INDEPENDENT NEWS PAPER
MONDAY 25TH JUNE 2001

Gov't committed to environmental sanitation

The government is concerned that environmental sanitation is
generally poor in our communities and that the vector that causes
malaria lives and breeds in poor environmental conditions. To save
life and reduce morbidity and mortality due to malaria, government
has decided to institutionalize a national "Set - Setal" day to
encourage our communities to clean the environment. It is expected
that through such activity the mosquito population could be        reduced
thereby minimizing the malaria incidence. The end result is a
healthier and more productive population.

The general public is hereby informed that The Gambia is charged
with the responsibility of coordinating malaria prevention and
control under the Regional Health for Peace Initiative and that His
Excellency the President has himself spare headed the campaign to
Roll Back Malaria since May 1999. It is therefore incumbent on
everybody living in The Gambia to join the campaign against
malaria. Cleaning our environment is a very important factor in the
promotion of health and a prerequisite to the success of the roll back
malaria programme.

The general public is therefore urged to view the institutionalization
of the National "Set Setal" Day as a national endeavour to bring
down malaria prevalence in The Gambia. It should also be seen as a
duty and service to our country and people. We should all willingly
participate in this campaign. The government has therefore decided
that with immediate effect the first Saturday of every month between
the hours of 8 to 11 am should be observed as National "Set Setal"
Day throughout the country.

Everybody living in The Gambia should be involved in cleaning the
environment on that Day during the specified time. All institutional
heads, divisional commissioners, district chiefs, village heads
("Alkalolu"), religious leaders, yard owners, school heads and civil
society are urged to encourage their communities to actively
participate in the cleansing exercise.





                         Copyright 2000


>From: Beran jeng <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: UDP Delegation Ends US Visit
>Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:55:12 -0400
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>UDP Delegation Ends US Visit
>
>
>
>The Independent (Banjul)
>
>June 25, 2001
>Posted to the web June 25, 2001
>
>Banjul
>
>A UDP delegation led by party leader Ousainou Darboe recently ended a
>three-week visit to the United States.
>
>A statement from the party says Mr. Darboe and his delegation met and had
>fruitful discussions with hundreds of Gambians in America. The party held
>rallies in areas with a high concentration of Gambians such as New York
>City, Atlanta, Raleigh and the Washington DC area. The delegation said they
>left the United States 'with a strong sense of satisfaction that Gambians
>in
>America are gravely concerned over our country’s state of affairs.’
>
>In addition to holding rallies with the Gambian community, the UDP
>delegation said they met several top US government officials with whom they
>had wide-ranging and fruitful discussions on the political state of affairs
>in The Gambia. Among the top US officials they met was the influential New
>Jersey Democratic Congressman Donald Payne, who 'pledged to use his good
>offices to help the Gambian people in their quest for freedom and democracy
>and said he would try to visit the country either before or during the
>upcoming presidential elections and would push for the presence of
>international election monitors,’ the UDP statement said.
>
>The delegation also met senior staff at the House Committee on Foreign
>Relations who, the party says, 'pledged to push for greater scrutiny of the
>Jammeh regime and in particular on events leading up to the elections.’
>
>In a letter to Mr. Ousainou Darboe, Congressman William J. Jefferson
>affirmed the American government’s commitment to support the democratic
>process in The Gambia and elsewhere. The Congressman wrote: 'It is indeed
>regrettable that the Gambian Government’s human rights record worsened in
>2000 as evidenced in the Department of State’s Country Reports on Human
>Rights for the year 2000. Reportedly, the Government continues egregious
>violations of constitutionally guaranteed protections and the courts are
>subject to executive branch pressure, particularly at the lower levels, and
>opposition parties continue to be groundlessly restricted.’ Congressman
>Jefferson went on to urge 'respect for the Constitution of The Gambia and
>the integrity of process. I support free, fair and transparent elections
>witnessed by independent election observers in The Gambia.’ He concluded by
>calling for political tolerance and civility on all sides.
>
>'We prepared and submitted to the US government and officials a detailed
>brief in which we outlined our concerns regarding the undemocratic conduct
>of the Jammeh regime,’ a UDP official told The Independent.
>
>In this brief, a copy of which was sent to The Independent, the UDP details
>the arrest, detention, and harassment of its members over the years, the
>Basse incident, the killing of student demonstrators by security forces in
>April 2000, the Indemnity Act, the recent constitutional amendments, the
>sacking of IEC chairman Bishop Tilewa Johnson, the continued presence in
>the
>country’s statute books of military decrees such as the NIA decree 45,
>press
>decrees 70/71 and political bans decree 89, among other things. The
>statement called on the United States government and the international
>community 'to use all means available to ensure that conditions for free
>and
>fair elections prevail in the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for
>October 2001.’
>
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