Information gathered by Igbere TV has it that Gambia’s President Adama Barrow, has suspended all foreign travel by officials, including himself, to reduce public spending, a government spokesman announced on Saturday, August 19, 2023.
Barrow signed an executive order “suspending all overseas travels by the president, the vice-president, cabinet ministers, senior government officials, civil servants and employees across all government institutions and agencies,” for the rest of the fiscal year, presidential spokesman Ebrima Sankareh said in a statement.
Meetings where Gambian participation is compulsory and foreign trips entirely financed by external sources will be exempt.”
The Gambia, continental Africa’s smallest country with just over two million inhabitants, ranks 174th out of 191 on the UN’s Human Development Index, which combines health, education and standard of living criteria.
