CRC REPORTS

From: Ezekiel Massanja

The Constitution Review Commission has released its reports, you can download them from the following link:
http://www.katiba.go.tz/index.php/taarifa-mbalimbali-kuhusu-mchakato-katiba


Ezekiel J. Massanja
Director of Finance and Administration
Legal and Human Rights Centre
P.O. BOX 75254
Dar es Salaam

Tel: +255 22 2773038, 2773048
Fax: +255 22 2773037
Cel: +255 754 283593

Kenya & USA: A Conversation with Our Legal Attaché in Nairobi

From: Juma Mzuri

The FBI’s legal attaché, or legat, program places Bureau personnel in more than 60 countries around the world. Working primarily through U.S. Embassies, our employees serve at the pleasure of host country governments, and their core mission is to establish and maintain liaison with local law enforcement […] Continue Reading…

EAST AFRICAN STATES SIGN AN AGREEMENT TO JOINTLY COMBAT TERRORISM IN THE REGION

Writes Leo Odera Omolo in Kisumu City

SECURITY Ministers of the three Eastern African nations of Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda met in Kigali, the Rwandan capital early this week and signed an important pact to jointly combat the activities of the terrorists bin the region.

The new pact according […] Continue Reading…

USA: This is none of the IRS’s business

From: Nita and Shaunna, UltraViolet

They’re at it again. Now Tea Party conservatives want to force sexual violence survivors to recount their experience to IRS agents. Click here to stop them!

Click here
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/go/1427?t=2&akid=738.6000.VxrwPa

Dear Readers,

This morning, the House Judiciary Committee is debating legislation that could force survivors of sexual violence to tell […] Continue Reading…

KENYA: ODM IS BEING FIZZLED OUT OF KISII REGION

News Analysis By Leo Odera Omolo In Kisii Town.

The recently active participation in the just concluded by election in Nyaribari Chache by members of the “Nyandusi family” has spelt the looming signal of dooms and the end of CORD / ODM influence in Kisii region.

This is the family of […] Continue Reading…

Tanzania’s power sector: TANESCO, EWURA, Millennium Challenge

From: News Release – African Press Organization (APO)
PRESS RELEASE

Jan 29 – 31 – TANESCO, EWURA, Millennium Challenge Corporation, OPIC and IFC to address the future of Tanzania’s power sector

EnergyNet’s Powering Africa: Tanzania executive meeting, will be held from 29th-31st January in Dar Es Salaam

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, January 9, […] Continue Reading…

KENYA: FARMERS CALL FOR SPEEDY PRIVATIZATION OF MIWANI AND MUHORONI SUGAR COMPANIES

Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City

DISCONTENT is high up among the sugar cane farmers in the Nyanza sugar belt over the seemingly endless official receivers management of two sugar companies.

Miwani Sugar Mill and Muhoroni Sugar Company Limited, all government owned parastatals, were placed under the official receivership management […] Continue Reading…

USA: Put an end to Citizens United once and for all!

From: Senator Al Franken

Dear MoveOn member,

I’m U.S. Senator Al Franken, and I started a petition to the United States Congress and President Barack Obama, which says:

We, the undersigned, have had it. Corporations are not people. Elections should not be auctions. And we refuse to let our democracy be put […] Continue Reading…

KENYA LAWYERS BODY TO CHALLENGE GOVERNMENT BILL IN COURT

To: jaluo @ jaluo dot com

By Agwanda Saye

The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) will seek to be enjoined in a suit challenging the controversial Kenya Information and Communication Amendment (KICA) Bill 2013.

The LSK Secretary/CEO Mr. Apollo Mboya said that the Society has instructed Senior Counsel Mr. James Orengo over […] Continue Reading…

KENYA: KISUMU MAGISTRATE WHO FREED JOURNALIST’S ATTACKERS SACKED

By Our Reporter

Kisumu based Magistrate Phylis Lusia Shinyada who set free four men who violently robbed a Kisumu based journalist has been sacked and found unsuitable to be a judicial officer by the Sharad Rao led Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board .

Shinyada had […] Continue Reading…

‘No Such Agency’ funds support for development of Quantum Computing, with eyes upon decryption prospects

from: pwbmspac
to; jaluo@jaluo.com

Computers have previously, and will continue, to substantially transform many levels of activities in our society. Personally I can say that as of mid 1980’s to date such equipment greatly facilitated my ability to convey my written thoughts promptly, in easy to read form, to […] Continue Reading…

KENYA: SUGAR CANE FARMERS ARE GETTING RAW DEALINGS FROM MILLERS

Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City

Reports appearing in heal media stating that there is discontent among sugar cane farmers over high cost of cane production in Kenya despite the country’s commitment to lift COMESA safeguard by March next year.

Cane farmers are taling myriads of production which are […] Continue Reading…

KENYA: MUHORONI VILLAGE IN SHOCK AS 68 YEAR OLD GRANNY IS BEHEADED BY HIRED THUGS

Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City

RESIDENTS of Kanjuro village in Sidho East Location within Muhoroni sub-county, KISUMU County woke up last Thursday to a rude shock when they discovered that a 68 year old grand mother had been killed in a grisly murder and beheaded and some […] Continue Reading…

Julius Nyerere: ‘Without Unity, There Is No Future For Africa’

From: Yona Maro

An extract from a speech given by Tanzania’s founding president, Julius Nyerere (pictured right), in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on 6 March 1997 on how he saw African unity in the 21st century.

For centuries, we had been oppressed and humiliated as Africans. We were hunted and enslaved […] Continue Reading…