Tanzanian superstar begs for ‘sexual satisfaction’

Tanzanian musician shocked journalists when she screamed to the cameras that she needed to be ‘sexually satisfied’. Recho, who was talking to reporters after the Kigoma All-stars concert in Mombasa, said that she wanted a man to ‘end the night with.’ Disappointed that her wish did not come true, the musician, famous for her song Upepo, told reporters and anyone who cared to listen that they ‘couldn’t handle a woman’. Recho was not the only disappointed musician that night as her Tanzanian counterpart Maunda was spotted backstage crying after being booed offstage by the crowd.
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SHOCKING: Man locked in cage for over 40 years

A Chinese man has been locked in a cage for more than 40 years by his mother. Peng Weiqing, 48, has been in the cage in his mother's home in the city of Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, since he was six.
As a baby, Weiqing suffered brain damage following a fever. He then begun suffering severe epilectic fits at the age of six. His mother, Peng Waimei, says she has kept him locked in the cage since then in order to protect him. Fearing that he would hurt himself and unable to afford medical treatment, Waimei's husband built a series of cages that got bigger as Weiqing grew. Waimei said: "He can't control himself. "When he was young, quite often he would cut himself with a knife and glass debris. "Even when walking, he could suddenly fall down and hit his face and make it bleed. "He must know me, although he may not know the meaning of "mother". He is my 48-year-old child." Aged 80 and with her husband now dead, Waimei fears for her son when she dies and hopes to find someone to take care of him.
The Mirror

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Death toll in Mariakani road crash rises to ten

The death toll in Mariakani accident rises to ten after six people succumb to their injuries at the Coast General Hospital, St John Ambulance Communication Manager Fred Majiwa has reported.

Four others died on the spot in the Saturday morning accident that occured after a bus collided with a truck at Mariakani Weighing Bridge in Mombasa.

21 others are admitted in hospital in critical condition.

The bus was carrying Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) members to Nairobi from a youth conference in Mombasa.

The ill-fated bus was hit from the side by the truck while trying to overtake another vehicle.
-The standardmedia.co.ke

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50 years on: Imagining Kenya in 2063

To those of us alive today, Enkare Nyorobi, which translates to ‘the place of cool waters’, will be unrecognisable in 2063. While it will retain its status as the country’s political capital city, it will no longer be the country’s economic powerhouse, having lost the sheen to oil rich Turkana and decadent Isiolo, then Africa’s Las Vegas. But Koinange Street will be alive as ever, the Governor having legalised the oldest trade to plug gaps in the county budget. K-Street will those days be parked with foreign hookers, the local talent having retired after menopause or fled to Isiolo to tega gamblers. Karen will instead be dusty, muddy  Nairobi’s landscape will have changed considerably. The statues of Jomo Kenyatta, Tom Mboya and Dedan Kimathi, like memory of the old heroes will be non-existent, having been pinched in 2018 by a sleazy political operative and converted into scrap metal. Talk that Karen was once an elite leafy address  will be met by loud guffaws and shrieks, having gone to seed decades back. Karen will instead be a dusty, muddy and moldy settlement teeming with donkeys ferrying water, mongrels with missing front teeth, ugly flats, masses of human population and stoned street boys.
Historians will attribute its fall to sons and daughters of present day aristocrats inheriting and selling their parents’ estates for a song to tycoons in Eastleigh, who will have taken over Karen, Kitsuru and Runda as well. Although Muthaiga will retain its status as Nairobi’s most expensive address, the once spacious homes will have long given way to bungalows set on one eighth of an acre.  Those bungalows will be a marvel to watch as they will be the only ones standing. The coolest shopping malls in Nairobi will be in Kibera Laini Saba. Historians will explain that as soon as land title deeds were issued in 2014, beneficiaries sold their birth right to developers who speedily erected take-me-to-heaven skyscrapers. Two impotent bush rats Nyayo Stadium, the Railway Station, Machakos Country Bus and Wilson Airport and the Department of Defense will be flattened to create ‘development’ via being relocated to neighbouring counties connected to Nairobi by fast trains docking at an underground station beneath the current Railway Station. The Nairobi National Park will be the Kenya Wildlife Museum. All the wild animals, with the exception of two impotent bush rats, will be extinct. In fact, the few students  trooping there for a school visit will only be shown stuffed animals and diagrams of how things were by a bored naturalist, one of two in the East African Community. The city’s population will have ballooned to astronomical levels, with masses of obese humanity squeezed into 80-storied flats. Nyama choma will be a relic of history and all foods consumed in the CBD will be imported and genetically modified. Only the super rich will afford goat meat imported from Kismayu, Somalia. Historians will explain that the livestock industry in Kenya collapsed when pastoralists quit herding cows to forage in the oilfields of Ngamia One in Turkana county, Kenya’s richest.
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Vitimbi’s Nyasuguta in road accident

Nyasuguta is admitted at Kenyatta Hospital. Nyasuguta is the village woman in the Vitimbi programme aired by the national broadcaster, KBC every Monday evening. The local drama series has been entertaining Kenyans for more than four decades. ffstage by the crowd.
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Man who faked sign language at Mandela memorial has faced murder, other charges

The sign language interpreter who gestured meaninglessly at the Nelson Mandela memorial in South Africa on Tuesday has faced charges of murder, rape, theft, breaking and entering, malicious damage to property and kidnapping, according to eNCA.com.

The South African news site said the outcome of the murder charge against

Thamsanqa Jantjie, brought in 2003, was unknown because the court case file is “mysteriously empty.”

Many of the other charges against Jantjie, dating back to 1994, were eventually dropped, eNCA reported, because he was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial. Jantjie was acquitted in the rape case.

But the independent news site said Jantjie was convicted of theft in a 1995 case and sentenced to three years in prison, although it is not clear whether he ever served any of that time.

The disclosures reinforced questions about how Jantjie managed to get hired to stand right next to many of the powerful world leaders who spoke at the memorial for the late South African president in a large stadium in Soweto. Leaders of South African groups devoted to helping the deaf pointed out that Jantjie was making arm motions that made no sense and said he was a fake.

Jantjie has said he suffers from schizophrenia and was hearing voices when he was on stage. He said that he saw angels, according to the Associated Press, and that he could be violent.

A government official said the Xhosa-speaking Jantjie also did not speak English well enough to interpret effectively and that the firm that hired him had “vanished into thin air.”

-Adapted from Washington Post

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