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Shein afunguka vurugu Zanzibar

Rais wa Zanzibar, Dk Ali Mohamed Shein akizungumza katika mkutano na wahariri na waandishi wa vyombo vya habari nchini uliofanyika Ikulu, kisiwani Unguja, jana. Picha na Edwin Mjwahuzi

Elias Msuya na Salma Said
BAADA ya kuwa kimya tangu kutokea machafuko Tanzania Visiwani takriban wiki moja iliyopita, Rais wa Zanzibar Dk Ali Mohamed Shein, amejitokeza kuyazungumzia kwa kuonya kwamba, Serikali yake haitavumulia watakaovunja amani huku akiahidi kuimarisha ulinzi kwa wananchi wake.

Kwa siku takriban nne tangu Jumamosi ya wiki iliyopita, visiwa vya Zanzibar viligubikwa na hali tete kiusalama baada ya kuwapo matukio ya uchomaji moto makanisa yanayodaiwa kufanywa na wafuasi wa Jumuiaya Uamsho na Mihadhara ya Kiislam (JUMIK), ikitaka visiwa hivyo viwe dola huru. 

Hatua hiyo ya Rais Shein kujitokeza jana pia imekuja ikiwa ni siku moja tangu jopo la viongozi wa dini ya Kikristo kutoa tamko kali kwa Serikali, wakiitaka iwajibike kwa uharibifu huo uliodumu tangu mwaka 2001.

Jana, akizungumza  na waandishi wa habari Ikulu ya Zanzibar, Dk Shein alisema amesikitishwa na matukio hayo ya Mei 26.

“Mei 26 hapa Zanzibar kulitokea vitendo vya kuvunja amani. Tumeshuhudia maandamano yenye sura ya kidini na jumbe za kisiasa. Mahubiri haya ndiyo yaliyokuwa chachu ya yote haya yaliyotokea,” alisema Dk Shein na kuongeza:

Authorities: Md. man admits eating heart of victim

BALTIMORE (AP) — A 21-year-old college student accused of killing a housemate told police he ate the victim's heart and part of his brain after he died.

Alexander Kinyua hid the head and hands of the dead man in his family's basement laundry room in a suburb of Baltimore, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Kinyua, a student at Morgan State University, was charged earlier in May in another attack in which the victim was brutally beaten but survived.

Kinyua, a Kenya native, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. He was ordered held on no bail.

His public defender did not return a call seeking comment, and a voicemail left at Kinyua's home was not returned.

Sheriff's spokeswoman Monica Worrell said the chief medical examiner had not yet officially identified the body parts, but that authorities believe they are those of Kodie, who was reported missing May 25.

On Tuesday, Kinyua's father, Antony Kinyua, called detectives and reported that another son, Jarrod, found what he thought were human remains in the house where they all lived.

Cops kill naked man caught chewing off victim's face

Police in Miami shot dead a man who was chewing the face of another man.

Officers were called around 2pm local time on Saturday by drivers who saw two naked men fighting on a bike track next to the city's MacArthur Causeway.

When they arrived at the scene they drew their weapons and ordered the man to stop biting at the other man's face. He ignored them, prompting officers to open fire.

Even after being shot, the man continued and the officers fired again, killing him.

Police are still trying to work out what caused the confrontation that led to the shooting.

"During this confrontation an officer did discharge his weapon striking one of the individuals. That individual has lost his life right now," said Detective Willie Moreno, spokesperson for Miami police.

A Kenyan Student Charged With 1st-Degree Murder In Cannibalism Case

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JOPPATOWNE, Md. (WJZ)— A case of cannibalism in Harford county. A college student tells police he killed a family friend, then dismembered him and ate some of his body parts.

Meghan McCorkell has the disturbing details.

Both the suspect and the victim were students at Morgan State University. But it was inside a Joppatowne home they shared where police say an unimaginable crime occurred.

Mchawi auwawa baada ya kuanguka na Ungo Kimara Dar

Mchawi aliyedaiwa kuanguka na ungo Kimara Dar es salaam wakati akipita angani na wenzake wakielekea visiwa vya Shelisheli alikodai kulikuwa na mkutano wa wachawi kutoka sehemu mbalimbali Afrika!

Nape Ni Gamba- asema Maige

na Ahmed Makongo, Kahama

KATIBU wa Itikadi na uenezi wa Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) Taifa, Nape Nnauye ametajwa kuwa gamba namba moja linalotakiwa kuvuliwa, kwa kile kilichodaiwa kutoa matamshi mengi ambayo yamekivunjia heshima na kukidhohofisha chama hicho.

Nape pia ameshutumiwa kwa kushindwa kwake kubuni mbinu za kuingiza wanachama na zaidi kupambana na wimbi la kuhama kwa viongozi, makada na wanachama wa CCM.

Shutuma hizo nzito zimetolewa na Mbunge wa Jimbo la Msalala wilayani Kahama mkoani Shinyanga, Ezekiel Maige (CCM) jana wakati akizindua matawi mawili ya wakereketwa wa chama hicho ambao ni wajasiriamali, katika Kijiji cha Isaka wilayani hapa.

Maige alisema kuwa Nape amekuwa akitoa kauli ambazo si za msingi, zisizojenga bila kujua kuwa zinakidhohofisha chama hicho tawala.

Rate of Child Abuse Higher Among Muslims...

BY KARLA KELLAM, MAY 29, 2012 A little over a month ago, on April 17, a ten-year-old Muslim boy named Abdifatah Mohamud, was brutally murdered in Buffalo, NY by his stepfather—beaten to death more than 70 times with a rolling pin. The stepfather admitted to “…binding the boy's hands, stuffing a sock into his mouth, duct taping the boy's mouth and beating him to death.” Abidifatah himself had made two frantic calls to 911 the year before he died, pleading for help, but no one arrived at his home to investigate or intervene.The day of his death, he ran to a neighbor’s home asking for refuge, but she urged him to return home.

One month prior to Abdifatah’s death, on March 19, six-year-old Khalil Wimes died at the hands of his parents. He was already gone when his parents brought him to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He weighed a meager 29 pounds and bore countless scars across his face and body, markers of the beatings he had suffered for the past two years. Khalil’s two adult sisters admitted that the little boy spent the final months of his life ill, malnourished and in and out of school because his parents would refuse to feed him and would routinely hit him with anything they could use as a weapon—extension cords, belts, books or shoes. Extended family saw the bruised, frail boy and looked the other way. Khalil had not always had been a terrorized child; he spent the first three years of his life with his loving foster mother who also happened to be his distant cousin. Authorities decided to return Khalil to his addicted parents—six other children had already been removed from the couple’s care because child services had confirmed abuse and neglect—as an attempt at family reunification. His foster mother had been knocking on adoption agencies’ doors for three years in a futile effort to regain custody of Khalil. And now she never will.

Prominent Swedish Research Cuts Off and Eats Wife's Lips...

The man attacked his much younger wife in their home south of Stockholm after flying into a jealous rage over suspicions that his wife had been unfaithful, the Aftonbladet newspaper reported.

Prosecutors considered the attack to be so vicious that they requested the man be remanded in custody on suspicion of attempted murder.

During a remand hearing, however, the court ruled the suspicions should be classified as aggravated assault and ordered the man held on remand pending the filing of formal charges.

According to Aftonbladet, the researcher has admitted to cutting off his wife's lips in retaliation for a supposed love affair.

"It was honour related. He doesn't seem to regret a thing; he believes she insulted him," a source with knowledge of the matter told the paper.

Ingela Hessius Ekman, a lawyer representing the victim, said her client has suffered both physically and emotionally from the attack.

(UK) Girl Raped by Islamic Radical Following Warning to Sikhs...

19 YEAR-OLD PAKISTANI BOY CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING PUNJABI GIRL

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Sikhs block off a main road outside Luton Police station in protest against an attack on a Punjabi girl

LUTON, UK (KP) -  On Tuesday evening, hundreds of Sikh protesters rallied together and protested outside Luton Police Station after a Punjabi female teenager was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old Pakistani male on Monday night. 

The Sikh community strongly believes that this attack was racially motivated, and is one of the many and growing body of evidences of activity within the Muslim community, however, small or isolated, which preys upon vulnerable Sikh females in an organised way and actively encourages this.  The attacker was identified as Anan Majid Basharat a local youth from the Luton neighborhood.

RAIS KIKWETE AKUTANA NA MJUMBE WA RAIS WA BURUNDI IKULU DAR ES SALAAM

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akimpokea Ikulu jijini Dar es Salaam jana Mei 30, 2012 Mjumbe maalumu kutoka serikali ya Burundi, Mh Martin Nivyabandi, ambaye ni Waziri wa Maendeleo ya Jamii wa nchi hiyo. Kati ni Balozi wa Burundi nchini Tanzania.

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akiongea Ikulu jijini Dar es Salaam jana Mei 30, 2012 na Mjumbe maalumu kutoka serikali ya Burundi, Mh Martin Nivyabandi, ambaye ni Waziri wa Maendeleo ya Jamii wa nchi hiyo. Kushoto ni Balozi wa Burundi nchini…

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akimpokea Ikulu jijini Dar es Salaam jana Mei 30, 2012 Mjumbe maalumu kutoka serikali ya Burundi, Mh Martin Nivyabandi, ambaye ni Waziri wa Maendeleo ya Jamii wa nchi hiyo. Kati ni Balozi wa Burundi nchini Tanzania.

RAIS KIKWETE AKUTANA NA MAKAMU WA KWANZA WA RAIS WA IRAN IKULU JIJINI DAR

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akimlaki Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Iran, Mhe. Muhammad Reza Rahimi Ikulu jijini Dar es Salaam jana Mei 30, 2012. Kiongozi huyo yuko nchini kwa ziara ya kikazi.

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akiwa na Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Iran, Mhe Muhammad Reza Rahimi Ikulu jijini Dar es Salaam jana Mei 30, 2012. Kiongozi huyo yuko nchini kwa ziara ya kikazi.…

WABUNGE WA CHADEMA WAANGWA RASMI KWA KUANGALIA MECHI YA KIMATAIFA

Wabunge wa Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA), Mhe, Peter Msigwa na Mhe. Nassari Joshua, Al-Marufu Dogo janja, wakiwa na uongozi wa tawi la Chadema Washington DC, Libe Mwangombe, (wa nne kulia), Mjomba a.k.a Cosmas, Mzee wa swahilivilla Aboh Shatry (wa pili kulia), pamoja na mashabiki wa US, wakiiunga mkono bendera ya taifa. 

Idadi ya wapenzi waliohudhuria katika mpambano huo ni 67,656…

Wabunge wa Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA), Mhe, Peter Msigwa na Mhe. Nassari Joshua, Al-Marufu Dogo janja, wakiwa na uongozi wa tawi la Chadema Washington DC, Libe Mwangombe, (wa nne kulia), Mjomba a.k.a Cosmas, Mzee wa swahilivilla Aboh Shatry (wa pili kulia), pamoja na mashabiki wa US, wakiiunga mkono bendera ya taifa. 

Rwandan ex-minister jailed for life over genocide

DAR ES SALAAM - The U.N. war crimes tribunal for Rwanda sentenced former minister Callixte Nzabonimana to life in prison on Thursday after he was found guilty of playing a key role in his country's 1994 genocide.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), based in Arusha in Tanzania, convicted the former Rwandan Minister of Youth and Associate Movements for genocide, conspiracy, incitement and extermination as a crime against humanity.

"The trial chamber found that ... Nzabonimana instigated the killing of Tutsis. It also found Nzabonimana guilty of entering into two separate agreements to kill Tutsis," ICTR said in a statement.

The former Rwandan politician, 59, was arrested in Tanzania in February 2008.

Ethnic Hutu militia and soldiers butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in the tiny east African country in just 100 days between April and June 1994.

Source: Reuters

Kenyan Woman Dies in Bolivia - Body Stranded There

Lillian Wanjiru

A Kenyan woman and a single mother of two, Lillian Wanjiru has died in Bolivia under mysterious circumstances. Lillian, 35 went to Bolivia South America In December last year and was only there for six months.

According to her brother, Leonard Njuguna, Lillian suffered a lot while there, one of her friends told them that she was arrested and detained in prison at Santa Cruz and while there, she became sick but was not taken to hospital. Sometime last week, she started complaining of severe headaches and later became paralyzed on one side. The police took her to hospital where the doctors discovered that her brain was affected. They demanded for some documents to be signed before treating her and because of the delay, Lillian died that same night on 23rd May, 2012.

The Bolivian authorities wanted to bury her there but the family went to the Ministry of foreign affairs in Nairobi and through the Kenyan Embassy in Brazil, they were given two week to repatriate the body. The family has exhausted every avenue and since the Government can’t help financially, they urgently need $5000.00 which they don’t have and they are appealing to well-wishers to help them bring her body back to Kenya.

Those who are touched and want to help can use the account below.
# 01109101653600 cooperative bank of Kenya
Buru Buru branch
Account name - Leonard Njuguna Mwaura

You can also call the brother, Leonard Njuguna at 

Bill Introduced in Congress to Replace Green Card Lottery with Visas for Foreign Tech Graduates

The US is looking to shift the focus of Green Cards onto skilled hi-tech foreign students rather than its current lottery scheme.

US senator John Cornyn, a senior Republican who sits on a panel that oversees immigration, has introduced legislation that would reserve 55,000 permanent resident visas for overseas students graduating from specific US-based courses.

These include science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

Mr Cornyn said: "In the global competition for the world's best and brightest minds in math and science, the United States should take a backseat to no one."

His ACT – Securing the Talent America Requires for the 21st Century – has been backed by the American Council on International Personnel (ACIP).

Lynn Shotwell, executive director at ACIP, said: "The American economy needs these highly sought-after graduates, and we can't afford to let our US immigration system fall behind in the global race for talent by losing these graduates to foreign competitors."

Kenyan Man Drowns While Swimming Off New Jersey Coast

John Hamli Ongaki - drowned while swimming in Bradley Beach in Mommouth County, New Jersey

John Hamli Ongaki, a 24-year-old resident of Jersey City, New Jersey, and a native of Kenya, has been identified by authorities as the man who drowned last night while swimming in waters off Bradley Beach in Mommouth County, New Jersey.

The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office says he was pulled off the ocean by divers after disappearing in the water for some time. He was pronounced dead at Jersey Shore University Medical Center at 6:48pm on Tuesday. Authorities says four other swimmers, all believed to be in the same party as Ongaki, were rescued but survived.

It is not yet clear what led to his drowning and investigations are ongoing. There were no lifegurads on duty at the same of the drowning.

Alexander Kinyua of Joppatowne, Maryland Charged With First Degree Murder

Alexander Kimanthi Kinyua, charged with 1st degree murder in the death of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie

Joppatowne, MD - Harford County Sheriff’s Office detectives have charged Alexander Kimanthi Kinyua, age 21, of 535 Terrapin Terrace, Joppatowne MD with 1st degree murder, 1st degree assault and 2nd degree assault. Kinyua, a native of Kenya, is charged with the murder of 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie of the same address. Agyei-Kodie had been missing since Friday, May 25, 2012. In the course of locating the missing man, detectives obtained evidence that led them to believe a crime had been committed.

The detectives executed a search and seize warrant of the residence in the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 30, and found partial human remains they believe to be of Agyei-Kodie inside the residence and in a dumpster located off of Trimble Rd. The medical examiner will examine the remains to officially identify them as those of Agyei-Kodie. It is not immediately known the connection between the two men.

Kinyua, who is a student at Morgan State University, remains at the Harford County Detention Center awaiting an initial appearance before the District Court Commissioner.

Askofu Mokiwa: Shein chukua hatua Zanzibar

Askofu Mkuu wa Kanisa la Anglikana Tanzania, Dk Valentino Mokiwa akimweleza Waziri wa Nchi Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar, Mohamed Aboud (kulia) maazimio ya viongozi wa dini wa madhehebu ya kikristo juu ya hali ya vurugu, kuchomwa moto na kuvunjwa kwa makanisa visiwani humo. Viongozi hao walipeleka msimamo huo katika Ofisi ya Waziri Abood mjini Unguja, jana. Kushoto ni Mchungaji wa Kanisa la Kiinjili la Kilutheri Tanzania, Ernest Kadiva. Picha na Edwin Mjwahuzi

Elias Msuya na Salma Said 
JOPO la maaskofu limeitaka Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar (SMZ) inayoongozwa na Dk Ali Mohamed Shein kuchukua hatua thabiti kudhibiti vitendo vya uchomaji moto makanisa.  Askofu Mkuu wa Kanisa la Anglikana, Dk Valentino Mokiwa akizungumza kwa niaba ya maaskofu wengine wa madhehebu mbalimbali mbele ya Waziri wa Nchi, Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais, Mohamed Aboud alisema: 

“Tunaiomba Serikali ichukue hatua madhubuti kudhibiti vitendo hivyo, Wakristo wamechoka. Leo tukirejea historia tangu mwaka 2001 kuna makanisa 25 yameshaharibiwa, yaani kuwa Mkristo ni maisha ya hofu.” Askofu Mokiwa alisema kuwa, Wakristo visiwani Zanzibar wanaishi kwa hofu ya kutishiwa maisha kwa kupigwa mawe na wanaonekana kama daraja la pili, lakini Serikali haichukui hatua madhubuti. “Matukio yote hayo yameripotiwa polisi, lakini hakuna hatua zilizochukuliwa. Tumesikia mkisema (Serikali) eti wanaofanya hivyo ni wahuni. Sisi tunasema hiyo ni lugha ya kututia ganzi. 

Wale siyo wahuni ni wahalifu na kuna taratibu za kuwachukulia hatua za kisheria. Serikali inakemea lakini haina 'confidence' (haijiamini),” alisema Askofu Mokiwa. Aliitaka pia Serikali kueleza mikakati inayochukua na kuwataja majina wahalifu waliokamatwa ili waamini kama kweli hatua zimechukuliwa. Alisema Serikali pia inapaswa kuchukua hatua kwa vikundi vya dini vinavyohubiri siasa kinyume na masharti waliopewa. “Siyo dhambi watu kutaka nchi yao au Serikali yao, lakini masuala haya (ya kuchomewa makanisa) hayana uhusiano wowote na Muungano. Basi kuwe na majadiliano na vikundi hivi ili kuleta maridhiano. Akijibu malalamiko hayo, Waziri Aboud alisema atayafikisha yote kwa Rais wa Zanzibar na Mwenyekiti wa Baraza la Mapinduzi, Dk Shein na Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete bila kupunguza hata nukta. 

Alikiri Serikali kuzembea katika matukio hayo, lakini akasisitiza umuhimu wa viongozi wa dini kutoeneza lugha za chuki. “Lazima tuwe na mkakati wa pamoja na kuhakikisha tunapambana na wote wanaoeneza chuki. 

CCM sasa vurugu tupu, MUKAMA ASEMA KINA MPASUKO MKUBWA

Katibu Mkuu wa CCM,Wilson Mukama

MUKAMA ASEMA KINA MPASUKO MKUBWA KAMA G8, NATO, MAIGE AMLIPUA NAPE, ASEMA NI GAMBA LINALOPASWA KUVULIWA
Amini Yasini, Rufiji na Ahmed Makongo, Kahama
HALI ndani ya Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), si shwari na Katibu Mkuu wake, Wilson Mukama amekiri kwamba hivi sasa kina mpasuko mkubwa unaotokana na makundi yanayofanana na yale ya Umoja wa Kujihami wa Nchi za Magharibi (Nato) na Umoja wa Mataifa yenye nguvu kubwa kiuchumi duniani (G8).

Wakati mtendaji mkuu huyo wa chama tawala akitoa kauli hiyo, aliyekuwa Waziri wa Maliasili na Utalii, Ezekiel Maige ameibuka na kumshambulia waziwazi, Katibu wa Taifa wa Itikadi na Uenezi wa chama hicho, Nape Nnauye akimtuhumu kukiharibu kwa utendaji mbovu, hivyo kutaka ang’olewe haraka akidai kuwa ni gamba. 

Nchi zinazounda G8 ni Marekani, Canada, Ufaransa, Ujerumani, Italia, Japan, Russia na Uingereza ambazo pia baadhi yao, ndizo zinazounda Nato, umoja wenye wanachama 28.

Mukama alitoa kauli hiyo juzi wilayani Rufiji wakati akizungumza na umati wa wananchi na wanachama wa chama hicho waliofurika katika Viwanja vya Corecu, Kata ya Kibiti.

Alisema baadhi ya wanachama wa CCM wamekuwa ni wasaka madaraka na wanapokosa huamua kuunda makundi ya uhasama ambayo hawataki kuyavunja pindi mchakato wa kutafuta mgombea unapomalizika.

“Makundi yaliyoundwa tangu 2005 na 2010 yanaendelea kukitafuna chama, wanachama wakinyimwa uongozi wanaanza uhasama, hatufiki malizeni makundi,” alisema.

Alisema makundi hayo pia yako katika Wilaya za Mkuranga na Rufiji, ambako katika ziara yake amebaini mpasuko mkubwa unaotokana na fitina na uhasama miongoni mwa wapenzi na makada wa CCM na kusisitiza kwamba hayafai na ni hatari kwa mustakabali wa chama hicho kikongwe barani Afrika.

Report: Hugo Chavez is dying

Report: Hugo Chavez's cancer at 'end stage'

This reporter has been told that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez  has metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive cancer that has "entered the end stage".  The information and the quote come from a highly respected source close to Chavez and who is in a position to know his medical condition and history. This source says the prognosis is dire and that Chavez  is now not expected to live "more than a couple of months at most."  Chavez is running for re-elec tion in Venezuela but several sources--including the one who revealed  the exact kind of cancer-- have told me that they believe it is doubtful the dictator will live to see the results.

Mitt Romney is NOT a Natural Born Citizen

Mitt's father, George Romney, was born in Mexico and was a Mexican citizen. There's no indication that George Romney was ever naturalized as a U.S. Citizen and under Mexican law, George Romney was a Mexican citizen, regardless of whether or not he had two U.S. citizen parents at birth. 

According to Mexican law, even the children of Mexican citizens are considered citizens of Mexico. When Mitt Romney was born, he acquired dual-citizenship as both a U.S. and Mexican citizen. 

Therefore under Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution, Mitt Romney is NOT a Natural Born Citizen and ineligible for the office of President. 

Lawsuits must be filed immediately in order to prevent Romney from becoming the GOP nominee or taking the oath of office if he's elected President.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1883973/pg1

FBI joins investigation into Kenyan bomb blast

By Tom Odula, The Associated Press | Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya - An official says FBI agents are assisting Kenyan officials in the investigation into a large explosion in downtown Nairobi.

An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops on Monday, injuring at least 33 people, including a woman who blamed the blast on a "bearded man" who left behind a bag shortly before the detonation.

A Kenyan official who said he could not be quoted confirmed the FBI's involvement on Tuesday.

The intelligence firm IntelCenter said that militants from the al-Qaida-linked Somali group al-Shabab bragged about conducting interviews of survivors after the blast. IntelCenter said the development poses significant challenges to security forces and legitimate members of the media covering attacks.

Islamist Killed Priest's Family and raped his mother and sisters

Mosul (AINA) -- According ankawa.com, an Arabic language Assyrian website, three men entered the home of Fr. Mazin Eshoo on May 23 and killed his father and two brothers, and raped his mother and sister. The attack occurred in the the neighborhood known as Health Quarter in Mosul, north Iraq.

The assailants rode motorcycles and entered the home via the backyard.

Fr. Eshoo is the priest at the Church of Immaculate Syriac Catholics. Two years ago he was kidnapped and released unharmed shortly thereafter.

http://www.aina.org/news/20120529172852.htm

Imam Jailed for Murdering Wife

A young Imam has been put behind bars on the charge of killing his second wife. Shaik Ayub alias Abdulrahman, of Dharmabad in Adilabad district, allegedly killed Yasmeen Begum by strangulating her in bed a few days ago. She was barely 24 years old and the couple had been married for only nine months.

The incident came as a shocker for the village and people gathered in large numbers demanding that the Imam be sentenced to death, as he had defamed the community and holy script. The sarpanch and others plan to boycott the family for such an inhuman act. The reason for the crime is said to be dowry.

Yasmeen who father Shaikh Babu, a daily wage labourer and father of six daughters, could not meet the Imam’s dowry demands. It is alleged that Ayub had been demanding five grams of gold and Rs10,000 in cash immediately. Knowing her father’s financial position, Yasmeen repeatedly pleaded with Ayub that her father could not afford to meet his demands.

Christians Should "Convert, Pay Tribute, or Leave," Says Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Candidate?

"They need to know that conquest is coming, that Egypt will be Islamic, and that they must pay jizya or emigrate," Morsi reportedly said.

According to the popular Egyptian website, El Bashayer, Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate, just declared that he will "achieve the Islamic conquest (fath) of Egypt for the second time, and make all Christians convert to Islam, or else pay the jizya," the additional Islamic tax, or financial tribute, required of non-Muslims, or financial tribute.

In a brief report written by Samuel al-Ashay and published by El Bashayer on May 27, Morsi allegedly made these comments while speaking with a journalist at the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, adding "We will not allow Ahmed Shafiq [his contending presidential candidate] or anyone else to impede our second Islamic conquest of Egypt."

Kenya Army Captures Afmadow,Promise to Capture Kismayu by August-CNN News

Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Kenyan soldiers, as part of African Union forces in Somalia, captured the key Al-Shabaab-controlled town of Afmadow on Wednesday, according to a Kenyan Defence Force spokesman. "We now control Afmadow with our troops," Maj. Emmanuel Chirchir told CNN. The operation started early Wednesday, he said, with KDF forces capturing the town of Hayo. Six Al-Shabaab militants were killed in that operation. "(The troops) then moved straight onto Afmadow," said Chirchir. 

New push against militants in Somalia 

Military analysts believe that Afmadow is a key step in Kenya's campaign against Al-Shabaab, the Islamic militant group they have been fighting since they entered Somalia in October of last year. The town would serve as a staging point for any move on Kismayo, Al-Shabaab's stronghold in southern Somalia. "Afmadow is an important administrative town that was supplying Al-Shabaab fighters with money. It was their nerve center," said Chirchir. "After the fall of Amfadow there is only Kismayo." 

Last week, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said it, along with Somali troops, had launched an offensive against militants in the Afgoye corridor, a densely-populated enclave near the volatile Somali capital of Mogadishu. The corridor, which has been controlled by the al Qaeda-backed Al-Shabaab, is populated with one of the largest populations of internally displaced people. The African Union said the militants have blocked many aid agencies from operating in the area. The campaign was "going well," AMISOM spokesman, Lt. Col. Paddy Nkunda said last week. "Al-Shabaab tried to fight, but they know they are about to lose Afgoye and our soldiers broke through their early resistance.

Israel heart specialists to support Zanzibar

Zanzibar probably  has the highest number of children with heart complications, health expert in Israel has said. Dr Alia Kapusta of the Edith Wolfson hospital in Israel said at a meeting with the visiting Zanzibar Second Vice president (2VP) Ambassador Seif Ali Iddi in Tel-Aviv that health experts from the country would travel to Zanzibar to help children with heart problems.

According to a press statement from the press secretary of the 2VP, the team of heart specialists from an Israel hospital will be flying to Zanzibar to study and diagnose possible cause of heart problems in at least one-thousand children of Zanzibar.

“We have planned to send a team of doctors in September this year to come, check and study the problems causing heart problems in Zanzibari children between the age of five and fifteen,” said Dr Alia, adding that a survey showed that Zanzibar had the biggest number of children with heart patients compared to other African countries.

Zanzibar: Muslim Persecution of Christians

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) -- Zanzibar's mosques are fuller on Fridays, more women are wearing head scarves and more Muslim men are showing calluses created by frequently touching their foreheads to the ground in prayer. A growing number of Zanzibaris are turning toward a stricter form of Islam and possibly away from democracy ahead of this fall's elections, expected to be a volatile affair. 

Multiparty politics ''has brought nothing but tragedy,'' said Abdallah Mohammed Suleiman, 42, who sells imported clothes. ''The best solution (is) to uphold our religious values, that is Islamic values, or revert to single party rule. 

''After all, Islam is the sole unifying factor in Zanzibar.'' 

Fundamentalist clerics see an opportunity, offering Islamic law as an alternative to democracy, arguing that would bring discipline and moral values to political leadership.

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Rais Kikwete ateua Wakurugenzi wapya 9 wa Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje

Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Mheshimiwa Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete ameteua Wakurugenzi wapya tisa wa Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje na Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa ambao pia watakuwa na hadhi ya Balozi.

Kwa mujibu wa taarifa iliyotolewa mjini Dar es Salaam leo, Jumatano, Mei 30, 2012 na Katibu Mkuu Kiongozi, Balozi Ombeni Y. Sefue, uteuzi huo umeanza Mei 2, mwaka huu, 2012.

Walioteuliwa ni Ndugu Vincent Kibwana ambaye anakuwa Mkurugenzi, Idara ya Afrika; Ndugu Naimi Aziz ambaye anakuwa Mkurugenzi, Idara ya Ushirikiano wa Kikanda; Ndugu Celestine Mushy ambaye anakuwa Mkurugenzi, Idara ya Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa; Ndugu Yahya Simba ambaye anakuwa Mkurugenzi, Idara ya Mashariki ya Kati, na Ndugu Bertha Somi ambaye ameteuliwa kuwa Mkurugenzi, Idara ya Diaspora.

Kifo cha Steven Kanumba: Serikali yakabidhi rambirambi ya Shilingi Milioni 10/-

Naibu Waziri wa Habari, Vijana, Utamaduni na Michezo Mh. Amos Makalla akikabidhi kiasi cha shilingi milioni kumi kwa Mama wa marehemu Steven Kanumba ikiwa ni rambirambi ya Serikali kwa familia. (Picha na Benjamn Sawe wa WHVUM)

Dhahabu yagunduliwa kijijini Tumbelo, Dodoma

Mbunge wa viti maalum mkoa wa Dodoma, Bi. Moza Said (katikati), akiangalia maji yaliyochanganywa na udongo wenye dhahabu kwenye machimbo mapya ya Tumbelo wilayani Kondoa leo. wengine ni wachimbaji wadogo wa madini. (picha: Nyakasagani)

Dhahabu imegunduliwa katika kijiji cha  Tumbelo nje kidogo ya mji wa Kondoa, mkoani Dodoma, ambako mgodi huo umeanza kutoa madini kwa wingi na kuwafanya wachimbaji wadogo wadogo kutoka mikoa ya Tanzania kupiga kambi katika eneo hilo.

Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Tumbelo Gold Mine, Bw. Moshi Changai amesema mgodi huo umegunduliwa mwezi uliopita, baada ya mchimbaji mdogo wa kijiji cha Tumbelo, Bw. Hamisi Gori kugundua dhahabu hiyo.

Amesema taarifa ya kuvumbuliwa dhahabu hiyo iliwafikia wachimbaji kutoka sehemu mbalimbali za Tanzania na nje ya nchi ambako wanaendelea kufurika kuchimba dhahabu hiyo.

Wanafunzi Chuo Kikuu wabakwa, walawitiwa

Wanachuo wa Chuo Kikuu cha St. John mjini Dodoma, leo wamegoma kuingia madarasani hadi wawasilishe malalamiko yao kwa Kamanda wa Polisi wa Mkoa, Zelothe Stephen kutokana na kukithiri kwa vitendo vya kupigwa nondo, kuibiwa kadi za benki, kompyuta za mkononi, kulawitiwa na kubakwa.  

Hali hiyo ilisababisha wanafunzi kukusanyika huku wakiwa wamebeba mabango mbalimbali ambayo yalikuwa yakisomeka, ‘Tunaomba ulinzi ili kubaka na kulawitiwa kukomeshwe’, ‘Ulinzi ni haki yetu ya msingi polisi Mko wapi? Tumechoka kuwa wajinga katika jamii yetu na Ulinzi Shirikishi stop crime.’

Baadhi ya wanafunzi hao walilaani vitendo vya wenzao kubakwa na kulawitiwa na kudai kuwa katika siku za hivi karibuni, mwanafunzi wa kiume ambaye anasoma mwaka mwaka wa pili aliibiwa na kisha kulawitiwa hali iliyolazimu alazwe hospitali. 

Hatutarudi nyuma – Sheikh Farid

Waumini wa dini ya kiislamu wakiwa ndani ya msikiti wa Mbuyuni wakionesha mabango ya kukataa Muungano wakati Sheikh Farid (hayupo pichani) akizungumza

JUMUIYA ya Mihadhara ya kiislamu (Uamsho) imetoa msimamo mkali shidi ya Serikali ikisema kuwa haitarudi nyuma katika kudai uhuru wa Zanzibar.

Wakizungumza katika msikiti wa Mbuyuni uliopo eneo la Darajani mjini Zanzibar, viongozi wa Uamsho wamewataka Wazanzibari kutolegezamsimamo wao hata kama jeshi la polisi limezingira mji wao.

“Umoja wetu ndiyo utakaotukombolea nchi yetu, msikubali kuyumbishwa na kitu chochoe ili kulegeza msimamo wetu. Jambo moja tu, ni mpaka kieleweke.