thank u for making it clear and because of that attitude you and your psychopath dictator has been warned that the only way to have lasting peace is to negotiate and reconcile!!! its funny real as for FDRL i am sure the only people who committed genocide are dead or very old by now and probably account for only 1% of FDRL rebels the remaining fighters are genuinely fighting to get the normal civil right which they did not enjoy since there parents run into congo bushes, the young ones that are being persecuted now i am sure by 1994 were very young boys who knew nothing about what was going on, force is only used as the last resort, this is 5th century diplomacy its unthinkable people in 21st century like psychopath killer kagame don't know it yet!!!!
Warn your president who is killing kids everyday because they don't have medicines for malaria ambazo zinachakachuliwa na watu..soma gazeti lenu la citizen la leo...if we count daily deaths cause by corruption in your country utafyata mkia...'nyani haoni......" soma hapo chini halafu urudi kwangu...hivi nikuulize, watoto wangapi wanakufa kila siku hapo kwa sababu ya tamaa zenu...mnasema eti nyie ni wazalendo!!! Uzalendo unaanzia nyumbani kwako na si kwingine. Endelea kusoma....
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Smugglers transport the Coartem into Angola "at night to avoid inspection," he said, because they lack proper import documentation.PHOTO|FILE
By The Citizen Reporter and Agencies,The citizen
Posted Wednesday, November 13 2013 at 00:00
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US investigators attempting to identify the people responsible for the theft in Tanzania are scrutinising a local company suspected of engineering the diversion, according to people familiar with the probe. US investigators also are tracking distributors of the stolen drugs in Congo.
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Dar es Salaam/Washington. Tanzania has been named as being among the leading countries in theft and black market resale of anti-malaria medications donated by the US government, hindering global and country's efforts to combat the disease.
According to the US-based newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, Tanzania is followed by Angola in theft of anti-malaria drugs.
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that US investigators are leading a probe into the widespread theft and black-market resale of malaria drugs donated to Africa by its government.
Spot purchases by The Wall Street Journal, made with the knowledge of local authorities, confirm that theft is a problem with donated malaria medicines.
In Angola earlier this year, the Journal bought dozens of packets of Coartem from street stores. An analysis of the drugs conducted by Novartis showed that the majority had originally been donated by PMI or the Global Fund and were intended for distribution in Tanzania only.
Some other packets were found to be counterfeit. Only one sample out of the dozens bought by the Journal at Angolan markets was legitimate-neither fake nor stolen.
Traffickers of the stolen drugs often transport them over land in trucks lacking air conditioning, jeopardising the drug's efficacy in temperatures that can top 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Coartem cannot withstand temperatures higher than 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit).
The trafficking route, the US is currently scrutinizing, starts in Tanzania. PMI and the Global Fund hire logistics firms to deliver Coartem to the airport in Dar es Salaam, where the drugs are supposed to be picked up and distributed in the country by official government distributors.
Instead, upon arrival, some of the drugs are stolen and redirected to West Africa via Congo, according to market-stall merchants who sell the black-market drugs in Angola, as well as African health officials and people familiar with the US probe.
According to the Novartis tracking data, some of the Coartem samples bought in Luanda, Angola, by the Journal were ordered in July 2012 by USaid contractor John Snow Inc. (JSI), for delivery to Dar es Salaam. They were destined for Tanzania's Medical Stores Department (MDS), a state-run system of pharmaceutical warehouses. JSI isn't suspected of theft or improperly diverting the order.
Other samples bought by the Journal in Luanda markets had been donated by the Global Fund and were meant for distribution inside Tanzania, according to the Novartis analysis.
Alex Tashama, 39, a Luanda street seller of Coartem-also diverted from Tanzania, based on the serial numbers-said the drugs "enter fraudulently" into Angola, hidden in trucks under vegetables.