{"id":91788,"date":"2025-12-11T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T14:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:36:41","slug":"cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy","title":{"rendered":"Cement Dealers Blame Shortage on Gov\u2019T Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>As the country face acute shortage of cement, traders have said the government policy of giving monopoly of the market to \u201cso-called\u2019 factories in the country is to blame.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alhagie Touray, a long time cement trader in Farafenni said his position is that there is no cement factory in The Gambia as all those claiming to be running factories are just importing and rebagging cement in The Gambia and therefore does not deserve monopoly or preferential treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A factory that manufacture cement in the country should not talk about its cargo or ship not been able to dock at sea. That is a lame excuse. The government needs to listen to the ordinary Gambian and lift the heavy tariff on cross border trade in cement to avoid shortages and price hikes. Look at the price of cement now. Even D1000 cannot get you two bags of cement in this country now. The cheapest is D625 while at some places not is costing nearly D800, if available at all,\u201d Touray lamented.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. As the country face acute shortage of cement, traders have said the government policy of giving monopoly of the market to \u201cso-called\u2019 factories in the country is to blame. Alhagie Touray, a long time cement trader in Farafenni said his position is that there is no cement factory in The Gambia as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":91787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-91788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","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>Cement Dealers Blame Shortage on Gov\u2019T Policy - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As the country face acute shortage of cement, traders have said the government policy of giving monopoly of the marke ...\" \/>\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\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cement Dealers Blame Shortage on Gov\u2019T Policy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the country face acute shortage of cement, traders have said the government policy of giving monopoly of the marke ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy\" \/>\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=\"2025-12-11T14:27:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-11T15:36:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/12\/sm_1765454625.854861.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\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Cement Dealers Blame Shortage on Gov\u2019T Policy\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-11T14:27:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-11T15:36:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/12\/sm_1765454625.854861.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/cement-dealers-blame-shortage-on-govt-policy\",\"name\":\"Cement Dealers Blame Shortage on Gov\u2019T Policy - 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