BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
#NobelPrize
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela. It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.
Hongera sana @ProfJanabi kwa ushindi wa kishindo kuwa Mkurugenzi @WHOAFRO. Ni ushindi wa Rais @SuluhuSamia na Watanzania wote. Tunajivunia. Umetuheshimisha sana. Tunakuombea mafanikio mema katika kutimiza majukumu yako mapya. Ninavyokufahamu Profesa, sina wasiwasi kwamba utafanya vizuri sana. Afrika na Dunia watashangaa!
BREAKING: Prof. Mohamed Janabi, proposed by Tanzania🇹🇿, has been nominated as the next @WHOAFRO Regional Director during a Special Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa, held today in Geneva.
Prof. Janabi will be appointed by @WHO Executive Board, to be held on 28-29 May, and take office thereafter.
My book, LIVING WITH CANCER: DIARIES OF A MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENT, is now available:
@MkukiNaNyota;
https://t.co/6FHGmDZuPN; TPH Bookshop, Samora,Dar es Salaam; and TPH Bookshop, Chimwaga,Dodoma #Tanzania. For external readers: @Afbkcollective; https://t.co/5zDhBSjOJI.
#Cancer
I visited @kizzabesigye1 in his prison cell today. He was lying on a small bed that occupies the whole length of the room. A pile of old newspapers & 2 old cardboard boxes next to his bed left room for one stool to sit on.
There were about six or seven locked doors that I went through before getting to his room, which is along a dark and narrow corridor. Someone told me that this is the special prison for suspected terrorists.
It was very painful to find @kizzabesigye1 in such humiliating circumstances. ../2
You are looking at the D00R 0F N0 RETURN in Goree island, Dakar,Senegal,West Africa.🇸🇳
Many Africans walked through this door on chains on their way to the antebellum of the Americas to be enslàved 400years ago. 0nce they walked through this door, never would you see your family and friends again. Their complete way of life were destr0yed as soon as they walked through this door.
I support SC Tundu Lissu’s bid for so many reasons: He’s truthful, honest, principled, has integrity & proven records of public service.
Kila la kheri, my brother @TunduALissu.
Shalom Baba Askofu Malasusa. Mimi ni Mlutheri kwa damu na nafsi (Lutheran by blood and soul). Mizizi yangu katika Ulutheri imeenda chini sana. Lakini nimekuzwa kiakili na Kanisa Katoliki. Nimesoma shule zao, vyuo vyao na nimefanya kazi na baadhi ya mashirika yao ya kitume.
Lakini imani yangu kwa Kristo imekuzwa na Makanisa ya Kipentekoste. Nimeshiriki semina, mikutano na ibada zao. Mwaka 1999 nikiwa darasa la 6 nilikua natembea kwa miguu kutoka nyumbani Kidia hadi viwanja vya Mashujaa kusikiliza mahubiri ya Mwinjilisti Reinhard Bonnke.
Hii ni kusema kwamba pamoja na Ulutheri wangu wenye mizizi, lakini nayaheshimu madhehebu yote ya Kikristo yanayohubiri katika ROHO na KWELI.
Leo Baraza la Maaskofu Katoliki (TEC) limetoa tamko kulaani vitendo vya utekaji na mauaji nchini. Tamko hili limetolewa mbele ya viongozi wakuu wa serikali. Kuna makanisa yakiwaona viongozi wa serikali point zote za kukosoa zina-evaporate, wanaishia kujichekesha na kusifia. Lakini si kanisa katoliki, kamwe. Katoliki hata umuite Askofu Ikulu, atakuja, atakunywa juice yako na "atakuchana" bila kupepesa macho.
Kwa mujibu wa International Church Index 2022, KKKT ni Kanisa la pili kwa ukubwa nchini baada ya Katoliki. Maana yake ni Kanisa lenye nguvu na lenye sauti. Je lini litatumia sauti hiyo kukemea maovu yanayoendelea? Kanisa linawezaje kuona mtu akishushwa kwenye basi na kuuawa kikatili na likakaa kimya?
Baba yetu Martin Luther alitufundisha tunaokolewa kwa neema (Sola Gratia). Neema si kwa Walutheri pekee bali kwa watu wote. Ndio maana katika Kateksimo yake aliandika "Et alias oves habeo" akimaanisha na kondoo wengine ninao ambao si wa zizi hili. Nao wanastahili neema (Yohana 10:16). Ikitokea mtu ameuawa awe Mkristo, Muislamu, Mpagani etc, Kanisa lina wajibu wa kukemea.
Baba Askofu Shoo alipokua mkuu wa Kanisa, alikemea matukio yote maovu bila hofu. Bila shaka angekuwepo madarakani angeshatoa waraka wa kukemea utekaji na mauaji.
Tunaomba usimzimishe roho aliyekua na Kanisa kipindi cha Askofu Shoo. Lisimamie Kanisa libaki kwenye misingi yake. Tunaomba tamko la KKKT kulaani watu kutekwa na kuuawa. Tamko hilo litaokoa roho nyingi ambazo zimepangwa kuangamizwa na waovu. Mungu akubariki🙏🏽