Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs from Around Africa shortlisted for $75 000 Anzisha Prize

Twenty five top young entrepreneurs from around Africa have been named as semi-finalists for the prestigious Anzisha Prize, Africa’s foremost youth entrepreneurship awards. They all stand a chance to share in over $75 000 USD in cash prizes, 10 of them are from East Africa

The 25 semi-finalists were chosen from the hundreds of entries received from 32 African countries and represent 15 different countries where they are actively making a difference by transforming their communities.
Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya all have three semi-finalists while, South Africa has two. A large number of the start-up businesses involve turning waste material into cost efficient and environmentally friendly energy sources while there is also an emphasis on web-based endeavours and education.

Twelve finalists will be chosen from this list of 25 semi-finalists at the end of July. The 2013 Anzisha Prize Finalist Week will take place from Sunday, August 25 to Friday, August 30. The grand prize winner will be announced at a gala function to be held at The Venue in Johannesburg, South Africa, on the evening of August 30.

Now in its third year, the Anzisha Prize – hosted by the African Leadership Academy in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation – celebrates initiative and innovation. It identifies exceptional young entrepreneurs who are leading by example and underscores their ability to significantly shape the future of Africa.

The word ‘Anzisha’ is taken from Swahili and translates into ‘initiative’ and is a project that is gaining significant momentum in African business circles as its impact is beginning to be felt.

Says Chi Achebe, Anzisha Prize programme manager: “We are delighted with the high calibre of semi-finalists this year. We undertook a road show throughout the African continent – visiting among other countries Ethiopia, Lesotho, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Zimbabwe – and are delighted with the tremendous response we received from around Africa.”

Finalists will win an all-expense paid trip to the African Leadership Academy (ALA) in Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend a weeklong entrepreneurship conference and awards gala. While there, they will be taught by ALA’s renowned Entrepreneurial Leadership faculty as well as experienced business mentors. Winners will share $75,000 USD, courtesy of The MasterCard Foundation, and be given networking and learning opportunities to take their projects to the next level.

The top 25 Anzisha finalists (in country order) are:
KENYA
• Paul Barclay
Project Title: Impact Africa
Industry: Consumer products
Paul Barclay is a 21-year-old entrepreneur from Kitale in Kenya. His business, Impact Africa, provides inexpensive, reusable and washable sanitary towels for women and young girls. Barclay saw that the prices of regular disposable towels were simply too expensive for families strapped for cash so he and his team developed a product that could help thousands of women while still turning a profit.

• Daniel Sawa
Project Title: Biogas Digester Plant
Industry: Energy and waste
Daniel Sawa is an 18-year-old innovator from Busia in Kenya. He has created the Biogas Digester Plant which uses raw materials as a source for energy and manure. Starting small, demand quickly increased as Sawa’s innovative energy solutions were often more convenient for the consumer. These alternative solutions – whether it is using cow dung, agricultural waste or raw sewage – provide for a cheaper alternative to traditional energy.

• Joan Njoroge
Project Title: Rafiki Farming Project
Industry: Agriculture
A native of Nairobi, Kenya, Joan Njoroge got involved with a community that supported children affected by HIV/Aids at a very early age. Through these experiences, she realised a great opportunity in the form of agriculture to not only feed these children, but also make a commercial profit that could fund other experiences and daily necessities. Njoroge believed it would be even more impactful if she taught some of these important skills to the children living in the community.

RWANDA
• Joie Laurent Sangwa
Project Title: Domestic Biogas Use Promotion Project
Industry: Energy and waste
Nineteen-year-old Joie Sangwa from Burera in Rwanda realised that her community needed cheap and renewable energy resources. Working with a team, she discovered that human waste is a good source of energy and developed a process to turn it into an effective energy solution. This offers a cheap, alternative energy source while helping with the environment.

TANZANIA
• Victor Mnyawami
Project Title: The University Entrepreneurship Challenge
Industry: Education
Victor Mnyawami (22) is a student in Dar es Salaam where he noticed the need for a way to challenge students and spark an entrepreneurial mind-set among young Tanzanians. This idea led him to develop a platform for identifying, nurturing, and showcasing emerging entrepreneurs in Tanzania called the University Entrepreneurship Challenge. This challenge is not just about giving money to its winners but also provides advice to start-up companies and promotes entrepreneurship.

• Samwel Sevua
Project Title: Mocobase
Industry: Information technology
Arusha resident, Samwel Sevua, is a 21-year-old computer science engineering student who spends his time investigating how technology can improve the lives of people in their daily lives. He has created a software programme, Mocobase, which improves communication between parents and educational institutions. This helps parents wherever they are to receive a child’s grade report and communicate with teachers and administrators. This idea could revolutionise the reporting system within Tanzania.

• Damotila Silayo
Project Title: Jathropa Soap Production
Industry: Health and wellness
Domitila Silayo is a 21-year-old university student from Moshi, Tanzania. After visiting an agricultural festival, Silayo saw great potential for using the jathropa plant for cosmetic and medicinal uses. She began research on how to produce a soap made from the herbal plant that could heal a variety of skin problems including ringworm and dandruff. Jathropa Soap Production has gone on to help thousands of people in Tanzania fight off skin problems while still turning a healthy profit and creating employment.

UGANDA
• Best Aiyorworth
Project Title: Girls’ Power Micro Lending Organisation
Industry: Microfinance and education
Best Ayiorworth is an advocate for education in her home district Nebbi in northern Uganda. The 21-year-old has started the Girls’ Power Micro Lending Organisation. Its motto is “To help a mother, is to help a girl child.” Girls’ Power is a micro lending business that supports girls through their mothers. They give women starting capital or money to boost their existing businesses so that they are able to support their daughters with school fees and scholastic materials and ensure that they get an education.

• Titus Mawano
Project Title: Ffene
Industry: Information technology
Titus Mawano, a 22-year-old from Kampala, is the brains behind Ffene, a business management platform for SMMEs in Africa who are struggling to stay organised, yet still use a loose-leaf notebook to keep record of clients and sales. Ffene’s vision is to get African businesses in the cloud. Whether it is accounting, inventory management or data keeping, Ffene is the one stop shop for SMMEs. With well over 400 current customers just 3 months after launch, Ffene is well on its way to revolutionizing how SMMEs do business in Uganda and beyond.

• Matia Ssebiranda
Project Title: Appropriate Rural Technology Development
Industry: Energy
In 2011, 20-year-old Matia Ssebiranda from Masindi witnessed charcoal prices soaring in his home country of Uganda. After doing research, he realised that the problem was not only economic but environmental as people were chopping down whole forests for the production of charcoal. This deforestation, along with the harmful emissions from traditional charcoal use, makes traditional charcoal one of the dirtiest, yet most widely used, energy sources in Uganda. Ssebiranda began to research alternative methods of charcoal production which led to the creation of Appropriate Rural Technology Development. This project teams up with rural farmers across Uganda in an effort to utilise agricultural waste to produce charcoal, an alternative that is both cheaper and more sustainable.
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WABUNGE WA UKRAINE WAPEANA KICHAPO BUNGENI

Uganda Cranes Yawasili Kuikabili Stars

TIMU ya Taifa ya Uganda (The Cranes) imewasili Dar es Salaam leo tayari kwa mechi ya kwanza ya mchujo kusaka tiketi ya Fainali za Afrika kwa Wachezaji wa Ligi ya Ndani (CHAN) kati yake na Tanzania (Taifa Stars) itakayochezwa Jumamosi Uwanja wa Taifa, Dar es Salaam.

The Cranes inayofundishwa na Mserbia Sredojvic Micho imetua Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Julius Nyerere (JNIA) saa 5.30 asubuhi kwa ndege ya Air Uganda, na imefikia hoteli ya Sapphire.

Timu hiyo Julai 11 mwaka huu itafanya mazoezi saa 9 alasiri kwenye Uwanja wa Karume, wakati kesho saa 9 alasiri itafanya mazoezi Uwanja wa Taifa, kabla ya kuipisha Taifa Stars itakayoanza mazoezi saa 10 kamili jioni.
Taifa Stars inayofundishwa na Mdenmark Kim Poulsen, na kudhaminiwa na Kilimanjaro Premium Lager, leo kwa mujibu wa program yake haitakuwa na mazoezi. Wachezaji wanaounda The Cranes ni makipa Ismail Watenga, Kimera Ali na Muwonge Hamza. Mabeki ni Guma Dennis, Kasaaga Richard, Kawooya Fahad, Kisalita Ayub, Magombe Hakim, Malinga Richard, Mukisa Yusuf, Savio Kabugo na Wadada Nicholas.

Viungo ni Ali Feni, Birungi Michael, Frank Kalanda, Hassan Wasswa, Kyeyune Said, Majwega Brian, Mpande Joseph, Muganga Ronald, Ntege Ivan, Owen Kasule, wakati washambuliaji ni Edema Patrick, Herman Wasswa na Tonny Odur.

TENGA KUZUNGUMZA NA WAANDISHI KESHO
Rais wa Shirikisho la Mpira wa Miguu Tanzania (TFF), Leodegar Tenga atakuwa na mkutano na waandishi wa habari. Mkutano huo utafanyika kesho (Julai 12 mwaka huu) saa 4 asubuhi kwenye hoteli ya Tansoma.

Kutokana na mkutano huo, sasa mkutano kati ya makocha wa Taifa Stars na The Cranes uliokuwa ufanyike saa 5 asubuhi ofisi za TFF nao umehamishiwa hoteli ya Tansoma. Mkutano huo pia utahusisha manahodha wa timu zote mbili.

WAJUMBE MKUTANO MKUU MAALUMU KUWASILI KESHO
Wajumbe wa Mkutano Mkuu Maalumu wa Shirikisho la Mpira wa Miguu Tanzania (TFF) utakaofanyika Jumamosi (Julai 13 mwaka huu) wanawasili jijini Dar es Salaam kesho (Julai 12 mwaka huu).
Mkutano huo wa marekebisho ya Katiba utakuwa chini ya uenyekiti wa Rais wa TFF, Leodegar Tenga na utafanyika ukumbi wa NSSF Waterfront kuanzia saa 3 kamili asubuhi. Wajumbe wote wa mkutano huo watafikia hoteli ya Travertine.

Pia mkutano huo utahudhuriwa na wageni mbalimbali waalikwa wakiwemo kutoka Shirikisho la Kimataifa la Mpira wa Miguu (FIFA) na Chama cha Mpira wa Miguu Zanzibar (ZFA).

MECHI YA STAND, KIMONDO NAYO KUPIGWA JUMAPILI
Mechi ya marudiano ya Ligi ya Mabingwa wa Mikoa (RCL) kati ya Stand United FC ya Shinyanga na Kimondo SC ya Mbeya iliyokuwa ichezwe Jumamosi (Julai 13 mwaka huu) imesogezwa mbele kwa siku moja.

Timu hizo sasa zitacheza Jumapili (Julai 14 mwaka huu) kwenye Uwanja wa Kambarage mjini Shinyanga. Kimondo ilishinda bao 1-0 mechi ya kwanza iliyochezwa Julai 6 mwaka huu Uwanja wa Kumbukumbu ya Sokoine jijini Mbeya.

Mechi nyingine ya ligi hiyo itakuwa kati ya Friends Rangers ya Dar es Salaam na Polisi Jamii ya Mara, na itafanyika kwenye Uwanja wa Azam ulioko Chamazi nje kidogo ya Jiji la Dar es Salaam. Mwamuzi wa mechi hiyo ni Hans Mabena kutoka Tanga.

~Imeandaliwa na Ofisa Habari wa Shirikisho la Mpira wa Miguu Tanzania (TFF), Boniface Wambura

PICHA za MSIBANI NYUMBANI KWA PROF JAY

 

Huyu ni mtoto wa Prof Jay anaitwa LISA ndio ameingia nyumbani hapa kwenye msiba wa bibi yake kipenziHali ilivyo asubuhi hii hapa nyumbani kwa Prof Jay ambapo ndipo ulipo msiba wa mama yetu.. kwa wanaotaka kuja msiba upo Mbezi mwisho baada ya stendi mpya ya mabasi basi mbele kidogo mkono wako wa kushoto utaingia utaona nyumba kumba ipo kwa chini na magari mengi basi ndio hapo hapo. Kwa wanaokuja na daladala baada yakupita hiyo stendi mpya utamwambia konda akushushe kwa Prof Jay maana ndio kituo hicho.  

Pichani ni wasanii wa bongo fleva wakiacha kumbukumbu katika kitabu cha maombolezo. Kushoto ni Dullayo pamoja na mdogo wake Prof Jay anaitwa Black Rhino mwenye tshirt ya kijan.

 RIP MAMA MAJANJALA

Mishemishe Kipimo Zifike Machinjioni Kabla Hazijafa

Native Deen -- Ramadan is Here (Official video ) Lyrics

LYRICS
[Chorus]
Ramadan is Here (4x)
Yo they sighted the moon, its Ramadan! Now I gotta plan, before it's come and gone
Getting close to Allah, spend a lot of time. Check the condition of my heart, like a sonogram
Uh… Everybody knows that we gotta fast. But does everybody know how the time is passed?
Is it sleeping all day and the night's a blast? And forgetting the reward of the month is vast?
I know you gonna wake-up, right. Drinking water maybe bean-pie, praying at sunrise....
Fast in the day, keeping that deen tight. Breaking fast with some dates, taraweeh at night
Alright... it’s a blessed month. It doesn’t mean at iftar, that you can’t have fun,
But strive in your heart, for your Lord the one… And be blessed by Allah, when the month is done.

[Chorus]
Four minutes left, Mom busts in the door, like… Get yourself up, you about to miss Suhur
Turkey bacon on the plate but I’m beefing. I'm up here sleeping, when they’re down here eating.
Scenes like this, it makes me reminisce what it meant growing up with Ramadan as a kid.
My homie's buying up the corner store. Now or later, quarter waters,
We break at eight but its quarter to four.
They got jokes, like oh yeah he’s fasting. Something about blessings, heaven everlasting
Asking like the Feds up on me, “But dude, let me ask you for real, is you hungry?”
A hunger for the day when the sins on my slate be as empty as the food on my plate.
And if you got jokes, man here is a taste. Take a little fasters breath to the face.

[Chorus]
Ramadan vibrations, more donations. Dinner invitations, many supplications
Good behavior means better reputations. Don’t start nothing, no provocations
No fighting no argumentation. From the fitna and the drama, take a vacation
Mosque is packed with a huge congregation. Some just come as an annual visitation
Some just come for the hum of the recitation. Memorization of revelation,
Less temptation, with more contemplation. Getting ready for the Eid celebration
Shake a lot of hands giving salutations, Salaam Alaykums, peace upon the nation
The world is one, forget the segregation. Another Ramadan congratulations!!

Interpol Yamtia Mbaroni Alex Massawe Dubai

Dar es Salaam. Mfanyabiashara maarufu nchini, Alex Massawe ambaye alikuwa anatafutwa na Polisi wa Tanzania kwa muda mrefu, amekatwa Dubai, Falme za Kiarabu (UAE).

Mkuu wa la Shirika la Polisi la Kimataifa (Interpol), Tawi la Tanzania, Kamishna Msaidizi wa Polisi (ACP), Gustav Babile aliliambia gazeti hili jana kwamba Massawe alikamatwa kati ya Juni 20 na 25 mwaka huu kwenye Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Dubai akitokea Afrika Kusini.
Babile alisema hivi sasa walikuwa wanaandaa taratibu za kumrudisha nchini ambako amekuwa akisakwa kwa muda mrefu.
“Ombi la kuleta mhalifu nchini kutoka nje ya nchi (extradition request), lina hatua ndefu. Unajua kuna mlolongo wa taratibu za kutekeleza ili Massawe aletwe. Kwanza lazima Polisi wa Tanzania watoe tangazo kwa Interpol kuhusu kumsaka mtu huyo ili aletwe,” alisema Babile.
Alisema Massawe alikamatwa wakati akifanya taratibu za ukaguzi baada ya kuwasili UAE.

Habari zilizofikia gazeti hili mapema kutoka Dubai zilieleza kuwa Massawe alikamatwa na maofisa wa usalama wa UAE kutokana na alama zake za vidole na kuonyesha kuwa alikuwamo kwenye orodha ya watu waliokuwa wanasakwa na Interpol.

Massawe ambaye anamiliki majumba na biashara ya utalii katika Miji ya Arusha, Dar es Salaam na Moshi, inadaiwa kwamba alikutwa na pasi tatu bandia za kusafiria zilizokuwa na majina tofauti wakati alama zake za vidole zilionyesha anaitwa Alex Massawe.

“Maofisa wa Usalama wa uwanja wa ndege walimuuliza kuwa wewe ndiye Alex Massawe? Alikana lakini alielezwa kuwa alama za vidole vinaonyesha anaitwa hivyo,” kilidokeza chanzo cha habari hizi kwa simu kutoka Dubai. Hata hivyo, Babile alisema hakuwa na taarifa za Massawe kukutwa na pasi bandia za kusafiria.

Uvumi wa Aprili

Mapema Aprili 27, mwaka huu kulikuwa na habari kwamba Massawe amekamatwa katika mji mmojawapo ulioko katika Pwani ya Afrika Kusini.

Habari hizo za kukamatwa kwa Massawe, ambaye pia hufadhili masuala ya kisiasa na michezo, zilisambaa kupitia mitandao mbalimbali ya kijamii ya Facebook, Twitter na Jamii Forum. Kulikuwa kuna mkanganyiko wa taarifa huku wengine wakidai alinaswa akiwa ndani ya boti huko Afrika Kusini, wengine wakidai alikamatwa wakati akijaribu kuingia Msumbiji akitokea Malawi.

Akizungumzia hilo Babile alisema huo ulikuwa ni uzushi na baada ya kuzisikia taarifa hizo walifuatilia katika maeneo aliyohusishwa kukamatwa na kubaini kwamba hapakuwa na ukweli wowote.

Kwa nini Massawe anatafutwa
Aprili 4 mwaka huu, mfanyabiashara huyo alitajwa mahakamani katika kesi ya mauaji ya mfanyabiashara Onesphory Kituly ambaye aliuawa katika mazingira ya kutatanisha Novemba 6, 2011 akiwa nyumbani kwake Magomeni, Dar es Salaam.

Katika kesi hiyo ambayo mshtakiwa wa kwanza ni mfanyabiashara maarufu, Abubakar Marijani ‘Papaa Msofe’ na mshtakiwa mwingine, Makongoro Joseph Nyerere alitoa malalamiko mbele ya Hakimu Mkazi, Agnes Mchome baada ya Wakili wa Serikali, Mwanaisha Kombo kudai upelelezi wa kesi hiyo bado haujakamilika na kuomba tarehe mpya ya kuitaja. Mshtakiwa huyo, aliomba jalada la kesi yao lipelekwe mahakamani hapo kwa ajili ya kulifanyia kazi na kutuhumu kuwa ndugu wa marehemu Kituly hawataki maendeleo ya kesi yao hadi Massawe akamatwe.
Mwananchi

KaKobe

MBUNGE LEMA ASOMEWA MASHTAKA

MBUNGE wa Arusha Mjini, Godbless Lema (CHADEMA), jana alisomewa maelezo ya awali kwenye kesi ya uchochezi inayomkabili, anayodaiwa kutoa kauli kuwa Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Arusha, Magesa Mulongo, alikwenda kwenye Chuo cha Uhasibu Arusha kama anakwenda kwenye sherehe za kuaga mtoto wa kike ‘send off’.
Akisoma maelezo, Wakili wa Serikali, Elianenyi Njiro, mbele ya Hakimu Mkazi, Devotha Msofe, anayesikiliza shauri hilo, alidai wanatarajia kupeleka mashahidi tisa akiwamo Mkuu wa Chuo cha Uhasibu Arusha (IAA), John Nanyaro na Mkuu wa Jeshi la Polisi wilayani Arusha (OCD), Gillis Mroto.
Aliwataja mashahidi wengine kuwa ni maofisa wa Jeshi la Polisi akiwamo Mkaguzi Bernard Nyambanya na mwenzake aliyetajwa kwa jina moja la Jane, PC Godfrey, Joachim Mahanyu na wengine kutoka Chuo cha Uhasibu, ambao ni Faraji Mnepe, Benjamin Simkanga na Naibu Hamidu.
Awali akisoma maelezo hayo, Wakili Njiro aliieleza mahakama hiyo kuwa Aprili 24, mwaka huu, Lema akiwa eneo la Freedom Square ndani ya Chuo cha Uhasibu, alitoa maneno ya uchochezi yaliyosababisha uvunjifu wa amani.
Alisema kuwa maneno hayo yanayodaiwa kutamkwa ni kinyume cha kifungu cha 390 sura ya 35 cha sheria ya kanuni ya adhabu marejeo ya mwaka 2002.
“RC anakuja (Chuo cha Uhasibu), kama anakwenda kwenye sendoff, hajui chuo kilipo wala mauaji ya mwanafunzi wa chuo hicho … (RC), ameshindwa hata kuwapa (wanafunzi) pole kwa kufiwa na amesema hawezi kuongea na wanafunzi wasio na nidhamu,” alinukuu baadhi ya maneno aliyodai kuwa yalitamkwa na Lema siku ya tukio.
Wakili Njiro alidai mahakamani hapo kuwa kauli hizo zilipandisha hasira za wanafunzi ambao walianza kumrushia mawe na chupa Mkuu wa Mkoa, Mulongo, alipokuwa akiwahutubia kuhusiana na tukio la kifo cha mwanafunzi, Henry Koga, kilichotokea Aprili 23, mwaka huu.
Lema kupitia kwa wakili wake, Method Kimomogoro, alikanusha madai hayo huku akikubali maelezo kuhusu jina lake, anwani, makazi na wadhifa wake, ambapo shauri hilo limepangwa kuanza kusikilizwa kwa siku tatu mfululizo kuanzia Agosti 20-22, mwaka huu.

Mgahawa wa Hassan Futari ya Kumwaga