Gambia: Business Sector Needs Solution To Challenges For Funding NGOs

GCCI Board Member Dawda Sarge (far right) says private sector “shy away from investing sufficiently in national development due to high risks like weak governance, regulatory uncertainties, and weak rule of law among other structural barriers.”  (Photo: MSJoof/TNBES)

Cash-strapped GCCI forced to forgo plans

Almami Fanding Taal, CEO GCCI has been presiding over a cash-starved body: PHOTO/ Gamwriters

GCCI changes hands

There has been a change in hands at GambiaChamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), the apex body of all private businesses in the country.

On October 5, delegates put an end to the terms of the serving president of the GCCI and its board members by electing a new president and a new board of directors who are tasked with the responsibility of steering the affairs of the body for the next two years.