Mali forward Mustapha Yatabare scored an 89th minute winner against Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial
Guinea, who hosted last year's Africa Cup of Nations, became the first
team to be eliminated from the qualifiers for the 2017 tournament in
Gabon after a 1-0 home defeat to Mali.Mustapha Yatabare hit
Mali's winner in the 89th minute in Malabo to put his team top of Group
C, two points above Benin on 10 points.
Equatorial Guinea, who
reached the semi-finals on home soil in 2015, are now bottom of the
group on one point with two games to play.
South Sudan are third, on three points, and still have a slim chance of qualifying as one of the best two runners-up.
Elsewhere on Monday, Zimbabwe swept aside Swaziland 4-0 in their 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Group L qualifier.
The
hosts, who earned a 1-1 draw in Swaziland on Friday, dominated the
return match in Harare to move three points clear at the top of the
table.
Knowledge Musona opened the scoring on 53 minutes from the penalty spot and Costa Nhamoinesu made it 2-0 six minutes later.
Evans Rusike extended the advantage and Khama Billiat sealed the win late on.
Musona
told BBC Sport: "I am feeling very happy. The team collected maximum
points at home, we are top of the group and we have a big chance to
qualify.
"It is crucial we take maximum points from our next game at home (against Malawi on 3 June)."
Swaziland remain on five points, three points above Malawi and Guinea who play each other on Tuesday.
Each of the group winners and the two best runners-up qualify for next year's finals in Gabon.
In Group B Central African Republic came back from a goal down to beat Madagascar 2-1.
Faneva Andriatsima opened the scoring for the visitors on 35 minutes and they went into the half-time break 1-0 up.
But
two goals in 12 minutes turned the game on its head as Salif Keita
stuck the equaliser on 53 minutes for CAR and then Limane Moussa hit the
winner.
The result puts CAR top of the table by a point from DR Congo, who play Angola on Tuesday. Libya got their first points of Group F with a 4-0 win over Sao Tome e Principe.
In a match played in Egypt on security grounds, Libya's Mohamed Zubya hit a second half hat-trick
The FBI and Apple reached a cease-fire last week, but it can’t last, because it
leaves unresolved the future of reasonable searches under the Fourth
Amendment. It would be a public service if both sides started making
their arguments forthrightly.The FBI thought it needed Apple’s help to gain access to the iPhone used
by San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook. Apple refused,
claiming that doing so would require giving the government “backdoor”
access to all iPhones. Last week the FBI said a third party had come forward with a solution for unlocking Farook’s iPhone. So much for Apple’s claim.
Still,
the issue won’t go away, because Apple says it plans to make more of
its devices and services inaccessible to law enforcement. Nor will it
become a mere philosophical question, as the Brussels terrorists’
evasion of surveillance make clear.
Apple should be more upfront about its corporate strategy. General counsel Bruce Sewell
called “deeply offensive” the Justice Department’s allegations that the
company deliberately changed iPhone security to block law enforcement.
But Apple told its customers a different story when it announced changes
to its operating system in 2014: “Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot
bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data,” the company
announced. “So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to
government warrants.”
In a recent interview with Time magazine, Apple CEO Tim Cook
described the FBI’s concerns as “a crock.” He claimed that “no one’s
going dark” and added that “we shouldn’t all be fixated just on what’s
not available.” His argument is that authorities should find other ways
to prevent terrorism and enforce the law so that Apple can keep
promising to protect its customers from court orders. That’s
understandable as a corporate marketing initiative, but other industries
aren’t allowed to operate that way.
Apple should also stop
conflating the broader issue of encryption with helping unlock a single
iPhone. Timothy Lee summarized the difference on Vox: “The fact that we
don’t know how to make an encryption algorithm that can be compromised only by law enforcement doesn’t imply that we don’t know how to make a technology product that can be unlocked only by law enforcement.”
As
for the FBI, it is technically correct that the case is about unlocking
a single iPhone, but the bureau would have a stronger argument if it
admitted that Apple is right that there are many other cases in which
law-enforcement agents need help—especially now that Apple has put its
operating system beyond their reach.
Technology companies report
data on their court orders, subpoenas and warrants. According to the
latest figures, in the first half of 2015 Facebook received more than 17,500 requests, Google more than 12,000, Microsoft nearly 6,000 and Apple almost 1,000. Apple objects that the
Manhattan district attorney says he has 175 cases where he needs help
from Apple similar to what the FBI sought, but that level of volume is
hardly unprecedented.
The FBI should also acknowledge that it
pursued litigation instead of a legislative solution because the
supposedly unitary executive branch hasn’t been united. Until recently,
President Obama ducked the issue. He finally took the FBI’s side
earlier this month, at the South By Southwest conference in Austin,
Texas.
“You
cannot take an absolutist view on this,” Mr. Obama said. “If your view
is strong encryption no matter what and we can and should produce black
boxes, that does not strike the balance that we’ve lived with for 200 or
300 years. And it’s fetishizing our phones above every other value.
That can’t be the right answer.”
If there’s no way to gain
access to new communications devices, the president asked, “how do we
solve or disrupt a terrorist plot? What mechanisms do we have to even do
things like tax enforcement. . . . If government can’t get in, then
everyone’s walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket.”
It’s
a telling analogy. In the pre-digital era, Congress legislated that
banks and traditional telecommunications companies must design their
systems to comply with legal warrants. Under the Communications
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994, telecoms must enable
court-ordered surveillance such as wiretaps. Banks and telecoms may
prefer to market their services as beyond the courts’ reach, as Apple
does, but are barred by law.
Thus the first round of FBI vs.
Apple has handed the key question to Congress: Either the Fourth
Amendment permits reasonable, warranted searches in the digital era or
Internet companies can design systems to defeat court orders, putting
themselves—and criminals, including terrorists—above the law
SAN FRANCISCO — Although the government officially withdrew from its
battle against Apple Monday, many observers sense the tech privacy war
is just getting started.
"This lawsuit may be over, but the
Constitutional and privacy questions it raised are not," Congressman
Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who had criticized the Justice Department's
suit against Apple, said in a statement Monday.
The Justice
Department withdrew its legal action against Apple after a method
brought to the FBI earlier this month by an unidentified entity
allowed investigators to crack the security function without erasing
contents of the iPhone used by Syed Farook, who with his wife, Tashfeen
Malik, carried out the December mass shooting in San Bernardino that
left 14 dead.
The government maintained it was looking for access
to one phone, but Apple countered that asking for a code that could
access the iPhone 5c would create a backdoor to all such devices that
was exploitable by other entities.
"This case should never have
been brought," Apple said in a statement released late Monday. "We will
continue to help law enforcement with their investigations, as we have
done all along, and we will continue to increase the security of our
products as the threats and attacks on our data become more frequent and
more sophisticated. ... This case raised issues which deserve a
national conversation about our civil liberties, and our collective
security and privacy."
In
its two-page filing in a California magistrate's court, the government
noted that due to outside assistance it "no longer requires the
assistance from Apple Inc." Justice spokeswoman Melanie Newman said the
FBI is reviewing the contents of the phone as "consistent with standard
investigatory procedures," and that "we will continue to pursue all
available options for this mission, including seeking the cooperation of
manufacturers and relying upon the creativity of both the public and
private sectors."
Government law enforcement officials have denied
charges the FBI wanted to establish a backdoor to Apple's encryption,
and swatted away accusations that they were using the case to gain
broader access to consumers' devices.
"The San Bernardino case was
not about trying to send a message or set a precedent; it was and is
about fully investigating a terrorist attack,'' FBI Director James Comey
wrote in an editorial last week.
The FBI has about a dozen
similar cases pending in which it wants access to smartphone information
to assist with a case. So while this particular showdown may be over,
"there are other cases pending where law enforcement relies on the All
Writs Act" to access tech gadget data, referring to an old law that can
compel companies to help the government in pursuit of its
duties, says Denelle Dixon-Thayer, Chief Legal and Business Officer at
Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser.
"This question is
clearly not going away just because the government has withdrawn their
request in this particular case," she says.
Mozilla and dozens of other tech companies that supported Apple with amicus briefs will be watching what happens next carefully.
Privacy
issues have both societal and financial implications. Given the
ubiquity of smartphones and tablets, concerns loom about how rogue
regimes could leverage back doors into tech products to go after
detractors. Companies like Apple, whose brand identity is anchored to
data security, could face declining sales if smartphones and tablets
prove hackable.
All that is counterbalanced by the need for public
security in an age when terrorists use encrypted smartphone
communication to secretly plot devastating attacks such as the recent
suicide missions in Brussels and Paris.
Justice officials declined
to comment on whether the technique used to unlock the phone would be
applied to other encrypted devices. Authorities also refused comment on
whether the method would be shared with Apple.
Apple
officials said on a call with reporters last week that if the iPhone in
question was accessed, the company would want to know how so it can
improve its encryption techniques. Declining to turn over such details
to Apple engineers would "leave ordinary users at risk from malicious
third parties who also may use the vulnerability," says Steve Crocker,
staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Monday's
action concludes six weeks of building tensions between the government
and the the Silicon Valley i-product giant. The FBI insisted for weeks
that only Apple could crack the contents of Farook's iPhone. Apple said
such an action amounted to a digital "backdoor" that could eventually
undermine the privacy of consumers — an unwavering stance supported by
Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech giants.
The foes were
poised to face off in a court room in Riverside, Calif., last week
before the Justice Department abruptly asked for — and was granted — a
postponement.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has crusaded in a highly
coordinated public campaign against the dangers of weakened security in
digital devices. This month, Apple said the “Founding Fathers would be
appalled” because the government’s order to unlock the iPhone was based
on what it said was non-existent authority asserted by the DOJ.
California
U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker said federal authorities had pursued the
litigation to “fulfill a solemn commitment to the victims of the San
Bernardino shooting — that we will not rest until we have fully pursued
every investigative lead related to the vicious attack.’’
Alex
Abdo, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, called the
government’s “unprecedented power-grab” a threat to everyone’s security
and privacy.
“Unfortunately, (Monday's) news appears to be just a
delay of an inevitable fight over whether the FBI can force Apple to
undermine the security of its own products,” Abdo said in a statement
late Monday. “We would all be more secure if the government ended this
reckless effort.” della Cava and Swartz reported from San Francisco, Johnson from Washington, D.C.
ATHENS, March 29 - An Egyptair domestic flight from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked on Tuesday and landed in Cyprus, state radio said. The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation reported that 55 people were on board, with a crew of 7. There were earlier reports of about 80 to 81 people on board. At least one man was thought to be armed. The hijacking occurred in Cyprus's flight information region and the airliner was diverted to Larnaca. (Reporting By Michele Kambas Reuters)
A meeting with President Barack Obama's daughters is news to Lionel Messi.
As was disclosed earlier in the week
it would appear there is a limit to U.S. President Barack Obama's
powers, specifically the ability to arrange a sit-down meeting with
Barcelona's Lionel Messi.
Indeed, President Obama claimed that his daughters had asked to meet
Messi during a recent visit to Buenos Aires but that even he, the leader
of the free world, didn't have the kind of sway required to arrange
face time with the Barcelona star.
However, having since caught wind of Obama's grumbling, Messi has
responded by revealing that if only the President had asked him, he
would have loved to meet with the first family of the United States.
"Obviously, I was surprised that he [Obama] said that, but on the contrary, for me it would be completely the opposite," Messi told TyC Sports.
"For me it would be a source of great pride to be able to meet him
and his daughters, but obviously I know it would be complicated.
"I don't know whether it is possible. Maybe he made the comment
because he was in Argentina but I can say I was as surprised as everyone
else."
Messi was then asked whether he'd take his family with him or whether
Sergio Aguero would accompany him on the trip to the White House.
"Of course, I take Kun everywhere," Messi said.
Argentina have called up Lionel Messi for the first time in a struggling 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign.
Not
everyone can meet Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi -- not even the
daughters of the President of the United States, Barack Obama.
Obama was speaking at the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
Town Hall in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and revealed that his
daughters Sasha and Malia had asked him if they could meet the Argentine
No. 10.
But even the POTUS could not make it happen.
"I also wanted to bring my daughters here, so they could see the beauty and the vibrancy of this city," he told the crowd.
"They've already met one famous Argentinean -- His Holiness Pope
Francis. Now they want to meet [Lionel] Messi, but I could not arrange
that."
Good to know that even some of the most famous people on the planet
can't get everything they want, but it is surely only a matter of time
before a signed Messi shirt arrives on the steps of the White House.
The Holland football legend Johan Cruyff has died of cancer at the age of 68. The Dutchman, who on three occasions was voted the world player of the year, guided Holland to the World Cup final in 1974 and as a manager he spent eight years in charge of Barcelona.
“On March 24 2016 Johan Cruyff (68) died peacefully in Barcelona, surrounded by his family after a hard fought battle with cancer. It’s with great sadness that we ask you to respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief,” read a statement on the World of Johan Cruyff website.
Just last month the former Ajax, Barcelona and Holland star, one of the main exponents of the world famous Total Football – the Dutch style of play popularised in the 1970s, said he was ‘2-0 up’ in his match with lung cancer.
Cruyff, who was a heavy smoker until undergoing heart surgery in 1991, made his illness public in October last year. He was regarded as one of the game’s greatest players. He led Ajax to three consecutive European Cups from 1971 to 1973 and was the linchpin for Holland as they were beaten in the final of the 1974 World Cup by West Germany. During the tournament his eponymous turn was first seen against Sweden and soon copied the world over. By then he had joined Barcelona for a world record fee. He went on to become a huge favourite at the Camp Nou, eventually coaching the Catalan club to a first European Cup triumph in 1992 as well as winning four successive La Liga titles between 1991 and 1994.
The current and five-times world player of the year, Lionel Messi, was among the first to pay tribute to Cruyff, writing on his Twitter account: “RIP Johan Cruyff. Your legacy will live on forever.”
Diamond Platnumz and Tip Top Connection have managed to gain incredible success with the help of their manager Hamisi Taletale a.k.a Babutale.
Now musician Chidi Benz has a new lease on life after Babutale offered to take him to rehab after coming across photos of him looking worn-down and emaciated. Chidi Benz is now at the Life and Hope Rehabilitation Organization in Tanzania looking to get clean.
Chidi on the left, a friend and Babutale on arrival at the Life and Hope Rehabilitation Organization
" Hatimae mwana amekubari kukaa Soba ila anasisitiza wana mje kumtembelea kumpa hope na kuleta mapokopoko manjari. Mungu bariki hii safari ya matumaini "Babu Tale wrote after Chidi Benz got admitted to rehab.
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Babutale reveals that the reason he moved in to help Chid Benz was because he wanted him to get back on his feet, reclaim his lost glory before adding that Chidi Benz’s health status had shocked hm.
Speaking to Planet Bongo Babu revealed that he thought Chidi had contracted HIV/AIDS.
“Kusema ukweli nilipoona picha ile nilipata wasiwasi nikidhani Chidi Benz labda ameungua na maradhi yetu ya sasa, sikuamini kama ni madawa ya kulevya ndiyo yamempelekea hali ile. Lakini sikuweza kuamini kesho yake ilibidi nimchukue Chid Benzi na kwenda nae kwenye kituo cha afya na kufanya check up ya mwili mzima, lakini baada ya vipimo kutoka akaonekana yuko poa kabisa ila wakagundua tu ni hayo madawa” (To say the truth got a bit worried when I saw picture of a skeletal Chidi Benz and so I thought he had HIV because I couldn’t believe that drugs would leave him in such a deplorable state. So we went to a health centre, did some tests and he had a clean bill of health …except that he was addicted to drugs.)” revealed Babutale
President
Obama embarked Sunday on a historic trip to Cuba, where a government
that has vilified the United States for decades prepared a red carpet
welcome.
The
three-day trip, the first by a sitting U.S. president in 88 years, is
the culmination of a diplomatic opening announced by Obama and Cuban
President Raúl Castro in December 2014, ending a Cold War-era
estrangement that began when the Cuban Revolution ousted a pro-American
government in 1959.
Obama,
who abandoned a longtime U.S. policy of trying to isolate Cuba, now
wants to make his shift irreversible. But major obstacles remain to the
full normalization of ties, and the president’s critics at home say the
visit is premature. (AP)
Donald
Trump easily won Arizona’s Republican presidential primary Tuesday,
adding another key winner-take-all state in his push toward the GOP
nomination.
Texas
Sen. Ted Cruz picked up a win in Utah, where he had been polling ahead
of Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Yet the key point of intrigue in
that race – what his margin of victory will be – remained early
Wednesday morning as votes were still being counted.
If
he can capture 50 percent of the vote in Utah, Cruz would win all 40
delegates at stake, slightly offsetting Trump’s 58 delegates in Arizona.
If no candidate exceeds 50 percent, the delegates would be awarded
proportionally, a significant loss for Republicans scrambling to stop
Trump from securing the party nomination ahead of what increasingly
looks like a contested GOP convention this summer.
With
his victory in Arizona and before losing in Utah, Trump had 739
delegates, compared to Cruz’s 425. Kasich trailed a distant third, with
just 143 delegates. A candidate needs 1,237 delegates to secure the
nomination.
As
Utah Republicans headed to caucus, Trump unleashed a familiar Election
Day play, slamming Cruz for dirty campaigning. On Twitter, Trump accused
the Texas senator of using a provocative photo of his wife, Melania, in
an ad attacking his campaign.
“Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a GQ shoot in his ad,” Trump wrote. “Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
The
ad the New York real estate mogul was referring to was actually paid
for by an anti-Trump super-PAC called “Make America Awesome.” The online spot,
aimed at Mormon voters in Utah, featured a January 2000 photo of the
then-model posing nude on a bearskin rug on her future husband’s plane
for British GQ. “Meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady,” the
super-PAC ad read. “Or, you could just support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.”
Responding
to Trump’s tweet, Cruz denied involvement with the ad and slammed him
for threatening his wife. “Pic of your wife not from us,” he wrote. “Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you’re more of a coward than I thought.”
The
social media bickering between Trump and Cruz marked the end of an
election day that was largely overshadowed by the terrorist attacks in
Brussels. At least 30 people were killed and more than 200 injured in a
series of explosions at the airport and at a subway station in the heart
of the Belgian capital. The Islamic State took credit for the attacks.
Trump
quickly seized on the event to reiterate his call to close the U.S.
borders to Syrian refugees, and he doubled down on his call for
terrorist suspects to be subject to waterboarding and other severe
interrogation measures. At the same time, Cruz called for stricter
surveillance of Muslim communities in the United States, urging law
enforcement to “patrol and secure” such areas “before they become
radicalized.” In response, Trump told CNN he agreed with Cruz’s
position, but touted himself as the candidate who would do the most to
protect the nation.
At
the same time, Trump, who made no public appearances on Tuesday, took
to Twitter, talking up his tough stance on terrorism. “I have proven to
be far more correct about terrorism than anybody — and it’s not even
close,” he wrote. “Hopefully AZ and UT will be voting for me today!
The East African Community (EAC) elections observer team to last Sunday’s rerun of the general election in Zanzibar has said the presence of tight security was intimidating. It said in its preliminary report wired to media houses across the region that although the voting exercise was generally “peaceful and calm”, the number of security personnel deployed was “somehow intimidating”. The Election Observer Mission, which was led by former Kenyan Vice President Moody Awori noted that there was a high number of rejected votes at some stations in the polls boycotted by the main opposition party, CUF, and other political parties. The CCM presidential candidate, Dr Ali Mohamed Shein was, re-elected as the seventh President of Zanzibar, an archipelago which forms part of the United Republic of Tanzania. He got 91.4 per cent of all votes cast. This time around the regional organisation had members on the ground, visiting 70 polling stations, of which 80 per cent were in Unguja and 20 per cent in Pemba “The polling environment was generally peaceful and calm,” the report said, noting, however, that a significant number of polling stations “did not witness any voters presenting themselves to cast their votes.” Although EAC maintains that it was not questioning the powers bestowed on ZEC as the only entity mandated to announce the winner of the presidential elections in Zanzibar, it was still not comfortable with the extended powers of the electoral body. According to Article 51(2) of the Zanzibar Electoral Act, 1984( as amended), ZEC has the authority to postpone an election if there are impediments.
Unknown assailants abducted Salma Said, a reporter with the Kiswahili-language Mwananchi ("Citizen") newspaper and a correspondent for Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, shortly after the journalist arrived at Dar es Salaam's Julius Nyerere International Airport on March 18, 2016, according to news reports
and a statement she made to the Tanzania Human Rights Defenders
Coalition (THRD). Said's abductors released her on March 20, a
representative of THRD told CPJ.
Said had flown from Zanzibar,
where she had covered the run-up to the March 20 elections, on the
advice of THRD, which was concerned for her safety after she contacted
the organization to report having received threatening phone calls and
text messages from anonymous callers, Onesmo Olengurumwa, coordinator
for THRD, told CPJ. The callers were particularly upset with her
reporting on militias, widely suspected to be aligned with the ruling
Chama Cha Mapinduzi party, which had attacked opposition supporters,
according to press reports. The opposition had boycotted the elections.
In her statement to THRD, the journalist said that a group of men in
civilian clothes forced her into a car as she left the airport in Dar es
Salaam. "It was hard to see where we were heading," she said, "and in a
matter of time, we arrived at a compound, judging from the sound of
gates opening and closing behind us."
In her statement, Said described having been "confined into a room,
where they brutally kicked and beat me to the point where I was weary
and faintly breathing. They would leave the room, only to come back and
do the same over again. I suffered crude blows all over my body, the
pain was severe, and I had to stay calm and do as they please."
The journalist said her captors had been silent for much of the time
she was held, but that they told her "that they [did not] want [her]
reporting on the ongoing elections in Zanzibar."
Said told THRD that her abductors dropped her near where they had taken her at around 11:30 a.m. on the morning of March 20.
"I couldn't have seen their faces or the car, as they ordered me to
not uncover myself until they left," Said told THRD. "I dragged myself,
walking slowly from the severe pain all over my body ... [until]a woman noticed me and helped me get a taxi" to a hospital.
Olengurumwa told CPJ that Said was now safe and that THRD was helping her recover from the shock of the ordeal.
Zanzibar has been gripped by a political crisis
since the results of October 2015 elections, which the opposition Civic
United Front claimed to have won, were cancelled. The opposition has
urged its supporters to boycott the political process since. Said's
husband, Ali Salim Khamis, is an opposition member of parliament.
The dangers of drowsy driving have been widely documented. Most recently, a study found that car crashes become more likely in the few days after we adjust our clocks for daylight saving time and lose an hour of sleep.
But it’s difficult to prevent people from driving while sleep deprived because there is no benchmark for sleepiness like there is for drunkenness — even though the effects of sleep deprivation are equivalent to those of being legally drunk.
Several startups now want to do the same thing for drowsy driving
that breathalyzers did for drunken driving, The Wall Street Journal
reports. These companies have developed face-tracking technology that
can detect when drivers become dangerously sleepy and have licensed
their software to major carmakers.
Here’s how this safety feature might work: A camera in your car
monitors your facial expression, compares it to a database of
expressions and determines if you are likely sleepy, distracted or
agitated. The car then alerts you to pay attention or pull over.
Massachusetts-based Affectiva has developed emotion recognition
technology that aims to detect when people are just starting to get
tired. The idea is to catch the warning signs before drowsiness really
strikes.
“Actually, when someone is drowsy, that’s too late,” Gabi Zijderveld,
vice president of the MIT Media Lab spinoff, told The Huffington Post.
“The really interesting part of our software is ‘predictive analytics.’
What if you can see trends in someone’s face about five minutes before they become sleepy and tune out?”
