AJALI MBAYA YATOKEA BUTIAMA, WATU 38 WAPOTEZA MAISHA NA WENGINE 80 MAJERUHI

<p><b>Kufuatia ajali mbaya</b><br> <b>iliyohusisha magari</b><br> <b>matatu wilayani Butiama</b><br> <b>mkoani Mara idadi ya</b><br> <b>watu waliopoteza maisha</b><br> <b>ni 38 hadi sasa huku</b><br> <b>majeruhi wakiwa ni 80.</b></p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh09tD9y3RVBK9P37g96G9PktSUHj6qXebabF10FK9GkD200Nl-jlcV3C22U1U_X9d1wD-p-2pxxw_1DN1L3ks3D2TabGD5CYyk4WFC1qlyACJA2DMI3Trk6OIvJaKLGElHoFkq20eCXaMW/s1600/10417571_700601306686259_5475515986566349370_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh09tD9y3RVBK9P37g96G9PktSUHj6qXebabF10FK9GkD200Nl-jlcV3C22U1U_X9d1wD-p-2pxxw_1DN1L3ks3D2TabGD5CYyk4WFC1qlyACJA2DMI3Trk6OIvJaKLGElHoFkq20eCXaMW/s400/10417571_700601306686259_5475515986566349370_n.jpg"> </a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVRjFMEST-TKJsxMUHCOohiodrZ42VoAa5D7Y_cooxTALeRa_jDAQ55h7oUG8jHmyLWbXgn3GEfGX4Lq6VTGB6sSQOOaMqzcMxbLbj0p7xYIH-w-SKV0wK_2n5VF2xNKzVzyPlB2lT_C4T/s1600/10645177_1016004725080612_7643233556831350527_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVRjFMEST-TKJsxMUHCOohiodrZ42VoAa5D7Y_cooxTALeRa_jDAQ55h7oUG8jHmyLWbXgn3GEfGX4Lq6VTGB6sSQOOaMqzcMxbLbj0p7xYIH-w-SKV0wK_2n5VF2xNKzVzyPlB2lT_C4T/s400/10645177_1016004725080612_7643233556831350527_n.jpg"> </a> </div> Kwa mujibu wa mkuu wa wilaya ya Butiama ambaye ni mwenyekiti wa kamati ya ulinzi na usalama wilaya hiyo Anjelina Mabula aliyezungumza na TBC muda mfupi uliopita amesema ajali hiyo imehusisha basi la AM Coach lenye namba za usajili T736 AWJ likitoka Musoma kwenda Mwanza limegongana uso kwa uso na basi T677 CYC J4 Express likitoka Mwanza kwenda Tarime na gari jingine dogo aina ya Nissan Corola P332 KKT likitoka eneo la Sabasaba yote yalikutana kwenye mteremko yakitokea juu kwenda Darajani katika kupishana ,kutokana na spidi waliyokuwa nayo hawakuweza kupishana yakagongana na wakati huo gari dogo likapaki pembeni nalo likagongwa kwa nyuma likasukumwa na kutumbukia mtoni. Katika gari dogo watu wawili wamefariki dunia na majeruhi 36 kutoka kwenye mabasi nao wamefariki na majeruhi 80 wamekimbizwa katika hospitali ya mkoa wa Mara. Madereva wote wamefariki dunia,na kwamba mizigo ya majeruhi iko chini ya ulinzi wa polisi

AJALI MBAYA YATOKEA BUTIAMA, WATU 38 WAPOTEZA MAISHA NA WENGINE 80 MAJERUHI

Kufuatia ajali mbaya iliyohusisha magari matatu wilayani Butiama mkoani Mara idadi ya watu waliopoteza maisha ni 38 hadi sasa huku maj...

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PICHA 5 ZA NYUMBA YA MFANYABIASHARA MAARUFU ZANZIBAR ILIVYOTEKEA KWA MOTO

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0AR_e57WHA0spzzKDtNIyM8Ym9kqFkjNDs37Qlo8YbVTdO8Rq80KzAGqSpVaDmQ7p2qnuKyQ1J-b5t2Y-SMuo2ctqEDRjA2-gGa9O0n3T5d7IRZOfRVISCf3KSyzSc0Xew-WQAIuzbtWb/s1600/MO1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0AR_e57WHA0spzzKDtNIyM8Ym9kqFkjNDs37Qlo8YbVTdO8Rq80KzAGqSpVaDmQ7p2qnuKyQ1J-b5t2Y-SMuo2ctqEDRjA2-gGa9O0n3T5d7IRZOfRVISCf3KSyzSc0Xew-WQAIuzbtWb/s400/MO1.jpg"> </a> </div> Nyumba hiyo ikiwa imeteketea kabisa. Nyuma inayomilikiwa na mfanyabiashara maarufu mjini Zanzibar, Noushad Mohammed Suleiman, iliyopo mtaa wa Kwa Kisasi barabara ya Bububu, imeteketea kwa moto. Nyumba hiyo yenye vyumba vitatu na msikiti, iliungua jana jioni kutokana na hitilafu ya umeme. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk5aSQ5hkOu-nkB7sxuu31ekUvq0LAtrxzbNDxZASW_IgrQqRXW7o2DBH6OAk6NNu7nHpDb6jO0N9MBohjGuZ5wLME6NaMy0O2x-7GTeKFwfto19X48THzbm9NT6LYtqfyzacA_U6fecB2/s1600/MO2_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk5aSQ5hkOu-nkB7sxuu31ekUvq0LAtrxzbNDxZASW_IgrQqRXW7o2DBH6OAk6NNu7nHpDb6jO0N9MBohjGuZ5wLME6NaMy0O2x-7GTeKFwfto19X48THzbm9NT6LYtqfyzacA_U6fecB2/s400/MO2_2.jpg"> </a> </div> Mfanyabiashara Noushad Mohamed Suleiman akizungumza na waandishi wa habari kuhusiana na tukio la kuungua nyumba yake. Moto huo umeathiri vibaya nyumba hiyo, pamoja na samani zote zilizomo ndani. Akizungumza na waandishi wa habari hizi, mmiliki wa nyumba hiyo alisema, chanzo cha moto huo ni hitilafu ya umeme, ambao ulianzia katika chumba cha kushonea na baadae kuenea sehemu nyengine. Vitu vingine vilivyoungua ni nyaraka muhimu, hati za kusafiria za watoto wake, televisheni seti sita, friji mbili, kuka, viyoyozi sita na samani za vyumba vyote na kumbi. Alisema thamani ya vitu vilivyoungua bado haijajulikana. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj63SlhMXLfxVmaBWh0o3Ql9Ummy-iR0wDuSZQBYe96J8t541YmF2HzmwGu1plEwzu4CU6YKIEMRe-t1ESjnIwp4lrfO8mbe8nLp7gDFurvWv8m9R2SBUpxVFetqwpqjQw9wmMaIjwQOAze/s1600/MO3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj63SlhMXLfxVmaBWh0o3Ql9Ummy-iR0wDuSZQBYe96J8t541YmF2HzmwGu1plEwzu4CU6YKIEMRe-t1ESjnIwp4lrfO8mbe8nLp7gDFurvWv8m9R2SBUpxVFetqwpqjQw9wmMaIjwQOAze/s400/MO3.jpg"> </a> </div> Gari za vikosi vya zimamoto zikiwa katika eneo la tukio. Hata hivyo, alikishukuru Kikosi cha Zima Moto na Uokozi (KZU) pamojana wananchi kwa ushirikiano wao uliofanikisha kuudhibiti moto huo. Noushad ambae ni mfanyabiashara mkubwa, alisema ingawa nyumba hiyo haijakatiwa bima, hana wasi wasi na kwamba katika kipindi kifupi atajenga tena nyumba hiyo. Naye Mkuu wa Kikosi cha Zimamoto mkoa wa mjini, Ame Ali Suleiman, alisema walipata taarifa ya moto huo kupitia simu ya mkononi majira ya saa 10:07 za jioni na walifanikiwa eneo la tukio saa 10:17. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQRd2_tz2X6EaDwQHIvQ8pIBmR8YAEIn77pge6ccFibtmpvIzy3qFBx1pai17eSBUyiBFf0y36wEEZBCoBPgBwHoPiRV1XS9VHrMagP8kFKbAeHmg9cVKqK6nQXLf3UtkYRgabbu684or/s1600/MO4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQRd2_tz2X6EaDwQHIvQ8pIBmR8YAEIn77pge6ccFibtmpvIzy3qFBx1pai17eSBUyiBFf0y36wEEZBCoBPgBwHoPiRV1XS9VHrMagP8kFKbAeHmg9cVKqK6nQXLf3UtkYRgabbu684or/s400/MO4.jpg"> </a> </div> Vikosi vya zimamoto vya ZKU vikijitahidi kupambana na moto huo. Alisema waliudhibiti moto huo uliokuwa ukiwana kwa kasi kutokana na upepo mkali uliokuwa ukivuma. Akizungumzia changamoto walizokumbana nazo wakati wa uzimaji moto huo, alisema hawakuwa na maji ya kutosha hali iliyowalazimu kurudi tena mjini kufuata maji. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigNUq4Fl6qfViWcTOpxYcSKOCQokydJW1-0YteJ5M7YaIz2Cko5A-tAe3jupQncnqXRHuoVtWiGcCJVFyEa3tIqSKLdKw4M2yZmql78JAt-3IilzBvNsmAtmtpttGaAN7U4NYYPDpcuSP8/s1600/MO5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigNUq4Fl6qfViWcTOpxYcSKOCQokydJW1-0YteJ5M7YaIz2Cko5A-tAe3jupQncnqXRHuoVtWiGcCJVFyEa3tIqSKLdKw4M2yZmql78JAt-3IilzBvNsmAtmtpttGaAN7U4NYYPDpcuSP8/s400/MO5.jpg"> </a> </div> Kamanda wa Polisi Mkoa wa mjini magharibi Unguja, Mkadam Khamis Mkadam, alisema hakuna mtu alieathirika na moto huo wala hakukua na uhalifu wa aina yoyote ulioripotiwa. Aliwataka wanachi kuwa na tahadhari wanapotumia vitu vya umeme, pamoja na kuhakikisha wanazima vitu vyote wanapomaliza kutumia.

PICHA 5 ZA NYUMBA YA MFANYABIASHARA MAARUFU ZANZIBAR ILIVYOTEKEA KWA MOTO

Nyumba hiyo ikiwa imeteketea kabisa. Nyuma inayomilikiwa na mfanyabiashara maarufu mjini Zanzibar, Noushad Mohammed Suleiman, iliyopo m...

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SAMSUNG WAMEKULETEA TOLEO JIPYA, IONE HAPA NA UWAHI DUKANI

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglY1ibnNuOALld_l82sfflwHxRuHq8sF4_kjt81jUBDdUXeh5vgR2d3E78U-hNuTqNFkPoJZYKmjsqIEmDniye3TK7RVxiBXVooW-SY3mh7KY_AW-2UAQv7PhIrvBb8zaRFcgqN5fqmIaa/s1600/GALAA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglY1ibnNuOALld_l82sfflwHxRuHq8sF4_kjt81jUBDdUXeh5vgR2d3E78U-hNuTqNFkPoJZYKmjsqIEmDniye3TK7RVxiBXVooW-SY3mh7KY_AW-2UAQv7PhIrvBb8zaRFcgqN5fqmIaa/s400/GALAA.jpg"> </a> </div> Haya tena wale wapenzi wa teknolojia hasa gajeti, leo Samsung wamezindua flagship yao kutoka familia ya Galaxy note amabyo inakwenda kwa jina la Samsung Galaxy Note edge.Simu hii ina kioo klichojikunja tofauti na flat screen tulizozoea, kwa sasa hii ndio highest end phone kutoka Samsung. Note Edge ina sifa zifuatazo, inaelekea kufanana kiasi na ndugu yake Note 4.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwRReu1VJ7YC3RrHXQRXEv7dBPAKtMi_PZ10r9BhtIrFvRRjmpYvOEqLEPvlnJG4fPKxRyJvpfnAMLJhY9hFib8QNlTqB7Gt3_9kJDuFFb8Norz-qqImw25ivkqdnnF-uwFA-49ZpxpcRY/s1600/galaxy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwRReu1VJ7YC3RrHXQRXEv7dBPAKtMi_PZ10r9BhtIrFvRRjmpYvOEqLEPvlnJG4fPKxRyJvpfnAMLJhY9hFib8QNlTqB7Gt3_9kJDuFFb8Norz-qqImw25ivkqdnnF-uwFA-49ZpxpcRY/s400/galaxy.jpg"> </a> </div> Yenyewe ina metallic design, It has the same soft-touch back, blissfully without the fake stitching. Ina kamera yenye 16- megapixel, heart-rate monitor, processor, memory, software, Multi Window feature, kila kitu kama ndugu yake note 4. Kwa sasa hii ndio simu kutoka samsung yenye nguvu kuliko simu zote. Ina Quad HD, 2560 x 1440 display kama kwenye Note 4, Ila hii kioo chake ni kidogo kidooogo ambayo ni inchi 5.6 tofauti na 5.7 ya note 4.

SAMSUNG WAMEKULETEA TOLEO JIPYA, IONE HAPA NA UWAHI DUKANI

Haya tena wale wapenzi wa teknolojia hasa gajeti, leo Samsung wamezindua flagship yao kutoka familia ya Galaxy note amabyo inakwenda kw...

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KWA MARA YA KWANZA DIAMOND PLATINUM AONGEA KUHUSU SHOW YA UJERUMANI

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwHbzz-5WkFfJUZYqnM9oyqiUwpOzNy2kOoR-jkY6nsdNy62QSVwsqhWXGIrd_GAPSeLd7-sjydI6pvxSW7VAuCQvSZ5DIRWoRq18IaBUJV9aiJ6gVlNLiEGKNQa6r4LXahHxKnPdx5oEo/s1600/PLAT8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwHbzz-5WkFfJUZYqnM9oyqiUwpOzNy2kOoR-jkY6nsdNy62QSVwsqhWXGIrd_GAPSeLd7-sjydI6pvxSW7VAuCQvSZ5DIRWoRq18IaBUJV9aiJ6gVlNLiEGKNQa6r4LXahHxKnPdx5oEo/s400/PLAT8.jpg"> </a> </div> Kuanzia siku tatu zilizopita stori kubwa kwenye kiwanda cha burudani Tanzania imehusu fujo zilizotokea Ujerumani kwenye show aliyokwenda kufanya Diamond Platnumz huko Stuttgart. Kilichotokea ni kwamba saa kumi alfajiri ndio promota alimpeleka Diamond kwenye ukumbi kunakofanyika show. Kwa nini ilitokea akamchelewesha? nini kilitokea baadae? hizi hapa chini ni kauli za Diamond mwenyewe kwenye exclusive na Clouds fm 1. ‘Mpaka sasa hivi nashindwa kuelewa tatizo lilikua nini, siamini kama tatizo lilikua ni hela, balance iliyokua imebaki ni balance ndogo kama EURO 3500 hivi ambazo ni zaidi ya milioni 7 za Tanzania, ninavyojua Mapromoter wengi wa nje wakifanya show huwa wanauza na vinywaji wenyewe na wanapata hela nyingi sana kwenye vinywaji kuliko hata viingilio so nahisi labda walivuta muda ili waendelee kuuza vinywaji zaidi’<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73IZMi4tL0b77lkspyD5T0xYV_K6r3ciSQmdnLpeN65Vp9nhxElsxSNRlyZLmbwSytybTK-UfCDP9ozH2XJ0sH1bMZ5z11S-S1D1a6GUbdOVlIECZNZoIV5aYxok464p70SloulyBVo7K/s1600/PLATINUMZA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73IZMi4tL0b77lkspyD5T0xYV_K6r3ciSQmdnLpeN65Vp9nhxElsxSNRlyZLmbwSytybTK-UfCDP9ozH2XJ0sH1bMZ5z11S-S1D1a6GUbdOVlIECZNZoIV5aYxok464p70SloulyBVo7K/s400/PLATINUMZA.jpg"> </a> </div> 2. ‘Walichelewa kunipeleka kwenye show, walinifata kwenye mida ya saa tisa usiku na wakawa hawana hela yangu iliyobaki, nikawaambia siendi kokote mpaka wamalize kunilipa, walikua na EURO 1500 wakati nilikua nawadai 3500 nikawaambia lazima wanipe hela yote, wakaifata ndio tukaenda kwenye show’ 3. ‘Tukafika kwenye show saa10 kasoro, kweli hata ningekua mimi shabiki ningekasirika ningefanya vurugu, wengine walilipa zaidi ya laki moja na wametoka kwenye miji na nchi jirani, niliwaambia wanipeleke nikafanye show ndani ya ukumbi japo tulikuta watu wengi sana nje lakini Mapromota walikua waogawaoga kunipeleka ndani’ 4. ‘Nikakuta watu wengi na vurugu nje, nikamwambia promota atupeleke ndani tungefika kwenye stage ingetulia baada ya sisi kuimba manake ni vitu tunakutana navyo kwenye muziki lakini promota walikua waogawaoga, askari wa Ujerumani karibu gari 7 wakaja pale lakini mtiti ukawa mkubwa’ 5. ‘So dakika ya mwisho tukaona hapashukiki ndio wakaturudisha hotelini, kiukweli nimesikitishwa sana manake nilikua nimejipanga vizuri na ilikua ni mara yangu ya kwenda kuperform pale Stuttgart, imenisikitisha manake watu walikua kuniona alafu mwisho ikashindikana kuwafikishia walichokitarajia’ 6. ‘Nafikiri October tutakua na show nyingine na itafanyika kulekule, nilikua nazungumza na uongozi wangu kwamba wanataka show nyingine na tayari wameshatuma hiyo hela ya show nyingine’.

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South Sudan: Govt Acquires More Weapons Amid Rebel Protests

<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Addis Ababa — South Sudanese rebels have protested against the recent acquisition of more weapons from China by the South Sudanese government, describing it as a preparation for more violence to further destroy the country.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> The armed opposition faction of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) under the leadership of the former vice-president, Riek Machar, was reacting to the recent documented revelation in which the South Sudanese government had received a shipment of huge quantity of missiles, grenade launchers, machine guns and ammunition worth $38 million from the Asian nation.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> South Sudanese defence minister Kuol Manyang Juuk has also confirmed to Bloomberg news agency the purchase of the weapons, which the China North Industries Group Corp., the nation's biggest arms manufacturer known as NORINCO, shipped through Port Mombassa of Kenya last month.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "My role is to defend the nation," Juuk said. "That means I have to arm my army. The army has to be equipped," he said.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> The rebels, however, accused the government of preparing for more war at the expense of the nation's welfare.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "Well, our leadership sees this unfortunate development as a preparation for more violence by the regime," Machar's spokesperson, James Gatdet Dak, told Sudan Tribune when contacted on Tuesday to comment on how the leadership of the opposition group received the news.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "The regime has unfortunately prioritized hiring foreign mercenaries and acquiring weaponry to defend dictatorship at the expense of welfare of the citizens."</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "Instead of trying to correct their failures and deliver the badly needed basic services to the suffering South Sudanese people, the leadership in Juba is bent to further destroy the country," he added.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Dak questioned the rationale behind the spending of hundreds of millions of US dollars more to acquire weapons and hiring and sustaining foreign army and mercenaries on an alleged deal which he said costs 3 million dollars a day "simply to fight against democratic political opponents while hundreds of citizens are dying every day because of hunger and curable diseases."</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "This is the reason why our leadership has always expressed the need to suspend the oil operations in South Sudan; or alternatively establish a special account through a trusted third party which should be inaccessible to the regime. This can deny president Salva Kiir's government from using the oil revenues to finance the war," he added</div>

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Somalia: A Deadly Ramadan in Somalia

<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mogadishu/Nairobi — Militant group Al-Shabab has lived up to its promise to step up attacks in Somalia, mainly against government installations and personnel, during the holy month of Ramadan, which began on 29 June. Over 30 people have been killed in Mogadishu alone.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <img src="http://allafrica.com/download/pic/main/main/csiid/00210087:a0e3d1c7763838771a762815bf0cfbe7:arc614x376:w290:us1.jpg" /> </div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> On 8 July, the presidential compound was attacked during the iftar evening meal. Assailants entered the gate using a car bomb, and then engaged in a two-hour gun battle with palace guards, killing 14 soldiers.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> On 5 July, at least four people, including two children, were killed when a suicide car bomb was detonated outside of the parliament building. Just two days earlier a long-time member of parliament (MP), Mohamed Mohamud, was killed with his bodyguard when armed assailants opened fire on his car.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> In response, the Somali government fired the police commissioner and head of the intelligence agency. Abdihakim Dahir Said, the police commissioner, was replaced by Mohamed Sheikh Ismail, while Bashir Mohamed Jama, the head of national intelligence, was replaced by Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, on 8 July. Since then however, attacks have continued daily. Local media reported that the Ministry of Defence was attacked last night.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> The presidential palace had previously been attacked in February, and the parliament in May. Following the May attacks on parliament, National Security Minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled resigned. On 8 July he was replaced by Ahmed Khalif Ereg.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Government inability to contain the violence has left many residents, especially in Mogadishu, in a state of constant fear.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "If you go looking for bread for your children, you don't know whether or not you will come back safely," a Mogadishu resident, who gave only his first name, Abdinasir, told IRIN. "I don't have any hopes of it getting any better in the foreseeable future."</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "To reduce risk, I am staying indoors at night," Laila Abdi, another Mogadishu resident, told IRIN.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Government accused of being weak, corrupt</strong></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> The upsurge in terror attacks comes amid growing frustration with the state of politics in Somalia. Critics accuse the government of being weak, corrupt and inefficient.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> In early May, over 100 MPs called on the president to resign. They cited 14 points of discontent, which included accusations of incompetence, failure to improve the security situation, failure to implement the constitution, and failure to revive the economy.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "The president is a spectacular failure. He did not keep a word of what he had promised prior to his election," said Abdirahman Hosh Jibril, an MP and former minister of constitutional affairs, who was one of the people who signed the petition calling for President Hassan Sheikh's Mohamud's resignation.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "The preparation of the constitutional development process is way behind schedule, the boundaries commission has not been formed. On the security front, the president had his own six-pillar policy, but look now, the parliamentarians have been endangered and the presidential palace was attacked," he told IRIN back in June, during the first set of attacks on major government posts.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Since March, when African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops and the Somali National Army launched a renewed offensive to capture towns in south-central Somalia controlled by Al-Shabab, the militant organization has fought back, targeting government and international organizations.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> They have successfully attacked all three branches of government, the judiciary, executive and the legislative, and have launched regular attacks in Mogadishu. The armed forces, weakened by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.irinnews.org/report/100141/shortages-clan-rivalries-weaken-somalia-s-new-army" style="background: transparent; color: #10579f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">clan rivalries</a>, equipment shortages, corruption and indiscipline, appear powerless to keep people safe.</div>

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Oscar Pistorius family denounce 'outrageous' claims about nightclub fight

<div class="firstPar" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> Athlete’s uncle Leo says claims by Jared Mortimer that his nephew insulted President Zuma and boasted of his family’s influence were “designed for maximum attention and maximum damage"</div> <h2 itemprop="alternativeHeadline description" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <img alt="Jared Mortimer (left) and the Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02974/pistorius_2974949b.jpg" /> </h2> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> The family of murder-accused Paralympic athlete<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/oscar-pistorius/" style="color: #234b7b; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Oscar Pistorius</strong></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have denounced as “outrageous” claims that he insulted President Jacob Zuma and boasted about his relatives’ influence over government in the run-up to a scuffle that saw him ejected from a Johannesburg nightclub at the weekend.</div> </div> <div class="secondPar" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> Leo Pistorius, the 27-year-old’s uncle, said the claims made by Jared Mortimer, a racing car driver and clothes label owner who was at Sandton’s VIP Room on Saturday, were “designed for maximum attention and maximum damage”.</div> </div> <div class="thirdPar" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> Mr Pistorius said that while the decision by his nephew to go to the nightclub was “unwise and ill-considered”, it was because he had an “escalating sense of loneliness and alienation” which they believe is causing “self-harming behaviour”.</div> </div> <div class="fourthPar" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> He said that his own investigations, corroborated with people who were present at the exclusive nightspot, confirmed that “Mortimer was the aggressor”.</div> </div> <div class="fifthPar" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> Percy Mermigas, the club’s manager, backed up Mr Pistorius’s version, saying that “everything is being blown out of proportion’’.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> “I was sitting with him [Pistorius] and his cousin at their table. They were there for an hour and there was definitely no ‘altercation’ as this person is making out,” he told South Africa’s Times newspaper.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> “He was chilling with his cousin, nothing more and nothing less. If there was something, like what is being described, we would definitely have got involved. What I can say is that Oscar was at the club and left, like any other normal patrons, after an hour.”</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mr Mortimer told a South African celebrity news website that Pistorius had boasted to him of his family’s influence and bad-mouthed his friends while poking him in the chest and pulling at his neck. He said the athlete was drunk and fell over backwards into a chair when he pushed him away.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> “He was going on about how influential his family is and how connected they are,” he told The Juice website. “He even pulled out his phone to show me pictures of armoured cars. He said ‘My family owns SANDF. Zuma works for us. I’ll piss on Zuma’.”</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> He has since refused to comment further.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Pistorius said on Monday through a spokesman that Mr Mortimer “aggressively interrogated him” on matters relating to his murder trial. He is charged with murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day last year. He shot her through a locked lavatory door at his Pretoria home. He alleges he mistook her for an intruder.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> In a statement released late last night, Leo Pistorius added further details to the denial. “Mr Mortimer, who has been unknown to Oscar and our family until he approached the press with his story of the so-called ‘altercation’ in which he has cast himself as the victim, is a man peddling untruths designed for maximum attention and maximum damage,” he said.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> “We wish to categorically state that there is absolutely no truth to this man’s assertions that Oscar, for instance, insulted the president of South Africa or boasted about our family’s so-called influence,” he said.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> “Oscar was at school with one of President Zuma’s sons and liked him a lot. Oscar also has great appreciation of President’s Zuma’s extraordinary support of the Paralympians.”</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> He said Pistorius was “grappling with an extreme level of emotional pain that is manifesting itself in some of his recent unwise actions and choices”.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> “Whilst Oscar venturing out into a public space with his cousin in the current climate and whilst his court case is still under way was unwise, those of us closest to him have been witness to his escalating sense of loneliness and alienation,” he said. “This, we believe, is underlying some of his self-harming behaviour. As a family we are counselling Oscar to find ways of dealing with his feelings of isolation.”</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Last week, Pistorius’s defence team closed its case in his murder trial at Pretoria’s High Court. Closing arguments in the case will be heard on August 7 and 8, before the judge’s verdict on a date yet to be announced.</div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> <br /></div> </div>

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Africa: Who Aids Whom? Exposing the True Story of Africa's U.S.$192 Billion Losses

<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Research released by a coalition of African and UK partners reveals that Africa loses almost six and a half times the amount of money that it receives in aid.</em></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "It says something about this country. It says something about our standing in the world and our sense of duty in helping others... in short - it says something about the kind of people we are ... And that makes me proud to be British."</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> As exhibited by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who made the above comment on 8 June 2013, governments of wealthy countries like to tell tales of generous aid spending and a common responsibility to help those less fortunate in the world. But there is another story to tell. And it is not a story of what is given to continents such as Africa, but of what is taken away.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Research published today reveals that whilst the continent receives $30 billion in aid a year, this figure pales in comparison to the $192 billion leaving the continent via illicit financial flows, the repatriation of multinational company profits, debt repayments, loss of skilled workers, illegal logging and fishing, and the costs imposed as a result of climate change.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> When these losses are compared to overall financial inflows - including not just aid but foreign investment and remittances - Africa is left with a $58 billion a year net loss. To put it in to context, that is over one and a half times the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8319.pdf" style="background: transparent; color: #10579f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">estimated</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>$37 billion a year extra funding it would cost to deliver universal health coverage for everyone in the world.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> These figures expose the true financial relationship of wealthy countries with Africa, a relationship that is seldom mentioned by politicians. It is a relationship in which the world doesn't aid Africa, but in which Africa aids the world.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">False narratives</strong></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Debates on the role of wealthy governments in ending global poverty tend to focus on how much aid we should give. UK politicians, for example, line up to defend the aid budget in a time of austerity and increasing public hostility, while the media and NGOs often publically applaud them for doing so, reinforcing the image of the UK's benevolence.</div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Yet despite years of public fundraising campaigns and aid 'generosity', we are still nowhere near to witnessing the end of global poverty. In fact, this aid obsession merely acts as a smokescreen that hides the true causes of global poverty and reinforces paternalistic notions of Africa as a poor and corrupt continent with helpless people in need of intervention from wealthy countries.</div>

Africa: Who Aids Whom? Exposing the True Story of Africa's U.S.$192 Billion Losses

Research released by a coalition of African and UK partners reveals that Africa loses almost six and a half times the amount of money that ...

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