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Mi sembra giusto sponsorizzare anche una nazione africana:
cosa meglio del Kenia (cosi' Yunan ci postera'!!)?
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DA - L'UNITA'
Dal Pakistan a Nairobi, un "altropallone" è possibile...
di Valentina Petrini
A Nairobi, in Kenya, nel cuore dell?Africa, c?è una squadra di calcio
che si chiama Amani Yasset Football Team. È formata dai giovani della
baraccopoli di Riruta e di Kawangware. Amani  Yasset non è però solo
una squadra di calcio, ma anche un progetto sociale ed educativo. Lo
sport dà ai ragazzi della periferia di Nairobi l?occasione di giocare
e divertirsi stando lontani dalla strada. 
Nel 1998, in occasione dei Mondiali di Francia, il mondo occidentale
scopre che i palloni in Pakistan erano cuciti anche da lavoratori
bambini. Le organizzazioni non governative che operano nella zona
danno così vita a TransFair marchio di garanzia del commercio equo e
solidale, per produrre il primo Pallone equo solidale, allo scopo non
solo di eliminare il lavoro minorile ma anche di incidere sulle sue
cause: fra queste, la principale, i salari troppo bassi dei lavoratori
adulti che costringono le famiglie a coinvolgere i loro figli.
Amani  e sono i due vincitori del premio l?Altropallone 2002. Un
premio simbolico, alternativo al pallone d?oro di France Football e
nemico del pallone ?duro?, simbolo di sfruttamento minorile
nell?abbigliamento e nelle attrezzature sportive, promosso dall'ong
Movimondo  e giunto alla sua sesta edizione.
Un premio assegnato ogni anno a persone impegnate nella promozione di
un calcio pulito da ogni forma di sfruttamento. Da Paolo Rossi,
vincitore della prima edizione, al giornalista Gianni Mura, a Gino
Strada ed Emergency, per arrivare al giocatore cileno Ivan Zamorano e
a quello della Roma Damiano Tommasi, ciascuno di loro si è distinto
per essersi adoperato contro la tendenza sfruttatrice dei nord del
mondo.
Ed eccoci all?edizione di quest?anno. Movimondo, l?ong promotrice del
premio, indica ancora una volta come vincitore Damiano Tommasi. «Ma
Damiano ha rifiutato ?dice il portavoce di Movimondo - per lasciare
che siano altri a ricevere questo riconoscimento. Comunque ha dato
ugualmente la sua adesione alla cerimonia di premiazione ufficiale».
Poco dopo Tommasi arriva in Campidoglio dove si è svolta venerdì la
cerimonia. «Spero che il commercio equo solidale sia il futuro ? dice
Tommasi intervenendo nell?ambito della cerimonia di premiazione ? Il
primo impatto che ho avuto quando mi sono accostato a questo
settore è stato di sorpresa, perché non capivo per quale motivo una
così giusta e naturale causa come questo commercio alternativo avesse
tante difficoltà ad emergere».
Damiano Tommasi, impegnato civilmente (obiettore di coscienza per
scelta), si è distinto per aver contribuito alla realizzazione di un
campo sportivo polivalente, attrezzato per calcio, pallavolo e
pallacanestro, a Stublla, in Kosovo dall?Unione sportiva Acli e
dall?IPSIA, l?ong di cooperazione internazionale delle Acli nato con i
fondi raccolti dai calciatori della Roma.

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e bravo Buttiglione.
gli Yasset sono la MIA squadra!!!!!!
La squadra del quartiere/baraccopoli dove ho vissuto!  Fondata dagli amici
della comunità di Koinonia di Kizito.
Non ci crederete, ma la squadra ha raggiunto la serie B kenyana e nella
coppa Moi, tipo la nostra coppa italia, ha pure affrontato la squadra più
blasonata del paese, uscendone onorevolmente sconfitta.
Vedrò di pubblicare sul nostro siti le foto del laboratorio dove vengono
realizzati i palloni citati nell'articolo.
Che nostalgia :****(
y.

Election Victory Offers Fresh Hope
una speranza accomuna Brazil a Kenya:
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African Church Information Service 
OPINION
January 10, 2003 
Posted to the web January 10, 2003 
Mitch Odero
Nairobi 
For 40 years, Kenyans were ruled by one political party - the Kenya
African National Union (KANU). That changed dramatically after the
December 27, 2002 general elections. Our writer Mitch Odero traces
what Kenyans endured in the past and examines the promises and
challenges ahead. 
I n time, the euphoria marking the successful election victory of the
combined force of Kenya's opposition parties will rescind and the need
to get down to serious business will take the center-stage.
Then it will be realised that cleaning up the mess of an entrenched
system of misrule is daunting. For now, the celebration of change,
brought about by the unity of the will of the people, is deserving.
During the last 40 years, since Kenya's independence in 1963, the
nation was ruled through single-party political system.
The state became a conspiracy of the rich, using state apparatus to
protect ill-gotten possessions of the high and mighty, while they kept
the poor in subjection.
Accordingly, Kenyans sunk deeper and deeper into the abyss of poverty,
while their country joined the league of the most corrupt countries in
Africa.
Infrastructure and public services collapsed. High inflation,
unemployment and crime rates made the national cocktail.
Little attention was paid to human development. University graduates
become touts for public commuter vehicles or engaged in roadside maize
roasting.
Misuse of powers became the order of the day. The government ceased to
regard itself as bound by the constitution.
Liberties and rights including academic and press freedoms were
restricted until 1990s. Preventive detention of those with dissent
opinions was recklessly exercised.
This writer was severally arrested by the police over reports
published by the East African Standard - a daily he served as the
editor-in-chief. The aim was to silence him.
The expression that humankind by nature is social, rung hollow. The
Kenyan society lived under constant fear of the government.
As such, Kenyans contended that insects with their small brains were
more social; particularly bees and ants. They live together socially,
they are not selfish. They are not involved in deceitful
communication. They support each other more than the humankind.
In that state of fear and repression, Kenya's intellectuals became
wandering scholars, a denationalised lot wandering from one country to
another, aware that constructive dialogue geared to objectivity had no
space back home.
It was therefore understandable when Kenyans resorted to what was
described as a peaceful popular uprising against the ruling party
during the pre-election period.
In their thousands, they influenced a unity of purpose among the
hitherto divided opposition front.
The result? Opposition parties formed a formidable alliance - the
National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) whose leader Emilio Mwai Kibaki
clinched a landslide victory in the presidential race, polling 3.6
million votes.
His closest competitor, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, the KANU presidential
candidate, had to make do with 1.8 million votes.
History was thus made. It was like a single bite of the forbidden
fruit in the Garden of Eden, which changed the world overnight.
The Church in Kenya played a key role too, reminiscent of Europe's
reformation era of the 16th and 17th centuries, when theology and law
joined hands to determine political theory, and propel renaissance
that later affirmed modern political thought.
The Church conducted voter/civic education for citizens to realise
their common power and direct their actions for their common benefit.
It worked.
The Church also led the rest of Kenya's faith community to avert a
constitutional crisis and kept the prayerful Kenyan nation to
constantly seek divine intervention.
Upon taking over power, Mr. Kibaki, a refined economist and veteran
politician, promised Kenyans that in return they will have "a
government that serves the people instead of a situation where people
have to serve the government".
NARC promised that Kenya would be a welfare society which provides
free primary education and health delivery in public health
institutions.
Kenyan's, having suffered for far too long will be excused to expect
so much too soon.
In fulfilment of one of the promises free primary education was
declared from this month. It received an overwhelming response as
thousands of poor parents sought to enrol children who would have
otherwise been kept at home for lack of fees.
Kibaki's government will need some public relations strategists to
effectively explain that the walls of their Jerusalem cannot be
rebuilt in a day and that every citizen must become a Nehemiah for the
reconstruction task.
The Kibaki government must continue to cherish democracy with the
realisation that the fundamental authority of the State resides in the
people. The State therefore must continuously be in partnership and
agreement with the people.
For this to be, the Kibabki government should see itself as the arm,
the conscience and the will of the people.
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AUGURI!! e vaiii Kenya........

92 More Arrested Om 'Mungiki' Crackdown
((GIOVANNI! ci parli di sti <Mungiki>? CHI sono??
mischiano Bibbia e armi?))
The Nation (Nairobi)
January 11, 2003 
Shrines destroyed and books seized as police step up the hunt
The crackdown on Mungiki thugs intensified yesterday with police
making 92 more arrests during raids in Central, Rift Valley and
Nairobi provinces.
They add to the 50 people already charged in court or detained for
questioning following a brutal series of murders blamed on sect
members.
Yesterday's arrests took place in Nakuru, Nyandarua, Laikipia and
Nyeri districts as well as in Nairobi, where police announced they had
arrested 12 youths and smashed an oathing shrine at a hideout used by
the outlaws.
Police also impounded an assortment of their religious paraphernalia
and weapons.
The 12 youths who police paraded yesterday - all from Kiharu location
in Murang'a - were suspected to have been involved in the recent
Kiambu and Murang'a killings, police said.
The suspects, aged between 15 and 20, were fished out of two rooms in
the basement of a building still under construction at Mlango Kubwa in
Nairobi.
The room was pasted with posters of Presidential loser Mr Uhuru
Kenyatta, Kanu's civic candidate Shamsherali Lalani (of
Highridge-Karura-Muthaiga ward) and other election material.
Police also confiscated a picture torn from Taifa Leo which showed
Mungiki suspects during the vicious attack at Karia, Kiambu, in which
at least two people were killed.
The picture, pasted prominently in the room, featured some of the
suspects picked up by the police on Thursday during the 7.30pm raid.
Kasarani division police boss, Mr Simon Kipkeu, who had led the
Thursday night operation, said his officers went into the area
following a tip-off.
He said, "We have intensified patrols in order to stop their
activities: we appeal to the public to help us wipe out Mungiki."
There was drama when police returned to the area yesterday and were
confronted by an angry mob of residents who demanded that police
release the suspects.
At one time, police contemplated using teargas to disperse the
protesters who marched to Pangani police station to press their
demands.
The protesters - the majority of them women - claimed police had
arrested innocent people who belonged to a local vigilante group.
Police said a corrugated iron structure a stone's throw from the
hideout was used for oathing and worship by Mungiki members. Inside
the structure, about 20ft by 40ft, were a chain, a knife, a cooking
stick, four basins, rollers, some reeds and spices.
Among items seized from the basement rooms were two Somali swords, a
calabash, a club, three snuff containers and medicinal liquids.
Also seized were a publication entitled Urathi wa Bururi wa Kenya na
Athamaki Aguo kuma Muthungu, Kenyatta, Moi, Jehu (kana Rihiu rwa
Njora) (Prophesy for Kenya and its leaders from the colonialists,
Kenyatta, Moi, the sword) and a Kiswahili publication Chakula cha
Kiroho (Food for the Spirit).
The book, produced and edited by a Mr Joseph Maina Gakuo of "End of
Time Prophets of Kenya" contains Mungiki teachings and Bible
quotations.
Police chief Mr Kipkeu was flanked by CID officer Patrick Kiswii and
the Pangani deputy officer commanding station Maurice Mulama.
Mr Kipkeu said eight of the suspects came to Nairobi just before the
elections and he criticised the group for taking over security of the
area. The group charges Sh50 for each household every month.
Cases of violence involving alleged Mungiki members increased recently
with at least 23 people killed during two raids in Nakuru this week.
Two other people were killed in Murang'a district and last month, two
people died and seven houses were burnt when a Mungiki mob rampaged
through Karia village in Githunguri, Kiambu. Farm animals were also
slaughtered and shops raided.
Nakuru police arrested 52 suspected Mungiki members to add to the 24
already being held.
They will be taken to court on Monday and charged mostly with murder,
said divisional police commander Mr Joel Lang'at.
Police were also studying statements recorded by the suspects before
deciding what charges to prefer against the others, he said.
Fifteen people had been arrested on Thursday night at Langa Langa,
Free Area and Nyamarutu within the town and in Bahati and Subukia
areas.
On the same day nine others were jointly charged with six counts of
murder together with the former Nakuru Town MP Mr David Manyara.
Police were sent to Nyandarua yesterday to collect six other Mungiki
members suspected to have fled from Nakuru after the attacks. One of
them had some injuries which police believe he suffered during the
fighting, Mr Lang'at said.
All the town's estates would continue to be patrolled until all sect
members were flushed out, he added.
Matatu (commuter taxi) touts would be given uniforms for ease of
identification, and operators had been asked to give police the names
of all their drivers and touts so Mungiki members and other idlers
could be tracked down, Mr Lang'at said.
Operators were expected to meet the District Security Committee in a
week's time.
At Molo, also in the Rift Valley Province, 10 people were charged
yesterday with an unlawful assembly and intent to cause a breach of
the peace.
The suspects, who were unrepresented, appeared before the Molo Senior
Resident Magistrate Mr Richard Kirui, who rejected their plea for bail
after being told tension was still high in Nakuru and Elburgon.
Further instructions will be issued by the court next Friday and the
case was listed for hearing on February 12.
In Eastern Province, police chief Mr Ezekeil Waitage ordered all his
commanders to be on the look-out for any Mungiki members.
Speaking from his office on the outskirts of Embu Town, he said no
Mungiki activities had been reported, but appealed to the public to
help the police by providing any information that could lead to
arrests.
Mr Waitage, a deputy commissioner of police, said there was no cause
for alarm and that there would be no permanent police roadblocks.
In Nyeri in Central Procince, a matatu driver was yesterday charged
with falsely claiming at Karatina Market he had been attacked by
Mungiki thugs, leading to the arrest of a group of mourners after
police laid an ambush at Gatitu shopping centre.
Mr John Wachira Mutugi denied the charge and was released on a Sh
20,000 bond and a surety of the same amount. The hearing was set for
January 22.
Fifteen people suspected to belong to the banned sect being held at
Karatina police station, were yesterday visited by the Nyeri district
security team.
They were arrested at various estates in Karatina Town on Wednesday
evening when what was said to be Satanic literature and 200 sachets of
bhang were seized.
District Commissioner David Jakati said yesterday the government had
declared war on Mungiki and asked the public for any information they
might have about the organisation.
The 15 suspects would be taken to court when investigations were
complete, he said.
Police in Nyandarua and Laikipia yesterday arrested 28 suspected
Mungiki members, with some being seized at Nyonjoro village in
Ndaragwa and others, said to have been taking part in a ritual, at
Losogwa. The rest were rounded up in Nyahururu Town and at Karandi.
They will be charged with being members of an illegal society.
Police recovered Mungiki literature, identity cards, badges bearing
the OHMS initials and newspaper cuttings.
Rift Valley Provincial Commissione Peter Raburu, who visited Karandi
on Wednesday, ordered police to destroy a Mungiki shrine in the area.
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Reported by Watoro Kamau, Waweru Mugo, Kennedy Masibo, James Kariuki,
Simon Siele, Stephen Munyiri, Philip Mwaniki and Cyrus Kinyungu and
KNA

 mischiano Bibbia e armi?))
Bibbia ed armi? hanno visto Socci od ascoltato Bush?
Mungiki is a quasi-political/religious cult in Kenya. It behaves like a gang
of criminals. Currently (last quarter, 2001), the gang - banned in Kenya -
is attempting to take over Kenya's matatu routes. (Matatus are bus-taxi
concessions).
Mungiki disciples claim it is a ''homegrown'' religious organisation
committed to upholding the traditional ''African way of worship, culture and
lifestyle,'' according to its national coordinator, Mr. Ndura Waruinge.
Its members, he believes, are genuine citizens disillusioned with perceived
misrule and now crusade for a meaningful change in the running of the
country's affairs.
Mungiki's genesis is as clouded as the sect's cause. But reports indicate
this shadowy group, whose members wear dreadlocks, emerged in 1985.
Around the same time, the crusade for multipartyism and better governance,
symbolised by Mwakenya, was nearing its peak. The group, however, only came
to the limelight a few years ago.
Mungiki's tenets centre on chastity and African values. It professes female
circumcision and the traditional Kikuyu way of worship - praying facing Mt
Kenya. It also believes in oathing and sacrifices.
But this is just what its disciples claim. Mungiki's propensity for violence
is what has placed the sect in sharp focus. To an extent, Mungiki has become
a by-word for thuggery.
(...)
The sect has always left a trail of arson, forced oathing and forced
circumcision in its wake. Its operations have centred on Central Province,
especially in Nyeri, Nakuru and Laikipia districts. Its exact membership
remains unknown.
A recent report by an international news station drew parallels between
Mungiki and the Mau Mau, the pre-independence movement that arguably forced
out colonialists of Kenya in the 1950s.
[...more...]
The Shadowy World Of Mungiki, The Nation/Africa News Online (Kenya), Apr.
24, 2000
Thousands of young Kenyans, inspired by the bloody Mau Mau rebellion that
fought British colonial rule, are flocking to an aggressive religious cult
that rejects the trappings of Western culture.
Followers of the so-called Mungiki youth sect, whose 300,000 members see
themselves as ''the true sons of the Mau Mau'', decry what they regard as
the more degenerate aspects of Western culture, including cinemas, alcohol,
tobacco and miniskirts.
[...more...]
Mau Mau returns to Kenya, Sydney Morning Herald, Jan. 17, 2000

 wrote:
sono indeciso tra l'ipotesi di riti tramandati e sotto-stanti...
che certamente e' cosa diffusa in Africa (ho letto recentemente
da qualche parte di recenti episodi di cannibalismo da parte dei
Pigmei...) ...
oppure: cui prodest?
a CHI giovano sti Mungiki? sono sorti contro Mwakenya?
ne sai di piu'?
grazie e ciao
pietro

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non ne so di piu'. Di certo quando una generazione viene spogliata delal
propria tradizione e rimane vittima di un mondo ostile che non da quanto
promette, e' naturale tentare di riscoprire le proprie origini.
Alcuni lo fanno con senno, altri con desiderio di rivalsa nei confronti di
chi si ritiene causa del proprio male.
Per i fatti di cannibalismo ho letto di un russo che ha divorato un amico, e
di un ingegnere tedesco che ha fatto lo stesso con un collega lo scorso
mese.
Quindi....
y.

GOVERNO: mentre cresce la pressione x far dimettere il ministro x la
Giustizia Bernard Chunga (x questioni connesse al rispetto dei
diritti civili..) nomina di Githongo.
Segnalo anche un dibattito sulla abolizione della pena di morte
(attualmente sono 'congelate' duemila esecuzioni!).
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President Mwai Kibaki yesterday appointed Mr John Githongo Permanent
Secretary in the Office of the President in charge of Governance and
Ethics.
Githongo, 37, will report directly to the President. He will act as
the principle advisor on anti-corruption and other governance-related
issues.
Until his appointment, Githongo was the Executive Director of
Transparency International-Kenya, the local Chapter of the global
Transparency International (TI), an anti- corruption body.
He served as a member of the TI global board of directors between
October 1999 and October 2002. Githongo has also served as a
columnist with the East African .
His appointment comes in the wake of the Government's efforts to
finalise the Anti-Corruption and Economics crime bills to be
presented to Parliament later this month.
This is one of the conditions that the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) have set for the resumption of
funding.

FMI RIPRENDERÀ FINANZIAMENTI, PRIMA VITTORIA PER KIBAKI (BRIEF,
POLITICS/ECONOMY)  
NDR: ha giocato la nomina di ieri con mandato a eliminare
la corruzione entro due anni....
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Per il Kenya potrebbero aprirsi di nuovo i rubinetti degli aiuti
economici dall'estero. Il responsabile del Fondo monetario
internazionale (Fmi) per l'Africa, Abdulaye Bio-Thane, ha annunciato
stamattina che riprenderanno gli interventi di sussidio finanziario
diretti a Nairobi, sospesi da dicembre del 2000 a causa della
corruzione diffusa. La gestione del clan legato all'ormai ex
presidente Daniel arap Moi non era considerata più affidabile dagli
esperti del Fmi, che avevano quindi interrotto le erogazioni a favore
del Kenya. Ma le garanzie fornite dal nuovo esecutivo guidato da Mwai
Kibaki, uscito vincitore dalle urne alle presidenziali dello scorso
dicembre, ha convinto i vertici dell'organismo di Washington.
Contestualmente, a dimostrazione di voler effettivamente scardinare
il sistema clientelare e corrotto di cui è accusato il governo
precedente, Kibaki ha lanciato iniziative concrete in quella che è
stata annunciata come una vera e propria `crociata' per il
rinnovamento morale della classe politica. Tre i disegni di legge
presentati, che prevedono tra l'altro l'istituzione di un'apposita
commissione anti-corruzione, chiamata a far luce sugli illeciti
commessi in passato. (EB) - Misna

prima l'incidente, poi l'ospedale, adesso ipertensione??
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Torna in ospedale il neo eletto presidente keniano Mwai Kibaki.
Rimasto ferito lo scorso 3 dicembre in un incidente automobilistico,
Kibaki si era poi ristabilito ed aveva potuto presentarsi per la
Coalizione nazionale dell’Arcobaleno (National Rainbow coalition,
Nca) alle elezioni presidenziali del 27 dicembre, che lo avevano
visto trionfare su Uhuru Kenyatta del Kanu, partito alla guida del
Paese dal 1963. Oggi però il 71enne leader politico è di nuovo
ricoverato in ospedale a Nairobi, per problemi di coagulazione del
sangue alla gamba che si era fratturato nell’incidente. Fonti
ufficiali hanno ipotizzato che Kibaki dovrà restare ricoverato tra
gli 8 e i 10 giorni, ma hanno sostenuto che in questo periodo potrà
comunque svolgere il ruolo di presidente, evitando però di stancarsi
oltre misura. Oltre ai problemi di coagulazione del sangue, scoperti
dopo che gli è stato tolto il gesso alla gamba, il capo di Stato
soffre di pressione alta. Il vicepresidente keniano Michael Wamalwa
dovrebbe presto fargli visita in ospedale. (LM)
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intanto di bbuono c'e' l'apertura del FMI.....
pb