Mgombea wa urais kupitia tiketi ya chama cha Republican Donald Trump amefikisha idadi ya wajumbe ya kupata uteuzi wa chama hicho kulingana na chombo cha habari cha AFP.
Bw Trump ambaye aliwashinda wagombea wengine 16 wa chama hicho ameripotiwa kupata wajumbe 1,238 mmoja zaidi ya inavyohotajika.
Chama cha Republican kinataraijiwa kukamilisha uteuzi wao katika mkutano wa chama hicho utakaofanyika huko Cleveland mnamo mwezi Julai.
Iwapo atathibitishwa ,bw Trump atakabiliana na aliyekuwa waziri wa maswala ya kigeni nchini Marekani Hillary Clinton au seneta wa Vermont Bernie Sanders ambao wanashindania uteuzi wa chama cha Demokrat.
Siku ya Jumatano,bilionea huyo wa New York alipanga kufanya mjadala na Bernie Sanders katika runinga mjini California kabla ya uchaguzi wa mchujo wa tarehe 7 mwezi Juni.
Bw Sanders alikubali kushiriki katika mjadala huo katika ujumbe wake wa Twitter uliosema: ''Game on''.
Rais wa Marekani Barack Obama amasema kuwa viongozi duniani wana sababu ya kukasirikia matamsha yanayotolewa na mgombea urais wa chama cha Republican Donald Trump.
Akiongea pembezoni mwa mkutano wa mataifa tajiri zaidi duniani ya G7 nchini Japan, Obama alisema kuwa Trump ameonyesha tabia ya kupuuza masuala ya dunia.
Obama amesema kuwa viongozi wa kigeni wameshangazwa na uteuzi wake. Hata hivyo Trump hajasema lolote kuhusu matamshi hayo ya Obama
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Rais Obama pia alipuzilia mbali wasi wasi wa chama cha Democratic kuhusu mvutano uliopo kati ya Hillary Clinton na Bernie Sanders.
Obama amesema moja ya tofauti kubwa kati ya chama cha Democratic na Republican mwaka huu, ni kwamba wagombea wa Democratic hawatofautiani sana katika sera zao.
Baada ya washindani wake Trump kwenye uteuzi wa cha Republican kujiondoa kutoka kwa kinyanganyiro, sasa anabakisha kura chache za kumwezesha kupata wajumbe 1,237, anaohitaji ili kuwa mgombea wa chama cha Republican kwenye uchaguzi wa urais wa mwezi Novemba.
Mtumishi wa Wizara ya Fedha, Aneth Msuya (30) ambaye ni mdogo wa Bilionea Erasto Msuya, ameuawa kwa kuchinjwa nyumbani kwake eneo la Kigamboni jijini Dar Es Salaam.
Akizungumza na mwandishi wa habari hii kwa simu kutoka Mererani, mmoja wa ndugu wa familia hiyo, Shujaa Khamis, alithibitisha kuuawa kwa Aneth (pichani), lakini alikataa kuingia kwa undani.
“Ni kweli wamemchinja usiku wa kuamkia leo (jana) na hapa nipo kwenye msiba hapa nyumbani (Mererani) kwa baba. Tumeambiwa wamechukua Tv tu,” alisema.
Hata hivyo, Khamis alikataa kueleza lolote kama wana mashaka na mauaji hayo zaidi ya kuliomba Jeshi la Polisi nchini, kuchunguza kiini cha mauaji hayo na kuwasaka waliohusika.
Friday, May 27, 2016 Dada wa Bilionea Msuya auawa kwa kuchinjwa By Daniel Mjema, Mwananchi dmjema@mwananchi.co.tz Habari Magufuli asema mazito Rais John Magufuli jana alituma ujumbe mzito katika mapambano dhidi ya…
Media captionWhat happened after the US atomic bombs and why President Obama's visit matters
Barack Obama has arrived in Hiroshima to become the first serving US president to visit the Japanese city since the 1945 nuclear bombing.
Mr Obama flew into the Iwakuni US base nearby, after leaving the G7 summit.
He said his visit was "a testament to how even the most painful of divides can be bridged". But he also says he will not be apologising for the attack.
At least 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, in what was the world's first nuclear bombing.
Two days later a second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing another 74,000.
'Best of friends'
Mr Obama told service personnel at the Iwakuni Marine Corp base, some 40km (25 miles) from Hiroshima: "This is an opportunity to honour the memory of all who were lost during World War Two.
"It's a chance to reaffirm our commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a [world] where nuclear weapons would no longer be necessary."
Mr Obama praised the US-Japan alliance as "one of the strongest in the world", with his visit showing how "two nations, former adversaries, cannot just become partners, but become the best of friends".
Mr Obama will lay a wreath at the cenotaph, where an eternal flame remembers Hiroshima's dead. He will be joined by bomb survivors living in the now thriving city.
Many in the US believe the use of the nuclear bomb, though devastating, was right, because it forced Japan to surrender, bringing an end to World War Two.
The daughter of one survivor, who was visiting the memorial on Friday, said the suffering had "carried on over the generations".
Image copyrightAFPImage captionMr Obama praised US troops for their sacrifices, in his speech at the Iwakuni marine baseImage copyrightREUTERSImage captionHiroshima residents say they want President Obama to understand the suffering of victims
"That is what I want President Obama to know," Han Jeong-soon, 58, told the Associated Press. "I want him to understand our sufferings."
Seiki Sato, whose father was orphaned by the bomb, told the New York Times: "We Japanese did terrible, terrible things all over Asia. That is true. And we Japanese should say we are sorry because we are so ashamed, and we have not apologised sincerely to all these Asian countries. But the dropping of the atomic bomb was completely evil."
The BBC's John Sudworth in Hiroshima says there is likely a strategic purpose to the visit, as a symbol of the deepening alliance between Washington and Tokyo in a region wary of China's rising military might.
Mr Obama referred to this in his speech at the base, saying: "As president, I made sure that the United States is leading again in the Asia Pacific, because this region is vital."
Jimmy Carter has visited Hiroshima, but after the end of his presidency.
A US ambassador attended the annual commemoration for the first time in 2010.
Seventy years since Hiroshima
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionA mushroom cloud over Hiroshima following the explosion of an atomic bomb
The bomb was nicknamed "Little Boy" and was thought to have the explosive force of 20,000 tonnes of TNT
Paul Tibbets, a 30-year-old colonel from Illinois, led the mission to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
The Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the bomb, was named in tribute to Col Tibbets' mother
The final target was decided less than an hour before the bomb was dropped. The good weather conditions over Hiroshima sealed the city's fate
On detonation, the temperature at the burst-point of the bomb was several million degrees. Thousands of people on the ground were killed or injured instantly
Image copyrightAFPImage captionSome academics want India to be replaced with "South Asia" in school textbooks
Thousands of academics and Indians have signed a petition to stop the California State Board of Education from changing "India" to "South Asia" in its social studies textbooks. Associate Professor at Santa Clara University Rohit Chopra explains what the controversy is about.
What it means to be Hindu and Indian have long been the subject of argument in India.
These disagreements have been amplified since the crowning of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, often taking ugly forms on social media or the street.
In California, a similar conflict is playing out about the representation of Hinduism and India in state textbooks for 11 to 13-year-olds, recalling a fight on the same matter a decade ago.
The debate centres significantly on the renaming of India as South Asia and the role of caste in Indian society.
Confusing terms
The rationale for calling the region South Asia, advocated by a group of distinguished academics, is that it is a more accurate descriptive term for the region, one that does not equate India as it existed before 1947 with the modern Indian nation-state.
Terms like "ancient India" and India, they argue, could be confusing in certain contexts for the students, in addition to obscuring the common historical past of modern India and Pakistan respectively.
Media coverage has typically pitted this group of academics as well as secular South Asian organisations against a group of conservative Hindu-American organisations, like the Hindu American Foundation (HAF).
Image copyrightAFPImage captionHindus in India protested after Ganesha images appeared on flip-flops in the US
The Hindu-American organisations accuse the academics of wanting to "erase" India itself by recommending the change of name. These groups also seek to remove references to caste prejudice in the textbooks.
The academics, on the other hand, argue that South Asia is a more logically appropriate term than India for the textbooks. They also hold that deleting references to caste contradicts the educational goal that students should develop a rich and nuanced understanding of the region.
Yet this starkly demarcated opposition, while making for good copy, masks some important issues about immigrant identity in the US, understandable parental anxieties, and the politics of the study of Hinduism in the US.
As someone who has researched the global Hindu right, yet is opposed to its politics, as an Indian in the US, and as a parent, I find that the debate, as it has been framed in the media, neglects underlying issues of crucial importance.
A key issue has to do with why groups such as the HAF possess legitimacy among many Hindu students and Hindu communities, not all of whom may share their politically and culturally conservative view of Hinduism?
The answer is simple: the same sorts of groups, regardless of their politics, are also often the first ones to protest racist depictions of Indians or Hindus, such as when American Eagle Outfitters printed the image of Lord Ganesha on flip-flops.
It is not the rock star academics working on South Asia, India, or Hinduism who spearhead such protests, though in their research they do challenge Orientalist and racist stereotypes.
Caste question
So cultural organisations like the HAF are often the only venue for Indians to get their children to learn about the Indian epics, for instance, through summer camps. That does not make everyone who attends such events a Hindu nationalist or even a Hindu conservative. The same arguably holds for many of those opposing the change of India to South Asia.
In a letter to the New York Times, Nathan Glazer, Professor Emeritus of sociology at Harvard, points to the clunkiness and lack of historical validity of the term South Asia.
Image copyrightAFPImage captionDalits have for long faced discrimination from caste Hindus in India
I have no strong feeling about the matter, even though the term is bereft of much meaning for me. But it is worth asking of the academics the kinds of questions that academics love asking about everything.
When and where was this term first used? For what reasons? To what extent might it reflect the politics of the American academy, something at which Prof Glazer hints?
The question of caste is more complicated. Removing all references to caste from the textbooks would constitute a consummate act of symbolic violence, echoing the brutal history of violence enacted upon Dalits by caste Hindus over centuries.
Ironically, it would conform to that most American of habits: historical amnesia about America's own forgetting of its violence against its Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Sikh, or African-American populations.
Stereotypical views
At the same time, it is a fair point that caste does not exhaust Hinduism, and that for an alarmingly large number of Americans, Hinduism is still little more than caste and cows. Perhaps one might add call centres to that list.
As a parent, I share the worries of many Indian-Americans that my son should not be labelled on the basis of a limited, stereotypical, view of India centred on caste.
Image copyrightAFPImage captionMore than 2.23 million Hindus live in America
The analogy would be Indians viewing White Americans solely as perpetrators of slavery.
If we are to view the controversy through the metaphor of battle, the honours seem to be divided. India will remain in the textbooks, representing a victory for Hindu-American groups.
However, in keeping with the view of the academics and a broad-based coalition of progressive groups, South Asian Histories for All, references to caste will not be removed from the books.
But this is unlikely to be the last we have seen of this battle.
I am not optimistic that the academics and Hindu-American organisations will find any common ground.
But a richer portrayal of Hinduism in the textbooks, warts and all, may be a possible shared objective on which there can be agreement, before the endless wars over Hinduism in the US resume.
Rohit Chopra is Associate Professor at Santa Clara University, where he teaches media studies. He runs the Twitter account @IndiaExplained and is the co-founder of Auctorly.com
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