opinions

FEEDBACKS


THE Feedbacks of Internet Training for Tanzania Journalists which commenced the day of February 2 up to February 6, 2009, under the trainer from Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE Radio Finland, Mr. Peik Johansson in collaboration with MISA-Tanzania was very useful.

We learn a lot of things about internet, clearly every one got some things from Mr. Peik, he is good trainer and he knows how to deal with the beginners.

But my opinions is that, I think one week is not enough, I request the organizer to think about the expansion of training days, should be two weeks.

I also think about certificates of attendance, the organizer should think much about this, it is very unfair to keep a person in the class for one week, then you don’t recognized him/ her. It is better from this course to issue certificates. Every one will be happy.

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Mohamed Aboutrika

By Noor Shija


THERE are many ways to deliver messages to show people your feelings about something you like or you don’t like, sometimes you do that because you do not have power, status, mandate or mass support . But we have the example of Egyptian footballer and that is Mohamed Aboutrika who used his own style to oppose Israel attacks against Gaza Strip.


Mohamed Aboutrika was born in November 7, 1978 and he became the best footballer in Egypt, he used to play fro Egyptian club called Al-Ahly and his funs loved him much because he was excellent in the field and he used to play lake Zinedine Zidane.

His historical background showed that he was born in very simple family in the town of Giza and he started playing football when he was 12 age, first he got tested in the club of Tersana which was the second biggest club after Al-Zamalek in Giza.

Aboutrika won the test and joined the club through his personal effort and when he got tender age of 17 years he had been promoted to the first squad of the team. In the year of 2000 up to the year of 2001 his star started to shine in the Egyptian League, where he became a hero to the league, he scored six goals. visit youtube.

He continued to be star in the Egyptian League and in the year 2004 he joined another big soccer club in Egypt called Al-Ahly. And in the year 2006 he was among players in the Egypt national team whose gave their nation the victory in the African Cup of Nations competition which held in Egypt 2006.

Japanese newspaper nominated Aboutrika to be one of the best players in FIFA CLUB World Championship 2006. he became one of the most hopeful player in Egypt and played a lot of matches national and international.

In 2008 when the Egypt national team playing against Sudan national in the 2008 African Cup of Nations, Aboutrika after scoring a goal he removed his jersey to show a T-shirt reading ‘Sympathize with Gaza’. Egypt won 3-0.

He did that to protest the Israels’s attack against Gaza and he was given a yellow card for his action which is purely against FIFA’s rule. The rule strictly prohibit players and other soccers officials to display political slogans during play.

Due to his action he was about to face sanctions, but CAF made no punishments against him. When approached by Al Jazeera Television he broke his silence and said that his action was a personal message.

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DAY-THREE OF INTERNET WORKSHOP

DAY-THREE

By Noor Shija


The training in day three was very educated especially for the journalists who dealing with the foreign desk.

In my side, I am the Editor in the Foreign Desk, I am sure and that is my hope, my job in the foreign desk will be improved. I will look for the interesting news and features through different websites I got that day like, IPS, SW.wikipedia.com, pambazuka news, www.http://allAfrica.com, youtube and XE.

Through these websites my newspaper Uhuru will going to have hot news and features from many parts of the world.

Example, the website of IPS, there you will find many things about Africa and they use many languages including Swahili. The uses of Swahili language is indication that the website will be visited by many Tanzanian, provided they have access to the internet.

Also for the Sports News, websites of FIFA and UEFA are very good sources of latest sports news.

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Wana Habari Umoja wa Mataifa

Balozi Mahiga alonga na wenzake wa ofisi ya UN New York
Balozi wa Tanzania katika ofisi ya kudumu katika Umoja wa Mataifa jijini New York, Dk Augustine Mahiga, akiongea na wafanyakazi wenzake wa ofisi ya UN na waandishi wa habari kutoka Tanzania walioko huko katika mafunzo na kuhudhuria mikutano ya UN Security Council na General Assembly. Waandishi walioko huko ni, Tuma Abdallah na Athumani Hamisi (Daily News-HabariLEO) Agnes Tuniga, Ben Mwang'onda na Margareth Chambiri (TVT) Yvonne Msemembo (ITV) Noor Shija (Uhuru) John Bwire (Habari Corporation) Yahya Charahan

Internet Workoshop-Day Two

DAY-TWO

February 3, 2009

By Noor Shija

ONE media stakeholder in America Rupert Murdoch in his speech to the American Societies of Newspaper Editors in April 13, 2005, he suggested that if the print media (Newspapers) are not doing enough to give the people what they want their death is around the corner.

Mr. Murdoch said that because of the advance of technology in the world, now a days people don’t wait for the newspaper to get news, the introduction of internet create a wide room to the people to get what they want.

He suggested that media they have a long way to go, they have to go with the new technology, to have a website and also to give people what the want.

Today, many people, especially teenagers they are now familiar with new technology, they have blogs, e-mail and they get news from the internet. This is the indication that some thing more must be done.

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Internet worshop for editors

February 2, 2009

By Noor Shija


To day was my first day to attend the internet workshop organized by MISA-Tanzania in collaboration with VIKES Foundation (Finnish Foundation for Media Communication and Development).

We learnt about how internet has changed societies and communication globally and also about various website like yahoo.

We also had a few minutes for discussion about the level of internet users in Tanzania comparing to other African Countries.

Participants decided to argued every one for his/her experience about the uses of internet in Tanzania, some said small figure showed that Tanzania is lag behind Kenya and Uganda is not correct and others protected the figure.


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kumbukumbu ya viatu vya Bush

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- For the war-beaten orphans of the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, this big old shoe fits.

A monument to a shoe thrown at former President Bush is unveiled at the Tikrit Orphanage complex.

A huge sculpture of the footwear hurled at President Bush in December during a trip to Iraq has been unveiled in a ceremony at the Tikrit Orphanage complex.

Assisted by children at the home, sculptor Laith al-Amiri erected a brown replica of one of the shoes hurled at Bush and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki by journalist Muntadhir al-Zaidi during a press conference in Baghdad.

Al-Zaidi was jailed for his actions, and a trial is pending. But his angry gesture touched a defiant nerve throughout the Arab and Muslim world. He is regarded by many people as a hero. Demonstrators in December took to the streets in the Arab world and called for his release.

The shoe monument, made of fiberglass and coated with copper, consists of the shoe and a concrete base. The entire monument is 3.5 meters (11.5 feet) high. The shoe is 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) long and 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) wide.

The orphans helped al-Amiri build the $5,000 structure -- unveiled Tuesday -- in 15 days, said Faten Abdulqader al-Naseri, the orphanage director.

"Those orphans who helped the sculptor in building this monument were the victims of Bush's war," al-Naseri said. "The shoe monument is a gift to the next generation to remember the heroic action by the journalist."

"When the next generation sees the shoe monument, they will ask their parents about it," al-Naseri said.

"Then their parents will start talking about the hero Muntadhir al-Zaidi, who threw his shoe at George W. Bush during his unannounced farewell visit."

Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader toppled by the United States in 2003, was from the Tikrit region.

Al-Zaidi marked his 30th birthday in jail earlier this month. One of his brothers said he is "in good health and is being treated well."

Al-Zaidi's employer, TV network al-Baghdadia, keeps a picture of him at the top left side of the screen with a calendar showing the number of days he has spent in detention. The network has been calling for his release.

By tradition, throwing a shoe is the most insulting act in the Arab world.