Update: school built by President Yoweri Museveni in Tanzania

My guide to Muhutwe, a village in Kagera region, has informed me that when President Museveni returned to the village of Muhutwe to visit the house where he lived during his years of exile in Tanzania, his former landlord, Masudi Zakaria, had already died and  President Museveni offered to build a house for the widow.

However, some in-family wrangling ensued after the offer was made by President Museveni and later it is suspected that the widow was murdered at the instigation of her relatives. It was after her death that the president decided instead to build the two secondary schools.

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The Nigerian High Commissioner to Tanzania visits Mama Maria Nyerere at Butiama

The Nigerian High Commissioner to Tanzania, H.E. Dr. Ishaya S. Majanbu and Mrs. Naomi Majanbu, paid a visit to Butiama this morning.

Outside the mausoleum of the late Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, front row, L-R: H.E. Dr. Ishaya S. Majanbu, Mama Maria Nyerere, and Mrs. Naomi Majanbu. 

They were hosted by Mama Maria Nyerere, widow of the founding president of Tanzania, Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere.



Mama Maria Nyerere, left, accepts a gift from Mrs. Naomi Majanbu, right.

They also visited the Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere Museum.



Mama Maria Nyerere, left, poses with her gift from Mrs. Naomi Majanbu, centre, as Ambassador H.E. Dr. Ishaya Majanbu observes.

Before their departure, Mrs Naomi Majanbu presented a gift of an African batik cloth to Mama Maria who insisted on opening the cloth and wrapping it on her shoulder.

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School built by President Yoweri Museveni in Tanzania

The village of Muhutwe in Kagera region has a special relationship with Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni. During his years in exile from Uganda he spent some time at Muhutwe, in the western Tanzania region of Kagera.

The house where President Museveni lived in the village of Muhutwe.

He reportedly lived in the house, pictured above, where he rented a small room. My guide during the trip to Muhutwe told me the room was packed with books. The landlord did not know who Museveni was until Museveni returned to the village of Muhutwe as president of Uganda and visited his former residence.

Nyarigamba Secondary School.

President Museveni not only decided to build a house for his former landlord, but even decided that two secondary schools should be built in Muleba district: one at Muhutwe, and another one at Kamachumu.

Nyarigamba Secondary School.

Nyarigamba Secondary School.

Nyarigamba Secondary School.

The decision was not received with approval by some Ugandans who complained that President Museveni should have spent that money in Uganda.

According the the Ugandan High Commissioner to Tanzania, Ibrahim Mukiibi, the schools were built as a gesture of friendship from Ugandans to Tanzania for the good job that the Tanzanian army had done in the war that toppled the former ruler, Idi Amin in 1979.

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$100,000 award for African scientists

Here's a message from the African Union; additional details and the attachments mentioned in the message on the African Union's website at  
www.Africa-union.org:

Dear Scientists,

 

Greetings from the African Union Commission.

 

It’s a pleasure for me on behalf of the AU Commission to remind you that the Grand and Prestigious AU Continental Scientific Award Competition is still open until 9 September 2010. You are challenged to win a grand prize of USD100,000 by simply completing the attached application form and submitting a few support documents.

 

The AU Commission is committed to raise the profile of African Scientists high, promote scientific development in the continent, and to recognize excellence among African scientists (women, men and to support you to persevere in your research or academic endeavors. This programme is a direct response to that.

 

You are cordially invited to apply for this award!

 

Please assist us in contact potential scientists in Africa by forwarding this e-mail with its attachments.

 

Good lucky

 

Regards,

 

Hambani Masheleni

Senior Policy Officer

African Union Commission

Department of Human Resources, Science and Technology

Science & Technology and ICT Division

Prof. Sospeter Muhongo has returned to the University of Dar es Salaam

Prof Sospeter Muhongo, a Tanzanian who last year was one of two African candidates for the position of Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) but withdrew from the race after receiving scant support from African countries, has returned to the University of Dar es Salaam.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London, an Honorary Research Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.

In addition, he is a fellow of eight highly learned professional societies. He was the founding Regional Director of the ICSU Regional Office for Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Prof Muhongo is the Chair of Science Programme Committee (SPC) of the UN-proclaimed International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) and the Vice President of the Commission of the Geological Map of the World (CGMW). He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of African Earth Sciences (Elsevier) and Associate Editor of Precambrian Research (Elsevier).

He is a Full Professor of Geology at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and an Honorary Professor of Geology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Prof Muhongo has published over 200 well-acknowledged research articles, geological and mineral maps. He has delivered more than 250 invited keynote speeches around the world at international conferences.

Over the past two decades Prof. Muhongo has co-organized over 100 international STI and science policy conferences, including those on "Science with Africa" which are hosted by ECA, AUC and their partners. Prof. Muhongo is a Member of the International Experts Group (Global Science Forum) of OECD. He has occupied numerous important national, regional and international professional positions dealing with science, technology, innovation, earth resources, science policy and science diplomacy. Prof. Muhongo, recipient of numerous scholarly and professional awards, grants and fellowships studies geology at the Universities of Dar es Salaam and Goettingen (Germany). He graduated with Dr.rer.nat. degree from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

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