Machava Maximum Security (a) The respective regimes applicable, on the one hand, to persons undergoing disciplinary confinement and, on the other hand, to persons held in the segregation unit for other reasons, should be expressly laid down. COMMENTS BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MOZAMBIQUE (b)Conditions in the isolation cells should he the same as the one prevailing in any other cell. REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE Maputo Civil Prison MINISTRY OF JUSTICE (a) Sanitation and sewerage system should be improved at the earliest possible time to get rid off the smell throughout the prison. (b)Proper food containers (dishes and plates) should he provided to prisoners in the disciplinary cells. (c)Geneial cleanliness should be maintained at the level observed the day of the visit The Minister's Cabinet Comments regarding the report of the Special Rapporteur on prisons and conditions of detention, written by Dr Vera Chirwa Dear Commissioner The Government of Mozambique thanks the work undertaken by the Commissioner of the African Commission for People and Human Rights and Special Rapporteur on prisons and Conditions of Detention, Dr Vera Chirwa and her team. Her exact recommendations were and still are under consideration with the view of being implemented in such a way as to improve the conditions of detention and reclusion in Mozambique and of the prison system in our country. However, we would like to present a few comments for the sake of precision. In page 8, of the report in Portuguese, it should read that the due to the floods which have devastated the country, the prisoners were transferred from Xai-Xai provincial prison to Cgibuto District Prison. It is a fact that in order to save the prisoners from the floods some of doors of police cells were open.(to be made precise in paragraph 5 and 7). Still in page 8, paragraph 8, it is important to clarify that there is a separation of detainees and sentenced prisoners by gender. Men are in separate cells from women. And, as far as it is possible, prisoners suffering from contagious diseases are also separated, taking into consideration space limitations. 42 43