Gambia protesters burn tyres to denounce power cuts
Barrow ed facilities for the national utility, National Water and Electricity Company Ltd, on Tuesday morning and promised that Gambia would receive new generators this week.
Police used tear gas to disperse protesters who gathered overnight in multiple locations in Gambia, including near President Adama Barrow’s official residence, to denounce what they described as prolonged power cuts, residents and a Reuters witness said.
Officials are “working relentlessly to restore stability and improve the reliability of electricity supply as soon as possible,” Gambia’s information minister, Ismaila Ceesay, said in a statement on Tuesday that described the events of the previous night as “deeply disconcerting”.
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