other soldiers come to bother them, then they should be taught a lesson. And if they flee to the camps, they should be hunted all the way out there and followed to their camp where they will receive a good punishment even in front of their wives and children!"
 
Such incitement has alarmed many who fear Congo's election could degenerate into a spiral of violence similar to the presidential dispute that ravaged Ivory Coast for months, killing thousands and displacing a million people before incumbent Laurent Gbagbo was bombed out of his underground bunker and forced to accept an electoral defeat.
   One blogger at Congo Siasa lamented that Tshisekedi "has signed his political death warrant" and suggested his anger reflected hopelessness at fighting "a cause lost in advance."

Joe Frazier Afariki Dunia!

Joe Frazier (kushoto) na Muhammad Ali



Joe Frazier (1944 - 2011)

Bondia maarufu   Joe Frazier amefarikia dunia.  Frazier alipigana na Muhammad Ali mwaka 1971 katika pambano kali iliyoitwa 'Fight of the Century'.  Habari zinasema kuwa madaktari waligundua kuwa Frazier anaumwa kansa ya ini wiki sita tu zilizopita.  Alikuwa ana miaka 67.   Frazier hakumpenda Ali kwa sababu alijaribu kumsaidia alipopatwa na matatizo ya kuzuiliwa kupigana. Jibu la Ali ilikuwa kumwita Frazier 'Sokwe' (gorilla) kwa vile alikuwa mweusi sana kulingana na weupe wa Ali. Mungu ampumzishe mahala pema mbinguni. Amen. 

Kwa habari zaidi BOFYA HAPA:

Mrs. Pauline Lumumba Mjane wa Patrice Lumumba

Wadau, baada ya kuona sinema, Lumumba, mwaka 2001, nilikuwa najiuliza mke wa Patrice Lumumba alikuwa wapi. Lumumba aliuwawa mwaka 1961 akiwa Waziri Mkuu wa Congo. Alikuwa ni mtu ambaye alipenda sana nchi yake na nadhani angeishi Congo ingekuwa mbali zaidi. Yuko Gombe, Congo.


Mama Pauline Lumumba mjane wa Waziri Mkuu wa Congo, Patrice Lumumba aliyeuwawa mwaka 1961. Amekaa mbele na Waziri Mark Mwandosya.

(Picha kwa hisani ya Michuzi Blog) Alipokuwa Kinshasa Prof. Mark Mwandosya pia alimtembelea Mama Pauline Lumumba, mjane wa Waziri Mkuu wa kwanza wa Congo, Marehemu Patrice Emery Lumumba,nyumbani kwake Gombe. Katika picha, waliokaa ni Mama Pauline Lumumba na Prof. Mark Mwandosya. Waliosimama kushoto ni Mama Lucy Mwandosya na kulia ni Juliana Lumumba, binti wa marehemu Patrice Lumumba, aliyekuwa waziri wa Habari na Utamaduni katika serikali ya Marehemu Laurent Kabila.
Mama Pauline Lumumba na moja wa watoto wake, na shemeji yake mara baada ya kuuwawa kwa mume wake, Patrice Lumumba, mwaka 1961.

Ajali ya Mafuta Congo - Lori Ilitoka Tanzania!

Watu zaidi ya 200 wamekufa Congo baada ya lori liyokuwa imebeba mafuta kupinduka huko Congo leo. Lori ilitoka Tanzania. Watu wengi waliokufa walikuwa wanajaribu kuiba mafuta hayo! Umaskini jamani! Mtu unachukua ndoo, viplastiki kwenda kusomba mafuta bila kujali kuwa yanaweza kuwaka moto! mUngualaze wroho zao mahala pema mbinguni. AMEN.

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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - At least 204 people were killed in Congo when a tanker truck transporting oil flipped over and exploded overnight in the east of the country, a Red Cross official said Saturday.

The truck was carrying fuel from neighboring Tanzania when it overturned at high speed late Friday in the village of Sange, around 100 kilometers (60 miles) outside the regional capital, Bukavu, said Red Cross official Desire Yuma.

Speaking by telephone from Bukavu, Yuma said the toll could rise since Red Cross workers were still collecting bodies from the scene.

U.N.-funded Radio Okapi reported a similar death toll, and said some local residents had rushed to steal the leaking fuel when it burst into flames.

Madnodje Mounoubai, a spokesman for the U.N. mission that has peacekeepers in the region, said the U.N. force was investigating the blast. He said no U.N. troops were killed or wounded.

Ajaribu Kuuza Mke Wake Zeruzeru

Wadau, huyo mwanaume ni mshenzi kupindukia! Naomba akamatwe na anyongwe hadharani! Yaani jamaa alitaka kumwuza mke wake ambaye ni zeruzeru albino. Hivi alimwoa kwa nia gani, kumwuza?

Bora wazazi wamchukue binti wao maana huyo jamaa alikuwa ni shetani!

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Kutoka BBC News


Man 'tried to sell' albino wife

This albino grave was sealed to stop people digging up the body
Police in southern Tanzania say they have arrested a man accused of attempting to sell his albino wife.

The man was allegedly planning to sell his wife to two Congolese businessmen for around $3,000.

Albinos have been living in fear in Tanzania after a series of killings due to a belief their body parts can make magic potions more effective.

At least 27 people with albinism have been killed since March, including a seven-month old baby.
President Jakaya Kikwete ordered a police crackdown on those involved in the killings, and 170 witchdoctors have since been arrested.

But BBC investigations suggest that some police are being "bought off" in order to look away when such crimes are committed.

Angry parents

Rukwa regional police commander Isunto Damian Mantage said the fisherman was arrested following a tip-off from an informer, according to the Daily News newspaper.

His wife was not aware that he was planning to sell her off, police say.

Mr Mantage says the wife's angry parents have decided to take back their daughter.

The businessmen managed to escape arrest, and are suspected to have fled back to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The police have asked Interpol to help track them down, the newspaper reported.

The recent attacks on albinos have been linked to witchdoctors who are peddling the belief that potions made from an albino's legs, hair, hands, and blood can make a person rich.

Albinism affects one in 20,000 people worldwide, but in Tanzania the prevalence appears to be much higher.

The Albino Association of Tanzania says that although just 4,000 albinos are officially registered in the country, they believe the actual number could be as high as 173,000.

A census is now underway to verify the figures.

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Wadau, ni kwa nini Tanzania tuna idadi kubwa ya albino kuliko nchi zingine?

Familia ya Wamisionari waponea chupuchupu - Ajali ya Ndege

Mosier Family

Kuna habari kuwa familia ya wamisionari kutoka Minnesota wamenusurika kifo katika ajali ya ndege iliyotokea jana huko Congo.

Familia hiyo ni wamisionari wa Seventh Day Adventist (waSabato) huko Iringa. Walikuwa Congo kumtembelea mtoto wao ambaye ni misionari Congo. Wanaitwa Mosier family.

Habari zinasema kuwa binti wao mwenye miaka 14 ambaye anaongea kiswahili vizuri alisaidia kupata watu wa kuokoa familia yake.

Familia hiyo inasema kuwa wanamshukuru Mungu kuwa wote walitoka na hai kwenye hiyo ajali. Wanasema kuwa ni ishara kuwa Mungu ana kazi maalum ambayo anataka wafanye.

Kwa sasa wanasema watu 36 waliokuwa ndani ya ndege walikufa, na watu zaidi ya 100 waliumia.
Ndege ilianguka kwenye soko nje ya uwanja wa ndege ya Goma huko Congo.

Kusoma habari kamili bofya:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/04/16/congo.crash.survivors/index.html

http://www.kttc.com/News/index.php?ID=24090

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/199302,at-least-33-dead-at-least-120-injured-in-congo.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080416/ap_on_re_af/congo_plane_crash

UPDATE - Ajali ya Ndege Congo

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Inasemekana watu kumi waliokuwa kwenye ndege walitolewa kwenye mabaki ya hiyo ndege wakiwa hai. Pia wanasema hawajui watu wangapi wamekufa waliokuwa kwenye eneo ilipoanguka. Wanasema imeanguka kwenye soko.


BOFYA HAPA KUONA SLIDESHOW
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CNN) -- A plane crashed Tuesday shortly after taking off from the Goma airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 75 passengers and crew members on board, a foreign ministry spokesman said.

Five of the crew and 10 passengers survived the crash, according to Antoine Ghonda, a Congolese lawmaker and former foreign minister.

A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said two Americans were on board the plane, and it was unclear if they survived.

One engine failed as the plane was taking off, Ghonda said. He earlier had indicated the cabin may have been overloaded. He said weather was not a factor.

It's unclear exactly how many passengers were on the flight, he said. Watch as Ghonda describes what went wrong »

There also are concerns that others on the ground may have perished when the plane slammed into a marketplace in Goma's Birere neighborhood.

"This was a market area where women were selling their goods," said Anna Ridout, who works at the Goma office of World Vision, a Christian relief organization.

"People were talking of people just being plowed over by the plane moving across the ground and through the shops and through wooden houses," she said.

U.N. spokesman Kemal Saiki said the pilot and the co-pilot were among the survivors based on conversations with rescuers on the scene.

The Hewa Bora Airways DC-9 was taking off from Goma in the eastern mountains for the central city of Kisangani when it plummeted into a neighborhood near the runway, Ghonda said.


"It actually failed to take off from the runway and went straight through the commercial center here in Goma," Ridout said.

The plane went down shortly after 3 p.m. (9 a.m. ET) and was still on fire an hour later, Saiki said.

The United Nations and Red Cross are helping with the rescue effort, which is hampered by the "basic, if nonexistent" equipment in the impoverished country, Saiki said.

Speaking two hours after the crash, Ridout said, "What I can see is a whole parade of shops on fire and smoke coming out of the roofs."

She said she had spoken with a man who told her he had entered the plane's wreckage and rescued six people, including a baby.

The European Commission added Hewa Bora to its blacklist of carriers last week. The commission had banned all other Congolese carriers, but Hewa Bora operated a weekly flight to Belgium "under a special arrangement," according to a commission news release. That flight was halted last week because of safety violations, Ghonda said.

Hewa Bora Airways is a private Congolese airline based in the capital, Kinshasa.

Congolese authorities had not suspended the airline. "I'm quite sure they're going" to after this week's crash, Ghonda added.


The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, has a dismal aviation record. There have been 10 plane crashes there since February 2007, resulting in 76 deaths, according to the Aviation Safety Network.

Saiki said air travel is one of the few ways to get around.

"This is the third-largest country in Africa, as big as Western Europe, and yet you don't even have 2,000 miles of roads," Saiki said. "So basically most of the transportation in such a big country is done by air."


Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1yNw-WIN05Xqww_QCPUSlgCtCPg


http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/15/plane_crash_in_dr_congo_kills_at_least_83/1811/


http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=136&art_id=nw20080415182329889C318625

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=43334&cat=11