Month: November 2016

Mercedes’ celebrations over Nico Rosberg’s first world title have been overshadowed by “anarchy” between the world champion and Lewis Hamilton.
Some reports have said the team could even punish the Briton for slowing down the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday in the hope that arch-rival teammate Rosberg could be overtaken and lose the title.
Hamilton twice rejected team instructions to speed up as Rosberg came under threat from Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel.
Mercedes chief Toto Wolff said “It’s very simple: anarchy does not work in any team and in any company. A precedent has been set.”
“Undermining a structure in public means you are putting yourself before the team.”
According to Wolff, Mercedes will “look at the overall situation and say ‘what does it mean?’ Everything is possible.
“Maybe we want to give them more freedom next year, or go with the harsher side where we feel the values were not respected. I am not sure yet where my finger is going to point or the needle is going to go.”
Hamilton has said Mercedes should have just let the teammates race out their rivalry.
“I don’t think I did anything dangerous, I don’t think I did anything unfair,” said Hamilton.
“We were fighting for the championship, I was in the lead so I control the pace.”
Hamilton said in a statement that he was “proud” of his performance in Abu Dhabi and the races leading up to the Grand Prix.
“The circumstances this year have not been in my favour, but I did my best and am happy with how the season ended. I’ll be back stronger, and faster than ever next year,” he added in the Instagram message.
Hamilton’s behaviour and future relationship with Rosberg will be only one of a host of new challenges next season when Formula One ushers in a raft of rule changes and faster cars.
Wolff may be more worried by the prospect of a revived challenge from Red Bull and Ferrari after the rules are changed.
Red Bull boss Christian Horner has made clear he believes his team will mount a serious title bid next year.
“Our expectations at the beginning of the year were to get in the top-five so as to emerge as the nearest challenger to Mercedes.”
Horner said the hopes had been exceeded with the emergence of teenager Max Verstappen.
“There?s no guarantees, Mercedes will be firmly the favourites next year, again, but we?re hoping to close that gap down and hopefully during the course of next year take the challenge to them.”
The 2017 season will see heavier cars, up to five seconds a lap faster, with wider wings and tyres. Many paddock observers believe this will give Red Bull?s highly-rated designer Adrian Newey a chance to create another race-winning machine.
Horner believes the changes will up the pressure on Mercedes, who have won the last three drivers? and constructors? championships following an era of Red Bull domination when four-time champion Vettel won his titles.
Mercedes won 19 of this year?s record 21 races with Red Bull winning the other two races, one by Dutch teenager Max Verstappen, who became the youngest race winner in history, and one from Australian Daniel Ricciardo.
But at the end of the year, Red Bull were nearly 300 points adrift of the dominant Silver Arrows ? a result that hit hopes for a more competitive championship which has lost 200 million television viewers since 2008.
Formula One ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone believes two shorter races should be considered as a replacement for one longer event, following a spike in viewing for the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Horner, and others prefer a more traditional approach.
“I think there?s only one Wimbledon final or one grand slam final. Two races, I don?t think is the way to go, you just need to make the one race a good one.”
With Hamilton determined to get ahead of Rosberg again, new rules, faster cars and unrest about the sport’s structure, Formula One?s future may take many twists next season.

Any the hit maker has finally hit back confirming that he is not in good terms with Diamond Platnuzmz as many had suspected. Well, allow me to refresh your mind…during a recent interview with clouds FM, Diamond Platnumz was heard saying,
 
“Mimi sina matatizo na watu ndio maana wakijaribu kushindana na mimi huwa wanashindwa. Hata ukiniangalia sina hata pete ya kijani kwenye vidole vyangu.( I have no problem with anyone who is trying to compete with me cause at the end I still remain the winner. When you look at me, I don’t wear small boy rings on my fingers just to look like a man.
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Earlier today, Kiba posted a picture captioning it  Which obviously directed to Diamond Platnumz. Though the beef was slowly fading away…Kiba ‘s new statement is clear proof that these men will never quit fighting.
Anyway the artistes are currently running town with their new hits songs that are taking over East Africa.

The United States and Cuba expanded air links on Monday, kicking off direct flights to Havana for the first time in more than 50 years.
The departure of an American Airlines flight from Miami at 7:30 am (1230 GMT) came just days after the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro at age 90, as throngs of Cubans flock to Havana’s Revolution Square to pay last respects to the divisive Cold War titan.
“It’s a once in a lifetime experience, it will be interesting to see how people are responding to his passing,” passenger Priva Rhat told reporters on the flight, which set off from Miami with a water cannon salute.
In New York, the first JetBlue Airways flight bound for Havana departed an hour and a half later.
Air travel between the United States and Cuba had been restricted to charter flights from 1979 until earlier this year.
Direct commercial flights began on August 31, linking several US airports with nine Cuban cities, many of them in or near tourism hotspots.
There are now 110 daily flights from the United States to Cuba, 20 of them to Havana.
The direct flights were one of several watershed changes initiated in December 2014, when US President Barack Obama and Cuba’s Raul Castro announced a thaw after more than 50 years of hostility.
Diplomatic relations were restored in July 2015.
Washington still bans Americans from visiting Cuba as tourists, but travel is permitted for 12 other categories, including cultural and educational exchange.

Ukraine’s former Moscow-backed president on Monday accused pro-EU protesters who forced his ouster of provoking the 31-month pro-Russian revolt in the southeast that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
Viktor Yanukovych is a witness in the trial of five Ukrainian riot police who are accused of opening fire at mostly unarmed people during the February 2014 revolution that turned the ex-Soviet republic toward the West.
Yanukovych himself stands accused of treason in Ukraine.
But he fled to Russia after the bloodbath that killed more than 100 people and cannot be prosecuted by the Kiev courts.
Monday’s hearings in Kiev were being held by video conference in which Yanukovych gave testimony in the southern Russian city of Rostov.
He has passionately denied ordering the now-disbanded Berkut anti-riot police force to open fire on the protesters during three days of violence in the heart of Kiev that also killed around a dozen officers.
Yanukovych began his testimony on Monday by accusing “the radicals of seizing power” and then “preparing to force their will on the people of the south and east who disagreed with what was happening in Kiev.”
The industrial region is predominantly Russian speaking and often takes a more sceptical view of both the European Union and the United States.
The protests began in November 2013 in response to Yanukovych’s abrupt decision to scrap a landmark pact with the EU in favour of closer Russia ties.
Ukraine has since signed the EU trade and political association agreement and blamed Russia for plotting and backing the war in reprisal for Kiev’s shift out of the Kremlin’s orbit.
Russia denies the charge and accuses the US State Department of stoking the protests and trying to win over Ukraine.
But debates in Kiev rage mostly over who was responsible for the worst carnage in Ukraine since World War II. Both the protesters and the police accuse each other of opening the fire.
A 2015 BBC documentary strongly suggested that a far-right fringe element of the protest group shot at the police in order to provoke a response and make the Berkut seem responsible for the resulting deaths.
Ukraine strongly denies the claim.
Yet Yanukovych gave credence to it by accusing civilians of seizing weapons from the interior ministry and SBU security service buildings before shooting at the police.
“And some of the people simply came with hunting rifles,” he said Monday.
AFP reporters at the scene of those tragic events said most of the people had little more than metal shields to protect themselves from police sniper fire.
The festering conflict in the EU’s back yard — one of the bloodiest since the 1990s Balkans Wars — has created tensions across eastern Europe and plunged Moscow’s relations with the West to a post-Cold War low.

A renewed pilots’ strike will ground around 1,700 flights at European aviation giant Lufthansa on Tuesday and Wednesday, the group said, as a long-running and costly battle over pay drags on.
Around 180,000 passengers will be affected by the walkout, Lufthansa said Monday, after last-minute talks with pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit failed to reach a wages deal.
A spokesman for the group told AFP it would seek an injunction from a Munich labour court to block the strike, although a similar request was rejected by a Frankfurt court last week and the airline lost a second time at appeal.
Pilots have been battling the German behemoth since April 2014 over pay.
During a two-day pause in the strike on Sunday and Monday, Lufthansa offered the flight crew a 4.4-percent pay rise spread over two years, as well as a one-off payment equivalent to two months’ wages.
But pilots stuck to their demand of a pay rise of an average of 3.66 percent per year, retroactive for the past five years.
The latest round of industrial action, which started on Wednesday, is the 14th since April 2014.
While Tuesday’s walkout will only affect short-haul flights from Germany, Wednesday will see some long-haul services also affected.
Lufthansa said the flight plan for Tuesday and Wednesday would bring the number of passengers affected over the week of strikes to more than 525,000, with 4,461 cancelled flights.
While it strives to slim down and fend off competition from low-cost rivals like Easyjet and Ryanair, Lufthansa has been snarled in long-running disputes with pilots and cabin crew over the past two years.
The airline reached a pay and conditions deal with cabin crew in July after they staged the firm’s longest-ever walkout in November 2015.
That seven-day stoppage saw 4,700 flights cancelled and more than half a million passengers grounded.
The deal with cabin crew also included a no-strike agreement until 2021 in exchange for job guarantees.
Lufthansa in October said it expected annual earnings before interest and tax in 2016 to reach “approximately the same level” as 2015’s 1.8-billion-euro ($1.9 billion) figure.

Instead of staying in that house, Ringtone says he keeps his chicken and he is not shamed of saying it. In a recent photo he shared on his gram, the controversial gospel artist showed off his fancy living room and sarcastically captioned the picture to remind his haters that he was still ahead of the.
 
He wrote
He refered to himself as the poorest musician since independence mocking those who were celebrating his downfall with his expensive taste of furniture.
 
His photo could have been a flashback photo that fitted perfectly at the time, as he used it to remind those hating that he was still capable of moving back in the house he was claimed.
Ringtone has however not been doing much interms of releasing new music for his fans as he is busy doing other things with his time. Anyway, let us hope that he will come up with a new project once the drama goes down.

However, rumor has it that the guy, Weezdom, impregnated a certain young girl who is now chasing after him for child support. Though the baby has not been born the lass wants to be sure that the young man will be involved his child’s life.
Anyway, Weezdom has come out to brush off these rumors saying he did not get anyone pregnant nor did he know this girl who goes by the name of Damaris Mbatha. Weezdom says that she reached out to him as a fan for a prayer request and this is how their paths crossed.
 
Through his social media handles, the guy wrote to say,
Now that the story has gone viral, the gospel singer wrote her message through his social media to encourage her even after she was begging him money for an abortion.
He wrote
He went further to justify himself saying that even Bahati had been accused of impregnating 4 girls, but after the truth came out everybody realized people were put to tarnish his name.
 

Accidents along Kiambu road are rare but one happened over the past weekend, and it involved prominent persons.
Lupita Nyongo’s father, Senator Anyang’ Nyong’o, escaped unhurt when his car was smashed by the son of Kabete MP, Ferdinand Waititu.
 
The accident left the legislator’s car wrecked; the windscreen and doors’ windows were shattered by the impact of the crash.
 
The Kisumu Senator was reportedly heading to the airport when the accident occurred. He was whisked into a different vehicle and driven off after physical examination to ascertain he wasn’t hurt.
Waititu’s son who was thought to be under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident, was subjected to a test by the police to check his level of drunkenness.
The lawmaker’s son however passed the test, police officers who visited the scene of the crash said they tested Waititu junior’s level of drunkenness but he passed the test.
Preliminary investigations by the police determined the accident was a ‘normal’ clash, apparently Ferdinand Waititu’s son lost control of his vehicle and ended up ramming into the car ferrying Kisumu Senator.
Police who responded to the scene of accident told MondayBlues.
 

Former National Youth Service Deputy Director-General Adan Harakhe and Devolution ministry tender committee chairman Hassan Noor on Monday denied fraud charges against them over the NYS scandal.
The two were on and taken to court.
Senior Principal Magistrate Felix Kombo, lifted the arrest warrants facing the two, saying the High Court and his orders had caused confusion, and granted the accused Sh1 million cash bail or a Sh3 million bond each.
The case is set for mention on December 9.
Magistrate Kombo had last week ordered that Mr Harakhe and Mr Noor be arrested over a Sh47 million scandal at the NYS.
Former Devolution Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti is already facing charges in relation to the siphoning of Sh791 million from the National Youth Service.
At the same time, Cord leader Raila Odinga accused President Uhuru Kenyatta of shielding former Devolution Cabinet Secretary, Anne Waiguru, in the National Youth Service (NYS) scam.
 
Raila questioned questioned why the government was silent when it came to Waiguru while other top Devolution ministry officials were being charged with economic-related crimes.
He maintained the government has been manipulating graft cases touching on people perceived to be close to the President.
The former devolution CS has maintained her innocence over the matter and shifted blame to other suspects over the loss of funds at the NYS including her former PS Peter Mangiti and former NYS Director General Nelson Githinji.
She has also distanced herself from NYS suspect Josephine Kabura saying they had never met despite her claiming that the two had been close friends.

Jubilee Party leaders have lashed out at opposition chief, Cord leader Raila Odinga for allegedly using witchcraft to try and remove President Uhuru Kenyatta from power in next year’s General Election.
This is after Cord leader Raila Odinga visited the Got Ramogi traditional shrine for a traditional ritual over the weekend where he was crowned a Luo warrior in a ceremony presided over by Luo Council of Elders in Bondo, Siaya County.
Led by Embu Senator Lenny Kivuti, the politicians claimed such practices are outdated and satanic. They further claimed to have intelligence reports that there is heightened activity at known sorcerers’ homesteads as politicians seek traditional magical powers to enable them dethrone incumbent leaders or capture various seats in next year’s General Election.
Kivuti was addressing the media after attending a church service in Embu as reported by a local daily.
 
This comes barely days after Gatundu south MP, Moses Kuria was captured in a clip claiming Raila will not go to heaven.
the controversial MP alleged
Embu Women representative, Rose Mitaru echoed Senator Kivuti’s sentiments that politicians within the county had started visiting sorcerers to perform rituals that would mentally entrap the electorate into voting for them in 2017.
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former Kibwezi Member of parliament, Kalembe Ndile also added his voice on the matter by claiming, Raila has realised that he cannot clinch the presidency through the ballot except through supernatural powers.
Kalembe said the emergence of Raila from the Got Ramogi shrine wearing a hide, a traditional headgear and wielding a two-headed spear was clear indication that the opposition chief had undergone a mysterious ritual to give him magical powers to oust President Kenyatta.

First dates are a make-it-or-break-it moment unfortunately.
Sadly though, men most of the time taint this first encounter with endless bragging, cockiness and shady date spot choices. We are not asking you to hire a chopper (though we will not be angry if you do), but just think out the box.
Good date doesn’t always mean you have to spend thousands to impress us, not too complex for you not to handle either. Make it casual but spontaneous: look like you put your mind into planning it.
Always have it at the back of your mind, first date is not rocket-science. It’s just a time where you get to know someone.
Here are 6 first-date ideas, you could try
Unless your main aim is to lay her, fast…dimly lit bars are not a perfect setting for a casual date let alone conversation. Save this like the third date. However, drinks are not limited to bars and clubs only, you can do a lounge chilled out spot (try Dancing Spoon Café and Wine Bar), and it’s located at IMAX (20th century).
Coffee is ridiculously inexpensive date! Plus, you have just few minutes to be in each others faces, so if shit hits the fan…you can leave in less than 30minutes!
Coffee is daytime date, which often sets more of a “friendly” tone than a romantic one. For this reason, it’s important to select a proper .
 
Sounds like a no-brainer, right? Wrong. Unless you know the lady, you can’t take her to Ocean Basket and maybe she is allergic to sea food, or Burger King and she doesn’t like burgers.
Be smart about dinner date, if you start with a 5-star dinner, women expect you to maintain all through. Don’t be cheap either, no one wants to go to Sonford: even if we eat that kuku porno).
 
Try Kilimanjaro restaurant (the one on Moi Avenue, it is less packed and budget-friendly than the other one). Plus has a variety of dishes for one to choose.
Now this is what I call being unique! First, not all of us have even bothered to enter a common Museum like National Archives.
So you will be a cut above the rest. An could be bliss!
That said, museum date is tricky, you need to know her general taste. So you’ll ave to do a run-down in the museum before you settle on one.
Its lots of fun to bowl (there’s always a first time for everything) plus there can be oopsy physical contacts.
Research bowling (costs about Ksh 350/=), head out, find an alley, get some bowling shoes, snacks and drinks, and sit back and enjoy watching your date hurl large balls down a greased alley. Simple.
There’s also mini Golf (unless it was closed, been a while since I did it).
Chivalry is lost. I don’t know any man who still does park strolling or picnics!
Picnics are romantic, if y’all knew. Get that romance back, tell your ego to take a couple of chairs. If you plan and execute a picnic date, you are not a sissy…trust me. Sometimes, you have to . 
Pursue  the one with everything you have, and don’t be afraid to enjoy a picnic or two along the way.
 
 

Whores, bimbos, non-starters, cheap attention seekers and a product of a morally depraved youth soon to be forgotten into oblivion.
That is how Vera Sidika and her ilk were described when they first burst on the scene.
The vitriol was unceasing as they were held up as the biblical prostitute with scarlet lips dripping honey ready to devour the unsuspecting youth.
Many mainstream establishments from businesses to media abhorred them and they became a staple for entertainment blogs in a perfect symbiotic relationship.
Fast forward three years down the line and everyone wants a piece of Vera Sidika , Huddah Monroe and Corazon Kwamboka.
 
They burst their way to national consciousness with relentless bombarding of our senses with their acres of thirst inducing flesh even the pulpit took notice.
Then they changed tact and went corporate, once in a while posting a teasing photo as a token to their ever loyal fans.
Then they crossed borders, graced all TV channels and became social influencers whose like has never been seen before. Suddenly, any lass with or without an ass to write home about wanted to become a socialite.
In a society where being seen to be successful counts for more than actually being successful, no one does it better than the socialites.
 
Previously glamorous jobs such as being a TV anchor faded became mundane. Ladies of all kinds, and age suddenly wanted to be spotting the latest asset enhancing clothes.
 
They wanted to post their latest travels, roll with the high and mighty and have hundreds of followers lapping on every single post they share.
When the socialites began landing endorsements and becoming fashion icons it was simply game over for any other lady out there.
 
Nowadays Vera and Huddah no longer need scandals. Google searches in Kenya reveal these two to be the most searched for female personalities in Kenya.
A comparison is shown below on how they fare against other female celebrities notably the top four female anchors.
Huddah launched a lipsticks line recently and this time no one doubted the viability of the idea as even celebrities like Avril and the actress Catherine Kamau.
 
Vera Sidika and Corazon Kwamboka have clothing lines competing with the likes set up by anchors like Julie Gichuru and Lillian Muli. They drive the latest rages and live in posh residences flying fast class around the continents.
While their TV counterparts struggle to get corporate hosting gigs, the three are busy dominating the showbiz events.
Further proof of their influence is the making of the Reality TV show Nairobi Diaries based on the lives of Nairobi socialites.
 
Meanwhile the news anchors now depend on their own scandals to trend or make major news losing their place as role models and fashion icons to yesterday ‘whores’.

Syria launched a blistering verbal attack Monday on “Western” countries that have accused it of using chemical weapons in its deadly five-year conflict, calling the allegations “a campaign of lies”.
“The multitude of accusations, made in some Western circles without any tangible evidence, as to the responsibility of the Syrian government in cases of use of toxic chemicals are but a part of a coordinated and repeated campaign of lies,” Syria’s deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad said.
He was speaking at the annual conference of countries belonging to the Chemical Weapons Convention, an arms treaty that bounds all its member states to help rid the world of chemical weapons.
More than 300,000 people have been killed since Syria’s conflict began with anti-government protests in March 2011.
Both the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic State group have been accused of unleashing toxic arms during the conflict.
A panel set up by the UN, known as the Joint Investigative Mechanism, has already determined during a year-long probe that Syrian government forces carried out three chlorine gas attacks on villages in 2014 and 2015.
It was the first time that an international inquiry pointed the finger of blame at Assad and his forces, after years of denial from Damascus since the start of the civil war.
The panel consisting of UN and experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) also found that the IS group — which captured a large swathe of Iraq and Syria in 2014 — was behind a mustard gas attack in Syria in August 2015.
But Mekdad on Monday disputed the JIM’s findings, saying its reports were made on “the basis of inaccurate and unconvincing findings” which “undermines the credibility of the OPCW”.
The world should instead be concerned about stopping terror groups like IS from making and using chemical weapons, Mekdad added.
Speaking at the start of the five-day conference in The Hague, OPCW chief Ahmet Uzumcu however stressed that “gaps, inconsistencies and discrepancies” remain in Syria’s statements about its own chemical weapons programme.
It has been more than three years since Syria caved to international pressure under a Russia-US brokered deal in September 2013 and agreed to hand over its chemical stockpile to the OPCW for destruction.
It was the first time Syria publicly acknowledged having a chemical arms stockpile and came after a sarin gas attack in August that year on rebel-held areas near Damascus blamed on Assad’s regime.
Uzumcu told AFP earlier this month that the OPCW is probing more than 20 reports of the alleged use of toxic arms in Syria since August

The comedian who is poplar known for his witty jokes was attacked when walking in Hazina Eastate in South B where he was walking out of a certain studio. Speaking to SDE the comedian says he was in the company of his brother when the men jumped out of nowhere and attacked them.
Luckily, his brother escaped and was able to call for help before the thugs hurt him. He says he has not reported the matter to the police yet since he is still nursing the injuries. He is however grateful to be alive and kicking as this is one of the many times luck has been on his side.
 

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened to end the US thaw with Cuba unless Havana makes concessions on human rights and opening up its economy.
“If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate deal,” Trump said on Twitter.
Trump’s hard line came just a day after his senior advisors promised to strike a “better deal” with the communist-ruled island after former leader Fidel Castro’s death, without stating how this might affect the historic rapprochement begun under US President Barack Obama.
While prominent Republicans have blasted Castro as a murderous tyrant since his death Friday, no one close to Trump had directly threatened to end the political opening announced in 2014 by Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro — until Trump’s Monday morning tweet.
His team has said the outgoing Democratic administration made too many concessions to Havana — notably by easing the 1962 US economic embargo — without receiving enough concessions in areas like human rights, democracy and the move toward a free-market economy.
“We’ve got to have a better deal,” Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, said on Fox News Sunday.
Trump has only briefly addressed the Cuban revolutionary’s demise, in an inelegant tweet early Saturday: “Fidel Castro is dead!”

A certain man has become a Facebook sensation after ditching his wife after allegedly discovering that she was having sex with a few operators
 
To announce his wife’s infidelity and consequent divorce from her, David Mathea wrote
After this post went viral, he went on to post this:
A post that forced his friends on Facebook to intervene and to ask him not to air his dirty laundry to the public.
To which he retorted with
However there are those who sympathised with  him such as Job Jackson who wrote

The sinking apartment had been ordered to be demolished by the government before an official of the National Building Inspectorate at the State Department of Housing, Moses Nyakiongora, confirmed that experts were planning to work on the building suited along the Ruaka-Banana road.
 
This comes a few days after the tenants were ordered to move out of the apartments by the National Construction Authority as the building had already started showing signs of collapsing after the pillars (support columns) started sinking.
One tenant working for Capital FM says he spent around 5 Million to purchase an apartment on that building, however, he is now confused as to what he will do. Speaking to NairobiWire he said,
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However, it is not known how possible it is to save the collapsing apartments but chances are the Ksh 200 Million building will be demolished.

After decades of wreaking havoc and tribulation, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as we know it may be facing the final nail in the coffin.
For the first time and in the most promising clinical vaccine trial, scientists in South Africa on Monday enrolled 5,400 sexually active men and women aged between 18 and 35 at 15 sites across South Africa in an effort to develop a vaccine that prevents the disease.
The study which is called HVTN 702, will be the largest and most advanced HIV vaccine clinical trial to take place in South Africa, which has the biggest and most high profile HIV epidemic in the world, with an estimated 7 million people living with HIV in 2015.
Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. government’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said in a statement released ahead of the trial as quoted by Washington post.
 
This new vaccine being tested in HVTN 702 is an improvement of a vaccine developed in a 2009 trial in Thailand, The vaccine was only 31 percent effective and wore off over time, so it could not be approved for use in a general population.
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Scientists were then able to study the vaccine results and reformulate the drug and bring it back for another clinical trial.
The new vaccine aims to provide greater and more sustained protection and has been adapted to the HIV subtype that predominates in southern Africa.
According to the National AIDS Control Council latest statistics, Kenya has an average HIV prevalence rate of 6% and with about 1.6 million people living with HIV infection, it is one of the six HIV ‘high burden’ countries in Africa.
 

President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that Cord leader Raila Odinga is hoodwinking Kenyans on corruption in an effort to derail the government’s development agenda, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said.
The President said the opposition leader has no clear agenda for the country, and he has always championed propaganda throughout his political career.
said President Kenyatta.
Uhuru said Mr Odinga was a serial liar and warned Kenyans not to readily take in his words.
he said at Chaka in Nyeri County.
 
Deputy President William Ruto said attempts by the opposition to divide central Kenya would fail and urged residents to re-elect
said Mr Ruto, who is accompanying the President on his tour of central Kenya.
Uhuru said Raila started spreading politics of hatred, which ultimately ruined the prosperity being witnessed in 2007.
The Head of State said the corruption scandals were narratives aimed at derailing Jubilee’s economic programme.
 
He pointed out that the Jubilee government is putting up systems which will spur economic growth, but the opposition chief is not happy about that.
DP Ruto dismissed the political propaganda against the Government, saying Jubilee won’t be distracted from its agenda to serve the people of Kenya.
he said.

An emotional video appeal by a Holocaust survivor warning Austrians not to vote for the far-right candidate in a presidential election re-run has gone viral, reaching close to three million views on Monday.
The Vienna pensioner, identified only as Gertrude, said Norbert Hofer’s anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPOe) aimed to “bring out the worst in people”, in a throwback to the anti-Semitism unleashed by the Nazis in the 1930s.
“The thing that bothers me the most is the denigration of others, the attempt to bring out people’s most base feelings instead of their decency,” the 89-year-old said in the online video published late last week.
“I have seen this once before… and it hurts and scares me”.
She called on young people to support Hofer’s rival, the Greens-backed Alexander Van der Bellen in Sunday’s vote, being closely watched after populist Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election and Britain’s vote to leave the EU.
Gertrude was 16 when she and her family were deported to the Auschwitz death camp. She is the only one to have returned.
She said she was particularly shocked by FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache’s recent remarks that migrants could spark a “civil war” in Austria.
“It sent shivers down my spine. You can’t even allude to something like that,” Gertrude said.
“I have witnessed a civil war as a seven-year-old and have never forgotten it. That’s when I saw my first dead bodies, and unfortunately not the last ones.”
“This is probably my last election… But young people have their whole lives in front of them and they need to make sure that they’re doing well,” Gertrude said.
Her video, first posted by Van der Bellen on his Facebook page, has had more than 2.8 million views and thousands of comments.
Gertrude said Sunday she was “pleasantly surprised that the words of an old lady had been taken seriously”.
Opinion polls suggest Sunday’s race is too close to call.
Van der Bellen, 72, narrowly beat his 45-year-old opponent in May, but the FPOe got the result overturned over procedural errors.
A re-run set for October was again postponed because of faulty postal vote envelopes.
Like other populist groups in Europe and Trump in the US, the FPOe has won support by stoking concerns about immigration and what it portrays as an out-of-touch elite.
The party is currently tipped to win the next general election scheduled for 2018.

At least 14 police officers and 41 royal guards died in a bloody conflict in Kasese District in Uganda’s Rwenzori region on Saturday.
The genesis of the conflict was ‘suspicion’; Uganda People Defense Force (UPDF) and police claimed that King Charles Wesley Mumbere was offering sanctuary to a separatist militia and they gave him an ultimatum of handing them over to authority.
Fighting erupted when Ugandan forces raided the king’s palace and faced off with royal guards who were attempting to repel them.
 
Kasese town was locked down as soldiers and police raided the king’s palace in search of separatist militiamen.
 
55 people had died when the guns and shelling went silence; the gravity of the bloody violence is narrated by the ghastly photos posted online.
Mutilated bodies, bodies piled up on roads, gun wounds, deep cuts on bodies, bodies with hands tied at the back, survivors with bloodied faces etc was what the photos taken from Kasese showed.
And does President Yuweri Museveni care? His government runs the landlocked country with an iron fist, he doesn’t give a damn.
The Ugandan tyrant announced today morning that he was leaving Uganda for South Africa for bilateral talks with President Jacob Zuma amid the massacre in Kasese.
Museveni tweeted today morning.
NTV Managing Editor, Linus Kaikai, warned the killing in Uganda and police brutality in Mumias painted a picture of Africa without ICC.
“KASESE & MUMIAS just a hint of what a post-ICC Africa will look like. Fasten your seat belts. #FreeJoyDoreen” Linus Kaikai tweeted.
See photos from the Ugandan massacre in the gallery below:

Manchester United centre-back Phil Jones has defended Jose Mourinho following the manager’s latest dismissal, saying it was just an indication of his “passion”.
Mourinho left himself exposed to the risk of sanctions from the Football Association after being sent to the stands for kicking a water bottle during United’s 1-1 draw at home to West Ham United on Sunday.
Having picked up 20 points from their first 13 games, United have made their worst start to a league campaign since 1989-90, but Jones said Mourinho’s latest outburst was not a sign of frustration.
“No, I think that’s just passion,” said the England international. “I like to see that from anyone — players, staff. It’s passion for the game and a willingness to win.
“We all want to win just as much as each other. We just need to stick together, keep training well, keep creating chances and we will get the goals.”
Mourinho, 53, was angry after referee Jonathan Moss booked United midfielder Paul Pogba for diving mid-way through the first half.
It was the second time Mourinho has been dismissed this season after he was sent to the stands at half-time of United’s recent 0-0 draw with Burnley, which landed him a one-match touchline ban.
Mourinho also received a fine earlier this month after discussing Anthony Taylor’s suitability to referee United’s league game at Liverpool.

Ravichandran Ashwin’s fine all-round performance put India firmly in control of the third Test Monday, as he followed up a dominant innings of 72 with three wickets to leave England reeling on 78 for four.
The visitors, who conceded a 134-run first-innings lead, trailed their hosts by 56 runs with six second-innings wickets remaining at stumps on day three in Mohali.
Joe Root (36) and nightwatchman Gareth Batty (0) were at the crease.
Root opened with Alastair Cook in the absence of teenager Haseeb Hameed with a hand injury.
He will bat later in the innings but could miss the rest of the series, depending on what X-rays reveal.
Ashwin drew first blood by getting Cook bowled for 12.
The England skipper had been living dangerously, with two lbw calls against him going for reviews, first by India and then by the batsman himself. But he survived only to see his stumps shattered later on.
Ashwin kept up the pressure from his end as he bamboozled Moeen Ali (5) with a flighted delivery, causing the batsman to give away a catch to mid-on.
Root sought to steady the innings with Jonny Bairstow, but the wicketkeeper-batsman’s resistance did not last long.
Off-spinner Jayant Yadav got Bairstow, who top-scored with a dogged 89 in England’s first innings of 283, caught behind for 15.
An unrelenting Ashwin, the world’s top-ranked Test bowler, then trapped Ben Stokes lbw for five as the visitors slipped further.
“We’ve lost a few wickets this evening, which was not ideal, that was not the plan,” Bairstow told reporters.
“However, we still got Root out there in the middle, we still got Jos (Buttler) to come, we still got Woakesy (Chris Woakes) to come and (Adil) Rashid scored a heck of a lot of runs. There’s still a lot of batting within the shed.”
Earlier India’s first innings saw five half-centuries before the hosts, who resumed the day on 271-6, were bowled out for 417 in the afternoon.
“They have won today. I think up until this morning, it was evenly poised… they played well this morning. Give them credit,” said Bairstow.
Ravindra Jadeja top-scored with 90 while Jayant Yadav’s 55 — his maiden fifty in only his second Test — gave the England bowlers a frustrating two sessions of play.
Seam bowler Stokes claimed his third Test five-wicket haul while leg-spinner Rashid took four wickets.
Jadeja, who registered his career-best Test score surpassing his 68 at Lord’s in 2014, fell 10 runs short of his maiden Test ton. But his 80-run stand with Jayant Yadav underpinned India’s impressive lower-order performance.
The left-handed Jadeja, who started the day on 31, took over responsibility for piloting the innings after the fall of his overnight partner Ashwin.
Ashwin’s wicket ended a 97-run seventh-wicket stand between him and Jadeja. The pair had lifted India after the loss of four wickets in the final session on Sunday.
“Any team will have a plus point if its lower-middle order is contributing. If the last 7-11 (batsmen) can give 50 to 100 runs extra for the team it’s a bonus,” said Jadeja.
Skipper Virat Kohli (62) and Cheteshwar Pujara (51) also contributed half-centuries.
India lead the five-match series 1-0 with one game drawn.

He accompanied the image with the caption,
 
However a few months later, Willy Paul seemingly got cold feet and called off his wedding, claiming that he had been misled.
 
” He captioned the photo of him and his Ethiopian fiancée. Indicating that he was back on the single lane.
A year later, Willy Paul seems engaged again or at least he is dating. When he got on the Trend last Friday and Larry Madowo asked him how his family was doing, Pozze said
Larry asked. To which Will Paul replied with
Larry prodded seeking to find out who Willy was dating.
 
However, the ‘Tiga Wana’ crooner was not willing to spill any more beans and told Larry, Forcing the host to go back to talking about Size 8’s and Willy Paul’s new release.
Watch it below:
 

The wife of President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman faced a storm of criticism on Monday for performing a Holocaust-themed ice-dancing routine with striped costumes based on concentration camp uniforms.
Tatiana Navka, an Olympic ice dancing champion who is married to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, performed the pirouetting routine with actor Andrei Burkovsky on a prime-time celebrity skating show on Saturday.
The dancers wore black-and-white striped outfits with numbers and yellow stars for the routine, which ends to the sound of gunfire.
The routine was set to a song from 1997 Oscar-winning Italian film “Life is Beautiful,” a tragicomedy about a father trying to hide the horrors of concentration camp life from his son.
The pair won maximum points on the Ice Age show on state-controlled Channel One and praise from judges, while Navka wrote on Instagram that it was one of her “favourite routines”, and “our children should know and remember this terrible time.”
The routine prompted a wave of discussion online and in international media.
“Have you gone mad? Smiles in prison uniforms with yellow stars! The audience erupting in applause… No taste, no, tact, no understanding,” wrote viewer Mihael Ratinsky on the Channel One website.
“This is terrible, people don’t understand what they are doing. This is blasphemy,” wrote another viewer, Viki Reznik, in a comment to a YouTube video that had been viewed more than 89,000 times by Monday afternoon, with most reactions negative.
Britain’s the Daily Mail wrote that the dancers’ “beaming grins” seemed to have “little in connection with their gruesome theme,” while US People magazine’s site called it “troubling”.
Israel’s Russian-language newspaper Vesty Israel wrote on Facebook that it hoped choreographer, ice dancer Ilya Averbukh, “has enough brains not to bring this routine to Israel.”
Averbukh — who is reportedly of Jewish origin — angrily defended the routine to Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid, saying, “I would call all this reaction a sign of the craziness of today.”
Navka herself insisted that the camp prisoner uniform was simply part of the performance, telling Life News website: “This is our job.”
She said the global reaction “means we are forcing people to think.”
Asked to comment on the furore, Peskov told journalists: “I am proud of my wife, that’s all I can say.”
The Nazis killed some 10 million Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, some 1.3 million of whom were Jewish, according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Head of the Moscow-based Holocaust Fund Alla Gerber said in an interview with Govorit Moskva radio station that it was “very complex” to depict the Holocaust appropriately.
“Primarily I think there must not be mockery, there must not be irony, there must not be a crooked smile.”
Navka was already a popular star and television personality before marrying Peskov in a swanky ceremony on the Black Sea coast last year, but their marriage has made them one of Russia’s most-watched celebrity couples.
The weekend show was not the first time ice dancers have tackled the risky topic of the Holocaust.
In the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, Russian teen figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya danced a routine, also choreographed by Averbukh, set to the music of Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List”.
Lipnitskaya wore a red costume echoing a victim’s red coat in the film in a performance that prompted a standing ovation from Putin but also some accusations of tastelessness.

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An Iraqi officer shuffled through identity cards as he sat at a battered desk by the side of the dust-blown highway heading east from the city of Mosul.
Six men in dirt-spattered tracksuits huddled nearby, waiting on a concrete slab, part of the latest convoy of civilians to flee fighting as government forces try to oust Islamic State jihadists from the city.
Clutching a phone to his ear, the officer stood up and read out the men’s names one by one, waiting a second to receive a word from the person on the other end. He then handed them back their identity cards and let them go.
Eventually, only one man remained. The officer repeated his name several times, his voice rising.
Suddenly, he grabbed the man and started hauling him into a makeshift cell at the back of what was once a roadside car workshop.
“Everyone in Mosul knows who the terrorists are,” said Lieutenant Ali of Iraq’s special forces, part of a group of officers involved in the screening.
Some 70,000 civilians have fled the violence since Iraqi forces started the offensive to retake Mosul last month.
After more that two years of extremist rule over the city of more than a million inhabitants, the authorities are desperate to stop any jihadists escaping among the throngs of displaced civilians.
To do this, they say they use a database of intelligence collected from different sources, including Western spy agencies, old records and Mosul residents who lived under IS.
“We get information from Mosul because of the difficulties people suffered during the two-and-a-half years under Daesh,” Ali said, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
Official figures are not made public on how many people have been detained by the various forces fighting IS — the Iraqi army, special forces, police and Kurdish peshmerga.
Intelligence officer Ali, who did not give his second name, estimated that some five percent of the men fleeing the city have been held on suspicion of cooperating with IS.
That would mean hundreds — if not thousands — are currently detained.
Iraqi officials say the men they detain are investigated and — if enough evidence is provided of their ties to IS — put on trial.
Some parts of Mosul’s population initially welcomed the jihadists, following abuses committed by the Shiite-dominated security forces against the Sunni-majority city’s residents before IS swept in.
And when the daily hardships of life in IS’s tyrannical “caliphate” became evident, some level of acceptance of the jihadist organisation was sometimes necessary to survive.
Dhiaa Zuhair clutched his ID card in relief as he walked back to his family after passing through the screening.
The dust from walking out of the Mosul battlefield still clung to his clothes, shoes and hair.
“I wasn’t worried because I had nothing to do with IS,” he said. “The forces have very good intelligence.”
But some said that the dragnet for IS members was falling too wide and subject to abuse. Several rights groups have said the process is opaque and has not undergone enough scrutiny.
At her tent in the sprawling Khazir camp for displaced people, Um Yamen showed off the note she had received from her husband that morning.
“I’m well and in good health,” read the message handwritten on paper from the International Committee of the Red Cross. “I’m in prison.”
It was the first news she had received from her husband in the 20 days since Kurdish forces arrested him as he followed her out of their village close to Mosul.
They accused him of working with IS, and Kurdish intelligence is holding him in a neighbouring district.
But his wife insisted he was just a clerk at the local power company doing his job.
The real reason he was detained, she said, was that some people in the village had a grudge against him and claimed he was a member of IS to get him in trouble.
“This is an injustice. He didn’t do anything wrong. He was just going to his job,” she said, asking to use a pseudonym.
“I don’t really understand why this has happened.”

Kilifi Governor, Amason Kingi today had his day with justice, in a bid to clear his name.
The governor this afternoon arrived at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission for a grilling session over the questionable expenditure of taxpayers monies amounting to Sh51 million.
Kingi, arrived at Integrity Centre on Monday, accompanied by Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho, Kisumu Senator James Orengo, woman representative Aisha Jumwa and more than 50 supporters.
Amason Kingi, has insisted he is innocent and ODM leader has also expressed his support for the governor.
To make sure nothing was left to chance, dozens of GSU personnel were deployed outside the Integrity premises, as the governor was expected to be flanked by his supporters.
 
The auditor general, Edward Ouko in his audit report for financial year 2014 – 2015 raised queries about the how ksh51million was spent.
The money was allegedly stolen through the national online payment system, IFMIS.
Following the scandal, the Governor suspended 10 county officials whose IFMIS passwords are said to have been used to steal the funds.
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Kingi was also summoned over the alleged purchase of 11 acres of bus park land in Mtwapa at Ksh308 million.
The Kilifi government obtained court orders on Friday, compelling the national government to freeze the assets and accounts of companies alleged to have stolen the money from county coffers.
The five Nairobi companies; Daima One Enterprises, Leadership Edge Associates, Kilingi Investment, Makegra Supplies and Zohali Supplies which have been linked to the scandal have already been sued according to the county government of Kilifi.

The ex BBA winner and comedian is now rumored to be involved with a certain model who has been turning heads on social media.
The guy has been sharing her photos through his social media accounts and judging from his captions, the guy feels pretty lucky to have this beautiful lass.
 
 
Anyway, Idris has not confirmed whether this lady is his new beau, but word is he is fed up with his ex Wema Sepetu and the two will never ever get back together just as Taylor Swift said.
The comedian is however now focused on his gigs and radio station that is slowly taking over the Tanzanian entertainment industry.
Anyway checkout  the lady below:
 
 

A German federal court has upheld the conviction of a former Nazi SS officer known as the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, his lawyer said Monday, in a ruling welcomed by victims’ representatives.
Oskar Groening, now 95, was found guilty in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murders of 300,000 people at the camp and sentenced to four years in prison.
He and co-plaintiffs in the case, many of them elderly survivors of the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland, had challenged the verdict on various grounds.
But the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) threw out the appeals, meaning that the verdict by the lower tribunal in the northern city of Lueneburg is final.
“I can confirm that today we received the BGH ruling dating from September 20 that the appeals by Mr Groening and the co-plaintiffs were rejected,” defence attorney Hans Holtermann told AFP.
The high court’s decision was keenly awaited as a test of a legal precedent for prosecuting former Nazis which changed in 2011 with Germany’s landmark conviction of former death camp guard John Demjanjuk.
That case determined that it was not necessary to prove that a defendant had committed specific atrocities if he worked at a death camp and was thus a cog in the Nazi killing machine.
However Demjanjuk remained not guilty under German law until his death in 2012 because the appeals process had not run its course.
Groening has been living at home despite his conviction, awaiting the BGH ruling.
Prosectors must now determine whether Groening is fit to serve his sentence, which is considered unlikely given his advanced age.
Lawyers representing 50 co-plaintiffs said in a statement the BGH decision was “an important correction of earlier jurisprudence, even if it comes much too late”.
Christoph Heubner of the Berlin-based International Auschwitz Committee, which represents camp survivors, said he was relieved by the decision.
“The BGH ruling finally makes clear that everyone who was part of running Auschwitz shares responsibility and guilt,” he said in a statement.
“This will send a lasting message for future trials related to genocide.”
Groening worked as an accountant at Auschwitz, sorting and counting the money taken from those killed or used as slave labour, and shipping it back to his Nazi superiors in Berlin.
One million European Jews died between 1940 and 1945 at Auschwitz before it was liberated by Soviet forces.

The animated sea-faring musical adventure “Moana” sailed to success in its debut weekend, taking in an estimated $55.5 million to top the North American box office, an industry group said Sunday.
The Disney film about a brave Polynesian teenage girl on a risky mission to save her people reaped in $81.1 million during the full, longer Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Exhibitor Relations said.
The composers of the film’s score include Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the music and lyrics for the smash Broadway hit “Hamilton.”
It unseated the Harry Potter spin-off “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” which fell to second place in its second weekend in theaters, chalking up $45.1 million for a total of $156.2 million so far.
Based on a 2001 book by “Potter” novelist J.K. Rowling, the Warner Bros. film stars Eddie Redmayne as a wizard in 1920s New York.
Its first weekend take of $74.4 million was the lowest opening for any film in Rowling’s “Wizarding World” series, as the film largely drew on fans of the original franchise rather than fresh, younger blood.
Dropping from second to third rank in the charts, Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” posted another $13.4 million for a total of $205 million.
The movie, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as neurosurgeon Stephen Strange — whose life changes forever after a horrific car accident — is the 14th film in Disney’s “Marvel Cinematic Universe.”
Fourth place, with just $13 million, went to the debut movie “Allied,” starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard as World War II spies who fall in love during an assassination mission and eventually get married and have a child, but then become pitted against each other.
The acclaimed alien invasion movie “Arrival,” starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, slipped from fourth to fifth place as it posted $11.3 million in weekend revenue.
Rounding out the top 10 films were:
“Trolls” ($10.3 million)
“Bad Santa 2” ($6.1 million)
“Almost Christmas” ($5.7 million)
“Hacksaw Ridge” ($5.5 million)
“Edge of Seventeen” ($3 million)

Chris Diaz has been pitching for Kenya as leading destination for business, tourism and sports at various global stages.
Mr. Diaz has had a distinguished career in Marketing. He was the first marketing leader from Africa to serve on the board of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK. He is also a fellow of the Marketing Society of Kenya and has a wealth of experience been working with multiple segments and industries.
 
His efforts to market Kenya globally were recognized at a ceremony hosted by the World Marketing Congress and World Brand Congress at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai in a ceremony that drew marketing gurus from over 40 countries.
Diaz has been recognized amongst top global leaders who are influencing high standards in marketing and are respected thought leaders in the industry.
During the ceremony, Diaz’s role in marketing Africa in global markets as a Trustee of Brand Africa, was also recognized.
Chris Diaz Spoke after receiving the award.
 
The Brand Kenya director also participated in one of the panels, in which he discussed the importance of intra Africa marketing and global brand investments in creating employment opportunities in Africa through strong hospitality offerings and well trained marketers in the region.
He expressed confidence that Africa’s tourism numbers will surpass the nearly 60 million visitors annually, as the brand experience, culture, destinations and great tourist attractions are well marketed globally.

England head coach Eddie Jones has tarnished the legacy of his achievements with his native Australia, his Wallabies counterpart Michael Cheika said on Monday.
Cheika believes Jones went over the top in his attempts to give England a psychological edge during their tour of Australia in June, when the tourists recorded a 3-0 series win.
Jones, who guided Australia to the 2003 World Cup final, accused the Australian media of being disrespectful, but Cheika believes his former Randwick team-mates needs to have a look at his own behaviour.
“There was a lot of vitriol about Australia, his home nation,” Cheika told reporters at a press conference in London ahead of Saturday’s clash between England and Australia at Twickenham.
“It’s where he coached, where the opportunities were given to him to grow up as a coach and play.
“Personally, if you’re looking to leave a legacy somewhere, you don’t want to hit back at it when you leave.”
Jones has already taken a pre-match swipe at Australia by calling for a meeting with referee Jaco Peyper so he can raise concerns about the Wallabies’ scrummaging.
Cheika laughed off Jones’s remarks following Australia’s 27-24 loss to Ireland in Dublin at the weekend, but he believes the former Japan coach has taken his mind games too far.
“I’m not 100 percent sure what’s gone on after Saturday, but I’m sure he’ll be into it,” said the former Leinster coach.
“In June I sort of gave the opportunity to see how a former Australian would deal with it. It’s a bit like the goal-scorer who scores against his old team, you know?
“I suppose it’s always difficult when you go back into a tournament where you’re playing teams you’ve coached before. And you don’t really know how to play it.
“Do you stay reserved or do you go out there and get stuck into them? I know what I do, even in a country like Ireland when I’m there, where I coached for many years.
“I didn’t coach the national team there, but that’s the choice he wants to make and he thinks is best for his team.”
Cheika voiced an intention to arrange a meeting with referees’ chief Alain Rolland over his side’s heavy penalty count against Ireland, but admitted he had yet to receive a reply from the Irishman.
“That’s probably a little bit where Australia’s at at the moment,” said Cheika.
“We don’t have a lot of referees on the panel. We’ve only got one on the panel. We don’t have any high-rollers at World Rugby level, so we have very little say at the moment in those areas.
“And we’ve got to improve, that’s part of our thing. We’ve got to get more referees up there and involved at that level, because of the top-tier nations, we have the least representation at the referees’ table.”

Armed men have abducted three UN refugee agency staffers, including two foreigners, from Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, a local government official told AFP on Monday.
“A group of armed men kidnapped yesterday three UNHCR workers, two Nepalese and a Sudanese, from Geneina,” the capital of West Darfur state, state government spokesman Abdelah Mustafa told AFP.
“Police are searching for the kidnappers.”
UNHCR officials were not immediately available for comment, but its spokesman in Khartoum told AFP by text message that a meeting was underway to discuss the “urgent incident”.
A resident from Geneina told AFP that the gunmen came in a 4×4 vehicle.
“I saw some armed men ordering the three UN employees to get into their vehicle. They then drove off quickly,” he said on condition of anonymity.
“The incident happened near the main mosque of Geneina,” the resident said.
Darfur has been engulfed in a deadly conflict since 2003 when ethnic minority black tribes took up arms against President Omar al-Bashir’s Arab-dominated government.
As part of its counter-insurgency strategy the government turned to “Janjaweed” militias recruited from Arab tribes, and who have since been incorporated into official paramilitary units.
Experts say that militias in search of resources often turn on each other, and sometimes against the government even as Khartoum insists that violence in Darfur has ebbed.
Sunday’s abduction of UNHCR staffers is not the first in Darfur as several foreign and Sudanese aid workers have been abducted in the region over the years.
At least 300,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced in Darfur since the conflict first erupted in 2003, the UN says.
Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes and genocide charges related to Darfur, which he denies.
Sudan also wants UN peacekeepers who have been deployed Darfur, a region the size of France, since 2007 to leave.

I love to cook, but I also love tips that make my cooking time less a hustle and I get to use less minutes. So these genius yet simple handsy tips will have you change how you have been doing simple things like choosing an Avocado
So here are handy and simple tricks for the next time you are in the kitchen
You can throw the whole bulb in the microwave on high for about twenty seconds. Then with ever so light peeling, the skin will come off. If you do not have a microwave, remove a clove from the bulb, slam it with a knife the skin will “burst” off the clove…or
 
Myth or magic? A wooden spoon placed on the pot of the pasta you are cooking actually stops the water from spilling over. But, as much as it works, don’t leave the spoon there for too long cause then the wooden spoon will heat up and the water will rise no matter what.  Don’t use a , use a wooden one.
 
Next time when you go Avocado shopping, don’t press the fruit to know if it’s ripe or not. The truth about the state of the Avocado lies under the stem. Just peel it off (you might have to be sneaky about this; some sellers don’t want you to do that.
 
If it’s yellow or green, you’re good to go. If it’s brown, the avocado is too ripe. (If it doesn’t come off easily, it’s not ripe enough).
The best way to check if eggs are before you break them is to use water.  Fill a bowl with water: level of the water should twice height of egg. Then, carefully lower the egg into the bowl.
 
If eggs sinks to bottom and lays flat, very fresh.  Egg stands on one end at the bottom of the bowl, fresh. Egg floats to the surface, they’re no longer fresh enough to eat.

The UN’s expert on torture was Monday beginning a week-long visit to Turkey following claims prisoners have been ill-treated in the wake of the July failed coup.
Nils Melzer, special rapporteur on torture, arrived in Turkey on Sunday and will speak with alleged victims and inspect detention facilities, the United Nations in Ankara said.
His visit, the first by a UN torture expert to Turkey since 1998, comes a month after US-based watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Turkish police of torturing detainees.
The government has vehemently denied the claims, saying all those held over the July 15 coup are being treated fully in line with the law.
Since a rogue faction tried to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from power on July 15, Turkey has arrested some 37,000 suspects, causing international alarm.
It has also imposed a state of emergency which has already been extended once.
The rapporteur will visit places of detention such as police stations, pre-trial facilities and prisons, the UN said last week, ahead of preparing a final report for the Human Rights Council in March 2018.
His predecessor, Juan Mendez, was due to visit in October but the trip was put off by the Turkish authorities — a move which Mendez said at the time “sends the wrong message”.
But the UN said the visit would be a chance to “identify and assess… challenges related to torture and ill-treatment”.
“I look forward to engaging with the Turkish government on how to meet the challenges of upholding the rule of law, promoting accountability, and fulfilling the right of reparations for victims, in particular in the aftermath of the attempted coup,” Melzer said on Friday.
HRW last month cited 13 cases of alleged abuse, including torture, sleep deprivation, severe beatings, sexual abuse and rape threats among people detained.
Just over a week after the coup bid, Amnesty International said it had “credible evidence” of the abuse and torture of people detained in the sweeping arrests.
Melzer started his independent role earlier this month and currently works at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
The former Red Cross and Swiss foreign affairs official will visit several Turkish provinces, the UN said without giving further details, and he will speak with victims and their families.
He will present his preliminary findings in Ankara on Friday.

Britain’s tabloids mourned Monday after former politician Ed Balls was booted out of a television dance contest, having won hearts with his try-hard attempts to improve his clunky “dad dancing”.
Balls finally got the chop on the BBC’s “Strictly Come Dancing”, one of Britain’s most popular TV shows, after 10 weeks of pouting, hip-thrusts and comically clodhopping efforts.
The tubby 49-year-old novice, a former education minister but never the most popular of politicians, had been the surprise star of the show, despite his dodgy dancing.
“I so enjoyed myself and got so much further than I ever thought I could and I am going out on a high,” said Balls, also a former Labour Party finance spokesman who lost his seat in last year’s general election.
He even won the plaudits of his political foes, with Conservative former prime minister David Cameron and finance minister George Osborne rallying to the cause.
Newspapers lamented Balls’ last tango.
“We’ve enjoyed watching the transformation of a politician we loved to hate into a dancer — to use the word in its loosest sense — we just love to love,” The Sun said in its editorial.
The Daily Mirror’s TV editor Nicola Methven said: “The public took him to their hearts, because us Brits can’t help loving a trier.”
Balls came 6th out of 15 celebrity contestants, outlasting singers Anastacia and Will Young and 2012 Olympic champion long jumper Greg Rutherford.
Arch-enemy Osborne called his achievements “amazing”.
“Well done Ed Balls. That took guts,” he said.
Even Cameron — whom Balls regularly riled in parliament — tweeted his best wishes.
“We’re very proud of you! Strictly won’t be the same without you,” he said.
Commentator and ex-contestant Esther Rantzen wrote in the Daily Mail: “Not only had he tried harder than anyone, he had more to contend with: mainly the fact that he is the wrong shape to dance gracefully, and worse, that for most of his life he thought he could dance — and he was wrong.”
“Strictly Come Dancing” pulls in around 11 million viewers, nearly a sixth of the population.
A former lead economics writer for the Financial Times newspaper, Balls was the chief economic advisor to the Treasury, the schools minister and then Labour’s finance spokesman in opposition.
He is now a senior fellow at Harvard University’s business and government centre.

Nairobi governor hopeful, Esther Passaris today lead hundreds of activists in a demonstration, to protest against the rising cases of sexual and gender based violence.
Passaris joined hundreds of Kenyans in a silent protest march, to create more awareness on sexual and gender based violence.
The annual march hopes to promote  more debate on Gender Based Violence (GBV), by creating more avenues where sexual assault survivors can seek assistance and medication.
Under the hashtag #SilentProtestMarchKenya, and #16DaysofActivism, the adopt a light founder, posted tweets about the march before officially flagging off the #SilentProtestMarchKenya to end GBV.
 
The activists are demanding greater action by the Gender and Interior ministries in order to deter and stop violence against women.
From 25 November to 10th December every year, the world marks 16 days of activism, where they campaign and join forces to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world.
The international campaign originated from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute coordinated by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership in 1991.
 
The 2016 theme ’ strongly emphasizes the need for sustainable financing, for efforts to end violence against women and girls towards the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Nairobi silent protest will start at Uhuru Park’s Freedom Corner and end at Jevanjee Gardens, where they will conduct a rally.
The protest has been organised by the Nairobi City County and the Aids Healthcare Foundation.
 
According to the Kenya Domestic Household Survey (KDHS) 2014, 38 percent of women aged 15-49 reported physical violence and 14 percent reported having experienced sexual violence.
Statistics indicate that in 2013, the Kenya Police Service received 3,596 defilement cases; 913 of rape; 242 of incest and 124 of sodomy.
 
GBV reared its ugly head on the month of August, in a horrific assault case which captured both local and international headlines. Jackline Mwende, a jobless housewife had both her hands chopped off by her husband of seven years for allegedly not able to sire children.
Passaris also received an outpouring of support following a live show incident, where Miguna Miguna, a fellow nairobi governor aspirant, told her
AHF project development manager, Faith Ndung’u has expressed concern over the increased number of cases of violence despite laws and policies.
“,” Ndung’u said as quoted by the star.
In kenya, especially in rural areas it is not uncommon for defilement cases and GBV to be handled in ‘ where families meet under a tree and sip a pot of a local brew, then agree to solve the matter quietly by paying a small compensation under the guise of culture.
 

Boxer Mike Tyson was said to have bedded about 15 women DAILY before he was sent to prison in 1992.Among these women included the legendary Naomi Campbell who he smashed in a toilet at a party in New York City while his manager stood outside holding their drinks.
 
Before he was locked up over rape allegations, the boxer is said to have slept with over excluding the one night stands and the groupies. These sexual trysts may have included drug-fuelled orgies as he confessed in his ’Undisputed Truth’ autobiography .He revealed that since he was getting so much sex, normal intercourse got so boring that he resorted  to orgies.
He wrote.
For many, being locked up over rape allegations is bound to slow you down and have women avoiding you like a plague , but not Mike Tyson. In fact, and he had so much sex with women who came to visit him in prison that it left him too tired to go to the gym.
But that’s not all; he claimed to have slept with even his drug counsellor while he was incarcerated in the period of 1992 to 1995 after paying her 10,000 dollars to fix her roof.
 
As much as Tyson’s sexual lifestyle was shocking, his does not come close to Fidel Castro who bedded 35,000 women!
As the Reports,
The ladies were sourced from Havana’s beaches and this made his stay as a president longer due to the unlimited access to beautiful women.
ex-Castro official “Ramon” told filmmaker Ian Halperin.
Maybe the fact that he was among the original members of the ‘bearded gang’ could have also contributed to his prolific sex life.
 

Newly appointed has dropped all-time record try scorer Collins Injera from the squad that will take part in the Dubai leg of IRB Sevens World Series circuit.
Injera was the surprising notable absentee when Simiyu named the squad that departs for Dubai on Monday evening.
Other key players missing from the Kenya Sevens team are Oscar Ayodi and Sammy Oliech for the opening leg of the 2016/2017 World Rugby Sevens Series that starts this Friday.
According to , sources at Kenya Rugby Union disclosed the reason for the axing of most of the players were as a result of discipline issues following the strike by the team owing to outstanding bonuses.
The Kenya Sevens players had vowed not go back to training until their match bonuses that they say amounted to over Sh23 million from the 2015/2016 season are paid.
 
Simiyu said downplaying the exclusions.
Kenya have been pooled in Group D where they will play Australia, France and Japan.  
Simiyu has however handed two players, Brian Tanga and Darwin Mukidza their World Series debut for the Dubai outing.The Kenyan lionesses will also take part in the Women’s International Invitational Category and are in Pool B with Ireland, Belgium, Poland and Tribe 7s.
They will depart for Dubai on Monday night.
Dan Sikuta, Brian Tanga (Kabras Sugar), Martin Owila, Andrew Amonde, Darwin Mukidza (KCB), Frank Wanyama, William Ambaka (SportPesa Quins),Leonard Mugaisi, Cyprian Kuto, Augustine Lugonzo (Menengai Cream Homeboyz), Billy Odhiambo (Mwamba), Nelson Oyoo (Top Fry Nakuru).Management: Innocent Simiyu (Head Coach), Ian Gibbons (S&C Coach), Lameck Bogonko (Physio), Erick Ogweno (Team Manager).
Philadelphia Olando, Catherine Abillah, Celestine Masinde, Doreen Remour,Grace Adhiambo, Janet Okello, Janet Owino, Stacy Awuor, Sinaida Aura, Linet Moraa, Sheila Chajira, Irene Otieno.Management: Kevin Wambua (Head Coach), Samuel Njogu ( S&C Coach), Ben Mahinda (Physio), Camilyne Oyuayo (Team Manager)

Tokyo and other upcoming Olympic host cities must make an “unwavering commitment” to achieving a successful Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) urged on Monday, as cost overruns plague the run-up to Tokyo’s 2020 event.
In a video message to a debriefing in the Japanese capital on the Rio Olympics, IOC chief Thomas Bach hailed them as “marvellous games” held in a “marvellous city.”
“Organising the Olympic Games is an intensive process that requires creativity, discipline and collaboration with many people and stakeholders,” he said.
“Most importantly, it requires unwavering commitment.”
The three-day debriefing has drawn senior officials from the IOC and Olympic organisers from Rio and Tokyo as well as the hosts of the Winter Games in 2018, South Korea’s Pyeongchang, and 2022, which are being held in Beijing.
Among others taking part were Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike and Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes.
Bach has previously praised the Rio Games, which were generally seen as successful despite Brazil’s political and economic crisis and security and attendance problems.
Koike, now spearheading a cost-cutting fight, told the meeting that she wants to learn from Rio, where she said materials for some facilities were recycled to build a school.
Koike said that Tokyo wants to introduce a spirit of avoiding wastefulness by “drawing on efforts in Rio as well as the IOC’s long experience, wisdom and knowledge”.
The debriefing came as negotiations over options for moving some Tokyo 2020 venues intensified.
Tokyo is eyeing ways to save money after warnings that costs could hit an eye-watering $30 billion — four times the initial estimate and almost triple that of the 2012 London Olympics.
Options include relocating venues for canoeing and rowing as well as volleyball, and scaling back plans for a new swimming venue.
Koike and Bach agreed last month to set up a working group to try to control costs.
IOC official Christophe Dubi said earlier this month the rowing and canoeing could take place in Miyagi prefecture, 250 miles (400 kilometres) north of Tokyo, and the volleyball in Yokohama south of the capital, following recommendations from a Koike-appointed panel of experts.
But Tokyo officials have faced resistance from 2020 organisers, who argue that moving some events to Miyagi, which was badly hit by Japan’s 2011 tsunami disaster, could actually cost more because the region lacks the proper infrastructure.
Dubi said Sunday in Tokyo that detailed options for moving some Tokyo venues would be presented at a meeting involving the IOC, Tokyo 2020 organisers, the Tokyo metropolitan government and the Japanese government on Tuesday.

An Indonesian woman screamed in agony Monday as she was caned in Aceh, the latest in a growing number of women to be publicly flogged for breaking the province’s strict Islamic laws.
Aceh is the only province in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country that imposes sharia law. People can face floggings for a range of offences — from gambling, to drinking alcohol, to gay sex.
In the latest caning, five people — two women and three men — were flogged in front of a cheering crowd at a mosque in the provincial capital Banda Aceh.
The 34-year-old woman who yelled in pain had been found guilty of spending time in close proximity with a man who was not her husband in contravention of Aceh’s Islamic regulations.
She was lashed seven times with a rattan cane by a man wearing long robes and a hood, with just slits for the eyes.
“It hurts so bad,” the woman said, raising her arms into the air, as she was beaten.
The 32-year-old man with whom she was caught was also flogged seven times.
Two university students, both 19, received 100 lashes of the cane after they confessed to sex outside marriage. They stared at the ground as they were flogged, showing little emotion.
A man found guilty of sex outside marriage was flogged 22 times although his partner, who is two-months pregnant, is still waiting to learn her fate after facing trial at an Islamic court.
However Aceh authorities typically spare pregnant women from canings.
Aceh, on Sumatra island, began implementing sharia law after being granted special autonomy in 2001, an attempt by the central government in Jakarta to quell a long-running separatist insurgency.
Islamic laws have been strengthened since the province struck a peace deal with Jakarta in 2005, and there has been a particular increase in the number of women being caned in recent times.

Barcelona are off to their worst La Liga start since Lionel Messi’s debut season nine years ago.
A 1-1 draw at Real Sociedad was described as a “miracle” by Barca boss Luis Enrique in what he singled out as the worst performance in his three seasons in charge.
Barca are already six points adrift of Real Madrid ahead of their meeting in El Clasico on Saturday.
Here, AFP Sports looks at what has gone wrong so far this season for the Spanish champions.
Messi rescued Barca from a fifth consecutive defeat on their travels to San Sebastian, but Sunday’s draw was the first time Barca have dropped points in the league this season when the Argentine has completed 90 minutes.
Messi’s presence has been sorely missed in defeats to Celta Vigo and Alaves and draws with Malaga and Atletico Madrid.
However, he is far from the only key man to have sat out some part of the season so far.
Andres Iniesta has been out for over a month, whilst his Spanish international teammates Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba were also sidelined for a number of weeks.
An often underrated pillar of Barca’s success in the past decade, Sergio Busquets is in the midst of his most protracted dip in form since breaking into the first team under Pep Guardiola in 2008.
It is no coincidence that Busquets’s struggles have come for the first prolonged period in his career without retired legend Xavi or Iniesta by his side.
His influence in terms of touches and passes completed has wained since Enrique took charge and favoured a more direct style to feed a superstar front three of Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar more quickly.
However, without the ball Busquets is now being exposed by the lack of support around him as Ivan Rakitic has been forced wider on the right to protect the inexperienced Sergi Roberto, who the departed Dani Alves at right-back.
Whilst Barca have failed to hit the heights of old, the gap between them and Madrid can also be explained by the differing challenges they have faced to date.
The Catalans have already made tricky trips to Sevilla, Sociedad, Athletic Bilbao, Celta Vigo and, despite their current struggles, Valencia, as well as Atletico Madrid at home.
Real’s 31-game unbeaten run will be put firmly to the test at the Camp Nou on Saturday, but other challenges await for the European champions with four away trips in five games just as the Champions League returns in February.
Barca splurged over 120 million euros ($127 million) in the summer transfer window in a bid to bolster their squad.
So far to no avail as none of their six recruits have established themselves in Enrique’s preferred starting XI.
Despite beating off Madrid to the signature of Andre Gomes, the Portuguese Euro 2016 winner has failed to make an impression in Iniesta’s absence, whilst 30 million euro striker Paco Alcacer has yet to score a goal.
A year ago whilst Messi was sidelined for two months by knee ligament damage, Neymar and Suarez not only ensured Barca didn’t lose ground in the title race, but accelerated past Madrid at the top of the table.
Twelve months on and Barca’s Messi-dependence has reemerged with the Argentine scoring 10 of Barca’s last 14 goals.
Suarez has scored just once in his last five outings, whilst Neymar hasn’t scored from open play in La Liga since September.

The vivid red wound at the base of Gina’s ankle has remained open for three months and refuses to heal, leaving the Guinea-Bissau islander in constant pain.
“I thought it was from a piece of wood,” she told AFP, recalling the day when a snake sunk its fangs into her leg.
“They had to carry me back home because I couldn’t walk,” she said, sitting in front of a thatched hut decorated with white sea shells.
Gina lives on Soga, a tiny speck of land that is one of the 88 islands of the Bijagos archipelago, an Atlantic paradise home to dolphins, tortoises — and forests full of deadly snakes.
Home to some 30,000 people, the islands are recognised by the UN’s world heritage body (UNESCO) for their exceptionally diverse ecosystems, but there is one creature in particular that thrives among the mangroves.
“The Bijagos islands are reputed for their snakes. All the deadliest species live there, including mambas and cobras,” says Aissata Regolla, a researcher at Guinea-Bissau’s Institute for Bioversity and Protected Marine Areas (IBAP).
“On certain islands, our staff can’t walk more than five minutes without seeing one.”
Gina should perhaps count herself lucky. Every year around 125,000 people die after being bitten by a snake, 30,000 of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Many more are left with life-changing injuries or amputations.
But finding an antivenom which is affordable is becoming increasingly difficult, prompting a warning from the World Heath Organization last year.
“The price of some antivenoms has dramatically increased in the last 20 years, making treatment unaffordable for the majority of those who need it,” the UN health agency said.
On the continent, antivenom treatments are not generally cost-effective for the drug companies that make them.
In 2010, French pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi stopped producing its widely-used Fav-Afrique serum, which is effective against the venom of 10 different snake species, with the last batch expiring in June of this year.
Sanofi Pasteur, its vaccines division, said it had been edged out by cheaper competitors.
But several studies have shown these low-cost rivals are far less effective in treating bites, while the delicate process of cultivating an antivenom further complicates delivery.
“Antivenom is a biological product. You have to buy the venom, draw out the antibodies, purify them… it’s an arduous and complex process,” explains Jean-Philippe Chippaux, a snake bite expert at France’s Institute of Research for Development (IRD).
“Governments, local authorities and companies should all make a contribution. Today no ministry is capable of saying where the problem lies, how many bites there are or where they took place.”
Worst hit are children and farmers working the land.
Cacutu Avis earns his living cutting down trees in the forest between the coast and the village of Eticoba.
“The cacubas are the most deadly, generally if they bite you, you are a goner,” he says, using the local word for mambas.
“They are often in the trees and palm leaves.”
Soga is half an hour from the larger island of Bubaque, which has a basic hospital, and more than five hours from the capital, Bissau.
But with a single dose of life-saving antivenom costing up to $150 (141 euros) — often more than a month’s salary — many are forced to turn to traditional healers.
“People have died in front of me at the healers’ places, but others have survived,” said Jose Nactum, director of the hospital in Bubaque.
“We don’t have antivenoms adapted for different species and we have a lot of difficulty identifying the type of snake,” he admits.
Antivenom must also be kept chilled in the fridge, yet only 10 percent of the country has access to electricity.
Even for the new players in the market, making the antidotes cost-effective is a huge challenge.
“Antivenoms don’t bring in enough for the big pharma houses compared with other products,” says Juan Silanes, president of Mexico’s Inosan Biopharma, now Africa’s top provider of snakebite serum.
“But if there is a product that’s fairly good, and at a good price, that could change things,” he adds.