WHO, Gambia to outlaw tobacco importation

World Health Organization in collaboration with the Gambia Ministry of Health and Social Welfare on Tuesday organized a one day sensitization forum on the re-enforcement of anti-public smoking act in Banjul.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

World Health Organization in collaboration with the Gambia Ministry of Health and Social Welfare on Tuesday organized a one day sensitization forum on the re-enforcement of anti-public smoking act in Banjul.The meeting mandated stakeholders to work out modalities to outlaw public smoking and tobacco importation in to West African nation.

Gambia National Assembly Members has ratified the framework convention of United Nations on tobacco control which Gambia is a party in order to make comprehensive tobacco control in the world. XinhuaThree killed in inter-communal fighting in eastern KenyaTension has again gripped eastern Kenyan town of Isiolo near the border with Ethiopia following the killing of three people on Monday night.Regional police commander, Mercus Ocholla said the fighting started on Monday night when three young men who were harvesting tomatoes on a farm in Gambela area of Tigania East were shot dead by armed assailants from Turkana community.

"Three innocent young men from Meru community were shot by assailants suspected to be from the Turkana community without any apparent reason at around 6PM on Monday,” Ocholla told Xinhua by telephone on Tuesday.