It is fourteen days today since the official Gambia-Senegal border crossings started closing for all vehicular traffic following the introduction of a new tariff imposed by the Gambian Customs on all Senegalese registered trucks to pay FCFA 400, 000 or more D26, 000 before entering the country and which their road transport unions are protesting against.
An official of the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) told this reporter that they received a directive from their seniors that they should close down the Gambian side a few days after Senegal had closed theirs on 16 February 2016.
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