Uganda: Over 450 Residents Demand Compensation

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:25:13 -0500

Bonney Odongo and Patrick Okino

10 March 2010

Kampala — OVER 450 residents of Lira, who were affected by the construction of Soroti-Lira road, are demanding compensation from the Government.

About 20 of their representatives last week camped at the offices of Comptran Engineering consultants, the company overseeing the project, and asked why they had not yet been compensated.

China Road and Bridge Construction Company got the contract from the Government of Uganda to tarmac the 124 kilometre road.

The project worth sh150b was funded by the World Bank and is due to be completed in November. Mike Ogwal, the group chairperson, said their property, which included land and houses, was valued about two years ago but they have never received payment.

He said the compensation, if effected, would help them to relocate to safer areas instead of facing the risk of living less than two metres from the road.

The National Roads Authority project engineer, Khalid Odongo, told the group that the valuation report had been submitted to the Government chief valuer and was only pending his approval.

"You will be compensated. However, some procedure has to be followed. Since the chief valuer is working all over the country, we may delay but only until the end of this month," Odongo re-assured the residents.

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Lyon made two changes, stepped forward 10 yards and stung Real Madrid| Amy Lawrence

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:00:15 -0500

The €8m Lyon spent on Miralem Pjanic, their scorer at the Bernabéu, already looks like good value. Photograph: Denis Doyle/Getty Images

Matchday morning in Madrid. The Lyon players are in their team hotel, resting their bodies and preparing their minds for a European adventure that teeters over the precipice. Bernard Lacombe, the club's former striker and modern cheerleader, notices that the players are unusually quiet over their croissants. "As early as breakfast time I felt that they were focused. They were not saying very much. It's not often that they are like this."

A few hours later Lyon's focus was even more extraordinary. Their moment of Champions League deliverance in front of a flabbergasted audience at the Bernabéu was a consequence of an extremely well-executed 180 minutes. Lyon did just about everything right in the first leg – squeezing the flair our of their opponents, guarding a clean sheet and earning a win advantage to carry over to Spain.

But it is what happened at half-time in Madrid that really showed the mettle of Claude Puel's squad. They knew they had been through a storm in the first-half but when they surveyed the damage and saw that there was nothing worse than Cristiano Ronaldo's goal, they were ready to grip the steering wheel and power through the gears. They made two half-time changes – forced by knocks but risky business all the same – pushed 10 yards up the pitch and pressed as boldly as they have ever pressed before. They were tigerish in the tackle and audacious in the attack and put in what L'Equipe could not resist describing as a "galactic" performance.

This what not what Real expected. It was not really what Lyon expected, either. Last year they faced Barcelona at the same stage, drew 1-1 at the Stade Gerland and travelled with a modicum of hope. They were thumped 5‑2 at Camp Nou.

Miralem Pjanic's goal brought one of those moments where real time lurches into slow motion. Can it be? Is this happening? Those feelings were even sharper because of the suspicion that Real would do exactly what they did: throw discipline out of the window, dive preposterously in search of a penalty and kick petulantly because their story had been hijacked. Fifteen minutes is plenty of time for a great side to score twice at home. But hey, maybe this £240m collection is not such a great side.

It is easy to bill the result as a victory for the paupers. In fairness, all clubs look underprivileged compared with Real. But although Lyon have cashed in handsomely on players they developed throughout their period of domestic dominance – Madrid bought two of them in Mahamadou Diarra and Karim Benzema for €26m (£17m) and €30m (£20m) respectively – they are decent spenders by Champions League standards.

In the past couple of years Lyon have spent heartily on Lisandro López (€24m), Michel Bastos (€18m), Aly Cissokho (€15m), César Delgado (€11m). They sell very well, then re-invest imaginatively and the cycle continues. It is a policy that serves them well and an unbeaten period since they returned from their winter break now puts them in position to try to regain the French title as well as break new ground in the Champions League. They have never before been beyond the quarter-finals. As Puel said proudly: "This team is writing its own story."

Little wonder Jean-Michel Aulas, the Lyon president who oversees his project with infinitely more hard-nosed business nous than Florentino Pérez, felt emotional in the Bernabéu. "I shouldn't say so but I did shed a little tear," he confessed. "Now we have crazy dreams in our heads and one is to come back here for the final."

The €8m they spent on Pjanic, the hero of the Bernabéu, already looks like good value. The Bosnian midfielder is only 19 and despite the unenviable task of filling the boots of Lyon's former talisman Juninho Pernambucano, he is doing well enough to suggest he might be involved in another mega-sale in a few years' time. "It was a magic night," said Panjic. "It's enormous."

It is notable that all of the teams through to the last eight so far benefited from away goals. Manchester United gave themselves the platform to rout Milan with three in Italy. Arsenal felt able to overturn their errors in Porto without too much anxiety settling in because they had an away goal of their own from the Estádio do Dragão. Bayern's rally, which was crowned by Arjen Robben's miraculous goal in Florence, proved decisive.

How harsh this exit feels for Fiorentina, the only team knocked out who did score an away goal, and they have the frustration of an illegal goal awarded to Bayern by the referee Tom Henning Ovrebo just to make them feel even worse.

Despite the best efforts of Bayern Munich to win this week's Champions League Oscar for best action, the workaholics from Lyon deservedly stole the show. And that left Real Madrid stuck with the role of drama queens.

Tears of admiration for Haiti's beaten keeper

The courageous tale of the Haiti Under-17s women reached a milestone this week when they became the first sports team from the island to take part in international competition since the earthquake. Against all probability, they took the field in Costa Rica in the opening match of the Concacaf championships for their age-group. Pitted against the USA they lost 9‑0, and at the end of the game their goalkeeper, Alexandra Coby, burst into tears.

The USA keeper, Bryane Heaberlin, ran towards her and embraced her in a tight hug, soon to be followed by all of the opposition team who surrounded Coby in a group hug that lasted almost two minutes. When it broke up, girls from both teams wept.

"I saw her crying and that was pretty hard for me to see," said Heaberlin. "She's a keeper and we have that bond. I knew that she had probably lost people close to her, and when she goes home she might not have anywhere to go. I gave her a big hug and told her she did great. She came to compete in this tournament despite all that she's been through and I have tremendous respect for her."

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Mozambique: Flood Situation 'Under Control'

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:51:33 -0500

11 March 2010

Johannesburg — Rivers throughout central and northern Mozambique are swollen above flood alert level and thousands of people have been relocated to higher ground, but national disaster management authorities and aid agencies in Mozambique say "the situation is under control".

After weeks of torrential rain in Mozambique and its regional southern African neighbours, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) indicated that 130,000 people were living in risk zones and could be forced to move if water levels kept rising.

A Red Alert was declared on 9 March for the basins of the Zambezi, Pungue, Buzi and Licungo rivers, but the Representative of the UN Children's Agency (UNICEF), Leila Pakkala, who is responsible for coordination in the Humanitarian Country Team, said the government and aid partners had started moving people pre-emptively.

"Thirteen thousand people have already been moved to secure areas," she told IRIN. Although the rain was expected to diminish, they were still "closely monitoring the situation in affected areas to ensure needs are identified and immediately addressed".

The cholera season in central Mozambique is at its peak; given the large populations moving through cholera-affected areas to get to places of safety, Mozambique's Provincial Health Directorate has warned of possible outbreaks in the new accommodation centres.

Pakkala said cholera prevention and response activities - like the rehabilitation of water systems, water chlorination, and informing people that they should adopt hygienic habits - were already ongoing. "Supplies have been dispatched from the pre-positioned locations by the Red Cross and UN partners," she said.

Watching regional water management

The latest National Hydrological Bulletin, released on 10 March by the National Water Directorate, said water levels in the Zambezi, Africa's fourth largest river, would remain above alert level and keep rising, "possibly aggravating localized flooding".

In neighbouring Zimbabwe, water levels in the Kariba Dam - one of the largest on the Zambezi - have been rising and the Zambezi River Authority had to open one of its flood gates on 9 March.

Downstream in Mozambique, the Cahora Bassa Dam has also increased its outflow to 4,700 cubic meters per second, and will maintain this volume until 15 March.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned in its 10 March Southern Africa Floods Regional Update: "While the opening of one Kariba Dam floodgate is not a significant event in itself, any additional flow from the dam may force another increase in discharge from the Cahora Bassa [downstream], increasing the possibility of flooding in Mozambique."

[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations ]

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:48:18 -0500

Sean Ingle, Rob Smyth and Paolo Bandini join James Richardson to talk about all the midweek action, including Arsenal's thumping defeat of Porto and Manchester United's humbling of Milan. We ask: is AC Jimbo on suicide watch after a bad week for Italian football, hail Sir Alex's tactical masterstrokes and debate whether Samir Nasri's goal was better than Arjen Robben's.

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James Vaughan joins Leicester on one-month loan from Everton

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:52:59 -0500

James Vaughan celebrates scoring for Everton against West Ham in December 2006. Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images

Leicester City have completed the signing of the Everton reserve striker James Vaughan on an initial one-month loan deal.

The 21-year-old has made 11 appearances this season, scoring twice. Earlier, Vaughan had a loan spell at Derby cut short by injury after just two appearances. They were keen to have him back after he returned to full fitness but their east Midlands rivals have instead acquired the England Under-21 international.

Leicester are fifth in the Championship and chasing promotion back to the Premier League after a six-year absence. Vaughan is eligible for their game against Cardiff on Saturday, with the Welsh club just two points behind them in the table.

With their leading scorer Matty Fryatt recovering from surgery after breaking his jaw in two places against Doncaster a month ago, the Leicester chairman, Milan Mandaric, hopes Vaughan can help provide goals in Fryatt's absence.

"It was unfortunate to lose Matty Fryatt but James is a proper player," said Mandaric. "It wasn't simple. The player was wanted by other teams. I have a good relationship with the Everton chairman and I said to him that my manager would like the player and your manager wants him to get additional experience, so let's close the deal."

Afrique: « Le football n'est pas une affaire de sentiments »

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:44:45 -0500

Republic of Togo (Lom)

11 Mars 2010

Toute cela procède de l'entêtement ou pire, de la bêtise. Jeudi, Amos Adamu, membre du comité exécutif de la Confédération africaine de football (CAF) a estimé que la décision de sanctionner le Togo pour les deux prochaines CAN était « parfaitement justifiée ».

Une déclaration qui intervient au lendemain de celle du président ghanéen , John Atta Mills, qui avait clairement rappelé qu'il était contre cette mesure.

« La CAF a agi pour protéger l'image et les intérêts du football africain », a déclaré M. Adamu. « Les règlements doivent être respectés et la CAF a la responsabilité de prendre cette décision contre le Togo pour protéger le football. Le président Issa Hayatou et les membres exécutifs de la CAF sont des gens responsables. Le football n'est pas une affaire de sentiments », a encore indiqué l'officiel de la CAF lors d'une conférence de presse à Accra.

Et les deux morts de la délégation togolaise, c'est sans doute pertes et profits pour Amos Adamu.

Plusieurs chefs d'Etat, dont ceux du Botswana et du Ghana, et des organisations africaines comme la Cédéao et l'Union africaine ont protesté à plusieurs reprises contre la décision des instances du football africain.

Le divorce était déjà consommé entre le Togo et Issa Hayatou ; les dernières prises de position de la Confédération risque d'alourdir un peu plus le climat.

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Fool's Gold, and I Wanna Be Adored | The Fiver | Paul Doyle and Rob Smyth

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:19:07 -0500

Oh Crissy ... Photograph: Paul White/Associated Press

LYON BEST

Florentino Pérez could have bought a mummified walrus whanger, and had plenty of change. Or dozens of Balearic villas with ocean views and diamond-encrusted balustrades. Or something totally out there, such as several well-equipped public hospitals in any of the planet's least developed countries. Instead Florentino Pérez bought a football team that goes out of Europe before Fulham. Well done Florentino Pérez, you're a flippin' hero!

"You don't buy titles, you win them," sniffed the El País columnist José Samano following Real Madrid's richly deserved Big Cup elimination at the hands of Lyon. "The catastrophe suffered by this pharaonic Madrid team is as if an earthquake had destroyed the Valley of the Kings," warbled Orfeo Suárez in El Mundo. "Watching the competition to which they owe their legend from the sidelines will be their penitence and torment." So will enduring taunts from France.

"Who are the Galacticos?" nananananahed L'Equipe today before omnipotent Lyon overlord Jean-Michel Aulas stomped back to hold forth at great length, as usual. "It's mad, this is the most beautiful performance for me with Lyon [the club he's controlled for the last 23 years]," exulted Aulas before proving that the green-and-yellow scarf-clutching David Beckham is not the only person who can keep his mind focused firmly on his own image at all times.

"I shouldn't tell you this but I wept a little tear from the bottom of my heart - maybe that will make me more likeable, since people who cry seem to be popular," confided Aulas knowingly before adding: "Now our heads are full of wild dreams, notably coming back to the Bernabéu for the final." Manager Claude Puel, by contrast, kept his emotions in check as easily as his team nullified Kaká. Asked what he felt when the final whistle sounded, he droned: "Nothing special". Which is also a fair description of the most expensively-assembled team in the history of football.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"The tit for tat between me and Rafa will probably go on until one of us is no longer a Premier League manager" - Big Sam predicts that his row with Liverpool's manager will be over in three months.

LILLE HOPE

With Jiggered Cup now such a bloated fiasco that the only excitement to be gleaned from a 4-0 win over Milan's geriatricos involved a man wearing a scarf to keep his neck-tattoo warm, the real excitement in the nearly-dead-now golden goose that is European football comes in the knockout stages of the Europa League, where most teams want to win the thing out of boyish enthusiasm rather than presuming it to be their entitlement.

Liverpool have already had good news in Europe this week, with Real Madrid's defeat increasing the chances of them sacking Manuel Pellegrini and replacing him with Rafael Benítez, and tonight they face Lille, with Steven Gerrard taking his Respect Tour to France; though sixth in Ligue Thesoundyoumakewhenyou'rewrestlingwithconstipation, Lille are a lively bunch, the top scorers in France.

No wonder Benítez is demanding Liverpool are more positive tonight than they were against Wigan on Respect Monday. "Pepe Reina was blaming the defenders for something that was wrong and the defenders were blaming the keeper," said Benítez, suggesting that it's fine to flash two fingers at the referee so long as you don't point one at your team-mates.

"I don't like it. If you are showing your disappointment with that sort of body language it is sending out the wrong message," added Benítez, a man whose body language in recent months has emitted all the positivity of someone who has accidentally run over both family pets, been sacked, burnt the roast, been given a vasectomy when all he went in for was an ingrowing toenail, failed to put the winning numbers on a lottery ticket, forgotten to set the Sky+ for Masterchef, and found his wife in the sack with Ian Rush, John Aldridge and Peter Beardsley.

In other news, Fulham are in Turin, where they have to make an Old Lady tremble in a manner not seen since Weird Uncle Fiver turned asexual after a cheese-fuelled epiphany. Fulham are without the suspended Danny Murphy but, given that Juventus are three places and 11 points below the septuagenarian shower that called themselves Milan last night, they have a decent chance. "I think given our position when I came to the club, I don't think many people would have given any credence to the fact we could be this far forward in our development now," said Roy Hodgson, a man whose decency, class and dignity shames almost everybody else in his sorry profession. A bit like the Fiver, really.

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The first gig of the Owen Hargreaves Comeback Tour in Altrincham tonight has been cancelled.

David Beckham has proved that you can have your cake and eat it, by wearing a green-and-gold scarf and then saying he didn't understand it was a protest against the Glazers.

The Inexplicable and Sad Decline of Forever Young Joey Cole will gather pace when he leaves Stamford Bridge in the summer.

Cesc Fàbregas has a 0.5% chance of playing at Hull on Saturday, according to his manager Arsène Wenger. And Arsène Wenger is an honourable man.

Derby and Nottingham Forest have each been fined £45,000 for their rumble at Pride Park in January.

And Internacional midfielder Sandro is busy learning England in his spare time, reportedly so that he can a) join Spurs for £6m in the summer and b) wring every last drop of F.U.N. out of those Mr Bean DVDs.

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David Beckham says he was unaware of the green-and-gold scarf he wore at Old Trafford last night. Pull the other one, says Owen Gibson. It's got bells on!

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Manuael Pellegrini's nightmare becomes Real as Madrid begin blame game | Sid Lowe

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:23:22 -0500

Kaká has been heavily criticised for his performances since joining Real Madrid in the summer. Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images

The dream has become a nightmare. The Real Madrid president, Florentino Pérez, will preside over the European Cup final at the Bernabéu on 22 May but his team, the most expensively assembled in history, will not be there. As if to make matters worse, Barcelona still might be. Talk about rubbing it in. Someone else's success would become the image of Madrid's season, Pérez's first since returning unopposed as the saviour. Not that he will be the one who pays for it – heads will roll but his will not be among them. Others stand in the way with the coach, Manuel Pellegrini, the first under scrutiny.

Real will now repackage winning the league title as a triumph, and to do so must be their objective now, but no one is under any illusions. This season was defined by the European Cup and Real have gone out at the first knockout stage.

When Pérez became president again, he talked about the need to do in one year what the club would normally do in three, about recovering Madrid's "place in the world". The league means comparatively little: Ramón Calderón, dismissed as the worst president in history, won two. Their pursuit of the decima ('the 10th") has been obsessive; hosting the final reinforced that. Calderón had requested it, Pérez inherited it. His €258m (£234m) outlay was no coincidence.

The thing about spending that kind of money is that you have to win and win big. But Madrid haven't. Their place has not changed: eliminated at the first knock-out stage. That is why going out to Lyon is an unmitigated failure regardless of the league, the sports daily AS describing it as a "catastrophe".

It is the kind of catastrophe that can precipitate further problems, airing splits and exacerbating them. Guti talked about the lack of a team ethic, Pellegrini complained that his side had been individualistic, Ronaldo went straight off without a word. When Kaká was withdrawn, his press agent attacked Pellegrini on Twitter as a "coward who hides his own inadequacies by pointing at others". Kaká's wife retweeted the remark.

There was, though, no hiding place for her husband. Ronaldo has been declared blameless but not Kaká. Despite his status, the evidence against him has been too overwhelming to ignore. "I'm sorry," wrote AS's columnist Tomás Roncero, a self-consciously fanatical Madrid supporter, "but my patience has run out with Kaká. A player who cost €75m cannot play like some YTS apprentice. He had a great chance which he missed. Just for a change."

The search for people to blame did not start last night – it had already begun. Excuses were made in advance, the bandage had been put on before the wound. Gonzalo Higuaín, top scorer but inherited from the old regime, a competitor to Karim Benzema, was already under pressure. All the easier to attack him for his open-goal miss.

Above all, it is Pellegrini, long since attacked freely and with impunity, judged to be responsible for Madrid's defeats but not their victories, who is the principal target. Marca's headline this morning was: "Get out! Adiós, Europe; Adiós, Pellegrini." Pellegrini refused to resign and insisted that Madrid's project was a long-term one. The response was inevitable: it may well be, but you're not part of it. The inevitable names will now be thrown around – Rafa Benítez and José Mourinho among them. Pellegrini will not continue beyond the summer, if he even makes it that far.

As a club, Madrid were – somewhat unusually – cautious, the director general, Jorge Valdano, has appealed for calm and backed his coach, while Pérez maintained silence. But Valdano backed Vicente del Bosque in 2003 and he left despite winning the title, because of defeat in the European Cup semi-final. Del Bosque was followed by five more coaches, €441m worth of players and no titles in three years.

Pellegrini is certainly not blameless but, like his predecessors, he has been expendable from the start. Today more than ever. It is tempting to conclude that he can finally perform the task he was brought in to perform: providing a head to place on the block.

Afrique: Malgré l'aide et l'importation de produits alimentaires, l'Afrique a faim

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:10:35 -0500

United Nations (New York)

11 Mars 2010

Malgré les 3 milliards de dollars d'aide alimentaire annuelle et les 33 milliards de dollars de produits alimentaires importés chaque année, l'Afrique compte 265 millions de personne sous-alimentées, soit un Africain sur trois souffrant de sous-alimentation chronique, a déploré jeudi de la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique (CEA).

« L'agriculture africaine est assoiffée puisque moins de 4% de la totalité des terres arables sont irriguées comparativement à 33% en Asie-Pacifique et 29% au Moyen Orient », a souligné le Directeur de la sécurité alimentaire et du développement durable de la CEA, Josue Dione, à l'occasion de la clôture d'une conférence à Abuja au Nigéria sur le commerce et l'industrie agroalimentaire en Afrique.

« L'agriculture africaine a faim puisqu'elle ne reçoit que 14,6 kilos de fertilisants par hectare contre 114,3 dans les pays développés », a-t-il ajouté.

Les 33 milliards de dollars dépensés pour importer des produits alimentaires devraient être utilisés pour développer l'agriculture intérieure, ce qui contribuera à réduire la pauvreté et repositionnera l'Afrique dans l'économie globale, avance la CEA.

« La part de l'agriculture africaine dans l'économie mondiale a chuté de 15% en 1960 à 5,4% dans les années 1980 et à 3,2% en 2006 », a souligné M. Dione.

Alors que l'Afrique souffre de concurrence désavantageuse dans la chaîne de production agroalimentaire, de meilleures politiques pourraient aider à résoudre le problème en incitant notamment les investissements privés et en développant une agriculture durable.

L'Afrique doit allouer davantage de ressources à son agriculture intérieure. Cela permettrait d'assurer la sécurité alimentaire, la réduction de la pauvreté et d'améliorer les indicateurs économiques du continent, plaide la CEA. Ces réformes doivent être menées à tous les niveaux, de la production des fermes à la distribution aux consommateurs, a conclu M. Dione.

Selon l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), 1,02 milliard de personnes sont sous-alimentées dans le monde, dont 265 millions en Afrique subsaharienne.

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