GAMBIA: SYMBOLIC NEW CURRENCY NOTES HIDE SLOW PROGRESS ON POLITICAL AND SECURITY REFORM
Wed, 14 August 2019
President Adama Barrow is promoting symbolic measures such as a new look for its local currency note to purchase political capital ahead of 2021 elections as his own coalition unravels over second term ambitions. Progress on political and security sector reform has been slow and the truth commission’s performance has been heavily criticised. Yet eventual oil production would offer an economic boon and improve the country’s ability to service its debts.
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