SUDAN KUSINI YANUSURIKA KUPINDULIWA, SILVA KIIR ASEMA YUKO NGANGARI

Rais Silva Kiir wa Sudan Kusini

Rais wa Sudan Kusini Salva Kiir, anasema vikosi vyake vimefanikiwa kutibua jaribio la mapinduzi, baada ya usiku mzima wa mapigano katika mji mkuu wa nchi hiyo Juba.

Bw. Kiir, anayetoka katika kabila kubwa zaidi la wa Dinka amewatupia lawama wanajeshi wanaomtii aliyekuwa makamu wake Riek Machar, anayetoka katika kabila dogo la Nuer.

Riek Machar aliyewahi kuwa makamu wa Rais wa Sudan Kusini ndiye anayetuhumiwa kuusika na jaribio la mapinduzi

Aidha Kiir ametangaza amri ya kutotembea usiku mjini Juba na kusema serikali sasa inaudhibiti mji huo.

Makundi hasimu ya wanajeshi walipigana vikali kwa saa kadhaa na kuna ripoti za kuwepo majeruhi maelfu wakiripotiwa kukimbilia usalama wao.

Milio ya risasi sasa inaripotiwa kupungua. Kumekuwa na hali tete ya kisiasa nchini Sudan Kusini tangu mwezi Julai wakati Rais Kiir alipovunja na kuwafuta kazi mawaziri wote katika baraza lake akiwemo Makamu wa Rais Bw.Machar.

MANDELA AZIKWA RASMI KWA HESHIMA KUBWA

Tata Madiba (Rais wa kwanza mzaleendo wa Africa Kusini)

Siku kumi tangu alipofariki dunia, hatimaye Rais wa kwanza wa afrika kusini Nelson Mandela amezikwa leo katika makaburi ya fanilia katika kijiji cha Qunu nchini humu huku akiacha hofu kwa wageni wanaoishi nchini humo

Mandela anayeitwa na raia wan chi hiyo kwa jina la TATA Madiba amezika mapema leoo majira ya mchana na viongozi mbalimbali wan chi za kiafrika, Mashariki, Ulaya na Amerika wamehudhuria mazishi hayo

Wageni maarufu kama walowezi wanahofu kuwa huenda kuondoka kwa mandela kukaibua hoja za kuwataka wageni wanaoishi nchini humo kuanza kunyanyaswa, kitendo ambacho mandela hakuwa akikubaliana nacho

Hata hivyo waombolezaji kutoka mataifa mbalimbali ambao walikuwa wakifuatilia runinga ili kushiriki mazishi kwa njia ya picha hawakuweza kuliona jeneza kutokana na kamera kutoonesha kinachoendelea ndani ya kaburi

Sambamba na mazishi hayo mizinga 21 imepigwa angani kama ishara ya heshima kwa Baba wa taifa hilo ambaye alisota jela miaka 27 kufuatia harakati zake za kupinga ubaguzi wa rangi uliokuwaukisimamiwa na serikali ya makabulu

Rais wa Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete amekuwa kivutio katika mazishi hayo pale alipopigiwa makofi mara kadhaa wakati akihhutubia waombolezaji na kutaja kuwa Mandela na raia wa afrika kusini ni ndugu na kwamba Tanzania ilishiriki kwa asilimia mia moja kutetea waafrika na kuleta Uhuru wa nchi hiyo

Katika kupigania uhuru wa nchi mbalimbali za Africa Tanzania ilitoa ardhi na mafunzo ya kisiasa na kijeshi kwa wapigania uhuru wan chi mbalimbali akiwemo Nelson Mandela, Joachim Chisano, Samora Machel na wengine wengi kutoka nchi za Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia

DRC GOVERNMENT SIGNED DEAL WITH M23 LABELS IN KENYA

M23 Labels in Goma, North Kivu in  DRC 

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has signed a peace agreement with the M23 rebels in Nairobi.

President Joseph Kabila of DR Congo

The deal is based on an earlier consensus reached in the Kampala peace process. It brings to an end the most serious rebellion in the DRC over the past two decades. And it comes a month after the Congolese army defeated the M23 in the country’s east.

A joint communique issued by the two sides says the agreement comprises two declarations and 11 points. The documents include a pledge by the M23 to end all armed activities and transform itself into a political party.

The deal also features measures aimed at achieving long term stability, reconciliation and development in the eastern DRC. They include an amnesty to M23 members only for acts of war or insurgency and the demobilisation of former M23 members.

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda

M23 is the latest incarnation of the Tutsi-led insurgents who have battled Congo's government in its mineral-rich eastern region since 1996, in an evolving conflict that has caused the deaths of millions from violence, hunger and disease.
 
“Today the DRC (Congo) government and M23 have respectively signed declarations reflecting the consensus reached during the Kampala Dialog on steps necessary to end the armed activities of the M23,” said a joint communique.

Two declarations were signed which together comprise 11 points agreed on by the parties, said the communique, signed by President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and President Joyce Banda of Malawi.

President Joyce Banda of Malawi

 
These include a decision by the M23 to end the rebellion and transform itself into a political party, an amnesty to M23 members only for acts of war or insurgency and the demobilization of former M23 members.
 
It included agreement on the release of those held by Congo for war or rebellion and called for the return of those displaced by fighting. It also called for the formation of a committee to handle property and land that was confiscated, stolen or destroyed.

The M23 has battled Congo’s government for control of the mineral-rich east since 1996. Over that period, the conflict has caused the deaths of millions from violence, hunger and disease.

MANDALA'S BODY ARRIVES IN HIS VILLAGE

The body of Nelson Mandela has arrived at his ancestral home village of Qunu in South Africa's Eastern Cape ahead of the anti-apartheid icon's state funeral that will take place on Sunday. The coffin carrying the remains of South Africa's first black president was driven in a hearse from Mthatha airport, 700 km (450 miles) south of Johannesburg after it arrived in a military plane. It was given a ceremonial military escort and cheered by crowds lining parts of the road as it made its way to the village where he grew up. Mandela, whose coffin was draped with the national flag, will be laid to rest in a private affair barred to the public and the media. The journey to the small village started on Saturday shortly after the governing ANC paid its last respects to the man who led it to power, becoming the country's first black president after a long and painful struggle against racist, white-minority rule. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa, reporting from East Cape, said many people in the province viewed Mandela, who rose from a humble background to lead Africa's most powerful nation, as a "source of inspiration" and were eagerly awaiting the arrival of his coffin. In a keynote address delivered in Pretoria in honour of Mandela, President Jacob Zuma hailed Madiba, the clan name by which the Nobel laureate was known, as a "man of action". "Since the day our leader passed on, we have remembered him in a very special way. We have received messages of condolences from around the world," Zuma said. He said Mandela, who joined the ANC in his early 20s, was able to "combine theory and practice", making it easy for him to practise what he preached. Earlier, Mandela's grandson, Mandla, gave a speech about the former president's long struggle for freedom. Mandela, who was battling a chronic lung infection for months, died last Thursday at the age of 95. On Sunday, some 5,000 people, including foreign dignitaries, are expected to participate in a formal, two-hour ceremony beginning at 8am (0600 GMT). The funeral procession from the airport to Qunu will be led by the armed forces and Mandela will receive a 21-gun salute and a flyover by the South African Air Force. Saying goodbye Since his death at his Johannesburg home on December 5, South Africans have turned out in pouring rain and blistering sunshine to say goodbye to the man they viewed as a liberator. Tens of thousands packed a soaked stadium in Soweto for a memorial service on Tuesday, which was attended by more than 70 world leaders. Up to 100,000 people filed past Mandela's open-casket for the three days it was displayed at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the seat of government where he was inaugurated two decades earlier. Special Edition For a unique look at the life of the world's most famous prisoner-turned-president, download our Mandela magazine. Mandela was jailed for 27 years on Robben Island by the white-minority racist regime which he opposed, emerging from prison in 1990 and becoming president after the country's first multi-racial elections in 1994. A year before he was elected president, he won the Nobel Peace Prize along with FW de Clerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era president who helped negotiate the end of racial segregation with Mandela. Around 3,000 members of the media have already descended on Qunu where a special stage and marquee have been erected for the invited guests, who include Britain's Prince Charles. The funeral will be held according to traditional Xhosa rites overseen by male members of Mandela's clan. The slaughtering of an animal - a ritual performed through various milestones of a person's life - will form a crucial part of the event. During the ceremony, Mandela will be referred to as Dalibhunga, the name given to him at the age of 16 as he entered adulthood. Although Mandela never publicly declared his religious denomination, his family comes from a Methodist background.

Source: Al Jazeera

KAMATI KUU YA CCM YAANZA KUWAHOJI MAWAZIRI

Mwenyekiti wa Chama chaMapinduzi CCM Dr. Jakaya Kikwete (kushoto) akiwa na Katibu mkuu wa CCM Abdulahiman Kinana

Kamati Kuu ya Halmashauri Kuu ya CCM chini ya Mwenyekiti wake Rais Jakaya Kikwete, imeanza kuwahoji mawaziri waliotajwa ni ‘mzigo’ kwa Serikali.

Katibu wa Itikadi na Uenezi wa CCM, Nape Nnauye, jana alilithibitishia gazeti dada la Mwananchi, The Citizen juu ya kuanza kwa kikao cha Kamati Kuu (CC), lakini hakuwa tayari kuingia kwa undani kuhusu ajenda.

Nape Nnauye Katibu wa itikadi na Uenezi CCM

Hata hivyo, habari za ndani zilieleza kwamba miongoni mwa ajenda kuu za CC ni kuwahoji mawaziri wanaolalamikiwa na wananchi, kwamba wameshindwa kutekeleza majukumu yao.

Wakiwa Wilaya ya Namtumbo mkoani Ruvuma, Nape aliwatupia lawama mawaziri wakati akielezea changamoto zinazowakabili wakulima ambao ni asilimia 80 ya Watanzania, huku mawaziri husika wakikaa kimya.

Mawaziri waliotajwa mzigo ni Waziri wa Elimu na Mafunzo ya Ufundi, Dk Shukuru Kawambwa; Waziri wa Kilimo, Chakula na Ushirika, Christopher Chiza na Naibu wake, Adam Malima, kwamba wameshindwa kazi na alipendekeza wang’olewe.

Hata hivyo, gazeti hili jana lilishuhudia mawaziri kadhaa wakifika na kuingia kwenye mkutano wa CC, taarifa zingine zilisema mawaziri waliofika kwenye kikao hicho walihojiwa na wajumbe wa CC.

CHANZO. Mwananchi

ZITTO KABWE AVULIWA CHEO KINGINE MUHIMU

Mhe. Zitto Kabwe aliyekuwa Naibu msemaji wa kambi ya upinzani bungeni

Hali ya mambo ndani ya Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo CHADEMA yanazidi kufuatia tukio la Mbunge wa Kigoma Kaskazini, Zitto Kabwe kuvuliwa rasmi cheo cha Naibu Msemaji wa Kambi Rasmi ya Upinzani Bungeni.

Katibu wa wabunge wa Chadema, David Silinde, alithibitisha jana alipozungumza na gazeti hili kuhusu Kambi Rasmi ya Upinzani kumvua cheo hicho Zitto na kwamba tayari taarifa imeshapelekwa kwa spika.

“Ni kweli tulikutana leo mchana na tumeamua kumvua rasmi cheo cha Naibu Msemaji wa kambi Rasmi ya Upinzani Bungeni na sasa nafasi hiyo iko wazi,” alisema Silinde.

Silinde alisema uamuzi huo umefikiwa ikiwa ni kutekeleza maagizo ya Kamati Kuu ya Chadema iliyoamua Zitto kuvuliwa nyadhifa zote ndani ya chama kutokana na kudaiwa kukisaliti chama hicho.

Kwa mujibu wa Silinde ambaye pia ni Waziri Kivuli wa Nchi Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu, Sera, Uratibu na Bunge, alisema hatima ya uanachama wa Zitto pamoja na Ubunge wake sasa iko mikononi mwa Kamati Kuu ya Chadema. Zitto tayari amekata rufani Baraza Kuu la chama hicho kupinga hatua ya Kamati Kuu kumvua nyadhifa zake hizo.

CHANZO. Mwananchi.