Under 40 Years Old: East African MP of the Week.
(born 1 January 1993) is a Ugandan university student and politician.
She was born in Katakwi District on 1 January 1993. Her father, Michael Oromait, served as the MP for the same parliamentary seat before his death on 21 July 2012.
She completed her high school (S6) at St. Kalemba Senior Secondary School in Kayunga District in December 2011. She was admitted toUganda Christian University in Mukono, beginning August 2012, where she currently studies for the degree of Bachelor of Mass Communications.
After her father's death, Alengot Oromait decided to contest the National Resistance Movement primary elections to replace her father, who had served as an Independent. She won the primary and in the general elections in September 2012, she won with 54.2% of the vote. She is expected to juggle her undergraduate studies with her parliamentary duties for the next three years at the minimum.
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Under 40 Years Old: East African MP of the Week.
Honorable January Y. Makamba.
Born on 28th of January in 1974, Mr. January Makamba is a Tanzanian politician, Member of Parliament elected in the Constituency of Bumbuli in the Lushoto district of Tanga.
He is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Communication, Science and Technology in the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania.
For more information about his prominent under 40 years old politician, please visit his web site at http://www.januarymakamba.com/mystory.html, and there you will get to know why the residents of Bumbuli chose him to be their representative in the Tanzanian Parliament.
Every week, we will be providing a profile of an East African Politician who is a Member of Parliament and whose age is Under 40.
Tanzania: Nacogdoches eye doctor traveling to Tanzania to help Albino children
Tanzania:
Nacogdoches eye doctor traveling to Tanzania to help Albino children
NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) -
A Nacogdoches eye doctor will be traveling to Tanzania, Africa next week with Step by Step Missions to give low vision devices to nearly 200 Albino kids.
It's a little known fact that people with albinism have low vision.
"If you're born with albinism, you are visually impaired. Every one of them are. Usually their vision ranges from 2100 to 2400," said Dr. Ashley Risner, an optometrist with the Nacogdoches Eye Associates.
This is one of the reason's why Risner, who specializes in low vision rehabilitation, will be traveling to Tanzania on May 3.
"It's fairly rare in the United States, it's only about 1 in 20,000 people with albinism versus in Tanzania it's 1 in 2,000 people," said Risner.
In Tanzania, people with albinism are considered magical and are hunted by witch doctors and sometimes killed.
"The government has set up these safe houses and homes for the children to go to and a lot of parents give them up because they think that there is something wrong with them," said Risner.
Risner is one of twelve optometrists in the state who works with low vision patients. She will be donating nearly 200 low vision eye kits to kids from age zero to twenty.
"The reason why there is a visual impairment is because the photo receptors, the cells inside the eye into the retina and into the optic nerve and brain, are actually made up of pigment cells. Of course, albinism people have less pigmentation so they have less pigmentation in the eyes so the signal doesn't get through as easily," said Risner.
She will be using her skills and low vision devices, like the dome magnifier, to help albino kids read and write.
"I just saw how it could change someone's life and it does. I see that all the time," said Risner.
This will be Risner's first trip to Africa and she is excited to see the look on the kid's faces when they realize they can finally see.
"I work with that type of patient here in the United States so I wanted to do what I could," said Risner.
She will also be traveling with e3 Partners to Tanzania and says she has received funds for all of the eye kits from donations.
Copyright 2013 KTRE. All rights reserved.
Nacogdoches eye doctor traveling to Tanzania to help Albino children
NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) -
A Nacogdoches eye doctor will be traveling to Tanzania, Africa next week with Step by Step Missions to give low vision devices to nearly 200 Albino kids.
It's a little known fact that people with albinism have low vision.
"If you're born with albinism, you are visually impaired. Every one of them are. Usually their vision ranges from 2100 to 2400," said Dr. Ashley Risner, an optometrist with the Nacogdoches Eye Associates.
This is one of the reason's why Risner, who specializes in low vision rehabilitation, will be traveling to Tanzania on May 3.
"It's fairly rare in the United States, it's only about 1 in 20,000 people with albinism versus in Tanzania it's 1 in 2,000 people," said Risner.
In Tanzania, people with albinism are considered magical and are hunted by witch doctors and sometimes killed.
"The government has set up these safe houses and homes for the children to go to and a lot of parents give them up because they think that there is something wrong with them," said Risner.
Risner is one of twelve optometrists in the state who works with low vision patients. She will be donating nearly 200 low vision eye kits to kids from age zero to twenty.
"The reason why there is a visual impairment is because the photo receptors, the cells inside the eye into the retina and into the optic nerve and brain, are actually made up of pigment cells. Of course, albinism people have less pigmentation so they have less pigmentation in the eyes so the signal doesn't get through as easily," said Risner.
She will be using her skills and low vision devices, like the dome magnifier, to help albino kids read and write.
"I just saw how it could change someone's life and it does. I see that all the time," said Risner.
This will be Risner's first trip to Africa and she is excited to see the look on the kid's faces when they realize they can finally see.
"I work with that type of patient here in the United States so I wanted to do what I could," said Risner.
She will also be traveling with e3 Partners to Tanzania and says she has received funds for all of the eye kits from donations.
Copyright 2013 KTRE. All rights reserved.
Tanzania: Indian Medicines Impress African Buyers
Tanzania:
Indian Medicines Impress African Buyers
Mumbai, India — THE African drugs buyers are the darling of the sellers at the ongoing Mumbai's pharmaceutical show, as the continent poises to be the leading corridor for the India's medicine export market.
This has been experienced at the ongoing International Exhibition for Pharma and Healthcare (iPHEX) 2013 co-located with Pharma Pro&Pack Expo 2013.The Africans are not only leading the buyers' pact but also have sent a large number of regulators and ministry of health officials to attend the iPHEX 2013 in Mumbai, India.
The 'Daily News' witnessed sellers calling and trying to woo African buyers whether in medicine, healthcare solutions or pharma-manufacturing equipment and technology, more than any other visitors.The sellers, after succeeding to woo an African, the first question is:- Are you from Nigeria... "
According to some participants here, Nigeria is the biggest market as it has lesser stringent regulations and laws on drug registration and good manufacturing practice (GMP) and also huge population.
The Maharashtra Chief Minister, Mr Prithviraj Chavan, said India is building a huge warehouse in Nigeria to ease businesses and facilitate exports procedures in a bid to boost Delhi's global market share.
"This sector has a huge potential with its export rate currently at 13 US billion dollars... it's expected to double in the next two years," Mr Chavan said during the opening ceremony.
"To further the growth story (Indian) companies should also focus on innovation along with expansion through exports of the generics to make us all-rounder," the Chief Minister said.
To show their seriousness, India pharma-industry will hold an exhibition in Lagos, Nigeria this October that is complete for medicine, manufacturer equipment and related business. Kenya is slated for next year.
"Are you from Nigeria! We have good (pharma) machines ranging from processing plants to solution," a Fabtec International sale Nareej Shukri told this reporter."'Naturally, almost equipment buyers from Africa hail from Nigeria," the salesman said.
Indian Medicines Impress African Buyers
Mumbai, India — THE African drugs buyers are the darling of the sellers at the ongoing Mumbai's pharmaceutical show, as the continent poises to be the leading corridor for the India's medicine export market.
This has been experienced at the ongoing International Exhibition for Pharma and Healthcare (iPHEX) 2013 co-located with Pharma Pro&Pack Expo 2013.The Africans are not only leading the buyers' pact but also have sent a large number of regulators and ministry of health officials to attend the iPHEX 2013 in Mumbai, India.
The 'Daily News' witnessed sellers calling and trying to woo African buyers whether in medicine, healthcare solutions or pharma-manufacturing equipment and technology, more than any other visitors.The sellers, after succeeding to woo an African, the first question is:- Are you from Nigeria... "
According to some participants here, Nigeria is the biggest market as it has lesser stringent regulations and laws on drug registration and good manufacturing practice (GMP) and also huge population.
The Maharashtra Chief Minister, Mr Prithviraj Chavan, said India is building a huge warehouse in Nigeria to ease businesses and facilitate exports procedures in a bid to boost Delhi's global market share.
"This sector has a huge potential with its export rate currently at 13 US billion dollars... it's expected to double in the next two years," Mr Chavan said during the opening ceremony.
"To further the growth story (Indian) companies should also focus on innovation along with expansion through exports of the generics to make us all-rounder," the Chief Minister said.
To show their seriousness, India pharma-industry will hold an exhibition in Lagos, Nigeria this October that is complete for medicine, manufacturer equipment and related business. Kenya is slated for next year.
"Are you from Nigeria! We have good (pharma) machines ranging from processing plants to solution," a Fabtec International sale Nareej Shukri told this reporter."'Naturally, almost equipment buyers from Africa hail from Nigeria," the salesman said.
Uganda: Group: Sudan army supporting fugitive warlord Kony
Uganda:
Group: Sudan army supporting fugitive warlord Kony
FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006, file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. A report by the watchdog group Resolve on Friday, April 26, 2013, says the fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony recently found safe haven in territory along the Sudan-South Sudan border, controlled by Sudan and that Kony benefits from Sudanese military support.
STUART PRICE, FILE, POOL / AP PHOTO
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/26/3366000/group-sudan-army-supporting-fugitive.html#storylink=cpy
BY RODNEY MUHUMUZA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KAMPALA, Uganda -- The fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony recently found safe haven in territory controlled by Sudan, a watchdog group said Friday, accusing the Sudanese military of offering aid to commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army.
The U.S.-based group Resolve said in a new report that Kony recently directed killings from an enclave protected by the Sudanese military. Until early this year, according to the report, Kony and some of his commanders were operating in Kafia Kingi, a disputed area along the Sudan-South Sudan border where African Union troops tasked with catching Kony don't have access.
"The enclave is currently controlled by Sudan, and numerous eyewitness reports indicate that elements of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Kafia Kingi have actively sheltered senior LRA commanders there and provided them with limited material support," the report said. "According to LRA defectors and other sources, LRA leader Joseph Kony himself first traveled to the Kafia Kingi enclave in 2010. He returned to Kafia Kingi in 2011 and was present there throughout parts of 2012."
In a series of makeshift camps near a Sudanese army barracks, Kony "continued to direct LRA attacks against civilians in neighboring countries and issue new orders for LRA fighters."
The Ugandan military - with support from U.S. military advisers - is the driving force behind the hunt for Kony. Ugandan army spokesman Col. Felix Kulayigye said the report vindicates Uganda's contention that the LRA is a beneficiary of Sudanese support. Ugandan army officials said late last year they believed Kony was hiding in Sudan-controlled territory, although now they believe he has moved elsewhere.
"We always knew Kony was hiding in Kafia Kingi," he said. "The way forward is that no country should be hiding a wanted criminal."
Kony watchdog groups are concerned that Kony can retreat to Kafia Kingi whenever his pursuers get close. Resolve said it has satellite imagery of the now-abandoned camp where Kony was reportedly seen in late 2012. The warlord is no longer believed to be hiding there, the report noted, saying he may have crossed to Central African Republic.
Sudan has consistently denied charges it supports Kony, a warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Kony's LRA, which originated in Uganda in the 1980s as a popular tribal uprising against the government, has become notorious for recruiting children as fighters and forcing girls to be sex slaves. Military pressure forced the LRA out of Uganda in 2005, and the rebels scattered across parts of central Africa. LRA fighters are now believed to be operating mainly in the jungles of Congo and Central African Republic.
Ugandan Brig. Dick Olum, the top commander of African forces hunting for Kony, recently said he believed Kony had crossed to Central African Republic, where last month rebels deposed a president and expressed hostility toward foreign troops operating in the country. The lack of cooperation from the new government there forced the African Union to suspend military operations against Kony, who over the years has taken advantage of porous borders and weak governments to regroup.
The LRA is vastly diminished from previous years, and its forces now don't exceed 500, according Brig. Olum. Many of Kony's fighters have defected in the past year, and some of his top lieutenants have been captured or killed in combat. Last year an LRA commander believed to be Kony's military strategist was seized by Ugandan troops.
Sudan's support for Kony threatens progress made against the LRA, said the new report by Resolve.
"Unless addressed, it will also enable LRA leaders to outlast current counter-LRA operations," the report said. "Though international diplomats and military officials working to stop LRA attacks privately acknowledge recent LRA movement in Kafia Kingi, they have not adopted realistic strategies to prevent further support from Sudan to Kony's forces."
Group: Sudan army supporting fugitive warlord Kony
FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006, file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. A report by the watchdog group Resolve on Friday, April 26, 2013, says the fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony recently found safe haven in territory along the Sudan-South Sudan border, controlled by Sudan and that Kony benefits from Sudanese military support.
STUART PRICE, FILE, POOL / AP PHOTO
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/26/3366000/group-sudan-army-supporting-fugitive.html#storylink=cpy
BY RODNEY MUHUMUZA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KAMPALA, Uganda -- The fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony recently found safe haven in territory controlled by Sudan, a watchdog group said Friday, accusing the Sudanese military of offering aid to commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army.
The U.S.-based group Resolve said in a new report that Kony recently directed killings from an enclave protected by the Sudanese military. Until early this year, according to the report, Kony and some of his commanders were operating in Kafia Kingi, a disputed area along the Sudan-South Sudan border where African Union troops tasked with catching Kony don't have access.
"The enclave is currently controlled by Sudan, and numerous eyewitness reports indicate that elements of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Kafia Kingi have actively sheltered senior LRA commanders there and provided them with limited material support," the report said. "According to LRA defectors and other sources, LRA leader Joseph Kony himself first traveled to the Kafia Kingi enclave in 2010. He returned to Kafia Kingi in 2011 and was present there throughout parts of 2012."
In a series of makeshift camps near a Sudanese army barracks, Kony "continued to direct LRA attacks against civilians in neighboring countries and issue new orders for LRA fighters."
The Ugandan military - with support from U.S. military advisers - is the driving force behind the hunt for Kony. Ugandan army spokesman Col. Felix Kulayigye said the report vindicates Uganda's contention that the LRA is a beneficiary of Sudanese support. Ugandan army officials said late last year they believed Kony was hiding in Sudan-controlled territory, although now they believe he has moved elsewhere.
"We always knew Kony was hiding in Kafia Kingi," he said. "The way forward is that no country should be hiding a wanted criminal."
Kony watchdog groups are concerned that Kony can retreat to Kafia Kingi whenever his pursuers get close. Resolve said it has satellite imagery of the now-abandoned camp where Kony was reportedly seen in late 2012. The warlord is no longer believed to be hiding there, the report noted, saying he may have crossed to Central African Republic.
Sudan has consistently denied charges it supports Kony, a warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Kony's LRA, which originated in Uganda in the 1980s as a popular tribal uprising against the government, has become notorious for recruiting children as fighters and forcing girls to be sex slaves. Military pressure forced the LRA out of Uganda in 2005, and the rebels scattered across parts of central Africa. LRA fighters are now believed to be operating mainly in the jungles of Congo and Central African Republic.
Ugandan Brig. Dick Olum, the top commander of African forces hunting for Kony, recently said he believed Kony had crossed to Central African Republic, where last month rebels deposed a president and expressed hostility toward foreign troops operating in the country. The lack of cooperation from the new government there forced the African Union to suspend military operations against Kony, who over the years has taken advantage of porous borders and weak governments to regroup.
The LRA is vastly diminished from previous years, and its forces now don't exceed 500, according Brig. Olum. Many of Kony's fighters have defected in the past year, and some of his top lieutenants have been captured or killed in combat. Last year an LRA commander believed to be Kony's military strategist was seized by Ugandan troops.
Sudan's support for Kony threatens progress made against the LRA, said the new report by Resolve.
"Unless addressed, it will also enable LRA leaders to outlast current counter-LRA operations," the report said. "Though international diplomats and military officials working to stop LRA attacks privately acknowledge recent LRA movement in Kafia Kingi, they have not adopted realistic strategies to prevent further support from Sudan to Kony's forces."
Uganda: MTN Uganda successfully launches LTE network in Uganda, making it one of the first in the region
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Kenya: You have disgraced Kenya, Muigai tells ICC prosecutor
Kenya:
You have disgraced Kenya, Muigai tells ICC prosecutor
You have disgraced Kenya, Muigai tells ICC prosecutor
BY OLIVER MATHENGE
THE government has been allowed to make a comprehensive response to ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's claims. Bensouda claimed that Kenya has not been co-operating with her office.
On Wednesday, the Trial Chamber V asked the government to make its application and gave the parties to the two Kenyan cases 14 days to respond to the submissions once the filing is done.
"Given the desirability of fully understanding the status of cooperation between organs of the court and the Government of Kenya, the chamber considers it appropriate to grant leave to the Government of Kenya to file observations on this issue and, further, to accept the submissions in the application," the judges said in their decision.
The judges also shortened the time the prosecution, victims and the accused can respond to the Kenya government application to 14 days and vice-versa.
"Due to the need to ensure any outstanding cooperation concerns are addressed in an expeditious manner, the chamber considers it appropriate to set a shortened time frame of 14 days for submission of any such responses," the judges said.
Attorney General Githu Muigai wrote to the court complaining that Bensouda has disgraced the Kenyan government by repeatedly claiming it is not cooperating fully with her office.
Githu cited recent comments by Bensouda that part of the reason she dropped the case against former Cabinet Secretary Francis Muthaura was lack of cooperation from the Kenyan government.
He wants all parties in the two Kenyan cases ordered to file on record their complaints against the Kenyan state so that it can respond and put matters straight.
“The Government of Kenya disapproves of any attempt by the Prosecutor of the ICC to excuse evidential gaps or difficulties in her case as being attributable to action or inaction by the Government of Kenya,” he said.
Githu said the government has complied with all 37 requests by the prosecutor apart from two—those that relate to the request that the government furnish the court with financial information on the three suspects and statements of the interviews of ten police bosses.
On the financial information, Githu said “Kenya contends that there has to be a court order in place to fulfill this request.” In any case, he added, the pre-trial chamber found out that such a request lacked justification.
On the police interviews, Githu said there was a court order issued on February 1, 2011 prohibiting judge Kalpana Rawal from "taking or recording any evidence from any Kenyan” pursuant to any international criminal court process.
“It cannot be right that a State's internal security is suborned by an outside agency's ill supported allegations of non-cooperation which has the potential to erode national regard for the institutions of government and their compliance with the rule of law,” Githu said.
In her latest filing, Bensouda said the Government of Kenya supported the court order and that the order has remained “despite the repeated requests to the GoK to ask the court to designate judges to hear the case on the merits.”
Muigai said instead of always complaining, Bensouda will do better to report Kenya to the Assembly of State Parties in accordance with the provisions of the Rome Statutes.
He nevertheless said Kenya has fully complied with its obligation and handed over state documents and materials. “The provision of such sensitive national security materials to a third- party for use in criminal proceedings is, in the respectful submission of the Kenyan government, an unprecedented act of cooperation with the court and demonstrative of the Republic of Kenya's commitment to and respect for the ICC,” he said.
THE government has been allowed to make a comprehensive response to ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's claims. Bensouda claimed that Kenya has not been co-operating with her office.
On Wednesday, the Trial Chamber V asked the government to make its application and gave the parties to the two Kenyan cases 14 days to respond to the submissions once the filing is done.
"Given the desirability of fully understanding the status of cooperation between organs of the court and the Government of Kenya, the chamber considers it appropriate to grant leave to the Government of Kenya to file observations on this issue and, further, to accept the submissions in the application," the judges said in their decision.
The judges also shortened the time the prosecution, victims and the accused can respond to the Kenya government application to 14 days and vice-versa.
"Due to the need to ensure any outstanding cooperation concerns are addressed in an expeditious manner, the chamber considers it appropriate to set a shortened time frame of 14 days for submission of any such responses," the judges said.
Attorney General Githu Muigai wrote to the court complaining that Bensouda has disgraced the Kenyan government by repeatedly claiming it is not cooperating fully with her office.
Githu cited recent comments by Bensouda that part of the reason she dropped the case against former Cabinet Secretary Francis Muthaura was lack of cooperation from the Kenyan government.
He wants all parties in the two Kenyan cases ordered to file on record their complaints against the Kenyan state so that it can respond and put matters straight.
“The Government of Kenya disapproves of any attempt by the Prosecutor of the ICC to excuse evidential gaps or difficulties in her case as being attributable to action or inaction by the Government of Kenya,” he said.
Githu said the government has complied with all 37 requests by the prosecutor apart from two—those that relate to the request that the government furnish the court with financial information on the three suspects and statements of the interviews of ten police bosses.
On the financial information, Githu said “Kenya contends that there has to be a court order in place to fulfill this request.” In any case, he added, the pre-trial chamber found out that such a request lacked justification.
On the police interviews, Githu said there was a court order issued on February 1, 2011 prohibiting judge Kalpana Rawal from "taking or recording any evidence from any Kenyan” pursuant to any international criminal court process.
“It cannot be right that a State's internal security is suborned by an outside agency's ill supported allegations of non-cooperation which has the potential to erode national regard for the institutions of government and their compliance with the rule of law,” Githu said.
In her latest filing, Bensouda said the Government of Kenya supported the court order and that the order has remained “despite the repeated requests to the GoK to ask the court to designate judges to hear the case on the merits.”
Muigai said instead of always complaining, Bensouda will do better to report Kenya to the Assembly of State Parties in accordance with the provisions of the Rome Statutes.
He nevertheless said Kenya has fully complied with its obligation and handed over state documents and materials. “The provision of such sensitive national security materials to a third- party for use in criminal proceedings is, in the respectful submission of the Kenyan government, an unprecedented act of cooperation with the court and demonstrative of the Republic of Kenya's commitment to and respect for the ICC,” he said.
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