Assuming the population of the Gambia is 1,300,000, that makes a whopping
D8000 debt for every Gambian.

Malanding

----- Original Message -----
From: "malik kah" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:44 PM
Subject: HALIFA MAKING A POINT OF FACT


> Gambia's debt at over D10, 000 million Halifa Sallah discloses to National
> Assembly
>
> The National Assembly has been told that The Gambia's debt, which was
> described as huge last year has peaked to a tune of over ten thousand,
three
> hundred million dalasi (D10, 300, 000000). Making the revelation Halifa
> Sallah the member for Serekunda Central stated that out of the amount,
four
> hundred and eighty-two million dalasis has been spent on the import of
> agricultural commodities which is equivalent to 30 percent of the
country's
> gross domestic product (GDP). He added that despite agriculture being the
> mainstay of the country's economy, Gambians are yet to be self-sufficient
in
> food as 42 percent of imports is on food, which can be produced in the
> country.
>

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