ADVENTUROUS TOURISM SAFARI IN ‘OLD FASHIONED’ VEHICLES

Some of the Land Rover Series 1 ready for the adventure safari at Arusha National Park.

An organized group of friends from Arusha and Kilimanjaro few minutes before starting their safari at Arusha National Park.

Land Rover series 1 lined up before the start of the adventurous safari in Arusha National Park.

Now the adventurous safari is on the move.

Happy for the safari at Arusha National Park.

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An organized group of friends comprised of residents from Arusha and Kilimanjaro yesterday started a four days adventurous trip using nine old models land rovers commonly known as Land rover series 1 and one old model range rover. In the trip the oldest land rover was made in 1941 while the newest one is of 1950.

The convoy started at Arusha National Park main gate at Ngongongare heading to Ngarenanyuki – Kitumbeine- Gelai up to Lake Natron. The trip will then proceed to Isinya – Amboseli National Park in Kenya and back to Arusha.

In Arusha National Park where the convoy started, the participants were able to explore the beauty of the park including the view of Mount Meru, the famous coloured Momela lakes and the 3 kilometres wide Ngurdoto Crater, which was formed over fifteen million years ago.

Leaked Flydubai recorder data reveals argument, panic in cockpit before ‘fatal nosedive’

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The Flydubai FZ981 crash in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, could have followed the pilots’ failure to manage the landing after taking control of the system, media reveal citing flight data. The final minutes are said to have been full of arguments and screams of terror.

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Now that decoding of the flight data recorders of the crashed Boeing is complete, an unnamed source told Russian daily Kommersant that pilot error is now dominating the investigation as the probable cause.

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It appears that while trying to gain altitude after an unsuccessful landing attempt in bad weather, one of the pilots pulled the control stick up too much, causing a stall break and an uncontrollable nosedive.

The Interstate Aviation Committee believes that the official results of the decoding will be made public within a week or two.

Meanwhile, according to Kommersant’s sources, the recorder revealed that flight FZ981 had made two attempts to land in automatic mode, and since a veering squall wind hampered the second attempt, the pilot decided to make a third approach for landing in manual mode.

One of the pilots pressed the TOGA (Take off. Go around) button and turned off the autopilot, writes the daily.

Anonymous experts Kommersant talked to believe the pilot did not manage the diving rudder and horizontal stabilizer, which steer the plane in opposite directions – down and up, respectively.

When the pilot pulled up, he put both the rudder and stabilizer in a sharp climb mode, somewhat fighter-jet style, plus enacted the TOGA regime’s retracted flaps, decreasing ascending force. As a result, the aircraft lost speed and got into the beyond-stall angle of approach. All this led to an uncontrollable dive, the experts believe.

At that moment, the voice recorder is said to have registered a conflict between pilots. The pilot that tried to force the aircraft to gain altitude apparently turned the engines to powerful take-off mode, forcing the aircraft to continue its climb.

The other pilot believed the situation was dangerous and apparently did the opposite: he pushed his own control over to bring the Boeing’s nose down and prevent the sweeping up, while yelling at his colleague to stop doing it that way.

“Wait! Where are you flying? Stop! Stop!” a voice on the recorder reportedly yelled.

Embarking on information technology can reduce congestion and air pollution in our cities.

By Abdalah Kileo

Many jobs, businesses and other activities are drawn into city centers, you can find shops, restaurants, financial services, Government ministries, libraries, colleges, open spaces and other facilities all concentrated in a city centers. Since very few people lives in the city center, most of those surrounding the city centers have to access the city through walking, bicycles, motorcycles, public and private cars for their daily activities. This has led to sometimes intolerable levels of traffic congestion on urban streets as well as the main road accessing the city, causing delays and severely effect on productivity of business, their ability to innovate and business access to new markets and resources. The problem of congestion span from the business to people who live in our city, they finds themselves stuck in traffic when they should be at work or school and sometimes frustrated at the time wasted in trying to get from point A to point B. The problem go far where it increases oil consumption  and CO2 emissions as well as noise emission from transport, with people living along congested routes and very busy towns like Dar Es Salaam they suffer from poorer air quality for most of their life.

Therefore working on different ways that can reduce congestion as well as pollution is crucial to make our cities safe and bring about sustainable development, several ways are often discussed such as; investing in public transport, walking and cycling and so on, but only a few are concerned with the use of Information Communication Technologies . Today let’s look on the role that can be played by this technology to curb the problem:- 

 Information communication technologies have been the main driver for globalization, solving most of the global problems. The problem for congestion and pollution in Tanzania can be reduced when residents in public and private institutions embark on different technological applications to manage and reduce the need to travel. The Information Communication technologies likes e-learning,e-Commerce,e-Government,Intelligent Transport systems, and others can manage and reduce the need to travel and therefore curb traffic congestion and pollution in our cities.

 For example we know students contributes to a big number of passengers that uses public and private transportation. The e-learning system can reduce the number of students who uses the public and private transport to access the campus which are located in the city centers, for examples in Dar Es Salaam campuses like DIT, Mzumbe, IFM,CBE and other which are located at city centers can embark on e-learning system for their students to take some of their courses online during peak hours. Online classes is sharing educational materials via the Internet as well as developing new ways of teaching based on those materials for both on-campus and online audiences, depending on the course design, pure online class or combination of online and traditional class you may take your tests or exams online or come to a testing room on campus or at a local registered center. Many of the Universities are already applying digital tools from online courses in an effort to transform student experiences here in Tanzania. For example at DIT through Sikshak platform and University of Dar Es Salaam, programs for Postgraduate through Virtual University are run online. In a global perspective there are number of online platform like edX created by  Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology aimed at expanding access to high-quality education through online classes while also transforming teaching and learning on their respective campuses courses. Another platform cousera, which is provides free courses online in partnership with World top Universities. 

Another way is e-Government where Government institutions smoothly interact with its people, employees, and other Government. For example establishing one stop centres is important component to improve the services offered by the Government to the public. Establishment of one stop centers for Government services in different locations outside the city centers can facilitate all the Government institutions provides services to the public in one roof and reduce the number of people seeking such services in a city centres. 

The centers which can be located in different parts of the country will provides the timely, efficient and effective services for residents, this also reduces the cost of doing business by reducing the normal processing time for applications and minimize bureaucracy in the procedure and process of starting a business as well as compliance to different regulations .On the other hand the Government reduce the expenditures as well as increasing revenues the act which enhance the public service delivery system by local governments and improve the business climate condition for investors. The E-Government will also enable those who can be working at home or those who are working near one stop centres, reducing their travel time and pollution.  

The applications of information communication technologies in every aspect of transportation from managing infrastructures, passengers and business can reduce the congestion at the same time improving safety and bringing about sustainable development. Although it’s difficult to develop and implement all of them due to number of challenges in terms of economy, and technology, we can partly develop and implement some of them. The applications like e-ticket booking, traffic control systems, smart parking system, smart breakdown service system and others can reduce congestion.

For example in a place like city centers one can spend a lot of time looking for reasonable parking, the information about available parking spaces can reduced cruising time drivers spent looking for open spots. Again most of the breakdown in congestion are not reported on time, this cause unnecessary delay for other transportation due to condition of our infrastructure, availability of smart breakdown system which respond on whatever breakdown along the main road all the time is very important during peak hours. With the current technologies of WiFi, information and warning systems installed in individual vehicles, and other applications involving vehicle to infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications can also solve the accidents problems in congestion. At advanced stage we can embark on a technologies that allow our cities connected with infrastructures, system which gives drivers the shortest route possible to access the city center.

We have significant challenges to fully deploy Intelligent Transport system in our country, Information communication technology has expanded the range, the type and number of transactions that can take place without travelling through virtual accessibility of goods and services online. 

Nowadays items like air tickets, clothing, electronics, software private and public services are done online through our mobile or computers. Although online shopping for groceries and households is still low in Tanzania because of different challenges like poor internet security, small number of people capable of using internet and address system where once your customer has purchased from your online store, the product they have bought needs to be picked, packed and delivered.e-Commerce in most of the developed World has enabled people to reduce travel need, optimize use of  infrastructure and transportation to make mobility of people more convenient.

It is my believe that when every person plays his part the problems of traffic congestion, pollution and health as a resulted from emission of dangerous gases and noise pollution from our automobiles in our cities and intercity will decrease and finally the issue of safety of our people where dozen of road transport accidents have occurred will stop.

Abdalah Kileo

University of Fukui Graduate School of  Engineering.

〒 910-8507 Fukui Prefecture Fukui,

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JESSE LINGARD'S FIVE GOLDEN RULES

Jesse Lingard has revealed the five golden rules which have helped him to become a first-team regular at Manchester United this season. 

The cover star of the latest Inside United discusses his rise to the top and his early days at the club in an exclusive interview with the Reds' official magazine. Within the five-page feature, the attacking midfielder calls out the qualities he feels are key to making it as a footballer: confidence, humility, respect, spirit and determination.

"Confidence is the main one," said Lingard. "You've got to be confident, always - on and off the pitch. But not in the arrogant way.

"You've got to be humble and have to keep your feet on the ground - again, on and off the pitch. You must respect the coaches and all the people who work behind closed doors - the chef, the doctor, you've got to respect all the staff.

"You have got to have that spirit of togetherness to win trophies and be determined to win every game and train every day as hard as you can.

"I'm still young, still improving and still learning the game but I've got to practise and train and put that to use when it comes to matches.

"To be starting week in and week out at Manchester United is massive. It comes with a lot of pressure but you've got to cope with that."

Italy arrests Algerian suspect wanted in Belgian attacks probe

Italian police have captured an Algerian national suspected of aiding both the Paris and Brussels attackers. Meanwhile, German prosecutors have been unable to link two arrested suspects to the Brussels bombings.

Italian police have arrested an Algerian national suspected of having produced fake ID documents for Islamist militants connected to the attacks in Brussels and Paris.

The suspect, named as 40-year-old Djamal Eddine Ouali, was detained under a European arrest warrant in the southern region of Salerno. Belgian authorities have reportedly been informed and expect Ouali to be extradited to Belgium in the coming days.

Authorities in Germany, meanwhile, have been less successful. Prosecutors there have failed to produce links to the airport and metro bombings in Brussels after placing two suspects under arrest earlier this week.

"We so far have no tangible indication to suggest the two men have anything to do with the Brussels attacks," said a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office on Saturday. The attacks, in which 31 died and at least 270 were injured, have been claimed by the self-styled "Islamic State."

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A 28-year-old Moroccan man had been arrested on Wednesday during a routine identity check in Giessen, north of Frankfurt. His cellphone was initially thought to contain the name of Khalid El Bakraoui, who according to authorities blew himself up at the Maelbeek metro station. El Bakraoui's brother, Ibrahim, has been linked to the airport attack.

However, it was later reported that the arrested man had in fact been exchanging messages with someone else with a nearly identical name.

The Moroccan suspect, however, remains in custody for other offenses, but is no longer suspected of links to the attacks.

Another man was arrested a day later near Düsseldorf on suspicion of having links to one of the Bakraoui brothers. The suspect was described as a self-confessed Salafist, a conservative strain of Islam which has ties to many terror organizations.

Searches at his house and his workplace have failed to produce any links to the attacks in Belgium.

The man remains in detention pending further inquiries, police said.

Germany on high alert

German fears over an attack have risen since the November 13 attacks in Paris, resulting in increased security measures across the country. With links being established between the Paris attackers and the Brussels bombers, many people are growing anxious of an attack hitting a target in Germany . According to a poll conducted by the daily newspaper "Bild," 56 percent of 500 participants said they expected an assault on Germany within this year.

The head of the domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, has warned that militants belonging to the so-called "Islamic State" movement (IS) have likely already slipped into Europe disguised as refugees.

Following the Brussels attacks, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas told the regional daily newspaper "Saarbrücker Zeitung" that terrorist strikes in Germany were possible.

"We shouldn't count on the fact that international terrorism will continue to avoid Germany," Maas said.

"However: Our security forces will do everything within their power to prevent such attacks and protect the people in Germany as well as we can."

Police break up gathering of right-wing protesters at Brussels memorial

Right-wing groups have clashed with people paying their respects to victims of Tuesday's attacks in Brussels. Riot police used water cannon to disperse the anti-immigrant protesters.

Riot police backed by water cannon vehicles were called to the Place de la Bourse-Beursplein in the center of the Belgian capital, Brussels, on Sunday to keep right-wing groups away from demonstrators wanting to show solidarity following the deadly attacks on Tuesday.

Black-clad protesters shouting slogans against immigrants and the jihadist "Islamic State" group faced off with police in front of the city's stock exchange building, where a group of other demonstrators had gathered to mourn the victims of the attacks.

The far-right protesters shouted slogans against immigrants

Police used the water cannon to disperse the some 450 right-wing protesters. Some 10 people were detained.

Trump reveals unorthodox foreign policy views

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Image captionDonald Trump told the Aipac gathering he wanted to dismantle the Iran nuclear deal

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On Monday evening Donald Trump gave what was billed as a major foreign policy address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac). Scripted and read from a teleprompter, it was decidedly different in style from his standard, off-the-cuff campaign speeches.

Aside from the now obligatory reference to Mr Trump's turn as grand marshal of a 2004 Salute to Israel parade in New York and a closing mention of his daughter's conversion to Judaism, however, it was a speech that could have been delivered by any of the Republican presidential candidates this year not named Rand Paul.

More revealing of Mr Trump's often conflicting, sometimes unorthodox and still somewhat inchoate worldview were events earlier in the day, when the Republican front-runner gave an on-the-record interview with the Washington Post editorial board. He was pressed on his views on foreign affairs and revealed, after more than a month of delays and promises, the names of some of his foreign policy advisers (not named Donald Trump).

Here are a few of the things we learned.

Trump's team

"I hadn't thought of doing it, but if you want I can give you some of the names."

The men (and they're all men) who have Mr Trump's ear on foreign policy matters are a motley collection that includes an energy industry executive, a ex-adviser to Ben Carson only seven years removed from college, a retired general, an academic with ties to Lebanese Christian militants and a former defence department official who later worked for a military contractor.

"The list of five men includes no heavyweights from any of the main schools of foreign policy thought," writes Sara Jerde in Talking Points Memo.

According to Ben Chang, a National Security Council veteran of both the Bush and Obama administrations, the list is too little, too late and amounts to nothing more than a confusing "hodgepodge".

"You can tell a person by the friends they keep, and you can tell a person's foreign policy by the advisers he or she gathers," Chang said. "I'm not sure what to make of it. It doesn't seem to be comprehensive by geography or issue. What is lacking is some semblance of a comprehensive worldview."

He said his Bush administration colleagues are firmly against Mr Trump's candidacy, which could explain a collection of names that many of veteran foreign policy hands had to Google.

Even if Mr Trump didn't want to turn to traditional "establishment" international experts, Chang added, he still had plenty of options.

"There are other folks around who are outside the Washington Beltway but have the experiences and perspectives that would give more confidence," Chang said. "The folks I've talked to who have supported a wide range of candidates in the field so far have no desire to join the Trump team because they see his rhetoric and tone as damaging.

Bottom line: If this is Mr Trump's big-splash announcement, it landed with a thud.

European security and international alliances

"Nato is costing us a fortune, and yes, we're protecting Europe, but we're spending a lot of money."

Perhaps the single biggest headline from Mr Trump's remarks at the Washington Post on Monday came from his views on European security and the role of US alliances. He said Americans are shouldering too much of a burden among Nato nations - particularly when it comes to Ukraine.

"Ukraine is a country that affects us far less than it affects other countries in Nato, and yet we are doing all of the lifting, they're not doing anything," he said. "And I say, why is it that Germany is not dealing with Nato on Ukraine?"

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Image captionMr Trump told Aipac he would move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

He added that the "concept" of Nato is good, but that it is a product of a different time, when the US was wealthier.

Mr Trump's objection to the burdens of current US international commitments isn't limited to Europe either. He also pointed to South Korea as a nation that needs to do more to compensate the US.

"South Korea is very rich," he said. "Great industrial country. And yet we're not reimbursed fairly for what we do. We're constantly, you know, sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games. We're reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing."

When told that South Korea pays roughly half of non-personnel costs, Mr Trump wondered why it wasn't 100%.

According to Mr Trump, the US needs to turn its focus to the problems it has at home.

"I know the outer world exists, and I'll be very cognisant of that, but at the same time, our country is disintegrating, large sections of it, especially in the inner cities," he said.

Bottom line: Nation-building-begins-at-home rhetoric is not unfamiliar to US politics, but it's unusual to hear it from someone on the verge of winning the Republican nomination.

China and trade

"China feels very invincible... They have drained so much money out of our country that they've rebuilt China."

One clear point of departure between Mr Trump and the bulk of the Republican establishment is on the issue of trade. Over the course of the campaign, Mr Trump has repeatedly condemned what he views as unfair trade deals that have allowed countries like China to benefit at the expense of US jobs. He's said he supports free trade but not "stupid trade".

"I feel that we have had horrible negotiators, horrible trade deals," he said at the most recent Republican debate. "The jobs in this country are disappearing, and especially the good jobs."

Mr Trump offered further riffs on this theme on Monday.

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Image captionDonald Trump has talked tough on "unfair" trade deals with China

"I have so many people that deal with China - they can easily sell their product here," he said. "No tax, no nothing, just 'come on, bring it all in, you know, bring in your apples, bring in everything you make', and no taxes whatsoever, right? If you want to deal with China, it's just the opposite."

In November he set out a four-part trade policy with China that included labelling the nation as a currency manipulator, more vigorously enforcing international patent law and ending China's "illegal export subsidies".

He has since threatened the nation with a 45% tax on some imports to gain the upper hand in negotiations.

It's an outlook former Central Intelligence Agency head Michael Hayden recently called "a tremendous danger".

"Look at our numbers globally in terms of what our economy is doing," he told Yahoo News. "We are actually pretty healthy. This is not Weimar America."

Bottom line: Although Mr Trump's immigration positions garner all the press, his trade views may be the key to his working-class support.

Israel, Iran and the Middle East

"I would knock the hell out of Isis in some form. I would rather not do it with our troops, you understand that."

During his Washington Post interview, Mr Trump was pressed on whether he would match his bellicose rhetoric directed against the so-called Islamic State (IS or Isis)) with a commitment of US ground troops.

"I would put tremendous pressure on other countries that are over there to use their troops, and I'd give them tremendous air support, because we have to get rid of Isis," he said.

Although he wasn't asked about Russian involvement in the Syrian civil war, in the past he's expressed at least modest support.

"You know, Russia wants to get Isis, right? We want to get Isis. Russia is in Syria - maybe we should let them do it," he said during a debate in September.

At his Aipac speech, Mr Trump recited a litany of what can only be considered mainstream Republican views on the Mid-East, however.

He said he wants to "dismantle" what he termed a disastrous nuclear weapons deal with Iran.

"I've studied this issue in greater detail than almost anybody," he said to some sniggers among the pro-Israel crowd in Washington, DC.

"The biggest concern with the deal is not necessarily that Iran is going to violate it, although it already has, the bigger problem is that they can keep the terms and still get to the bomb by simply running out the clock, and, of course, they keep the billions."

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Image captionRussia recently announced the withdrawal of most of its forces from Syria

He also denounced the United Nations and asserted that the US would continue its policy of vetoing any resolutions condemning Israel.

"The United Nations is not a friend of democracy," he said. "It's not a friend to freedom. It's not a friend even to the United States of America, where as we all know, it has its home. And it surely isn't a friend to Israel."

Finally, Mr Trump pledged to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - a move that is endorsed by many Republicans but would anger US Arab allies.

Mr Trump's remarks stood in marked contrast to his prior assertions that he would set out to be a "neutral" broker between Israelis and Palestinians. It was a position for which he has been criticised by his fellow Republican candidates - and by Democrat Hillary Clinton on Monday morning.

"America can't ever be neutral when it comes to Israel security or survival," Mrs Clinton said at a speech before the same Aipac audience.

Bottom line: Mr Trump began his speech by promising that he wasn't there "to pander to you about Israel" - but by the end of the speech, that assertion was very much in doubt.