{"id":24436,"date":"2022-11-25T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike"},"modified":"2022-11-25T20:33:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T20:33:20","slug":"shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike","title":{"rendered":"Shopkeepers in Senegal on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The government early this month announced a general price reduction on basic and essential commodities including foodstuffs. Rental payments for property have also been reduced substantially.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>However this decision and price reduction directive by the government does not seem to go down well with the shopkeepers, who are finding it very difficult to comply with the directive.<\/p>\n<p>Recently 107 shopkeepers across the country were arrested for not respecting or adhering to government\u2019s new reduction of prices.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal\u2019s Ministry of Trade has employed 1,000 youths to monitor prices, and toll numbers have been introduced to report business people who fail to respect or adhere to the new prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The government early this month announced a general price reduction on basic and essential commodities including foodstuffs. Rental payments for property have also been reduced substantially. However this decision and price reduction directive by the government does not seem to go down well with the shopkeepers, who are finding it very difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":24435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-24436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shopkeepers in Senegal on strike - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government early this month announced a general price reduction on basic and essential commodities including food ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shopkeepers in Senegal on strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government early this month announced a general price reduction on basic and essential commodities including food ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-25T18:24:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-25T20:33:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669388101.87.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"492\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Shopkeepers in Senegal on strike\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-25T18:24:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-25T20:33:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike\"},\"wordCount\":124,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669388101.87.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"head lines\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/shopkeepers-in-senegal-on-strike\",\"name\":\"Shopkeepers in Senegal on strike - 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