The Russian President, Vladimir Putin seems to know more about the lives of rich Pan African leaders:

World Media

24 January, 2019

African Dictator Mengistu Hailemarian is trying to make a come back into the country of Ethiopia other than to die in Exile in the politically disturbed country of Zimbabwe:

African dictators always want to make a comeback as Presidents again.  They really love a Life Presidency at any cost to their countries!

By Str8talk editors

3 August, 2018

An African President of 86 years old is preparing to stand again for re-election in the poor country of  Cameroon:

Mr Paul Biya is led to the podium to stand again as a future President of Cameroon on the continent of Africa.

Egyptian citizens are trying to persuade their military government to return the money Mubarak stole from the National Treasury:

Mubarak and Sadat during the good times of rule in Egypt and just before the fatal shooting of Sadat on 8 October, 1981.

The lack of Human Rights that is given out to the young unemployed African girls who visit the oil rich Moslem States in the Middle East for employment opportunities:

The Video is very depressing indeed:

The African Uganda Army that keeps President Museveni in power indefinite has been found to be working in total corruption:

 

Drills. Army recruits undergo training at Kaweweta Training School. The training school is at the centre of an investigation. PHOTO BY Michael Kakumirizi 

By IVAN OKUDA

8 March, 2017

 

UGANDA, KAMPALA:The Ministry of Defence is embroiled in a fresh procurement scam involving a little-known businessman and Defence officials through collusion and outright plunder in a series of contracts, including the Shs76 billion project at the army’s training school at Kaweweta.
Daily Monitor has seen a cache of documents of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces’ (UPDF) internal investigations, which indicate that the businessman Eria Mubiru and his companies J2E Investment Corporation Limited, Roester Construction Corporation and some Defence officials have fleeced the Defence ministry of billions of shillings in inflated and dubious contracts.
Mr Mubiru’s companies are accused of fraudulent procurement, presenting fake profiles of employees to win contracts, concocted books of accounts, tax evasion and failure to execute works paid for.
In the army’s investigation documents, the UPDF accuses its own officers of collusion with Mubiru’s companies to fleece ministry of Defence.
Following several queries about the Infrastructure Development project at Kaweweta Recruit Training School, the army launched an investigation and released its report on October 22, 2015.
The report states that Phase One of the project was awarded to J2E Investment Corporation at Shs2.2b under the Bid Acceptance on March 11, 2010.
However, the report says, the works were meant for Bihanga Training School in Ibanda District and it’s not clear how they were transferred to Kaweweta RTS.
Kaweweta training school was commissioned on September 14, 2012 and the same year, Mr Mubiru’s company supplied furniture worth Shs700m without a valid contract or purchase order.
“The justification given that the recruits were about to pass out was insufficient to clearly support it, especially where there were no specifications availed to the end users to base on before receipt (of furniture). Such a loophole shows no value for money,” reads the army’s report signed by former deputy Chief of Defence Forces Lt Gen Charles Angina.
Gen Angina team says in some instances the companies started work before the bidding opened and would be awarded contracts half-way the project to formalise the process.
The J2E was also awarded Phase Two of Kaweweta project at Sh26.3 billion and received advance payment of 88 per cent of the contract sum, but the works stalled with “no cause for delay by the contractor.”
The same company, under a separate bid, was awarded another contract worth Shs6.4 billion for emergency water works at Kaweweta. The works were meant to start on July 30, 2014, but did not. The excuse given was that the works would disrupt the training of recruits, but the same company was contracted again for Shs3.6b to build a parade ground at Kaweweta and received Shs2.6b in advance. Again the works did not start and in the meantime works for the project’s Phase Two and Three were running concurrently.
“The contractor began works without a contract. In a letter dated November 29, 2013 to Commander Engineering Brigade, the Joint Chief of Staff (JCOS) instructed for urgent initiation of the works to provide critical infrastructure requirements,” the probe report further states.
On February 4, 2015, the UPDF Engineering Brigade wrote to the Defence ministry’s Permanent Secretary through the Joint Chief of Staff, showing the costs for critical works in Phase 3, estimated at Shs21.9 billion.
“This was in conformity with the Engineering Brigade estimates prepared in January 2015 and received by the Contracts Committee on June 22, 2015. This raises concern why they took long to be delivered,” the investigators noted.
On July 3, 2015, the Ministry of Defence used restricted domestic bidding and issued bidding documents to four contractors. They were approved by the Contracts Committee on June 30, 2015, but out of the four, J2E Investment Corporation was rated the best and lower bidder at Shs28.6 billion.
However, the investigations found that the bid was Shs6.7 billion above the reserve price set by the Engineering Brigade.
“…and in the circumstances that no service provider seemed to have met the bid reserve price of the Engineering Brigade, the best course of action was to advertise again putting into consideration the market and financial conditions prevailing in the open market,” Gen Angina observed.
His report further states that instead, on August 19, 2015, the Contracts Committee rejected the Engineering Brigade’s revised bill of quantities, saying there was no justification for increasing the cost from Shs21.9 billion to 29.7b. But surprisingly, on October 2, 2015 the same committee approved J2E to be awarded the contract at Shs28.6b.
By this time, even before the contract was awarded to him, Mr Mubiru’s company had zealously injected Shs11 billion into the project.

One company, two names
The investigators also observed that J2E was by now overstretched with work but its appetite for more deals and the urge by the army to award it more contracts was only surging and unquenchable.
Despite the stalled works at Kaweweta, the same contractor under a different name Roestar Construction Corporation, was on March 22, 2014 awarded another contract worth Shs5.9b for priority works in Olilim SOFAAD Training School.
“The contractor managed to carry out some preliminary works and mobilisation and later abandoned the site. This was attributed to delayed payments by Defence. Even after he asked for renewal of the project period for one year, which was authorized on September 22, 2015, works did not commence as he is overstretched by ongoing works.
Such a situation raises serious concerns why all the works were being concentrated on one individual yet there are other pre-qualified bidders who can equally be given an opportunity to work with MOD/UPDF. This was a clear indication of influence peddling by the contractor,” Gen Angina noted in the report.
On December 3, 2015, a separate investigation into contracts to J2E and Roester was commissioned.
The report of the findings also by Gen Angina noted: “Right under our nose a Katosi/UNRA-like scandal has been crafted and orchestrated,”
His probe, which covered other projects done by the same J2E and Roester companies, described Mr Mubiru as a dishonest man.
“Records presented for the Phase 2 procurement showed that his dishonesty extends beyond overpricing (quotations) to forgery of academic qualifications as an engineer from Ndejje University. He has never gone to this university. This is contrary to ethical conduct of business for bidders under section 93 of the PPDA Act 2003, making him unfit to run government contracts,” Gen Angina’s report states.
On April 25, 2015, Ndejje University Academic Registrar B.M. Sekabembe wrote to the UPDF, stating that Mr Mubiru has never studied engineering at the university and accordingly such academic papers must be fake.
The inquiry also lifted the lid on other staff of Mubiru’s companies whose profiles were submitted during the bidding process as proof of competence to execute the contract works.
One staff Alam Manzoor, the investigators say, he “has never done any water project as profiled.” Another staff Mr Hu Junquing was found to be “mysterious and apparently non-existent yet the works were awarded basing on such false information.”
The report further states that Mr Isaac Ayepa, indicated as the project manager for the Parade Square, site manager for the dam and senior engineer for Phase 3, seems non-existing.
For the dam project, his profile indicates that he joined J2E Investment in December 2013, while for Phase 3 bid of Kaweweta RTS, he is indicated to have joined the same company in April 2014.
“This shuffling of facts applies to all personnel. Patrick Kalule, whose profile is submitted as project manager for all projects does not work with the company,” Gen Angina probe says.
“It was also confirmed the contractor uses Engineering Brigade personnel from DD Regiment who were attached to the contractor under instructions to carry out official work for him and it was the same Engineering Brigade to do the technical evaluation… In other words Engineering Brigade makes the drawings, costing under supervision of the contractor who submits them for procurement and the same brigade evaluates their “employer” for the job…,” the probe team noted.

Dubious books of accounts
The probe says the company’s books of accounts exuded a stench of fraud with the contractor found to have a balance sheet size of Shs206m as total assets for the last three years and hasn’t made a profit above Shs12m, a scenario that suggests tax evasion.
Financial statements seen by Daily Monitor indicate the company’s highest revenue/sales were in 2012 at Shs1.3b yet it won the contract for Phases 1, 2 and 3 of Kaweweta works and the dam and Olilim worth Shs76b.
Going by the company’s own statements for three years, the probe team observed that it was “ineligible for award of contracts of such big sums.”
“Unless it was a miracle, how could the evaluation and contracts committee fail to detect that such a company lacked the financial capacity before and now for all these contracts? This indicates existence of an extensive procurement collaboration network within the Ministry of Defence,” the report asserts.
The investigation lists many more cases of fraud in the company’s transactions with the Ministry of Defence in collusion with various officials including auditors and the ministry’s internal departments.
When the President was set to pass out the recruits, the army leadership asked for a square to be built to insulate him from dust as soldiers marched during the parade. Initially, the army was to undertake the work but Mubiru’s company was instead contracted to build the square at Shs3.6b.
Mr Museveni later passed out the recruits on a dust-filled ground because the works were still incomplete yet Shs2.3 billion had been advanced to the contractor.
Interestingly, J2E Investment Corporation claimed rich experience from landmark construction projects and cited Labanurm Courts owned by Kingstone Enterprises as one example of their projects done in 2008 at Shs2.3 billion.
However, the property belongs to Oasis Group of Companies and were completed in 2013 at $50 million.

Latest probe
A separate investigation done in January this year raises the same sticky issues about the same company and recommends an overhaul of the army’s procurement, contracts and construction committees.
The probe team comprised Brig Sam Kavuma, Brig. Ramathan Kyamulesire, Col. Abdul Rugumayo, Lt. Col. L. Arikosi, Lt. Arthur Ruhinda and Okello Engola. They ordered recovery of the Shs700m paid to Mr Mubiru for furniture supplied to Kaweweta without a contract and prosecution of the officers behind the deal.
When contacted, Brig Richard Karemire, the UPDF and Defence spokesman, said: “We are still investigating that issue. Please let us do our work first. I shall not comment beyond that.”
According to documents obtained from the Registrar of Companies dated June 28, 2003, J2E Investment Corporation has Mr Jordan Magunga, Ms Peninah Busingye and Eria Mubiru as the directors.
Mr Mark Wanyana, a consultant with Hits Investments, which was hired to offer business advice to the company, wrote in his report dated February 1, 2013: “The client (Mubiru) is a young entrepreneur who has vital connections in the Ministry of Defence. The executive director is the mainstay of the company. The business has no formal structures, plan or projections.”
On November 23, 2015 Mr Mubiru wrote to Ministry of Defence Permanent Secretary Ms Rosette Byengoma: “Mr Charles Angina took inappropriate steps including halting of procurement for Phase 3, biased and unfounded allegations against the company, prolonged investigations into our private operations, which has led to loss of business, delayed payments, delayed project implementation, continuous witch-hunt and harassment.”
He then warned the PS, “If in 19 days the matters raised in this letter are not resolved we shall begin to demobilise all equipment from the site and shall forward to you both demobilisation and mobilisation fees.” He suspended the works on November 23, 2015.
Daily Monitor could not reach Mr Mubiru, the sole company signatory and director, for a comment as calls and text messages to his known cellular line went unanswered.

Previous cases

Charges. In 1992, a senior aide to President Museveni, Capt Innocent Bisangwa, and four other people were indicted on charges that they had illegally tried to export antitank missiles and launchers to Uganda. Two of the men were also accused of illegally trying to sell helicopter parts to Libya.
Shoddy deal. In 1999 Monitor reported another shoddy deal, when the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) imported an assortment of substandard military uniforms from China. According to a reliable source then, 10,000 pairs of combat military uniforms imported under a Shs1.5 billion contract deal from a China-based British registered firm, Britanica were found to be inferior in quality and size.
Fake arms deal. In 2015, a Polish company was conned out of more than Shs2b in a fake arms deal. Prima Investments Uganda, claimed they had been contracted by the Defence ministry to find a company that could supply 375 tanks specified as T-54, T-55, T-72, T-90s; a number of PT-76 amphibious tanks; assorted BMP infantry fighting vehicles; 46 Ferret and Eland light armour reconnaissance cars and six self-propelled artillery pieces.

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“We are still investigating that issue. Please let us do our work first. I shall not comment beyond that.”
Brig Richard Karemire, the UPDF and Defence spokesman.

editorial@ug.nationmedia.com

 

The President of Angola has appointed his daughter, Isabel Santos, to head the State Oil company of Angola.

The Independent. co. ug

 

December 30, 2016

M/s Isabel Santos

 

 

STATE OF ANGOLA, Luanda:  

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s daughter, reportedly Africa’s richest woman, has been cleared to head the national oil company Sonangol, after a court rejected a legal challenge.

Isabel dos Santos was put in charge of Sonangol in June in a move some analysts said was the first sign of succession plans for the country’s long-time ruler.

The president, in power since 1979, later announced that he would stand down in 2017, though no successor has officially been named.

 

His daughter’s appointment was disputed by 12 lawyers who said the law did not allow public officials to nominate family members, but the Supreme Court ruled in her favour on December 22, an official said Thursday.

“According to the decision… the appointment of Isabel dos Santos by her father does not violate the law on public probity or the Angolan Constitution,” said David Mendes, a spokesman for the lawyers.

The country’s opposition had equated her Sonangol appointment with nepotism, prompting the legal challenge.

Mendes said the lawyers would appeal the decision at the country’s Constitutional Court.

“The judgement of the Supreme Court has many shortcomings and does not satisfactorily answer the questions we asked,” he said.

Nicknamed the “Princess”, the president’s 43-year-old daughter has been ranked by Forbes magazine as the richest woman on the continent with a fortune of around $3 billion (2.87 billion euros).

She owns stakes in several companies in Angola and former colonial power Portugal, notably in the banking and telecommunications sectors.

Three years ago the president appointed his son Jose Filomeno dos Santos to chair the country’s $5 billion Sovereign Wealth Fund.

Sonangol has been mired in financial difficulties since the fall in global oil prices. Since her appointment in the summer the president’s daughter has pledged to turn the company around.

Earlier this month Sonangol announced it would not pay dividends to the state this year — a first for the country’s main source of foreign currency.

Angola’s vast oil wealth has not trickled down to the masses and critics accuse both dos Santos and his family of amassing huge wealth by siphoning off state funds.

 

Two high class Canadian prostitutes have been thrown in prison by the rich citizens of Nigeria:

Jyoti, left, and Kiran Matharoo is right.

(Instagram photo)

 

KEVIN CONNOR, POSTMEDIA NETWORK

 

Dec 27, 2016

 

Two Toronto sisters with Kardashian-like Instagram accounts have been detained in a sex scandal in Nigeria.

Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo are accused of using raunchy photos of sexual acts to cyberbully and extort money from wealthy men.

“Consular services are being provided to the Canadian citizens who have been detained in Lagos, Nigeria,” said Kristine Racicot of Global Affairs Canada, who wouldn’t divulge further information on the case.

Court documents published in Nigeria Today allege the sisters “have been responsible for the humiliation and cyberbullying of some 274 persons, mostly based in regions of Africa.”

The paper alleges the sisters tried to blackmail wealthy politicians and businessmen with evidence of their sexual indiscretions.

If money wasn’t paid, they allegedly threatened to go public with evidence, including recorded conversations and images of sex acts, according to Nigeria Today.

The sisters love to post hundreds of selfies and the favourites include ample cleavage and butt shots in string bikinis, low-cut cocktail dresses and pink latex bondage gear.

Pictures of shopping sprees with Gucci and Versace bags can bee seen alongside photos of stacks of money — U.S. dollars, U.K. pounds and euros — on silk bed sheets.

Runways — both those for private jets or the type showing the latest couture — are popular location shoots, but so are yachts — just as long as a cocktail is included.

The pair were arrested in mid-December after allegedly trying to shake down one of Nigeria’s richest businessmen, who is a billionaire.

The sisters have pleaded not guilty and are scheduled to next appear in court on Jan. 26.

 

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This is an African country that had a President who used to import such international prosititutes who became his undoing. It was a coup-de-tais of the African kind successfully done by the females of this world.

 

 

 

 

 

In Nigeria, a light-fingered teenager has found himself beaten and stripped naked after he was caught stealing farm chicken:

 

Rather than call the police, locals in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria, dished out their own brand of instant 'justice'.

After he was seized by the chickens' owner, the suspect was beaten senseless.

Disturbing images of the boy show him with a swollen and bloodied left eye.

A crowd gathered to watch the suspected thief paraded around by the chickens' owner and local leaders

 

His face was bloodied after he was beaten and stripped naked for his alleged crime

Then he was forced to parade with three chickens tied around his neck.

Locals laughed and jeered at the teen as he was marched around the market by the chickens' owner and local leaders to punish him.

Public justice is a common form of punishment in Nigeria where locals can be suspicious of police or official involvement.

Officials are often seen as corrupt and easily bribed and ordinary people prefer street level self-administered justice.

The man's name was not revealed and it is unclear if he was handed over to the police after the mob had finished with him.

The suspected thief was photographed as the locals punished him for stealing chickens.

 

 

 

 

The Uganda and Libya Telecommunications company has been made insolvent by the British Aid grants given to the continent of Africa:

December 21, 2016

Written by URN

Parliament’s select committee investigating the affairs of Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) has halted all financial transactions by the company.

The committee issued th

e directive in a meeting with the top UTL managers led by managing director Mark Shoebridge, chief finance officer James Wilde and corporation secretary David Nambale.

Speaker Rebecca Kadaga appointed the committee led by Chua West MP, Philip Okin Ojara, following a whistleblower’s report presented by Budadiri West MP Nathan Nandala-Mafabi citing alleged mismanagement in UTL.

UTL is reported to have a local and foreign company debt amounting to Shs 128 billion. Some of the claimants include Uganda Revenue Authority (Shs 58bn); MTN Uganda (Shs 8bn), UCC (Shs 22bn) Huawei Technologies (Shs 24bn) and NSSF (Shs 16bn).

While appearing before the committee, Shoebridge admitted that the current debt stands at over Shs 500 billion, but says the company is slowly clearing its debt.

Government owns a 31 percent stake in UTL while Libya African Portfolio Green owns 69 per cent shares.

During the meeting, MPs demanded for audit reports from UTL managers in vain. Michael Tusiime, the Mbarara Municipality MP, wondered why the managers allowed the debt to accumulate, noting that it was improper and dangerous for the fate of the employees.

The committee directed the company to stop any financial transactions and present audited reports of the company from 2000. It also ordered the company not to fire any employee until the probe is complete.

 

 

Government officials in Tanzania have been found out using tax revenue funds for their benefits: 

By The East African:

A Twitter Gadget is tracking several dictators’ travels as they fly into the rich city of Geneva in Europe:

By Elianna Lev

October 16, 2016

[A Twitter bot tracks planes that are publicly registered by 20 authoritarian governments.

Photo: AFP/Getty Images]

Dictators hoping to make a discrete visit to Geneva might have their plans foiled thanks to a sneaky Twitter bot. The GVA Dictator Alert tracks aircraft that are registered to authoritarian governments and then shares arrival and departure times on Twitter.

Journalist François Pilet says he started the project as a way to add a bit of exposure to “a very secret world.”

“I think every time that we see a plane from, say Equatorial Guinea, we should think about it,” Pilet tells the Verve. “Why is the guy coming here? Is the guy coming here for diplomatic reasons, because his country’s representatives are having political debates? Or are they coming just to hide the money they stole from their people?”

The project stemmed from an article Pilet wrote about the leader of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Pilet would track frequent trips Mbasogo made to Geneva, many of which were sometimes on an Equatorial Guinean airline that has been prohibited from European airspace.

Working with his cousin, a former Google engineer, Pilet created a device that can scan antenna signals around Geneva on an hourly basis. Whenever a marked plane enters its airspace, the bot automatically posts the details to Twitter.

The bot now tracks planes that are publicly registered by 20 authoritarian governments, including Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Qatar, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

Pilet intends to expand the bot to other European airports as well as different transport vehicles, like private boats and yachts.

“When they come in a private jet to Geneva, they think they are hidden,” Pilet says. “And I think it’s a cool idea to know that every time the front wheel of their plane touches the tarmac in Geneva, there’s a tweet saying ‘hi, you are here, and now it’s public.’”

"Just return our stolen assets",  Nigeria’s Buhari tells United Kingdom Prime Minister:

May 11, 2016

                           President Muhammadu Buhari in London, United Kingdom | AFP |

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Wednesday that he did not want an apology from Prime Minister David Cameron for calling his country “fantastically corrupt”, but said Britain could return assets stolen by officials who fled to London.

“I am not going to demand any apology from anybody. What I am demanding is the return of the assets,” Buhari told an anti-corruption event hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London.

He noted the case of Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, a former governor of oil-rich Bayelsa state who was detained in London on charges of money-laundering in 2005, but skipped bail by disguising himself as a woman.

“What would I do with an apology? I need something tangible,” he said.

Cameron is hosting a major anti-corruption summit in London on Thursday, which Buhari is attending alongside Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

But in a diplomatic gaffe, Cameron was caught on camera on Tuesday saying that the leaders of some “fantastically corrupt” countries were attending.

“Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world,” he was filmed telling Queen Elizabeth II at an event at Buckingham Palace.

Buhari has embarked on a widespread anti-corruption campaign since taking office last year, and in his speech to Wednesday’s Commonwealth event thanked Britain for helping recover stolen assets taken abroad.

“Even before this government came in, the UK took the initiative of arresting some former governors of some of the states in Nigeria,” Buhari said.

But in general, he said, “our experience has been that repatriation of corrupt proceeds is very tedious, time consuming, costly”.

Kenya is at it again destroying by burning Ivory it has failed to protect on its thousands of Elephants that continue to live naturally in this country:

Added 30th April 2016

A Rhino with horns                                       Elephant tasks piled up high for destruction

                                                                      by burning with fire.

We will not be the Africans who stood by as we lost our elephants," says President Kenyatta.

Eleven giant pyres of tusks will be set on fire Saturday as Kenya torches its vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture aimed at shocking the world into stopping the slaughter of elephants.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who will be the first to set fire to the semi-circle of tusks expected to burn for days in the capital Nairobi's national park, on Friday demanded a total ban on trade in ivory to end trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild.

"To lose our elephants would be to lose a key part of the heritage that we hold in trust. Quite simply, we will not allow it," Kenyatta said at a summit meeting of African heads of state and conservationists. "We will not be the Africans who stood by as we lost our elephants."

The historic bonfires will be the largest-ever torching of ivory, involving 105 tonnes from thousands of dead elephants, dwarfing by seven times any stockpile burned before. Another 1.35 tonnes of rhino horn will also be burned, representing the killing of some 340 of the endangered animals.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta arrives to address delegates attending the opening session of the anti-poaching Giants Club Summit meeting in Nanyuki, Laikipia county on April 29, 2016

Shocking scale of slaughter

Africa is home to between 450,000 to 500,000 elephants, but more than 30,000 are killed every year on the continent to satisfy demand for ivory in Asia, where raw tusks sell for around $1,000 (800 euros) a kilo (2.2 pounds).

The pyres prepared in Nairobi contain some 16,000 tusks and pieces of ivory.

Kenya has a long history of such torchings, spearheading a wider movement of public demonstrations across the world, but nothing on this scale before.

On the black market, such a quantity of ivory could sell for over $100 million (88 million euros), and the rhino horn could raise as much as $80 million (70 million euros). 

Rhino horn can fetch as much as $60,000 per kilo, more than gold or cocaine.

Even so, despite the staggering size of the piles to be burned, totalling some five percent of global stocks, the ivory represents just a fraction of the animals killed every year.

'Extreme temperatures'

The ivory here seized from poachers and smugglers over several years -- plus a small fraction from animals who died naturally -- is equivalent to just a quarter of the number of elephants massacred every year to feed demand in growing economies in Asia, eager for an elephant's tooth as a status symbol.

British actress Liz Hurley poses next to the last male northern white rhino sudan at Ol Pejeta Sanctuary as she takes part of the Giants Club Summit conservation meeting in Laikipia

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) banned the ivory trade in 1989.

Activists say destroying the stocks will put anti-trafficking efforts at the top of the agenda at the next CITES conference.

China, which has tightened its laws on ivory imports, allows the resale of ivory bought before the 1989 ban, but activists say the trade in legal ivory acts as a cover for illegal imports and call for a complete ban on sales.

Ivory itself does not burn, and so the fire will be fuelled by a mix of thousands of litres diesel and kerosene injected though steel pipes buried in the ground leading into the heart of the pyramids.

"If you wish to incinerate it, you have to take it to extreme temperatures," said Robin Hollister, a former film special effects specialist turned pyrotechnic expert, who has organised the fuel-fed fires.

His expertise will help ensure the stockpiles burn as planned despite torrential rain on Friday in Nairobi that saw cars on normally busy roads swamped by flood waters, and the area around the ivory burn a muddy quagmire.

Richard Leakey, Kenya Wildlife Service chief, a legendary conservationist and palaeoanthropologist, promised the ivory piles "will burn, even if it snows".

The ceremony, expected to be attended by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and President Ali Bongo from Gabon, is expected is due to begin at around 3:00 pm (1200 GMT).

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All Africans are intitled to their opinion on this destruction of millions of tonnes of Ivory. This is real Gold for these countries. Really one would not think that since the Spaniards in 16's Century stole so much Gold and Diamonds from South American Ancient States, then that Gold must be burnt and destroyed.

What then happens to those Elephants that die in capitivity with so much old Ivory on their dead bodies? Is it that the colonialists make the international order to burn this valuable Ivory as well?

African leaders please have some sense and come out with a better way of recovering and maintaining the continent's wealth that will sustain the global environment for some millions of years to come! Some people living have the luck to see and study bones left by Dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago. What if selfish economic madmen lived that time and burnt the lot?

Two medical professionals in Uganda have been arrested over selling government drugs and taking bribes from patients:

Health worker kneeling down, accused of soliciting

bribes, pleads for forgiveness before the director

Medicine and Health Services Delivery Monitoring

Unit, Dr Diana Atwine (L), at Kasambya Health

Centre IV in Mubende District at the weekend.

PHOTO BY JOSEPHINE NNABBAALE

IN MUBENDE MUNICIPALITY, IN BUGANDA STATE, UGANDA:

Patients and health workers at Kasambya Health Centre IV in Mubende District have deserted the facility after two medical practitioners were arrested over soliciting bribes from patients.

The suspects, both female, were arrested last weekend after an investigation by a team from the State House Medical and Health Services Delivery Monitoring Unit revealed that some health workers ask for bribes in exchange for government drugs.

According to Dr Diana Atwine Kanzira, the director of the Unit, several people have complained about health workers in government facilities in Mubende asking for money in exchange for services.

“Many heath workers have turned selling government drugs into a business. This is illegal. We shall not relent until we completely fight the vice,” Dr Atwine said.
She said the most sold drugs are anti-malarials and ARVs.

Dr Atwine revealed this while addressing an impromptu meeting for both health workers and patients at Kasambya Health Centre IV.
Patients narrated how they are forced to pay or services –something they say has been a practice at the health centre for years.

Dr Atwine also said Mama Kits are sold to expectant mothers adding that some health workers unpack the kits and sell the contents separately.

She said the medics sell the cotton wool at Shs1,500, gauze (Shs5,000), polythene paper (Shs5,000)and gloves (Shs1,500).

“We trapped the health workers by giving money to some patients to give to them when they asked, and we succeeded. Since the currency notes had been photocopied, it was easy to identify them by looking at the serial numbers and we arrested the health workers,” Dr Atwine said.

Ms Agnes Birungi, a patient said: “I came here to deliver my baby but I was asked to pay for everything yet this is a government facility.”
During the meeting, one of the health workers said they don’t charge patients intentionally but as a mutual arrangement between the workers and patients to pay some facilitation to ‘volunteers’ who help deliver the medicine in time due to the limited number of staff at the health centre.

About the expectant mothers, the health worker said they don’t charge them but rather ask them to buy some drugs in case they are not readily available in the health centre store.

Dr Atwine warned that similar on-the-spot inspections are going to be carried out in other health centres in the district to weed out unscrupulous medics.

“This should stand as a warning to all the health units in Uganda that whoever indulges in selling government drugs and services will be charged accordingly because all government services are free,” she said.

Drugs sold in neighbouring countries
Theft of government drugs has become a rampant vice. Last month, authorities in Lwengo District suspended four medical officers in connection with theft of government drugs.

Last year, the State House Health Monitoring Unit revealed that many government medicines, especially those stolen from health centres are being sold in DR Congo, South Sudan and Kenya.

The State House Monitoring Unit was established by President Museveni in 2010 to check theft of medical supplies from public health facilities.

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The U.S.America's terrible corruption - especially in the Ministry of Defence:

(The Military)

From Einar Schlereth 

On December 24, 2015 

On November 16, the great journalist wrote about international strategic and military issues, F. William Engdahl, the article "Do We Really Want A New World War With Russia?" (Do we really want a new world war with Russia?) And documented that Russia has caught up with one-tenth of the Army US spending in terms of combat capability with the US at least. It is a remarkable article, although he carries along everything that was recently published in many media with regard to important technologies, where Russia has surpassed the American capacity. Of course it's necessary to document the extent of the areas where Russia clearly has the military superiority.

Regarding the question of whether the areas where the US Russia exceeds military technologies that are more or less, so it is the crucial point of the, in my opinion, that Russia now (as Engdahl makes clear) the US capabilities in certain very crucial areas surpasses so strong that at best, the United States, even with all his allies equal draws with Russia, because the areas where Russia is outstanding, are crucial.

Engdahl quoted a high US military, which says that the Russian ability to make the US weapons harmless, are so shocking that he might almost crying. A recent article in, Defense News' went further on Russia's superiority in this particular field - and that was released prior to the plan following shameful US Rückziehern in Syria and elsewhere, which were necessary due to the unrivaled US position with respect to vital technologies.

Of course, all this belongs only to America's corruption in spending of, Verteidigungs' Dollars (how ironic to use the word "defense" in the army, which is one of the most aggressive nation in the world - worldwide. The United States was the overwhelming first choice (24 % of respondents) for the country, which means the greatest threat to world peace today. Followed by Pakistan (8%), China (6%), North Korea, Israel, and Iran (5%). Honesty would certainly require a name change in, US aggression Ministry '. But in the US media is rather Russia is by far the "most aggressive" country in the world.)

According to other corruption measurements, the United States is probably less corrupt than Russia. But everyone knows that it is very corrupt. But typically America manages its corruption swift to hide as Russia - but that's not important; In total there is corruption in both countries not so different, except in the form of corruption: in the United States more at the top, in Russia below.

Back To 2013. I wrote "How the United States in the new international world rankings stands" and reported:

Corruption seems to be in the US quite a profound problem. When "diversion of public funds (thanks to the corruption)" the United States is ranked 34. "irregular payments and bribes" (which perhaps is a better measure of lack of corruption) at No. 42. With "public confidence in politicians" at No. 54 . When "judicial independence" at No. 38. "favored in decisions of government officials" (elsewhere called governmental nepotism) at No. 59. "organized crime" Place 87. "ethical conduct of companies" Place 29. "Trust Police services in place 30 For "transparency of governmental political decisions" Course 56. "effectiveness of the legal framework for complaints about rules" Place 35. "Last of governmental regulations" Place 76. "waste of government -Expenditure "also 76." protection of property rights "(the basic law-and-order measures) we are at number 42. Russia was even worse with an average space of 144 110 countries.

But with respect to the corruption of the expenditure of dollars for the army, the United States is simply gigantic - and certainly far worse than Russia. On May 13, 2014 headlined, Stars and Stripes' "decades later still can not give an account of their expenses, the army" and wrote:

The army is lagging a decades-old demand afterwards to control their spending and to limit the waste, the inspectors of the Defense Ministry of the Senate announced on Tuesday.

Army, Air Force, Marine Corps fleet and finance managers are unable to meet the deadline of Defense. In the meantime, there are "serious shortfalls" in the books according to the accounting authority that was published on Tuesday.

For almost three decades the taxpayer marvel at toilets for $ 640 and other military waste. The Defense Ministry is the last governmental authority that is unable to make an audit, although this is required by law since 1990 levels.

In other words, this is a black hole where trillion tax dollars have disappeared, without any reliable evidence of how, when and to whom it all went.

The fact is that the US government now almost everything subcontracted to private companies (collectively spend billions of lobbies in the Congress and to fund political campaigns); and that is particularly true on the Pentagon. It is the result of the increasing use since 1981, capitalism '(the dictatorial, not democratic version thereof), as happened in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, where governmental functions and ownership were first privatized and the weapons manufacturers enormously were enriched in order to strengthen the control of the German and Italian aristocracy through conquest of foreign countries. Faschistiche countries are incredibly corrupt; served by international theft; and the Department of Defense is fabulously corrupt.

Over the secret federal spending - military expenditure: a black hole of corruption

And want the corrupt aristocracies of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar - the three main US allies - Syria's secular, non-sectarian and obstinate anti-jihadists, Shia [an error - Assad is Alawit. D. Ü.] Leader Bashar al-Assad overthrown. To speak of such an alliance, a pro-Sunni jihadists operation that it represents the free world 'or' fighting for democracy ', ie the audience not merely be regarded as stupid, but as a stupid idiot, because there is no true freedom are in aristocratic -theokratischen dictatorships, but sag only Gesinnungs control and aristocrats, the billions of the taxpayers, which the aristocrats can expand their personal empire by international conquest continued with the US aristocracy (the Obama like as "the indispensable nation" called), which coordinates the entire fraudulent international business companies.

The Israeli government can be added to this list, because they of the US taxpayers $ 3 billion annually receives to buy more weapons from the US arms producers, and it urges the Congress to increase the amount to $ 5 billion , This would put the Lockheed Martin company in basic corrupt even more money. One of Lockheed Top sellers was the notorious Adnan Khashoggi, alias Adnan Kasogi. Lockheed itself is controlled by the State Street Corporation, which is referred to in a large study of the 5th largest global leaders, which in turn is controlled by Joseph L. Hooley, occasionally with other Wall Street types, and the US President privately at the White House meets to discuss things such as whether the amount of Israel should be raised to 5 billion. Is not that "corruption"? How not? Those people are your investors committed not to the public. Because most of these people are not publicly known, large international transactions may be (including war planning) negotiated privately between them. And normalerweilse people like Hooley again merely agents of a couple of the few about three thousand billionaires who currently control the international relations and determine whether there will be war or no war. Almost all of the soldiers and civilians, which then bleed and die must in the wars, have nothing but their blood and viscera. Maybe some of them vote for democracy - the bane of all aristocrats, because democracy always comes in their way - their free market ', will be assessed on the blood and guts barely higher than in the slaughterhouse. It's easy to shop '. But every international business is always politics and government. The mixes everything.

The trouble is that Russia's notoriously corrupt with its base-corruption, but the US with its massive corruption at the top - which increasingly is always legal, after the Supreme Court has really done everything possible to lubricate the runners even more - in fact, much more corrupt is (just not so visible).

The Russian system of military spending is the America's diametrically opposed. While the United States has been privatized, Russia has its military industry in state hands. All profits from arms sales go to the Russian government, not to the makers in the multinationals. The arms manufacturers are part of the government. Just like in the US, there are no financial reports on their operations; but there are financial reports every year that are reviewed by the Defence Minister and, moreover, by the President and the Prime Minister - ie people who are responsible to the electorate, not only the aristocracy of large shareholders. In the US, there are no financial reports. Instead, (more like aristocratic choice) flow see America's politicians, the dollar only in their election 'campaigns. The war profits are private and the buying of politicians is just another business issue.

Russia receives far more on its military rubles - that's for sure. As Obama now increasingly trying to strangle Russia, not only economically but also militarily, this overlooked component of America's huge corruption comes more and more into the light, but not the financial operations behind.

And yet believes the US public that, Verteidigungs' Ministry and all its contractors and the national security operations such as CIA, FBI, etc. especially are there to protect the American people, rather than to protect the empire and to extend and aristocracy, which through its investment funds and non-profits 'called the press her own, the weapons manufacturers, etc. It is a network of power, the more earned more if the public lives in fear and contempt, those strangers' or , those foreigners' entertains, but not against their own aristocracy, which really pulls the strings and the safety and the lives of all others destroyed.

AN ESSENTIAL LESSON FOR AFRICAN DICTATORS:

A Former Iranian President , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who left office earlier this year, has reportedly returned to his original profession of teaching.


One lesson Africans need to learn, in order to guard against the Life presidency project, is to have only well educated and professionally qualified people as national leaders. Putting power in the hands of uneducated and uncivilised  individuals like Kayibanda Kaguta Museveni, who have never worked in any capacity in their adult lives and have no profession to talk of, should never happen again in any African country.

It is very heart-warming to see Mr Ahmedinejad peacefully leaving office after the end of his two terms and then returning to his profession as an engineer and academic. Unlike Kayibanda, who is accompanied everywhere with a full brigade of armoured vehicles and jack-booted thugs.  Ahmedinejad travels in a bus to teach at his University, taking his place on the queue just like any ordinary citizen. We need leaders with humility, respect, dignity  and compassion in Africa, not gangsters like Kayibanda and thugs who think they own us.