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Her exotic beauty and heart-wrenching portrayal of tormented slave Patsey in 12 Years a Slave catapulted her into stardom. But five years ago, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o starred in Shuga, a sexually-charged MTV Base Africa soap opera in which she juggled two men. In the three-part first season, the 31-year-old actress played ambitious go-getter Ayira, who sleeps with her boss at Maverick Advertising.

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Workplace tryst: In the three-part first season, the 31-year-old actress played ambitious go-getter Ayira, who sleeps with her boss at Maverick Advertising

'You got what you wanted, right? Now it's my turn,' wealthy Felix said, kissing Ayira over a conference table

'Are you sleeping with anyone else?' Felix asked and when Ayira said no he added: 'Then there's no problem, is there?'

PSA: The show's numerous steamy sex scenes proved a great way to raise HIV/AIDS awareness, and by the third part Ayira discovers she might have contracted the deadly disease. Lupita Nyong'o in sexually-charged Kenyan soap opera 'Shuga'

The show's numerous steamy sex scenes proved a great way to raise HIV/AIDS awareness, and by the third part Ayira discovers she might have contracted the deadly disease.

Getting down: In a previous encounter with her older boss, the flawless It Girl straddles his lap wearing little more than a black lacy bra

Drama: The advertising CEO's daughter then interrupts the frisky pair

Caught in the act: Lupita's college student character is often in various states of undress throughout the series.

Wet and wild: Lupita takes a serene shower at one point in the series

Juggling two men: But even that sequence gets transformed into a love scene when her boyfriend Ty unexpectedly joins her from behind

'Where are my jeans?' Between school, a waitress job, a boyfriend, and supporting her mother - Nyong'o is literally rushing from scene to scene, even in her panties

Roommates: Shuga turned out to be a hit - airing in 40 different African countries before eventually airing internationally on 70 TV stations

'I think one thing [Shuga] is trying to do is talk about how HIV and AIDS is not a death sentence': Through her work on Shuga, Nyong'o became an ambassador for HIV and AIDS

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Will justice prevail in Kenyatta's crimes against humanity trial?

A Kenyan protester looks at photographs of post-election violence during a demonstration in Nairobi in 2011. [Simon Maina/AFP]

• A photograph taken on April 8, 2011, shows then Kenyan Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta (2nd left) at the International Criminal Court. [AFP]
  

While opinion is split, nearly everyone has something to say about it. Some people support the postponement of the trial, while others say the ICC prosecution should persevere. Others still are calling for a Kenyan alternative to the international court.

The ICC's case against Kenyatta has suffered a number of setbacks since it started, with numerous witnesses withdrawing their testimonies and allegations of witness tampering on both sides of the case. In December, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda admitted that she did not have enough evidence to try Kenyatta for crimes against humanity during the 2007-2008 post-election violence, and on January 23rd, the prosecution team requested to postpone the trial indefinitely.

Kenyatta has 'more pressing' matters to focus on

Supporters of Kenyatta say the prosecution's lack of watertight evidence and the withdrawal of crucial witnesses have irredeemably weakened the case.

"It is obvious now that the case against the president is fatally flawed and crumbling," Juja lawmaker Francis Munyua Waititu told Sabahi. "Then why should the president waste his energy, time and resources on a matter which has no head or tail?"

Waititu said Kenyatta has more pressing matters to focus on such as the fight against al-Shaabab, initiating development projects and overseeing the transition to the devolved system of governance.

"Dragging the name of a democratically-elected president of a respectable democracy through the mud by falsely accusing him of committing crimes against humanity, yet there is not an iota of evidence, is an outright abuse of court process," said Nairobi-based lawyer Aomo Kelly of Odiwuor, Aomo Kelly & Associates Advocates.

"I hope the prosecutor owns up that she inherited a weak case from her predecessor," he told Sabahi. "But the time has come to end the circus and apologise to Kenyans and the international community for taking us on a wild goose chase."

The latest postponement gives Bensouda three months to gather additional information, including Kenyatta's financial records, which the prosecutors concede may still not provide strong enough evidence to continue the case.

"The longer this case continues in limbo, the more it taints the credibility of ICC and weakens its global stature," said Anthony Githendu, head of sales at the Kenya Institute of Management.

"The natural thing to do when a prosecutor admits she does not have incontrovertible evidence against a suspect is to drop the charges and let the judges acquit the suspect and not to seek additional time to gather further evidence," he told Sabahi.

Victims seek justice by any means

Nonetheless, supporters of the case against Kenyatta say justice must be served regardless of who the defendant is.

"As a father whose son was killed by a mob in the 2007-2008 post-election violence, I have waited for elusive justice for more than five years," said Joseph Otieno, 61, a charcoal trader in Nairobi's Kibera slum.

"Now, with the talk of inadequate evidence, witnesses being coached, the evidence gathering procedure being flawed, plus other legal jargons, I fear the little hope I had will be eroded if Kenyatta's case is dismissed," he told Sabahi.

While Otieno says it is yet to be proven whether Kenyatta is guilty or innocent, the ICC trial gave him hope.

"Having a big shot in the dock emboldens me that my son will get justice," he said. "It also gives me hope that the wheels of justice are still grinding on, albeit slowly."

"The country's long-term peace and security hinges on the conclusion of the ICC cases," he said.

A Kenyan solution?

Still others offered a third option: a local approach outside of ICC jurisdiction. "Now that the ICC is unable to solve the riddle of who caused post-election mayhem, let us go back to the drawing board and find a Kenyan-driven solution to the problem," said Kitutu Chache South lawmaker Richard Onyonka.

"Let us take over from ICC and establish a domestic justice system," he told Sabahi. "Indeed, I am happy because the judiciary is fast-tracking the creation of International Crimes Division, a special court with similar power to ICC to handle crimes against humanity."

Henry Muthee, 56, a small-scale farmer in Naivasha who lost his cousin in the clashes, said the best way to heal Kenyans' wounds is "for the government to set a local court which will try all the perpetrators of the clashes who obviously are more than the three suspects at the ICC".

"And because the prerogative of providing security to citizens belongs to the government, it should therefore compensate all clash victims unconditionally," Muthee told Sabahi.

But Margaret Macharia, 52, who ran a small bookshop that was torched in the clashes in Eldoret, a town 320 kilometres outside Nairobi, expressed doubt that a Kenyan-led solution would be just.

"If the ICC with the clout it wields is unable to pin down those responsible for chaos, then returning the matter to the jurisdiction of the Kenyan courts is closing the chapter altogether," said Macharia, who now sells second-hand clothes at Gikomba market in Nairobi.

She urged the court to overlook the witnesses who lied and those who gave false evidence because the case is not hinged on the testimony of dozens of witnesses who withdrew but on the "hundreds of others who gave evidence".

"Let the ICC judges determine if there is substantial evidence to try Kenyatta beyond a reasonable doubt and without emotions based on his high station in life," she said.

Forgive and forget

Irungu wa Ndirangu, 44, a taxi driver in Nairobi's Zimmerman estate, said since Kenyatta was elected, then the people found him innocent through the ballot box.

"Let us forgive each other and forget the past," Ndirangu said, adding that the case should be postponed while Kenyatta is in office. "No head of state should face such trials while in office because a guilty verdict may inflame the nation."

But Jerry Kenyansa, national chairman of the Counties Commuter Welfare Association (COCOWA), said that if Kenyatta was innocent, he should have no fear co-operating with the ICC.

"President Kenyatta should not be let off the hook yet until he satisfactorily co-operates with ICC prosecutors," he told Sabahi. "If Kenyatta has nothing to fear or hide, then he should allow the ICC prosecutors' unhindered access to his bank accounts because they allege he personally channelled large sums of money to subsidiaries who paid perpetrators of the violence."

The Kenyan government should also be held accountable for delays in Kenyatta's case, he said.

"[The government] should … assist the ICC with crucial evidence it has against Mr. Kenyatta, rather than hide it under shrouds of state sovereignty," Kenyansa said.

Biding time

Sheila Mugambi, a 29-year-old dentist in training at Kenyatta National Hospital, said justice is unlikely as long as Kenyatta is in power.

"[Kenyatta] is in charge of the Kenyan military, in control of the police, in charge of the intelligence and has vast wealth," she said. "Against this background, it is impossible for witnesses to freely testify against such a powerful suspect."

"It is better to buy time until the suspect is no longer the head of state," she told Sabahi. "I also would be happy if judges ordered fresh investigations to determine whether Kenyatta and the government machinery have covertly intimidated witnesses to withdraw or recant testimonies or bribed them to change their mind."

Kenyatta pledged during his swearing-in as president in April 2013 to co-operate with the ICC to clear his name.

"I wonder what has suddenly dawned on him to abruptly change his mind," Mugambi said. "This prompts me to conclude that the guilty ones are always afraid."

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Violence against women: 'I punched my wife in the face. Now I'm trying to change'

As a shocking EU study shows a third of women have been physically or sexually assaulted, Dina Rickman speaks to a man who punched his wife, and finds out about UK programmes helping abusive men reform

Violence against women: men who abuse their partners can get help Photo: Getty Images

By Dina Rickman

11:30AM GMT 05 Mar 2014

Violence against women is widespread across Europe – so much so that one in three women in the EU have suffered a physical or sexual assault since the age of 15. One in 20 women has also been raped, according to research by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, and one in 10 women has experienced some form of sexual violence.

The statistics are frightening. They show just over one in five women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from either a current or previous partner – but only 67 per cent of victims report those crimes. The FRA even called it a “picture of extensive abuse that affects many women's lives, but is systematically under-reported to the authorities.”

Domestic violence is a growing problem in the UK, as one in four women will experience it at some point in their lives. But, just who are these people committing violence against women? Who are these 'partners' who raise their fists again vulnerable women?

Jack* is one of them.

Before he hurt his wife, he used to be a policeman and got a lot of calls about domestic violence. “I saw women beaten black and blue. No, not black and blue. Red and raw,” he says. He had nothing but “disgust, anger and hatred” for their abusers.

Jack has always had a temper. He used to use it to his advantage when he played rugby. He knows he can be aggressive. But he never thought he’d use his temper on someone he loved. Now 40, Jack is telling me his story almost “five years to the day” after it happened.

His voice is quiet, but I can hear the horror in it. He says it was a routine argument with his wife after a bad day at work. Then he snapped: "I threw her onto the settee on her back, jumped on top of her and punched her in the face. Then we both just stood in the room and we didn't say anything for a minute or two. And at that point I said 'I've got to do something about this.'”

Before the incident Jack had been increasingly aggressive with his wife, and once he’d hit her, he knew he could do it again.

"Once I’d done it I was 100 per cent afraid that I'd do it again. Once you've done it you know you're capable. Having done it, that situation could happen again. That's why I was desperate to get some help…I should have been strong enough to not let it happen,” he tells me.

But how did it get to that point in the first place? I've always wanted to understand those moments before and what goes through a man's mind just before he hits his loved one.

“What had happened is I'd had a really bad day at work, I was coming home and I wanted to talk to my wife about my bad day. I felt like she wasn't listening to me," he explains.

"I got home from work already in a mood. I was upset because I hadn't been able to share my frustrations of the day with my wife. We got into a row about how I wasn't able to talk to her about what had happened at work. Then I just snapped."

He thinks part of the reason that he was so repulsed by what he had done was because of his police work: “Before I did it I was really angry and after was the reason I then decided to contact a group. I couldn't believe that I'd done what I'd done. I was in shock.

"Immediately afterwards I just knew that could not happen again. I had an instant reaction to what happened. I didn't know what to do and I asked my wife at the time. We talked about what had happened. I think we both acknowledged that as a couple we needed some help, I needed more help than she did."

Jack did do something about it, completing a six-month programme for male perpetrators of domestic violence before moving on to a follow-up group, which met monthly for the rest of the year. He hasn’t hit his wife since and has gone back to the follow-up group when he felt like he was getting out of control.

His wife has stayed with him and interestingly she initially had an adverse reaction to him seeking help. “My wife was so embarrassed for me she didn't want me to go on the course, she didn't want me to go through what I went through, because she knew how much it would hurt me. She's never said she would leave me. It's bizarre, considering how I've treated her.”

There are a handful of such specialised programmes around the country. Men can self-refer, like Jack did, or be asked to attend, normally as a condition of their probation or by the family courts.

Most programmes use a mixture of therapeutic techniques to treat abusers and are accredited by Respect, Britain’s biggest domestic violence charity focusing on perpetrators. Respect’s groups are for male abusers, for the simple reason that men are much more likely to be violent towards their partners than women are, but they also run a hotline for male victims of domestic violence and for female perpetrators.

Violence as a habit

The philosophy behind Respect and the programmes it accredits centres around the belief that domestic abusers can change and that violence - like smoking, or drinking - is a habit which can be broken.

It’s a radical approach, but it works. Colin Fitzgerald, Respect’s membership manager, says their research shows between 65 - 75 per cent of men who complete one of their accredited programs stop using violence. Fitzgerald practices what he preaches, running a weekly group for male abusers as well as co-ordinating groups around the country. “What these programs are good at”, he stresses, “is protecting women and children”.

To protect women and children, you have to make abusers change. Without that, says Respect’s chief executive Jo Todd, “you're just sticking a plaster on a very big wound”.

But getting men to confront why they hit their partners is easier said than done: “I could go to a group with 12 guys tonight and say to them, do you think it’s OK to use violence against your partner? They’re all going to tell me, no, it’s not OK. But the reason they’ll all be in that room is because they’ve used violence and abuse against their partner," Fitzgerald tells me.

“What they really mean is, no, it’s not OK to use violence against your partner unless.... Unless she goes out in a short skirt, or unless she said she’d be home by midnight and she comes home at 3am. Or unless she shouts at me and she makes me feel bad or unless she sleeps with my best friend. They’ll be these justifications for when they feel entitled to hit.”

Fitzgerald says treatment isn’t about light bulb moments where people realize what they are doing is wrong. It’s about what they then do with that information: “He needs to have the will to change, he needs to be really committed to it, he needs support. In his own social life, not just his partner”.

Every father’s duty

Respect isn’t the only organization which focuses on the role of men in fighting domestic violence. There’s also the White Ribbon Campaign, who work on raising awareness rather than directly with perpetrators. Its head, Chris Green, tells me men have a responsibility to work towards ending violence. “No father wants his daughter to be a victim, or his son to grow up to be a perpetrator, so it is all fathers’ responsibility.”

Every father, because all types of men can be violent. It’s not, Fitzgerald says, all “bald-headed, drunk, singlet wearing guys who are beating seven rounds out of their partner every night”. Instead it's lawyers, barristers, a lot of city workers, civil servants, traffic wardens - people like you and me.

Working with male abusers can be toxic and there’s a lot to keep in mind, notably constant risk assessment to make sure the men’s partners and former partners are not in danger. And while many on the course learn how to curb their violent behavior, they can’t always save their relationships.

“Some men realise their relationship is damaged to such an extent it’s not going to survive and all they’ve got left is ending their relationship cleanly. Without stalking, without violence. That’s hard for [former] partners as sometimes these guys go on to have relationships that are not abusive”, Fitzgerald says.

For Jack, the opportunity to go to a group changed his life and saved his relationship with his wife and young family. But it’s not easy. “It is about habit. I’m trying to forge the habit of letting that aggression dissipate," he says. “It’s such a difficult thing to fix. It’s not one of those things you can pop down to the doctors and get yourself some tablets and fix. If it was easy to cure domestic violence we’d have done something about it a long time ago.”

*names have been changed. 

 

If you have been a victim of domestic abuse, contact the National Domestic Helpline on freephone 0808 2000 247. 

If you have been a domestic violence perpetrator and would like to receive help, contact Respect on 0808 802 4040, or The White Ribbon Campaign on 01422 886545.

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DRESSES WORN BY ACTRESS AWARD WINNERS THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY

It is the Oscars weekend. The biggest day in film industry. While movies is all Oscars are supposed to be, what happens in the red carpet is as newsworthy just as the nominated movies etc. A popular question from reporters is; what are you wearing? Here is the infographic on dresses that won hearts of many throughout the years…You can definitely find some inspirations from these ones…can’t you?

 
by Mediarun.

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MAN UNITED’S BOARD TO AXE MANAGER DAVID MOYES?

Man United’s board are set for crisis talks with the Old Trafford side ready to axe manager David Moyes after his side failed to overcome bottom of the table Fulham.
CaughtOffside understands that Man United’s American owners are beginning to ran out of patience with Moyes and are ready to sack the Scot and will look to turn to Sir Alex Ferguson as a possible short term replacement to take charge until the summer.
The Glazers are well aware of the financial cost that would befall Man United should they fail to secure a top four finish and the damage that such an eventuality could do to the club’s reputation is clearly not lost on any connected with the Premier League title holder’s.

Moyes saw his side fail to secure all three points against bottom of the table Fulham, a result that leaves Man United nine points from fourth ahead of key Premier League fixture against Arsenal, an away trip to in-form Crystal Palace ahead of facing Olympiakos in the Champions League.

Man United made finances available to Moyes in the January transfer window and Juan Mata arrived from Chelsea though the big name capture has not helped the club’s continued runof poor form.

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