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‘Illegal immigrant’ phrase called neither ‘accurate nor neutral’ as activists turn up volume on call for candidates and media to stop using phrase   US border patrol agents detain undocumented immigrants after they crossed the border from Mexico into the United States in August in McAllen, Texas. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images Lauren Gambino in New York On a scorching day in May 2010, thousands of Latinos and immigration activists marched through the streets of downtown Phoenix in a mighty protest against SB1070, the so-called “show me your papers” law. Among the sea of protest signs was one with a more universal message: “No human being is illegal.” In the years since, a linguistic dispute has welled up on the periphery of the highly charged debate over immigration reform – how to refer to the nearly 11 million people living in the US without legal residency? “We don’t call pedestrians who cross in the middle of the road illegal pedestrians,” sa...

Two people have died and six others were injured, one severely damaged after the vehicle was they were travelling in which is used to transporting newspapers of Mwananchi and citizen from Dar es Salaam to Iringa and Mbeya involved in road accident near Kitonga mountain area on the highway Dar-es-Salaam-Iringa, police in Iringa repotrs. The vehicle carrying the Citizen, Mwananchi and Sportsman newspapers happens from Dar es Salaam to Iringa and Mbeya, hit into back of moving lorry after the driver avoided head-on collision with the vehicle coming from the opposite direction near Kitonga Mountains, Kilolo district in Iringa Region on Friday. Speaking to journalists’ police commander for Iringa Region Ramadhani Mungi said the accident occurred at around 05:00hrs early in the morning when vehicle carrying newspapers entered the back of the lorry being at high speed. "Today has gone very bad here Iringa, the accident involved a Toyota Hiace vehicle carrying newspapers of Mwanan...

Waimbaji wa Bendi ya Skylight pamoja na mashabiki wa bendi hiyo wakiendelea kuzirudi katika kiota cha Escape One Jijini Dar es Salaam na leo sio siku ya kukosa maana utakosa vitu vizuri kutoka katika bendi hiyo Rapa Mkongwe wa muziki wa dansi wa Skylight Band, Joniko Flower akitoa burudani kwa mashabiki wa Skylight Band Jumapili iliyopita ndani ya kioa cha Escape One Mikocheni ambapo leo pia burudani iko pale pale na ndio kwanza week end imeanza kwa fans wa Skylight Band. Kasongo Junior na Natasha wakiwapa raha mashabiki wa Skylight Band (hawapo pichani) ndani ya kiota cha Escape One jumapili iliyopita, bila kukosa ya leo itakuwa pale pale. Sasa ukafika muda wa waimbaji wa bendi ya Skylight kuonesha maujuzi yao uku JOniko akiendelea kuchana mistari. Sam Mapenzi ni muimbaji mashuhuri na huwa anajua kukonga nyoyo za watu hususani katika ule muziki wa Afrika magharibi weee utampenda hata kwa mkopo, hapo akiwa anaimba kwa kushirikiana na wenzake ndani ya bendi ya Skylight. Mwimbaji wa Ba...