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Kitchen

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:17:10 -0500

Every woman's morning starts with Kitchen.Modern kitchen are basically equipped with stove,Refrigerator Water Filter ,utensils,microwave oven etc.Kitchen should be kept clean and tidy.Kitchen.Now a days we can find lots of kitchen accessories in the market but we have to be sure this accessories have good quality non-toxic.Sitting in a dining table with all the family members can be enjoyable.

Organic foods

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:01:46 -0500

To stay healthy you must eat healthy food.Organic foods are best for health.Here I am going to share some organic food list.
1Milk-If you are buying and drinking goat milk or goat products ,know that scientists have now genetically mutated a goat to spin silk in her milk.
2Rice-Always buy organic rice that are store in airtight container.
3Potatoes-Genetically modified potatoes can shrink the brain,liver and heart
4Cucumbers-Buy organic cucumbers ,avoid eating pesticide filled cucumbers.
5Cherries-Be sure that the cherries you buy are organic and clean.

Eat healthy think healthy be healthy

Internet,It's a boon.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:44:33 -0500

Percentage of internet user is being rapidly growing day by day.In fact its good to hear.With the development of technology,it is making life more easier and convenient.By sitting in a room you can know the news of whole world in little time.Wherever you are you can be in touch with your friends and family.

Varsity girl stabs lover to death

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:17:56 -0600

David Musunga and Jane Nyiha pose for a photograph during happier times
By Francis Kagolo
A KENYAN student of Kampala International University (KIU) is held at Kabalagala Police station for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death. Jane Nyiha, a second-year student of bachelor’s of public administration, is accused of stabbing David Musunga Ivita in the throat, causing him to bleed to death.

She was yesterday picked from her room in Kansanga, a Kampala suburb, where she allegedly committed the crime at around 11:00am.

The Police also recovered a knife which she is suspected of having used in the crime.

Musunga, who also comes from Kenya, was a third-year student pursuing a bachelor’s degree in mass communication. He was due to sit his final exams in April and graduate in September. Almost 80% of KIU students are Kenyans.

Musunga died during examination at the university clinic where he had been rushed. The two, who had been staying in the same room, were described as long-time lovers by their landlord, John Male.

“They have been friendly and calm since they rented my house in 2008. Although the boy would drink, he was generally very cool,” he said.

Neighbours reported that trouble started yesterday morning when Musunga returned home drunk at 4:00am. Nyiha declined to open the door for him.

The landlord narrated that Musunga spent almost an hour knocking at the door but his girlfriend only peeped through the window, laughed and ordered him out of her sight.

Musunga slept at the house of a friend, David Mwenda, who is also a Kenyan.
When he returned to his room at 11:00am, a brief quarrel ensued between the two, a neighbour said.

“We heard the boy groaning and wondered what had happened.”
When some neighbours went to check, they said they were shocked to find the boy in a pool of blood.

His girlfriend reportedly dashed to a boda-boda stage to rush the victim to the university clinic where he died on arrival. By press time, the body was still in Nsambya Hospital.

For several hours, Police detectives cordoned off the scene of the crime. They broke the padlock of the deceased’s room and picked blood-stained bed sheets, photographs and a knife among other exhibits.

Other students who knew Nyiha said she was a born-again Christian and not quarrelsome. They described the deceased as a quiet, intelligent youth.

Kansanga residents complained that many of the foreign students at the university’s main campus were rowdy and indisciplined.

“They drink a lot, sparking off conflicts. I often receive complaints from landlords and residents concerning the improper behaviour of Kenyan students,” the LC1 chairperson, Francis Sseguya, said.

He called for collaboration between the Police, the community and university authorities to guarantee security in the area.

Muhammad Ndaula, the university vice-chancellor, regretted the incident but defended the Kenyan students.
The incident is just the latest in a series of murder cases involving students over love and alcoholism.

In 2007, a Kenyan student, Duncan Njogu Kamore, was expelled from Busoga University for stabbing a colleague, Paul Mogaka, after they fought over a girl.

In October 2008, 17-year-old Tadeo Bukye, an S4 student of Mpanga SS in Fort Portal, was stabbed to death by a jealous girlfriend at a school party.

Last year in September, Phiona Mutamba, a student of Makerere University Business School, was stabbed by her boyfriend, also a student at the same school, before he committed suicide at Workers House in the centre of Kampala.

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Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:20:24 -0600

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Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:06:27 -0600

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Africa Confidential, January 2008

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:03:14 -0600

An eyewitness account of the announcement of the results at the Kenya Conference Centre

After the long wait for the presidential election results, the Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya, Samuel Kivuitu, announced in the late afternoon of 30 December that Mwai Kibaki had won the election after all with 4,584,721 votes, versus 4,352,993 for Raila Odinga, and 879,903 for Kalonzo Musyoka. Kivuitu gave the results to a small gathering of officials and journalists from the state-run Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) after his earlier attempts to announce the disputed results had been called off due to scuffles at the press conference. It was clear that announcing the results would be just the first step in a drawn-out battle.

On 29 December, Kivuitu asked each party to nominate two officials to work overnight with ECK staff on all the disputed presidential figures, mostly in Eastern Province but also in Coast and Central. It seemed to all of us like the best thing to do.

We had expected a reconciliation of the figures and the results in the early morning. Everyone waited at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, where the results were to be announced - the press, party officials, observers, etc. -but Kivuitu did not show up until about five in the afternoon, indicating that serious problems had arisen.

In the meantime, a sombre-looking Raila Odinga, the Orange Democratic Movement's presidential candidate, addressed the press at the Conference Centre. He said that the election was about to be stolen but that Kenyans would not stand for it. He made a passionate plea to Kibaki to stop the announcement of false election results. That was what had led to war in Côte d'Ivoire, he added ominously.

Then ECK Chairman Kivuitu came into the KICC and started reading the results of the presidential elections in the Molo and Kajiado constituencies to the accompaniment of barracking from ODM supporters in the hall. As temperatures rose, ODM supporters shouted at Kivuitu that they would not allow him to announce false results. Then all hell broke loose. The conference centre erupted in chaos. The paramilitary General Service Unit entered the building with truncheons and night sticks raised.

Journalists and ODM supporters mounted the dais where Kivuitu and the other Election Commissioners were sitting, and one activist wrested the microphone from the ECK Chairman. Then the disconsolate Chairman and Commissioners walked out of the hall followed by an eager pack of journalists. Dozens of baton-wielding police joined the throng as Kivuitu and his officials tried to push through the maze of corridors in the conference centre.

Then Kivuitu and his officials were bundled into a lift and police blocked off the area to journalists. Back in the main hall at the International Conference Centre, the ODM had taken over proceedings. Its leader in the Rift Valley, William Ruto was disputing the ECK's version of the presidential election results in these constituencies. He read out the results that had been announced in the constituencies - and witnessed by Kenyan and foreign election observers. The results produced by the ECK in Nairobi - and which Kivuitu had been announcing - had been inflated by at least 20,000 in each constituency, he said.

Ruto accused the ECK of being party to electoral fraud at the highest level - among the Commissioners themselves. He then introduced a witness to the hall, a parliamentary civil servant who had been seconded to the ECK. This man said that he had seen officials at the ECK alter the results received from polling stations and that his conscience would not allow him to keep silent.

Meanwhile in another part of the conference centre, Kivuitu was holding his own private press conference which was being broadcast live on KBC. Most of the press and party agents had been excluded from this exclusive gathering.

When Kivuitu gave the results, he lamented that losers were never able to take defeat easily. He had the official ECK tally and was ready to defend it in court. Kenya was dear to all of us, but stability cannot be taken for granted. He did concede that some issues would have to be addressed: 'ODM had raised some weighty matters...but the recommendations that they are asking ECK to make are way beyond its powers as they belong to the courts'. Any challenge to the results announced by the ECK should be taken to the courts, Kivuitu said. This implied that there had been flaws in the counting process - on which ECK was not qualified to pass judgement.

Minutes later, Kivuitu was whisked away in a black limousine with the Chief of Police, Hussein Ali, to State House where he was to present the ECK's certificate of the election results. Then Kibaki was sworn in as president at a bizarre, almost impromptu ceremony in the grounds of State House. As Kibaki was swearing the oath, a television camera crew was setting up behind him.

Kibaki's inauguration in 2002 in Uhuru Park had been a joyous if chaotic event, a celebration of democracy and of the will of Kenya's voters. In contrast, this inauguration was almost clandestine: no crowds, no wananchi, just a few glum-looking bureaucrats and judges. Standing alongside Kibaki were some political advisers, such as Professor Nick Wanjohi, the Vice-Chancellor Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, intelligence chiefs, the top brass of the armed forces and the chief of police. For many of those watching on television, the swearing-in resembled nothing more than a civilian coup d'etat. Kibaki, with little enthusiasm and not hint of irony, thanked Kenyans for giving him a second chance to serve them.

source: http://www.africa-confidential.com/speci...tions-2008

Truth and stereotyping: Goalkeepers in Africa

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:02:12 -0600

The stereotype of an African goalkeeper can be summed up in one word: bad. African goalkeepers are thought of as being unreliable, mentally unstable and prone to absurd mistakes. Unfortunately, this year’s CAF tournament has shown that there is currently more than a little truth in this. There has been some magnificently eccentric goalkeeping. If the Marx brothers were alive, they might well have skipped off to Angola and edited a little of the goalkeeping footage together for a slapstick feature.

Here is a sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D18cZEk-O...e=related.

The quality of goalkeeping has attracted the internet savvy.

Here is a video compilation of this tournament’s worst goalkeeping moments, thus far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCMt6hCZn2c

That first video features Mozambique’s João Rafael Kapango, who almost broke his neck doing a somersault over the ball. Still, the enemy was repelled and the goal was not breached. That kind of mistake has been more or less banished from the top level of the game. As former Nigeria goalkeeper Idah Peterside succinctly put it: 'We did that 20 years ago, but now the game is more technical.' Those were halcyon days for the football fan, unless it was your goalkeeper behaving like Stan Laurel or Oliver Hardy.

Away from the issue of stereotyping, there is a genuine concern regarding African goalkeepers. There is no particular culture of goalkeeping in Africa. The continent has produced some good players in the position (Cameroon's Carlos Kameni and Egypt’s Essam el Hadary are two current examples) but the true stars have been attacking players. The success of players like Michael Essien and Didier Drogba means that scouts from European teams go to Africa looking for players in that mould: powerful, quick players who play in midfield or up front.

Training is a problem. In Cameroon, there is a tradition of producing good goalies, but elsewhere (and even there) pitches are covered in bottles and stones and the playing surface is too hard to dive around on. So players become goalkeepers far later in Africa. In Europe, a boy goes in goal and stays there when he is around eight, or even younger. In Africa, as in Brazil, players want to play outfield and don't go in goal until they are around twelve.

The rest of the world already knows there is more to African teams than just strength and pace, that these players might be doing more than 'running like black men to live like white men,' as Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o once put it, but until goalkeepers on the continent raise their standards, there will always be clay with which the outsiders can mould their stereotypes.

source: http://www.africa-confidential.com/blog-...+in+Africa

Africa Cup of Nations: Final thoughts

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:00:18 -0600

They may not be going to the World Cup, but Egypt have now won the African Cup of Nations three times in a row, cementing their position as the most successful team this tournament has ever seen as well as inspiring some observers to call them the best side Africa has ever known. That they did it against a young Ghana side- winners of the under-20 World Cup and a team likely to inherit Egypt’s mantle- seemed appropriate. There’s life in the old dog yet. The last roar of the old guard… Such thoughts sprang to mind on an evening in which Ghana had more noteworthy attempts but came away with nothing, outfoxed and undone by players who, by and large, had seen and done it all before.

Egyptian captain Ahmed Hassan is the most striking example of such a player. This was his fourth winners medal, his third as captain. His country has capped him a record-breaking 172 times and he has vowed to keep on keeping on. Whether he will stick to that promise, on the international stage, is yet to be seen. He could be forgiven for letting it end this way, as the only player to win the tournament three times as a captain, as a complete national hero, but he has said that he still feels as though he has “a few competitions left in him” and, having witnessed him triumph yet again, it would be a foolhardy man who bet against him coming back to claim his fifth winners medal at the age of 36.

Overall there can be few arguments against Egypt’s triumph. They may not have played particularly well on the night, against Ghana, but they were the most consistent team over the distance. They have a good goalkeeper (a rarity), a well-organised defence, play good passing football and have a striker, in Mohamed Gedo, who possesses the shamanic like ability to come from the substitutes bench to score key goals. He claimed five in this tournament, leaving him as its top scorer. As for the rest: the hotly tipped Cote D’Ivoire were too weak at the back, Didier Drogba is a great player but he can’t do it all on his own; Nigeria lacked a cutting edge and Cameroon relies too heavily on Samuel Eto’o. Egypt’s bitter rivals Algeria, well, they play workmanlike football that needs an injection of skill. The Ghana team has impressed, particularly, or perhaps because, they have been missing so many star players. In a situation such as theirs, any result becomes a good result, and a trip to the final becomes a miracle. Nevertheless, the ingredients are there, the expectation always high, and with the return of their dynamic stars they should hope to make a splash in South Africa this summer.

Perhaps the football was always going to be left in the shadows this time around. The attack on Togo’s team bus and the subsequent handling of it by CAF, particularly their absurd decision to fine and then ban the team from the next two competitions. It has been suggested that this decision is a welcome stand against a Togolese government who would not allow their football team to return to Angola, but it looks more like a needless and wastefully cruel piece of business. The Togolese players were distraught, and their desire to return to the tournament was probably lukewarm at best. This is not meant to be a criticism- it is entirely and absolutely understandable- it is simply meant to point out that the willingness on the part of some commentators to believe that the government took the decision seems a little naïve. Players who have seen such things are unlikely to want to return to the scene to try and do their job. And why should they?

So, when things go so tragically wrong off the field, perhaps it is unfair to expect dramatic splendour on it. There were certainly moments of outstanding quality, with Kader Keita’s dazzling goal for Cote D’Ivoire against Algeria springing to mind, but too often the talk was of poor Goalkeeping and the vast gulf of talent between the best and worst players on each particular side. But this is how it is in a tournament this size, in a continent so vast and variable. Observers may have been hard pressed to see this year’s entertainments as a step on from the last, but the song is still being sung and the continent still wants to listen.

source: http://www.africa-confidential.com/blog-...l+thoughts

Three leaders who count in the South Sudan

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:58:31 -0600

Salva Kiir Mayardit, President, Government of South Sudan, Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, GOSS Vice-President, and Paulino Matip Nhial, Lieutenant General, SPLA-SSDF.

The international Islamist

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:55:42 -0600

The row over the fate of Jamaican Islamist Abdullah al Faisal points to political and security failures in Africa and the West

On 15 January, some five people died in clashes between demonstrators and police in Nairobi after protests against the detention of Jamaican Islamist preacher Abdullah al Al Faisal. A proselytiser with a conviction for incitement to murder in Britain, Al Faisal's travels across Africa came to a halt after he was arrested in Mombasa; his name was on an international watch list. Al Faisal received the full backing of Kenya's Muslim Human Rights Forum, led by Al Amin Kimathi, which tried to turn his arrest into a cause célèbre. Some non-Muslims joined police in fighting Al Faisal's supporters, showing how such clashes can quickly escalate in tense political times

source: http://www.africa-confidential.com/artic...0/No-Title

An American agreement

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:54:32 -0600

After a decade of arguments over sharing power at the centre, the politicians now agree they want a US-style presidential system

Kenyans are puzzled by the sudden agreement on the role of the presidency and devolution of power by 26 members of the Parliamentary Select Committee. The PSC was on a retreat in Naivasha to debate the intricacies of constitutional reform. Until now, Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) stalwarts such as Raila Odinga and William Ruto have insisted that the post of Prime Minister be entrenched in the constitution. Negotiators from President Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity (PNU), however, have opposed devolution and decentralisation as a form of ‘majimboism’, which they saw as a means to legitimise the eviction of Kikuyu and others from the Rift Valley.

source: http://www.africa-confidential.com/artic...2/No-Title

Attack on Togolese football team: heigtened attack on the sport

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:41:05 -0600

At the beginning of the twentieth century only 10%-15% of those who died in war were civilians. Research has shown that by the end of the century over 75% of those killed in war were civilians. Civilians became a target of many separatist and other armed rebel groups especially in Africa where civil wars have sprang up since the struggle for independence. But events of yesterday in Angola added to the growing phenomenon of targeting of games and sports by insurgents and rebels for political motives.

You can say it has been there for ages and one can point to from the religious sectarianism among clubs like in Scotland, acts of violence and Hooliganism in some parts of Europe. Then there came the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munic when members of the Israel Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually murdered by Black September, a militant group that was said to have ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization.

Then March last year there was an attack on the Srilanka cricket team in Pakistan by militants. Such incidents are many but I picked the ones I remember. And in all I wonder whether these attackers really think such acts help their causes.

Was Angola ready to host the African Cup of Nations?

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:22:29 -0600

It was supposed to be Angola's time in the sun, the moment when a warn-torn nation finally emerged from the wreckage of three decades of civil war and took its place front and center on the continental stage.

More than $1billion of the country's vast oil wealth, according to the government, had been invested in stadiums, roads, hotels and hospitals ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations (ACN), world football's third largest tournament, in anticipation of what the former Portuguese colony hoped would signal its victorious coming of age.

"It is an opportunity to showcase Angola to rest of the world and also enhance development," Antonio Mangueira, executive director of the tournament's local organizing committee, said in an interview with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) last month.

"We are also sending across the message to all that Angola is a nice country, the war is over and we are united."

But as the tournament kicked off in the capital Luanda, with a thrilling 4-4 draw between the hosts and Mali, unity and international redemption was the last thing on anyone's minds.

Last Friday's deadly machine gun attack on the Togo national team bus as it travelled to the troubled, oil-rich Angolan exclave of Cabinda, leaving three of the party dead and the team's reserve goalkeeper in intensive care, has thrown into doubt the southern African state's readiness to host such a high-profile event.

On the face of it, awarding Angola the Nations Cup in 2006, just four years after the end of the war and in the same year a peace deal was signed between the Angolan government and the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave [sic] of Cabinda (FLEC), who claimed responsibility for the attack, was a controversial move.

But CAF has a history of using the African Cup of Nations as a developmental tool, allowing poor countries to invest in much needed infrastructure to boost tourism and business long after the ACN circus had left town.

"The African Cup of Nations does do a lot for its host country," said journalist Ian Hawkey, an African football expert and author of "Feet of the Chameleon: The Story of African Football."

"In the last 15 years both Mali and Burkina Faso have hosted it, and now Angola. You would have said at one point, no way can these places organise a tournament. But they got stadiums out of it and Mali's football has grown since 2002, Burkina Faso's too."

Angola, though, was always going to be a tougher sell.

For 27 years Angola was gripped by a vicious civil war that followed Portugal's decision to cede power in the wake of its 1974 socialist revolution. In the vacuum, the pro-U.S. National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba, fought a proxy Cold War for control of the country and its vast oil and diamond resources.

Up to half a million people perished in the conflict which, according to the UN, also left 15,000 landmines behind. The war didn't officially end until 2002 when a peace deal was signed after the death of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi. The MPLA's president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, has been in power since 1979.

"Angola is an interesting case of an 'illiberal war to peace transition'," explained professor Christopher Cramer from London's School of Oriental and African Studies and author of "Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries." "It has been politically pretty stable at the macro level since the end of the war but it has not been through quite the same kind of economic and political reforms that many countries emerging from violent conflict find themselves pressured to pursue: democratization and rapid market liberalization."

As a result, Angola has developed unevenly, despite annual oil revenues of $6 billion and a GDP which, according to the IMF, rose by 16 percent in 2008. "It remains a phenomenally unequal country and one that is not politically very open," Cramer told CNN. "But there has been quite rapid economic growth and ... something of a boom in the capital."

That economic boom lead to Luanda being named the most expensive city in the world to live in, according to an annual survey by ECA International. Yet few outside the tiny local elite see any of this wealth, with three quarters of the country's population living on less that $2 a day. According to the 2009 UN Development Program's Human Development Index, a benchmark for a country's development, Angola sat 143rd out of 182 countries. Corruption further deepens the problem, with Angola ranked 162nd out of 180 countries on Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Nowhere is this disparity more keenly felt than in Cabinda itself, one of Angola's poorest regions, which according to Hawkey, "is a tiny exclave that only exists because of oil." Separated by a strip of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cabinda's massive offshore oil fields provide half of Angola's oil wealth. It was a separate province under Portuguese rule but incorporated into Angola on independence in 1975.

Separatists have fought for their own independence since 1963, although there were few signs that such an atrocity would take place given that FLEC had signed a peace deal with the government in 2006, and a former FLEC rebel, Antonio Bento Bembe, is now a minister in Angola's government.

For Bembe, who initially denied that FLEC even existed anymore, hosting the games in Cabinda was a chance to bring visitors and much needed money to the area as well as fostering national unity.

"It wasn't absurd to have it [Cabinda] as a host city," agreed Cramer. "It could even have been construed as a nation-building initiative."

That aim may now seem harder than ever. But Angolans will hope that the legacy of this African Cup of Nations can still be one of prosperity and positivity, as was the case in Mali and Burkina Faso, rather than body bags and bullets.

Why do Women faking pregnancy in Uganda?

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:09:28 -0600

“I did unimaginable things, dancing around a graveyard at night, drinking all sorts of herbs but nothing helped, so maybe that’s what God wants me to be – without children. What hurts most is the people close to you; your immediate family talk about you like you’re not worth anything without children.”

Those were words of a woman I met late 2008. I was researching on a story that The Independent published about how the infertility burden in Uganda is carried by women. I went back to the find this story today after I read two news reports about women faking pregnancy and ending up in court. Two cases in less than a week. A woman from Mpigi district was arrested for faking pregnancy and taking a dead child to her husband while another identified as Namatovu survived being lynched by a mob after she claimed to have given birth to twins but returned home with a pair of dolls.

All the women claimed to have given birth at Mulago hospital but there have been no such records at the hospital and investigations found that in both accounts were just a falsification. Namatovu was fined sh300,000 (about 150 $) or 12 months imprisonment and as expected this woman from the village would not afford such a fine so she is in jail. In both cases women had failed to conceive after several years in marriage. While in the media we have these stories, police swinging into action and courts following, I didn’t find a proper context given to these women’s story. Why would a person in their proper mind take dolls for a funeral or in the latest case go probably dig up a grave to show that you delivered a child?

That’s why I went back to the infertility story. Some limited research has showed that over 14% of Uganda’s men are infertile, meaning they cannot impregnate their partners. And 70% of the infertility in Uganda is preventable. But in all these cases we can be sure it’s women being taken to witch doctors and being insulted that they cannot have children. The pressure to have a child is immense that women have been physically and sexually abused by all sorts of people in their hunt for a pregnancy. With Uganda having few numbers of gynaecologists few Ugandans can afford the private clinics whose prices can go above 200 $. Women and men with curable fertility problems are never brought to hospitals for there’s no one who has told them that there’s even such a chance.

Without a child for a few years the pressure from family to have a second wife mounts. Sometimes women are driven out of their homes and left with nothing. This is well deep rooted that most cultures would allow a man to be given back his bride price if a woman would not give him a child never mind that in most cases it was the men with the problem. It is poverty to think that the effects of this pressure will only be faced by these women alone. Now women are driven crazy to the extent of faking pregnancy and dead children for it seems society is more empathetic that u tried even when your child is dead. In the end we jump to cover their stories of fake pregnancies and their trials forgetting what brings us to these points.

This is not to the women didn’t do any wrong. But just like the mob, we (media) are shocked and outraged by their actions and we don’t ask what drove them to this. Reading the stories of these two women should tell you that there are so many who have done this before successfully and many will continue to look for a way to beat the societal system, unfortunately this is no solution. I think also the Ugandan justice system should rethink prosecution of such cases.

I am new to this city can you help me

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:41:59 -0600

Hi All,

I am new to this forum so be nice to me

I recently moved to Charlotte, I am Single and struggling to find where people hang out, how do

people make connections.
I am in my 30s, so not really looking for anything crazy, just regular, fun, normal people to

connect with.
Also, does anyone here have any experience with

The Relationship Company?
I saw their ad on the TV and just curious if people have had success?
Otherwise you can contact me delishaalfred at yahoo dot com
Anyway, hope to make some new friends here.

Delisha

The awesome selections

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:44:58 -0600

Modeling agent need not a model, but even they will have such a wonderful creative capability, that enables him to select the best from lakhs and lakhs of people. With out having an actual idea, a person can never succeed as a modeling agent.

It’s these agents who finds the talents of people from different angles, analyses them, make through studies about their ambitions and aspirations rather than their attires.

Nothing can be combined effectively and in the right manner, if there is not a proper link. It’s the agents who will that gap. It’s the selectivity of an agent that provides the model agencies with good models. There are lot of talents that are around, who are not capable to approach the model agencies due to lack of resources and sponsors.