Gambia pays steep price for poor port infrastructure

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The Gambia is paying the price for poor infrastructure at the Banjul River port.
It was once a preferred destination for cargo heading to many West African countries. But with limited space and a shortage of much-needed investment, the port is losing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue every year.
And as neighbouring countries modernise and expand their operations, there are fears that The Gambia will lose more customers to the competition.
Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris reports from Banjul, Gambia.
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@Ismael_jagne 2 жыл бұрын

I’m a Gambian and the country is falling everyday, not only about the port issues but also cost of living in the country is speak less

@unknowntrap7601 Жыл бұрын

Is it true without university it is hard to have a job in Gambia ?

@cndungu 2 жыл бұрын

I'm Kenyan and I can guess it's embezzlement and corruption that made that port that small. Extreme corruption is Africa's pandemic

@zakgt500 2 жыл бұрын

ngori

@joofliggay4986 2 жыл бұрын

Say again

@zakgt500 2 жыл бұрын

@@joofliggay4986 cheza chini

@musabah2937 2 жыл бұрын

That's the fact brother

@zakgt500 2 жыл бұрын

@@musabah2937 chini ya waba

@sallymoen6371 Жыл бұрын

This would be a good investment for a billion-dollar project with immediate returns

@jameelmotala2445 2 жыл бұрын

South Africa has similar issues with its ports

@maxezaz7694 2 жыл бұрын

Remember to give sadaqa today 💚🌹

@level1selamat155 2 жыл бұрын

Eddiote are you okay?

@joebidet2050 2 жыл бұрын

I've been to Banjul Not a bad place Lot of middle aged British women looking for love 😆

@nobs997 2 жыл бұрын

They still pay for the service though

@yutakago1736 2 жыл бұрын

Gambia should learn from Singapore.

@gloriouse4458 2 жыл бұрын

AFRICA IS A RICH 🤑 COUNTRY ⭐️💫HOPE ONE DAY SOON THE LEADERS ARE REPLACED WITH EFFECTIVE LEADERS THAT SUPPORT THE PEOPLE N THEIR NEEDS, LIKE INFRASTRUCTURE 👍🏼🤠🌷

@samsonsoturian6013 2 жыл бұрын

I think you'll find the inmates are running the asylum.

@nobs997 2 жыл бұрын

@@chechnya Rwanda would disagree with you

@hengongchua6250 2 жыл бұрын

Africa is not a country. It is a continent and there are 54 countries in Africa today. With the 54 countries, there are hundreds if not thousand of different tribal groups. Many of the tribal groups cannot get along well and still fighting each other. There are also religion problems, languages problems, races problems and corruption is beyond imagination in many of the 54 countries. If they can solve all these problems, Africa will rise eventually.

@MrTaxiRob 2 жыл бұрын

this is why countries outsource port management and take on foreign loans to improve them

@samsonsoturian6013 2 жыл бұрын

And why a lot of states become colonies.

@MissPriss919 2 жыл бұрын

Has The Gambia also entered a deal with the Chinese government (like other African nations) to borrow money to build a port only to forfeit it to the Chinese when Gambia defaults on loan payments? I hope they are smarter than that.

@jilanka1057 2 жыл бұрын

The Chinese are already destroying our country madam. Africa is just Africa

@frankiedehockie 2 жыл бұрын

I hope you can give them the $500M to build a new port. You sound very silly? Can you name a port in Africa can has seized?

@chou3595 2 жыл бұрын

no, that's why the port looks like it

@bgsonsthriving. 2 жыл бұрын

Current President is a fool

@thetruthhurts922 2 жыл бұрын

They should be because the Gambia is a shitwhole compared to other african countries and its location is a golden key but is not used in the right way

@AngelsFalls 2 жыл бұрын

This is a country where the poor get poorer everyday, and the rich getting richer.

@FloridaMan69. 2 жыл бұрын

sounds like the u.s.

@samsonsoturian6013 2 жыл бұрын

No one is getting richer. If anyone had money to spare they'd hire a competent crane operator.

@samsonsoturian6013 2 жыл бұрын

@@FloridaMan69. shut up

@AngelsFalls 2 жыл бұрын

@@FloridaMan69. 😀 They think they're Gods, Tell'em this life is just a preparation for the next.

@AngelsFalls 2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.skeleton3190 plus we had a sea apart which has fresh water, but greediness is the problem.

@antonejohnson8825 2 жыл бұрын

Realising In The Next 100 year the rivers would have two turn bucklers route back into the ocean *Gambia River One The Longest River In Africa ! Top 5 for sure

@amstrong1624 Жыл бұрын

Gambia president should make this place his priority but they're busy making their pockets as priority. Senegal is sinking the country

@Sirjohnwilliamuk 2 жыл бұрын

They should have made the deal with the Chinese instead of USA. Them billion Chinese could build that I'm a week

@antonejohnson8825 2 жыл бұрын

The Gambia Truth Is That Its River Is Not Wide Enough A Ship To Turn Around Going Back Out Into The Ocean ! Or The Gambia would be a Ship Yard Maintenance Cargo Ships ! Their government can not afford it because they simply don't have a true economically vision for the nations rightful relations with the continent of the peninsula nations *

@jzk2020 2 жыл бұрын

Public Private Partnership. Let the private investors raise the money, build the port, operate it for 20 years, then transfer it over to the government and it won't cost you a penny.

@samsonsoturian6013 2 жыл бұрын

Such arrangements tend to become permanent since the government can't afford to buy the ports foreigners build.

@JA-pn4ji 2 жыл бұрын

@@samsonsoturian6013 Who cares after all the government would be a shareholder in such schemes and the private sector will maintain efficiency.

@oceejekwam6829 2 жыл бұрын

Anything to avoid the Chinese take over. So Gambia can't raise $500 million from Africa, the Caribbean or the black diaspora? Even if this were the case, what is Africa doing to phase begging from China out quickly? Probably, nothing.

@samsonsoturian6013 2 жыл бұрын

@@JA-pn4ji or even if not so states will sign mutual defense pacts with states that contain a lot of their expats and/or investments

@nobs997 2 жыл бұрын

20 years is a short time to recover your money and make profit

@juliussetilomalema720 2 жыл бұрын

Mean while Former president Yaya Jammeh is living five star Hotel in Jedda Saudi Arabia

@nobs997 2 жыл бұрын

An exiled corrupt Muslim leader is always welcomed in Saudi Arabia

@ranjithpowell6791 2 жыл бұрын

DP World will do it.

@gambiaismysoul4769 2 жыл бұрын

Gambia woo Gambia

@omarb1912 2 жыл бұрын

Coulda have one them Chinese built port

@mo_gmbin8883 2 жыл бұрын

So basically we need help,now they will come fund the stupid government with billions because we can’t even afford half the money, and that’s the day Gambia will have a new colony’s lol🧮

@thetruthhurts922 2 жыл бұрын

@Mo_GMBIN The gambia is not ruled and controlled by a gambian anymore but its rules from Dakar and they have infiltrated gambia and will never allow gambia to develop or be a successful country! The Senegalese used ecowas to remove jammeh the only man that didn't take orders from Washington and Paris or Dakar! Jammeh was a gambian but the people choose a Senegalese agent as a president instead. Wow to the gambians you are a blind people sadly

@mo_gmbin8883 2 жыл бұрын

@@thetruthhurts922 Mr truth air is unlimited,plz breathe😅👌🏾

@Dividerinchief 2 жыл бұрын

Only china can shave Gambia

@dearlife7771 2 жыл бұрын

It because they are corrupt

@generalstack6540 2 жыл бұрын

The Gambian ports are almost as dysfunctional as the American ports

@oceanwave4502 2 жыл бұрын

I suggest Gambia government works with China in the framework of BRI to improve their infrastructure. No one else can do that better than the Chinese.

@PM2024- 2 жыл бұрын

😆 funny joke

@frankiedehockie 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@alexlazar4738 2 жыл бұрын

@@frankiedehockie I wondered why China has not built the port for Gambia already and then found out that the US is full of praise for Gambian government. Everything clear now.

@mahmoodahmed6486 2 жыл бұрын

African development bank or World bank should finance,instead of china loans

@mohammedyusuf3888 2 жыл бұрын

world bank do not finance, they just cripple....please learn what the imf and world bank doo....usury and interest are the main culprits...as with usury the rich get richer and poor get poorer....as without interest it would be a level playing field....as we know the american dollar is worth almost nothing.....and china the same..... print print print money....african should go back to a gold standard and see how we will prosper....first the muslim nations...must come to the quran and sunnah...and then do some house cleaning and corriuption will be reduced...

@nobs997 2 жыл бұрын

If you really really want a port Chinese loan is the way to go

@Vandemataram-108 2 жыл бұрын

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@thetruthhurts922 2 жыл бұрын

What democracy do you mean ? The same democracy that gave Hitler the help to take over Germany? Or the democracy that allowed america to kill 2 million iraqis since 2003 ? Or the same democracy that have Natzis in its government like in Ukraine?

@thetruthhurts922 2 жыл бұрын

AB GSN it's funny how you say al Jazeera who is a state owned news channel that is runed by the authority of qatar which is the Emir of Qatar 🤣 How can a country ruled by a emir, sultan teach other countries about democracy?