{"id":51703,"date":"2024-01-22T07:27:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T07:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?p=51703"},"modified":"2024-01-22T05:59:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T05:59:59","slug":"government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector","title":{"rendered":"Government Gives Nod For 60% Sale Of Gamcel To Private Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The government of President Adama Barrow has given the green light to sell a majority stake of Gamcel, the national mobile operator, to private investors. This was disclosed by Information Minister Lamin Queen Jammeh on GRTS.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The minister said that the Cabinet had endorsed the proposal to split GAMTEL, the national fixed-line operator, into two separate entities offering wholesale and retail services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCabinet considered and approved the transfer of GAMTEL fibre and Telecom assets to the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) which will be significantly referred to as Gambia Fibre Company Limited for its operationalization<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsider and approved the tender process for the privatization and disposal of 60% of GAMCEL share to private investors and approval was granted,\u201d the information minister told GRTS.<\/p>\n<p>The move to privatize and restructure GAMTEL\/Gamcel comes as the company faces serious financial and operational difficulties that jeopardize its sustainability.<\/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 of President Adama Barrow has given the green light to sell a majority stake of Gamcel, the national mobile operator, to private investors. This was disclosed by Information Minister Lamin Queen Jammeh on GRTS. The minister said that the Cabinet had endorsed the proposal to split GAMTEL, the national fixed-line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":51702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-51703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","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>Government Gives Nod For 60% Sale Of Gamcel To Private Sector - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government of President Adama Barrow has given the green light to sell a majority stake of Gamcel, the national m ...\" \/>\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\/government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government Gives Nod For 60% Sale Of Gamcel To Private Sector\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government of President Adama Barrow has given the green light to sell a majority stake of Gamcel, the national m ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector\" \/>\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=\"2024-01-22T07:27:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/01\/sm_1705890399.781209.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Government Gives Nod For 60% Sale Of Gamcel To Private Sector\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-22T07:27:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/01\/sm_1705890399.781209.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/government-gives-nod-for-60-sale-of-gamcel-to-private-sector\",\"name\":\"Government Gives Nod For 60% Sale Of Gamcel To Private Sector - 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