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TIMOR-LESTE: Rebuilding infrastructure poses challenge to tackling malaria

DILI Thursday, April 24, 2008 (IRIN) - Timor-Leste reported 46,832 cases of malaria - nearly one-twentieth of the population - in 2007 but health officials are optimistic that a nationwide spraying campaign and the extensive distribution of bed nets since then will have reduced numbers. The Ministry of Health told IRIN it wants every man, woman and child to sleep under an insecticide-impregnated bed net. In a country where 80 percent of those sampled for malaria test positive, this might seem...

NEPAL: Rehabilitation of Maoist combatants remains key challenge

KATHMANDU Thursday, October 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of Maoist soldiers continue to face an uncertain future in UN-supervised cantonments. Over the past two years, the 20,000 former combatants, including 3,846 women, of the Maoist military wing, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), have been confined to seven main camps and 21 satellite camps monitored by the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN). In 2006, the Maoist rebels and Nepalese government signed a peace agreement to end a decade-long armed...

CAMBODIA: Rising drug use jeopardises AIDS success

PHNOM PENH Thursday, October 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Evidence of the large-scale use and manufacturing of methamphetamine in Cambodia could pose a new challenge to the fight against HIV/AIDS, warned non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In the capital, Phnom Penh, 14 percent of injecting drug users were found to be HIV positive in 2006, rocketing to 35.1 percent in 2007, according to statistics from the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD), a government body. Studies have found that...

Title: The Biggest Secret

Author: David Icke Publisher and Date of Publication: Bridge of Love Publications 1999 505 pages; paperback This is a book that will challenge your outlook on life, because it defies conventional wisdom. Everything that you have been brought up to believe as the truth is debunked with facts. From the story of creation right through to the aristocracies, the multinational companies and banks that dominate the world, you are made to realize that they are not what they seem, or that they seem more...

Antwerp Banjul Challenge Donates to Batokunda Village

The Antwerp Banjul Challenge recently donated an ambulanceto the community of Batokunda in the Kombo South district of the WesternRegion. Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the ward councillorfor Kartong Ward, Lamin Jambang Jammeh, urged the beneficiaries to make gooduse of the ambulance. For his part, the Alkalo of Batokunda Village, Fafa Jatta,expressed his appreciation to the donors for their generous gesture which he saidwill contribute greatly to the development of the village. He...

Antwerp Banjul Challenge Donates to Riders for Health

The Antwerp Banjul challenge yesterday donated a set of mechanical tools worth 4,000 euros to Riders for Health at their headquarters in Kanifing. Speaking at the occasion, the chairman of Riders for Health Gambia office, Alhagie Nyangado, said the tools donated will greatly help riders in their day to day work. Mr. Nyangado commended the donors for the initiatve adding that Antwerp Banjul Challenge has a very good relationship with Riders for Health. Henry Meerveld, presenting the donated...

Poultry farmers hold consultative forum

At least 50 poultry farmers from across the country, on Sunday, held a one-day consultative forum on the way forward for the development of the poultry industry in The Gambia at a ceremony held at the Wellingara agricultural centre. The day’s forum was organised by working groups of different poultry farmers’ associations in collaboration with the National Agricultural Development Agency (NADA), and the Department of Veterinary and Extension Services, among others. The forum which brought...

New front against illegal dumping

Conscious of the fact that the issue of garbage collection and its management constitutes not only a veritable challenge but also a real threat to public health, the Federation of Senegalese Organisations in The Gambia (FRSG) has embarked on an initiative that is meant to open a new front in the fight against illegal dumping. As a result, the initiators of this project expressed the need to address the issue of garbage collection. In a report sent to the Daily Observer,  FRSG hailed...

A Tough Talking President

President Yahya Jammeh is a no nonsense man. The other day,he took the Supreme Islamic Council (SIC) to task for not living up toexpectation. Now, he is making it clear that he is not going to sit idly bywhile murderers run amok in the country. He says he is going to deal withanybody found guilty of murder. So this is a warning to our youths who seem totake pleasure at stabbing one another at the slightest provocation.Murder, alongside theft and lying, is a grievous crime.Nobody has the right...

Hart House: A Constant Challenge

Gambian Home for Children with Learning Difficulties other wise known as the Hart House got its first two of children on October 2000. Their intention is to help children with learning difficulties become useful in society. The Hart House founded and run by Mr. Geoff Hunwicks, the Chief Executive Officer and Rohey Hunwicks, Managing Director and wife of the CEO, are bent on helping these needy children but would only work with the assistance of the community and parastatals or individuals that...