TBS yaitaka Tanroads kuweka matuta ya uwiano sawa

Shirika la Viwango Nchini (TBS) limeitaka Wakala

 wa Barabara (Tanroads) kuhakikisha linaweka

 matuta yenye uwiano sawa katika barabara zote nchini.

Hayo yalisemwa jana jijini Dar es Salaam na Mkurugenzi 

wa Huduma za Upimaji Ugezi na Vifungashio kutoka TBS, 

Agnes Mneney, wakati wa mafunzo kuhusiana na kiwango

 cha matuta barabarani.

Alisema TBS wameamua kufikia maamuzi hayo kutokana

 na kuwapo kwa tofauti ya ujenzi wa matuta barabarani.

Mneney alisema kuna matuta mengine ni makubwa ukilinganisha

 na madhumuni yaliyokusudiwa na pengine huwa ni chanzo cha ajali.

Hata hivyo, alisema madhumuni ya kiwango hicho ni kuisaidia

 taasisi na makampuni za ujenzi nchini kuwa na aina moja ya 

matuta nchini.

Alisema TBS imeandaa kiwango hiki wakati tayari kulikuwa na

 miongozo inayotumiwa na Wakala wa Barabara (Tanroads), 

hivyo kiutaratibu ilitakiwa kuwepo na kiwango ndipo miongozo

 itolewe.

Mneney alisema shirika limeandaa kiwango kwa kuzingatia maoni

 ya wadau mbalimbali ikiwa ni pamoja na miongozo ambayo tayari

 inatumika na Tanroads.

Alisema kuwa TBS haitakuwa na kazi ya kusimamia utekelezaji wa

 kiwango hicho.

Naye Mhandisi Eliamini Tenga kutoka Tanroad alisema kuwa 

awajashirikishwa katika mchakato huo.

Hata hivyo, wamekubali kulitekeleza jambo hilo kuhakikisha 

viwango vya matuta vinakuwa katika uwiano mmoja.

Heavy Casualties in Eastern Congo Fighting

Fighting between the government army and

 M23 rebels raged overnight Saturday through

 Sunday at Mujoga, about 17 kilometers north of Goma.

Doctor Isaac Warwanamiza told VOA by phone

 he was at a field hospital with Tanzanian U.N. 

troops who are waiting to go up to the front line, 

and all around him were dead and wounded.  

He said he estimates the number of dead that

 he has seen at the hospital since Sunday morning

 at 82.

This is not the only transit center for casualties

 from the fighting between the army and the M23, 

so the doctor's figure is not a total for the day.

And he could not be sure of the figure. "I can not

 really count them, he says, because sometimes

 you think you have got one person, but then you

 find four arms, or five hands and you realize you

 are looking at a mixture of different people’s body 

parts," he said.
Warwanamiza said he had treated 54 wounded by

 midday Sunday.  He said he was treating government

 troops and rebels. "Here I am looking at M23 rebels," 

he said, "and government wounded as well.  If the rebels

 are badly wounded, he adds, we leave them."

The doctor said this had been the worst day since the

 fighting resumed on Wednesday and he was

 overwhelmed by what he has seen.

A chaplain at a military hospital in Goma, 

Leah Masika, confirmed there were heavy

 casualties Sunday.

It was not immediately possible to contact

 official army or M23 spokesmen to get their

 reaction to these figures.

The fighting Sunday appears to have been at 

close quarters, as little heavy weapons fire 

could be heard near the front line.  Since 

Wednesday the army and U.N. troops have 

been battling to dislodge the M23 from heights

 overlooking Goma.

Local sources estimate the army has advanced

 about two kilometers since Wednesday, but have

 yet to achieve their immediate objective.

Warwanamiza said the ground they have captured 

Sunday should be measured in meters, 

not kilometers, but the government troops have 

advanced.

M23 controls a narrow strip of territory along the 

Rwanda and Ugandan borders about 100 kilometers

 north to south and may have only about 2,000 fighters. 

 The United Nations has accused Rwanda of reinforcing

 the rebels.  Rwanda denies the accusation
.

Hemed PHD apata ajali ya gari

Msanii wa bongomovie na bongoflava Hemed Suleiman amepata ajali ambayo imemsababishia kupata maumivu sehemu za kifua baada ya kujigonga akiwa

 ndani ya hilo gari. Jerry wa Ryhmes mshikaji wa karibu wa Hemed alielezea

 kuhusu ajali hiyo

“Hemed amepata ajali maeneo ya Kijitonyama, baada ya 

ajali hiyo amepata maumivu maeneo ya kifuani. Amefikishwa

 hospitali kwa ajili ya uchunguzi na amepewa tiba pamoja na

 dawa za kutumia. Hivi sasa amepumzika kwake naamini 

anaendelea vizuri. Hajapata ajali kubwa sana na kitu kizuri ni 

kwamba mashabiki wake na marafiki kupitia mitandao ya 

kijamii wamekuwa wakimpa pole na kumtakia apone  haraka ”

 – Jerry