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Gambia News : The Gambia exempts Senegalese citizens from alien tax
The Gambian government has decided to waive the obligation of the payment of alien tax for Senegalese nationals residing in the country, APA learns here Thursday.
The announcement was made on Wednesday night in Dakar after a two- day friendship and working visit President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal made to The Gambia on 5 and 6 January.
Senegalese nationals are estimated by some sources at over 300, 000 in this country nestled in the heart of Senegalese territory.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to which The Gambia and Senegal are adhered to, advocates the free movement of goods and people.
Desiring to strengthen their bilateral relations, the two countries have also agreed to work “constructively” to the establishment of a Permanent Senegambian Secretariat, said the joint statement signed at the end of President Wade’s visit to Banjul.
The statement also notes that the two delegations also agreed to hold the next meeting of the Joint Commission between the two countries in April 2010.
The two sides agreed in their determination to find a joint solution to their border differences, through the Consultative Border Commission.
They signed to this effect an agreement on cooperation in security to ensure the strengthening of peace and security between the two countries, and also to ensure that neither party harbours dissidents of the other country.
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- Gambia and Senegal are sister countries that share everything in common. Politicians come and go but we remain the same people. So it is the interest of politicians to stick to their words and not to allow any group that is to cause harm to the other
(Posted on January 11, 2010, 3:01 PM Lamin)
- I give credit to Jammeh and Wade not because they are going After there interests but having realised that we can't continue being divided by the British and the French. I'm calling for unification with autonomy for each country.
(Posted on January 10, 2010, 8:33 PM Bob -marley)
- This is a step in the right direction.The Gambia and and Senegal are by nature the same.There are no other two countries in the world that share what these two countries have in common.
Infact consideration should be given unionising the two states.
(Posted on January 10, 2010, 5:57 PM Alhagie Sowe)
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