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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 06 Aug 2012 : 13:21:35
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US$100m trans-Gambia Bridge due by late 2012
Monday, August 06, 2012
The construction of the trans-Gambia bridge will begin before the end of 2012, Mambury Njie, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, said in Dakar on Friday, according to APA news agency.
The move comes after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Gambia’s minister of Foreign Affairs and his Senegalese counterpart Alioune Badara Cisse for implementation of the project, under consideration for more than 30 years.
The project, financed at 100% by the African Development Bank (ADB), is estimated at €74.5 million equivalent to US$100 million, and should be completed in 2017.
As an official of the ADB underlines it “there were much economic factors than political which delayed the starting of the project. But the two countries showed goodwill and the negotiations ended up succeeding.”
Analysts believe that the construction of the bridge, measuring 942 metres in length, is good news for both Gambia and Senegal and West African trade in general, since the interior traffic has over the past decades been limited by the absence of a road link which makes it possible to cross the Gambia river, an essential link of the Dakar-Lagos corridor.
The project is expected to allow the opening-up of Casamance area on the south of Senegal, which suffers particularly from its geographical separation with the north of the country.
Of the total sum of €74.5 million for the project, the ADB has offered €71 million to The Gambia as grant, while Senegal will take the €3.5 million as loan.
It is also expected that the road which connects the bridge to the South of Senegal, the section of Keur Ayib-Sénoba, Farafenni-Bounkiling, will be renovated as part of the project.
The property, maintenance, management, exploitation and the safety of the Trans-gambia bridge, will be entirely for Gambia.
To be completed within a timeframe of five years, the project will help bring to fruition plans which the governments of The Gambia and Senegal have had for many years, to create free traffic flow between the northern and southern parts of each in order to promote free movement of persons, goods and services between them and other countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Source: The point
Related Topic from Daily Observer: Gambia, Senegal sign MoU on Trans-Gambia bridge
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toubab1020
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Posted - 06 Aug 2012 : 13:56:13
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"The property, maintenance, management, exploitation and the safety of the Trans-gambia bridge, will be entirely for Gambia."
Very good, The Gambia has a free bridge and all the money that they can make from tolls of vehicles crossing the bridge,couldn't want anything more,in return for the free bridge,there come responsibilities: maintenance, management,safety,functions that Gambia has far from excelled in the past,the remaining responsibility; exploitation,Gambia has shown that she is very good at.
It is not my intention to be negative but history has surely shown my PERSONAL opinion to be accurate.
Will anybody be prepared to join a discussion and give THEIR opinions ? |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Janko
Gambia
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Posted - 11 Aug 2012 : 14:50:12
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" ... maintenance, management,safety,functions that Gambia has far from excelled in the past,the remaining responsibility;exploitation,Gambia has shown that she is very good at..." There is nothing positive in that statement ... but then what else do you expect from toubab1020...
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How will that affect the flow of water from the river into the Atlantic in the rainy-season and from the Atlantic into the river in the dry-season. Would the water-flow create more or less farmland due to saltwater reaching further inland than before and thereby affecting farmlands alongside the riverbanks ... or the flow of water would be unchanged.
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Edited by - Janko on 11 Aug 2012 14:52:03 |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 11 Aug 2012 : 15:15:55
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Ah.Janko, good afternoon to you,it's pleasant to have a reply from someone even though they tend sometimes hold diametrically opposed views to your own,you know very well that I am an expert on no subject and am merely a commentator on published news from Gambia so I cannot answer your question,there is without doubt a bantaba reader who can,but who chooses not to as he is entitled to do.I can say for certain that there will be EXPERTS (and no I have no idea of who they might be !) on the behavior of rivers and water flow that will be asked to give their opinion,after all a lot of money to be invested in this project,so Janko,I cannot help you.
I have given my opinion on this project,I note that you yourself have NO opinion,otherwise I suppose you may have shared it with other readers. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Momodou
Denmark
11713 Posts |
Posted - 22 Aug 2012 : 14:27:06
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Trans-Gambia Bridge Project and the Remaining Issues
By Abdou Karim Sanneh, a Gambian in UK
The Daily News: Published on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Gambia River Basin-Socio-Economic Analysis is the theme of my recent-completed research dissertation at University of East Anglia, School of International Development.
Timely with the green light from the Government for the building of Trans-Gambia Bridge in Bambatenda, I would like to share with the readership, key issues surrounding the Gambia River Development Project, including Trans-Gambia Bridge Project which was part of the focus the research question.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 22 Aug 2012 : 16:04:34
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As has been established in previous studies ALL of the projects require agreement from ALL countries involved,some projects will not work because of several factors,first and foremost to get long lasting reliable and sustainable agreement is almost impossible between African countries,due to their political and cultural set up,personal power is very important to any politician in Africa.
Secondly,where is the money going to come from to fund these grandiose schemes ?
by African countries involved ? government involvement ?Investors ? Loans? Grants?,you will notice that I have left out the obvious option for MOST West African countries.
Again its all about money and power,(and not the power of electricity either  )
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Edited by - toubab1020 on 22 Aug 2012 16:05:02 |
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