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Re: FWD: Gambia tightens ferry regulations after Atlantic tragedy
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"Dr. Amadou S. Janneh" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 6 Oct 2002 14:44:03 -0400
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>===== Original Message From The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>BANJUL, Oct 5 (AFP) - The west African state of Gambia has sharply reduced
>the number of passengers allowed to board ferries and tightened other
>rules, port officials said Saturday.
>   The decision came in the wake of modern Africa's worst maritime tragedy
>on September 26, when about 1,000 people drowned after an overloaded
>Senegalese ferry capsized in the Atlantic off the Gambian coast.
>   The Gambia Port Authority announced that the maximum number of
>passengers allowed to board ferries will be reduced from 600 to 400.


When is the GPA scheduled to begin enforcement of the regulations?  It seemed
to be business as usual when I boarded a ferry around 2 p.m. yesterday heading
to Barra.

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass" (J. Meyers).

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