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Ajali mbaya yatokea ikisababishwa na Abiria aliepindua basi. Fahamu kilichotokea

- Sunday, 11 May 2014 No Comments
WATU wasiozidi 50 wamenusurika kifo baada ya basi dogo kupinduka katika eneo la Sinai nje kidogo ya mji wa Songea mkoani Ruvuma kutokana na uzembe wa abiria .
Ajali hiyo ilisababisha na mtu mmoja ambaye anadaiwa kuwa ni askari wa jeshi la kujenga Taifa JKT Mlale Songea ambaye alikuwa ni mmoja wa abiria kuamua kuendesha basi hilo baada ya dereva wa basi kutelemka na kumsaidia  dereva mwenzake ambaye basi lake lilikuwa limeharibika.
Dereva wa basi lililopata ajali Bernad Bernad maarufu kwa jina la Kichefuchefu alisema yeye baada ya kutelemka kwenda kumsaidia dereva mwenzake alishangaa kuona gari lake linarudi nyuma likiendesha na mmoja wa abiria kisha kupinduka baada ya  abiria huyo anayedaiwa kuwa ni mwanajeshi kushindwa kulimudu kuendesha .
Bernad alisema kuwa mabasi madogo matatu yalikodiwa na familia za  askari wa jeshi la kujenga Taifa Mlale ili kufika mjini Songea na kwamba wakiwa katika eneo la Sinai ndipo basi moja lilikuwa na hitilafu ndipo mabasi yote yalisimama ili kwenda kumsaidia mwenzao ili waweze kuendelea na safari ya mjini Songea.
“ Baada ya kutelemka nilishangaa kuona gari yangu inarudi nyuma kwa kasi kisha ikaanguka ikiwa na abiria ambao walipata majeraha na kukimbizwa katika hospitali ya Peramiho,mtu aliyesababisha ajali anayedaiwa kuwa ni askari wa JKT Mlale mara baada ya ajali amekimbia msituni tulijaribu kumkimbiza tumeshindwa kumkamata’’,alisema Bernad.
Hata hivyo mwandishi wakati anapita katika eneo la ajali hakuweza kukuta mtu yeyote aliyekuwepo kwenye ajali hiyo zaidi ya dereva wa basi hilo,utingo na wapita njia ambao walitoa lawama kwa askari huyo aliyeamua kuendesha gari wakati yeye alikuwa ni abiria na kusababisha ajali kwa uzembe.
Credit: Kwanzajamii.

Search for MH370 jet could take years, says US official

- Friday, 25 April 2014 No Comments

Sydney: The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to drag on for years, a senior US defence official told Reuters on Friday, as an underwater search for any trace of the plane's wreckage off west Australia appeared to have failed. The official, speaking under condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to comment on the search effort, said two weeks of scouring the Indian Ocean floor with a US Navy submersible drone had turned up no wreckage. He said the search for the jetliner, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board, would now enter a much harder phase of scouring broader areas of the ocean near where the plane is believed to have crashed. Search operations could take years, says US Official. AP Search operations could take years, says US Official. AP "We went all in on this small area and didn't find anything. Now you've got to go back to the big area," the official said. "And now you're talking years" On Friday, the undersea drone Bluefin-21 is expected to finish what may be the last of its 16-hour trips to depths of more than 4.5km (2.8 miles) searching a 10 square km (6.2 square mile) stretch of seabed about 2,000 miles northwest of Perth. Authorities had identified the area as their strongest lead in determining the plane's final resting place after detecting what they suspected was a signal, or "ping", from the plane's black box recorder on April 4. But the US official said Malaysia would have to decide how to proceed with the search, including whether to bring in more underwater drones, even with the understanding that the search could continue for years without a refined search area.

Poaching: New report puts Tanzania on ‘list of shame’

- Thursday, 24 April 2014 No Comments
Report says Tanzania is among seven countries whose “corrupt governments” support poaching
Nairobi. A new report has listed Tanzania among seven “corrupt governments” in Africa that support elephant poaching.
Other countries on the list are Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Sudan, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The report, Ivory’s Curse: The Militarization and Professionalisation of Poaching in Africa, released early this week accuse public officials in the named countries of condoning or arming criminals who kill elephants and rhinos for their tusks and horns, respectively.
The report is a joint effort by the conservation group Born Free USA and C4ADS, a non-profit organization that analyzes the drivers of conflict and insecurity.
It says organised crime, government corruption and militias are all linked to elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade. Poachers in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Sudan and Kenya it found out move across borders with near impunity.
Mr Adam Roberts, Born Free USA CEO, said: “For years, Born Free USA and other animal advocates have campaigned against the trade in elephant ivory, but on conservation and animal welfare concerns. And we wanted to find a little bit more detail about who was behind the ivory trade. It’s not just enough to say it’s criminal syndicates, nefarious profiteers. We wanted to know who is really behind it so that we can try and get governments around the world to do more to crackdown.”
Mr Roberts said Born Free needed some help in gathering that kind of information.
“That’s one of the reasons that we commissioned C4ADS to do the report for us. Because I think the breadth of our capabilities within the conservation community are pretty much limited to conservation. But having a defence analyst that looks at the militarism behind all of these poaching incidents gives them access to information that we wouldn’t otherwise have.”
The latest report follows the one released by Interpol early in the year that also named Tanzania as among the leading source of illegal ivory in the East African region last year while Kenya and Uganda have become favourite transit routes, according to the international security agency.
The Interpol report showed Tanzania’s elephant population plummeting in recent years and that in the largest Selous Game reserve which boasted the world second largest elephant population at 70,000 elephants in 2006 had an estimated 39,000 in in 2009 and currently stand at 13,084 elephants. The elephant population in Ruaha National Park has declined by 44 per cent since 2006 and now numbers approximately 20,090, saiad Interpol in their report that colloborate many other findings of a similar nature.
Ivory’s Curse: The Militarization and Professionalization of Poaching in Africa found unique problems in each country -- though many of them were marked by conflict. It says, in Sudan, government-allied militias fund their operations by poaching elephants outside North Sudan’s borders.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, state security forces provide rebels with weapons and support in exchange for ivory.
SOURCE: THE CITIZEN

Kikwete laments rising road accidents

- Wednesday, 23 April 2014 No Comments
Dar es Salaam. President Jakaya Kikwete has decried the frequent road accidents that continue to claim the lives of innocent Tanzanians and rob the country of its workforce.
The President issued the alarm as the number of those who died in the Simiyu accident rose to 14, according to the police. Three more victims who had been admitted in hiospital passed away yesterday.
In his condolence message, President Kikwete said the death of the 14 was painful and unwarranted.
Within a Month, three accidents have occurred in various regions in the country, claiming the lives of more than than 50 Tanzanians.
At least 21 people died in Rufiji District while 14 were killed at Makupa Village in Same District, Kilimanjaro Region in an almost similar head-on-collision, the three accidents in a space of one month rekindles the now common experience of road carnage that have crippled the country lives of innocent civilians.
“I was shocked when I heard this bad news of the accident in Busega district,” read the statement.
The President also wished a quick recovery to all those who were injured during the accident so that they will soon return to their daily activities.
Meanwhile the President also sent his condolences to Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda following death of the Kalambo District Commissioner Mr Moshi Chan’ga.
He detailed that the death has also took away the person who was strong and credible advocating for the country’s development, “I knew him in 1979 when he joined CCM, the party which he had diligently worked until 2003 when he was appointed to become a DC,” said the President.
DC Chan’ga died on Sunday and is expected to be laid to rest today at Kihesa in Iringa region.
SOURCE: THE CITIZEN

Accidents claim six lives in Bunda District

- Sunday, 20 April 2014 No Comments
Six people died and several others were injured in separate road and marine accidents between Thursday and Friday this week in Bunda District, Mara Region.

The first accident occurred last Thursday evening on Mwanza-Musoma highway, involving Noah, with registration, No.T. 258 BRB.

The vehicle hit Vincent Magesha, Chairman of Kunzugu village. A passenger escaped with minor injury. 

The police said the second accident occurred on the same night in Serengeti District that involved Fuso No T. 437 AKN, coming from Dutwa auction mart in Bariadi District, heading to Bunda.

A resident of Bunda Danile Boniphace (30) died on the spot and 30 other people were badly injured.

The police attributed the accident to a group of wildebeests from Serengeti National Park crossing the highway, making the driver to lose control as he attempted to avoid them.

According to medical attendants on duty at DDH-Bunda Hospital, who declined to give names said the injured persons are Gerald Hamenya (30), Chigwenyi Musimu (40), Mkami Munanka (20), Duta Pinu (35), Mwita Mung’are (26), Njire Zanzibar (33), Robert Fabian (31), Gerald Gurani (37), George Natusi (30) and James Mungine (16), all from Bunda District.

Others are Stephen Segese (16), Juma Julius (37), Ezekiel Julius (31), James Lwala (45), Makoba Maduhu (23), Magdalena Farancis (35), all from Bunda Urban and Roda Paul (18), Musoma residents.

Anastazia Nyarari (45), Mariam Tega (39), Joyce Jackison (28), Giradis Laurent (38), Wakuru Makanga (36), Ripa Munigu (41), Wiliada Mato (52) and Agines Mwita (40), all from Bunda, were other injured persons.

In another accident last Friday morning in Tairo, Hiace number T. 521 CSU owned by Rukanga Charles, driven by Shimba Willison, a resident of Bunda, hit a motorcycle rider Safari Hamis (35), dying on the spot and a passenger Nyanjige Magafu Kaboja (35) died few hours after being admitted to hospital. 

In yet another accident on April 16, a boat sank at night in Lake Victoria at Isanju village, Iramba ward where two people, father and son, drowned after their boat hit by a storm caused by heavy rains.

Iramba County Executive Officer, Marko Mabula named the deceased as Kanywagale Mkangara (61) and his son Mtaki Kanywagale (36) all from Isanju village.

Yesterday, Mara Regional Police commander Ferdinand Mtui could not be reached for comment, but the district police officers said the road accidents were due mainly to speeding.
SOURCE: GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY

TANZANIA, THE FIRST COUNTRY IN AFRICA FOR HER TOURIST ATTRACTIONS BEING DECLARED SEVEN NATURAL WONDERS OF THE COUNTRY.

- Saturday, 19 April 2014 No Comments

Seven Wonders of Tanzania

The race to declare the Seven Wonders of Tanzania has been concluded.  The campaign launched in 2008 with experts from members of the IUCN and other conservation and nature experts vetting and voting on many of the wonders.  The interest and excitement grew as the Tanzania National Parks and the Tanzania Tourist Board shared the campaign with citizens and visitors to the parks.
Mount Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti with the accompanying Migration, and Ngorongoro Crater have officially been declared as part of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa. The three African wonders top the list for Tanzania.

What are the 7 Natural Wonders of Tanzania?

Congratulations to each of the winners.  With Tanzania offering so many different wonders, it was now surprise that it was a close race.  As the voting concluded, counsel from Tanzanian experts help discern the winners.  Statistical significance and uniqueness served as the distinction between the candidates.
On April 4, 2014 (4-14-14), Seven Natural Wonders is honored and proud to announce the winners for the Seven Wonders of Tanzania. Take a moment to discover and learn more about the 7 Tanzanian wonders:

Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa and the tallest free standing mountain in the world. Mount Kilimanjaro reaches the greatest height at 19,340 feet (5,895 m) at Uhuru Peak. Uhuru is the highest point of Kilimanjaro’s seven peaks.

Serengeti and Migration

Serengeti Migration
The Serengeti Migration is the largest land migration in the world featuring over 1.2 million wildebeests, hundreds of thousands of zebra and complementary herd of other antelope. The migration expands over 18,641 square miles (30,000 sq km).

Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater is the largest unbroken caldera in the world. The crater expands 12 miles (19 km) across and covers 102 square miles (264 sq km). Home to over 30,000 animals, it is often affectionally called, “Africa’s Garden of Eden.”

Selous Game Reserve

Selous Game Reserve
The Selous Game Reserve is the largest game reserve in the world. The reserve expands 21,100 square miles (54,600 sq km) and had additional natural buffer zones. There are no permanent human residents making it a truly natural wonder.

Gombe Stream National Park

Gombe Stream National Park
Statistically speaking, Gombe is the smallest of Tanzania’s national parks. Traditionally, it is one of the most famous because of the chimpanzee conservation work with Jane Goodall. The park covers 20 square miles (52 sq km), but is home to the chimpanzee.

Ruaha National Park

Ruaha National Park
Ruaha National Park is the largest national park in Tanzania. The park extends across 5,000 square miles (13,000 sq km) and sits in the heart of Tanzania. Famous for the large 10,000 plus herd of roaming elephants. OVer 430 species of birds await visitors.

Kitulo National Park

Kitulo Natinoal Park
Kitulo brings out uniqueness for Tanzania serving as a national park because of the flora. It covers 159 square miles (413, sq km). It is affectionately known as the the “Serengeti of FLowers,” with locals also calling it the Garden of God.
Congratulations to each of the wonder winners. You are worthy representatives for the beauty, splendor, uniqueness and pure “wonder” of Tanzania.
SOURCE: TANZANIA TOURIST BOARD.