Kanifing

{{Short description|Municipality in the Gambia}}

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|alt3 = Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center.

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| shield_alt = A quartered shield, blue and white. Top left has a red sun. Top right has blue waves. Bottom left has a crocodile. Bottom right has a coconut tree. Above, a green coat of arms of The Gambia. Below, a banner saying "KANIFING MUNICIPAL COUNCIL".

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| governing_body = Kanifing Municipal Council

| government_type = Mayor–council government

| leader_party = United Democratic Party

| leader_title = Lord Mayor

| leader_name = Talib Ahmed Bensouda

| area_land_km2 = 75.5

| population_as_of = 2013

| population_total = 382,096

| population_footnotes = {{Cite web |last= |date=1 June 2015 |title=Population and Housing Census of Gambia, 2013 |url=https://gambia.opendataforafrica.org/mmfoqkd/population-and-housing-census-of-gambia-2013 |access-date=20 August 2024 |website=Gambia Data Portal |archive-date=27 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427032235/https://gambia.opendataforafrica.org/mmfoqkd/population-and-housing-census-of-gambia-2013 |url-status=live }}

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Kanifing is a municipality, local government area and district in the Gambia. It is part of the Greater Banjul Area, to the west of Banjul, and is governed by Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC).

The population of Kanifing expanded in the post-colonial era, and it is now one of the country's most-densely populated places and its most-populated district. It received many migrants from the rest of the Gambia and abroad.

Kanifing is the economic centre of the Gambia, and Serekunda is its largest population center. Tourism is a major industry, and here are several higher education institutes, including the University of the Gambia.

History

Sayerr Jobe founded Serekunda, the first settlement in the forested area, in the nineteenth century. He helped establish other settlements in Kanifing, including Bundung and Ebo Town.{{cite news |last1=Jabai |first1=Sailu Bah Saikou Suwareh |title="Sayerr Jobe's name cannot be easily forgotten" Says a descendant |url=https://foroyaa.net/sayerr-jobes-name-cannot-be-easily-forgotten-says-a-descendant/ |access-date=11 September 2024 |work=Foroyaa |date=2 March 2015 |archive-date=9 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209204023/https://foroyaa.net/sayerr-jobes-name-cannot-be-easily-forgotten-says-a-descendant/ |url-status=live }}

In 1840, France ceded a {{convert|40|km2|sqmi|adj=on|abbr=out}} area that was called British Kombo and was later renamed Kombo St. Mary. It annexed another French cession in 1853. Kombo St. Mary was part of the Gambia Colony. The Protectorate Ordinances, which was passed between 1894 and 1902, transferred Kombo St. Mary to the administration of the Gambia Protectorate. It returned to the Gambia Colony in 1946.{{rp|6–7}} The local government area (LGA) of Kombo St. Mary was created in the 1960s from part of the Brikama LGA, and was the eighth LGA to be established.{{Cite book |last1=Hughes |first1=Arnold |last2=Perfect |first2=David |chapter=Social and Economic Setting |date=31 December 2006 |title=A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994 |pages=6–40 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781580466820-006/html |access-date=28 August 2024 |publisher=Boydell and Brewer |doi=10.1515/9781580466820-006 |isbn=978-1-58046-682-0 |archive-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828220950/https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781580466820-006/html |url-status=live }}{{rp|7–8}} Kombo Rural Authority was renamed Kanifing Urban District Council in 1974 and Kanifing Municipal Council in 1991.

Kanifing grew significantly in the post-colonial era. This was largely caused by immigration from nearby countries; in 1993, foreign nationals made up 20% of the LGA's population. Kanifing's growth led to an increase in the country's urbanisation rate from 23% in 1973 to 37% in 1993.{{rp|9}} This expansion led to higher property values and foreign investment.{{Citation |title=1 Peasants by Other Means: (Im)mobility and the Making of a Village Mooring |date=31 December 2015 |work=Bush Bound |page=56 |publisher=Berghahn Books |doi=10.1515/9781805390220-006 |isbn=978-1-80539-022-0 |doi-access=free }}

Geography

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Kanifing is one of the eight LGAs of the Gambia, and is only one that contains only one district. The LGA has a land area of {{cvt|75.5|km2}}.{{cite book |url=https://www.zaragoza.es/contenidos/medioambiente/onu//issue06/1134-eng.pdf |title=The Gambia: Kanifing Urban Profile |publisher=UN Habitat |date= |isbn=978-92-1-132380-1 }} It lies immediately west of the capital city Banjul; this joint conurbation is known as the Greater Banjul Area. Serekunda, the country's largest urban area, is in Kanifing.{{Cite journal |last1=Kebbeh |first1=Abou |last2=Dsane-Aidoo |first2=Paul |last3=Sanyang |first3=Kawsu |last4=Darboe |first4=Sheriffo M. K. |last5=Fofana |first5=Nuha |last6=Ameme |first6=Donne |last7=Sanyang |first7=Abdoulie M. |last8=Darboe |first8=Kalifa Sanneh |last9=Darboe |first9=Saffiatou |last10=Sanneh |first10=Bakary |last11=Kenu |first11=Ernest |last12=Anto |first12=Francis |date=25 October 2023 |title=Antibiotics susceptibility patterns of uropathogenic bacteria: a cross-sectional analytic study at Kanifing General Hospital, The Gambia |journal=BMC Infectious Diseases |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=723 |doi=10.1186/s12879-023-08373-y |doi-access=free |issn=1471-2334 |pmc=10599079 |pmid=37880663 }}

Demographics

{{Historical populations

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|1963 |12208

|1973 |39404

|1983 |101504

|1993 |228214

|2013 |377134

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Kanifing Municipality has a population of 377,134, as of the 2013 census,{{Cite web |last= |date=1 June 2015 |title=Population and Housing Census of Gambia, 2013 |url=https://gambia.opendataforafrica.org/mmfoqkd/population-and-housing-census-of-gambia-2013 |access-date=27 August 2024 |website=Gambia Data Portal |archive-date=27 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427032235/https://gambia.opendataforafrica.org/mmfoqkd/population-and-housing-census-of-gambia-2013 |url-status=live }} making it the country's most-populated and most-densely populated district.{{Cite report |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep51501 |title=Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity: City profile: Kanifing, The Gambia |author= |date=15 December 2020 |publisher=ODI }}

The 2023 population estimate is 391,270, the sex ratio is 1:1 and the mean household size is 6.7. There are 40,367 people (11.63% of the population) in poverty, 3,340 (1.0%) in extreme poverty, and 117,648 (33.9%) in food poverty.{{Cite web |last= |date=1 June 2015 |title=The 2023 Gambia Statistical Abstract |url=https://www.gbosdata.org/downloads/50-the-gambia-statistical-yearbooks-abstracts |access-date=27 August 2024 |website=Gambia Data Portal |archive-date=27 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240827185213/https://www.gbosdata.org/downloads/50-the-gambia-statistical-yearbooks-abstracts |url-status=live }}

The predominantly rural Mandinka people moved to cities in the post-colonial era. Kanifing's share of the Gambia's Mandinka population increased from 3% in 1963 to 16% in 1993.{{rp|15}} In 1993, Kanifing had about a third of the country's Jola people, about a quarter of Serahuli people, nearly a third of Serer people, and the majority of Aku people.{{rp|18–21}} It had nearly half of the country's Christians.{{rp|26}}

The population has grown through both internal migration and immigration, being home in 2013 to 30% of the Gambia's immigrants and 35% of the country's internal migrants. The total number of immigrants was 33,790, of whom 34% were from Senegal and 25% were from Guinea.

In Kanifing and Banjul, the Wolof language is spoken as a lingua franca in multi-ethnic groups, rather than Mandinka as in the rest of the country.{{Citation |title=2. Gambia's Local Languages |date=31 December 2015 |work=Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society |page=35 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.21832/9781783094219-004/html |access-date=28 August 2024 |publisher=Multilingual Matters |doi=10.21832/9781783094219-004 |isbn=978-1-78309-421-9 |archive-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828220949/https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.21832/9781783094219-004/html |url-status=live }}

= Settlements =

Kanifing has 19 settlements:

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|+ Settlements in Kanifing

rowspan=2 | Settlementcolspan=3 | Population
20132003{{Cite report |url=https://catalog.ihsn.org/catalog/174/related-materials |title=Population and Housing Census 2003 |date=2003 |access-date=30 August 2024 |archive-date=30 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240830183214/https://catalog.ihsn.org/catalog/174/related-materials |url-status=live }}1993{{Cite report |date=1993 |title=Directory of settlements |url=http://www.gambia.gm/Statistics/PDF/S04.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412051022/http://www.gambia.gm/Statistics/PDF/S04.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2013 |website=Gambia Bureau of Statistics }}
Abuko1581189584345
Bakau New Town252653160026687
Bakau Wasulun354513122195
Bakoteh16924171616594
Bundungka Kunda553605186941369
Dippa Kunda176541496515081
Ebo Town22789183632563
Faji Kunda381212396912744
Kololi725754984416
Kotu16358118444419
Kanifing14296{{N/a}}{{N/a}}
Pipeline4317{{N/a}}{{N/a}}
Latri Kunda German197652404522902
Latri Kunda Sabiji156191493911289
Manjai Kunda18601143724800
New Jeshwang173941702321656
Old Jeshwang7552133198480
Serekunda199441929218901
Talinding405623420619773

Administration

= Administrative divisions =

File:Kanifing Municipal Council wards.svg

Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) is led by the Lord Mayor of Kanifing, who has administrative duties. Ward councillors manage social and economic duties. KMC is divided into 18 wards: Abuko, Bakau New Town, Bakoteh, Bantaba Bore Hole, Bartez, Bundung Six Junction, Dippa Kunda, Fajikunda, Kanifing, Kololi, Latrikunda Sabiji, London Corner, Manjai Kotu, New Jeshwang/Ebo Town, Old Bakau/Cape Point, Old Jeshwang, Tallinding North, and Tallinding South.{{Cite web |last= |title=Council Members |url=https://kanifing.gm/meet-the-councilors/ |access-date=29 August 2024 |website=Kanifing Municipal Council |archive-date=24 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724075357/https://kanifing.gm/meet-the-councilors/ |url-status=live }} It is further divided into seventy-four sub-wards, each led by a sub-ward chairman. The municipality has seven parliamentary constituencies: Serekunda East, Serekunda West, Serekunda Central, Jeshwang, Bakau, Latrikunda Sabiji, and Tallinding.{{Cite web |title=Subdivisions of KMC |url=http://kanifing.gm/subdivisions-of-km/ |access-date=27 August 2024 |website=Kanifing Municipal Council |archive-date=24 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724075231/https://kanifing.gm/subdivisions-of-km/ |url-status=live }}

= Government =

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{{ill|Talib Ahmed Bensouda|de}}, a member of the United Democratic Party, was elected Lord Mayor of Kanifing in the 2018 election,{{Cite news |last=Sillah |first=Nyima |date=31 March 2023 |title=Re-Election of Mayor Bensouda, 'the Best is yet to come- Lawyer Martin |url=https://www.voicegambia.com/2023/03/31/re-election-of-mayor-bensouda-the-best-is-yet-to-come-lawyer-martin/ |access-date=27 August 2024 |work=The Voice |archive-date=27 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240827185212/https://www.voicegambia.com/2023/03/31/re-election-of-mayor-bensouda-the-best-is-yet-to-come-lawyer-martin/ |url-status=live }} and was re-elected in the 2023 election.{{Cite news |last= |date=22 May 2023 |title=UDP celebrates success in LG election |url=https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/headlines/udp-celebrates-success-in-lg-election |access-date=27 August 2024 |work=The Point |archive-date=27 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240827185214/https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/headlines/udp-celebrates-success-in-lg-election |url-status=live }} He is the son of lawyer Amie Bensouda.{{Cite news |last=Manneh |first=Alagie |date=26 June 2020 |title=Talib Bensouda Mayor, Kanifing municipality |url=https://standard.gm/talib-bensouda-mayor-kanifing-municipality/ |access-date=27 August 2024 |work=The Standard |archive-date=2 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802200701/https://standard.gm/talib-bensouda-mayor-kanifing-municipality/ |url-status=live }} Talib Ahmed Bensouda succeeded Yankuba Colley as Lord Mayor.{{Cite news |last=Sheriff Janko |first=Saloum |date=13 September 2024 |title=Bensouda pays homage to ex-Mayor Yankuba Colley as he signs condolence book |url=https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/national-news/bensouda-pays-homage-to-ex-mayor-yankuba-colley-as-he-signs-condolence-book |access-date=15 September 2024 |work=The Point (the Gambia) |archive-date=15 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240915211957/https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/national-news/bensouda-pays-homage-to-ex-mayor-yankuba-colley-as-he-signs-condolence-book |url-status=live }}

The Deputy Mayor of KMC is Binta Janneh Jallow, who is the first woman to hold the position. Jallow, who was previously the ward councillor of Bakau New Town, was appointed to the post in July 2021 to replace Pa Musa Bah, who had resigned.{{Cite news |last= |date=26 July 2021 |title=Binta Janneh Jallow: Who is the new deputy KM mayor |url=https://fatunetwork.net/binta-janneh-jallow-who-is-the-new-deputy-km-mayor/ |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=Fatu Network |archive-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828220949/https://fatunetwork.net/binta-janneh-jallow-who-is-the-new-deputy-km-mayor/ |url-status=live }}

{{as of|February 2024}}, the Crime Management Coordinator of KMC is Pateh Bah,{{Cite news |last=Bah |first=Omar |date=21 February 2024 |title=Police Say Most Crimes Committed by Foreigners |url=https://standard.gm/police-say-most-crimes-committed-by-foreigners/ |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=The Standard |archive-date=10 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241010043933/https://standard.gm/police-say-most-crimes-committed-by-foreigners/ |url-status=live }} who has held the position since its creation in 2017 by the Adama Barrow administration.{{Cite news |last= |date=5 July 2017 |title=New CMC For KMC-First Time In The History Of The Gambia Police Force |url=https://fatunetwork.net/new-cmc-kmc-first-time-history-gambia-police-force/ |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=Fatu Network |archive-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828220949/https://fatunetwork.net/new-cmc-kmc-first-time-history-gambia-police-force/ |url-status=live }}

The Law Court Complex in Bundung houses the High Court, the Magistrates Court, and the Cadi Court.{{Cite news |last=Ceesay |first=Landing |date=10 February 2023 |title=Access To Justice: Judiciary Inaugurates New Court Complex In Bundung |url=https://www.kerrfatou.com/access-to-justice-judiciary-inaugurates-new-court-complex-in-bundung/ |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=Kerr Fatou |archive-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828220949/https://www.kerrfatou.com/access-to-justice-judiciary-inaugurates-new-court-complex-in-bundung/ |url-status=live }} Kanifing Magistrates Court functions as the Children's Court on Tuesdays and Thursdays, despite the constitution providing for a full-time juvenile court.{{Cite journal |last=Foley |first=Edmund Amarkwei |date=1 April 2012 |title=From Old Jeshwang to Kanifing : improving children's access to justice in The Gambia - challenges and prospects |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/EJC120327 |journal=Article 40 |volume=14 |issue=1 |access-date=10 October 2024 |archive-date=10 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241010044019/https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/EJC120327 |url-status=live }}

Economy

Kanifing is the main commercial area of the Gambia,{{Cite journal |last1=Kinteh |first1=Bakary |last2=Bass |first2=Paul |date=1 December 2023 |title=Prevalence and factors associated with occupational injuries among building construction workers in the Gambia |url=https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/29/6/500 |journal=Injury Prevention |language=en |volume=29 |issue=6 |pages=500–505 |doi=10.1136/ip-2023-044958 |issn=1353-8047 |pmid=37549985 |pmc=10715471 |access-date=10 October 2024 |archive-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828220950/https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/29/6/500 |url-status=live }} and is the district with the highest concentration of industry, hosting a large industrial estate. Most of the Gambia's hotels and coastal resorts lie within the municipality, as does Independence Stadium, the national football stadium. While government administration is an important part of the economy, 50.8% of the workforce is employed in the private sector. Altogether, 32.5% of workers are in wholesale and retail trade, 13% in manufacturing and 17.5% in services.

Of the LGA's 251,712 people who are 15 or older, 122,726 are in the labour force, including 108,474 who are employed and 14,252 who are unemployed. The unemployment rate among workers aged 15 to 35 is 6.5%, relatively low for the Gambia, although within this age range over 20% of those with higher education are unemployed. Child labour affects 3.5% of children aged 5–11, 9.7% aged 12–14, and 14.6% aged 15–17.

Bensouda's government has planned an affordable housing project to build 8,000 homes.

Infrastructure

= Waste management =

The Local Government Act (the Gambia) 2002 gives municipalities the responsibility for waste management. The Environment and Sanitation Unit (ESU), part of KMC's Directorate of Services, is responsible for waste and other environmental health issues. The ESU performs daily street cleaning and collects market waste and waste from public facilities, and clears illegal dumps. KMC, which spends 25% of its budget on waste management, has no official waste-separation or recycling programmes.{{Cite report |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep51222.10 |title=Case study: Kanifing Municipal Council |last1=Kumar |first1=Claire |last2=Bailey-Morley |first2=Anna |date=2022 |publisher=ODI |pages=32–42 |last3=Kargbo |first3=Eugenia |last4=Sanyang |first4=Lamin |access-date=10 October 2024 |archive-date=11 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911231708/https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep51222.10 |url-status=live }}

Bakoteh Dumpsite, the largest landfill in the country, collects all waste from the Greater Banjul Area. It was created as part of a defunct mining operation.{{Cite news |last=Magoum |first=Inès |date=29 July 2021 |title=GAMBIA: Kanifing to convert organic waste into fertiliser and biomass |url=https://www.afrik21.africa/en/gambia-kanifing-to-convert-organic-waste-into-fertiliser-and-biomass/ |access-date=15 September 2024 |work=Afrik 21 |archive-date=29 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329164026/https://www.afrik21.africa/en/gambia-kanifing-to-convert-organic-waste-into-fertiliser-and-biomass/ |url-status=live }} It is overfilled and does not have modern disposal systems. It is located in a densely populated area near Bakoteh, Dippa Kunda and Manjai Kunda. The dumpsite's environmental impacts include methane fires, water contamination, and odour. The city hires bulldozers to transport waste to the dump but it is sometimes blocked by waterlogging in the rainy season. Many residents of the area around the dumpsite make a living from informal recycling. KMC has planned to establish a new dumpsite and turn the old one into a transfer station. In 2021, it conducted a pilot program to compost the organic waste in the dump and convert it to biofuel.

The Mbalit project (meaning waste in Wolof) collects household waste; it assigns each ward a garbage truck that collects waste from each household weekly. It uses a digital ticket system to pay for the service. Informal waste collectors use donkey-drawn carts to collect waste from households that are not covered by the project. In 2022, KMC estimated it collected 460 tons of waste per day, of which 57.5% came from households, though this data is imprecise. The city has 370 waste management workers, of whom 227 are under the ESU and 143 are under the Mbalit project, {{as of|2022|lc=y}}.

Bensouda called waste management his number-one priority as mayor. KMC developed a five-year waste management plan (2017 to 2021) in consultation with the community and the private sector. It focussed on public awareness, new waste-sorting strategies, expanded household waste collection, job creation, and partnerships with informal waste management. It created the Mbalit project, the first household-waste-collection programme in the Gambia. With a grant from the European Union, Bensouda launched the Kanifing Environmental Transformation Programme (KETP), which donated waste-collection equipment to the initiative.{{Cite news |last=Magoum |first=Inès |date=24 October 2022 |title=GAMBIA: EU grants €3 million for solid waste management in Kanifing |url=https://www.afrik21.africa/en/gambia-eu-grants-e3-million-for-solid-waste-management-in-kanifing/ |access-date=15 September 2024 |work=Afrik 21 |archive-date=12 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612213737/https://www.afrik21.africa/en/gambia-eu-grants-e3-million-for-solid-waste-management-in-kanifing/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Jaiteh |first=Binta |title=KMC Launches 3 million euros Environmental Transformation Project |date=14 October 2022 |url=https://www.voicegambia.com/2022/10/14/kmc-launches-3-million-euros-environmental-transformation-project/ |access-date=15 September 2024 |work=The Voice |archive-date=15 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240915211956/https://www.voicegambia.com/2022/10/14/kmc-launches-3-million-euros-environmental-transformation-project/ |url-status=live }} It set up 10 communal skip bins and reduced the number of illegal dumpsites from 65 to 17. The programme's success improved the government's image.

= Transport =

The Gambia Transport Service Company, which runs international buses to Dakar and Bissau, has a bus depot in Kanifing.{{Cite news |last=Nyockeh |first=Abdoulie |date=10 August 2017 |title=GTSC launches new Banjul-Dakar Service |url=https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/gtsc-launches-new-banjul-dakar-service |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=The Point |archive-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828220953/https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/gtsc-launches-new-banjul-dakar-service |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Nyockeh |first=Abdoulie |date=3 April 2017 |title=GTSC launches Gambia-Bissau international transport service |url=https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/gtsc-launches-gambia-bissau-international-transport-service |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=The Point |archive-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828220950/https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/gtsc-launches-gambia-bissau-international-transport-service |url-status=live }} Bensouda's government has planned an urban bus system with 50 buses and 20 routes.{{Cite news |last=Bobb |first=Cherno Omar |date=14 October 2022 |title=KMC to introduce urban transport system, housing project |url=https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/headlines/kmc-to-introduce-urban-transport-system-housing-project |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=The Point }}

Education

Kanifing has most of the country's tertiary education institutes, including the University of The Gambia, the American International University West Africa, the Gambia Technical Training Institute, and the Management Development Institute.

Construction of Kanifing's library began on 18 August 2022. It will be the country's first municipal library. It is an initiative of Bensouda and the KETP, with funding from Peterborough City Council in England. The project cost 45 million dalasi.{{Cite news |last=Marong |first=Mariama |date=19 August 2022 |title=KMC Mayor Launches D45 Million Modern Library Project |url=https://foroyaa.net/kmc-mayor-launches-d45-million-modern-library-project-%EF%BF%BC/ |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=Foroyaa |archive-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828220950/https://foroyaa.net/kmc-mayor-launches-d45-million-modern-library-project-%EF%BF%BC/ |url-status=live }}

Sport

The Kanifing Municipal Sports Committee (KM Sport) is one of the Gambia's seven regional sports organisations. Its chairperson, who is elected from the chairpersons of its constituent district sport committees, represents Kanifing in the National Sports Council.{{Cite book |last=Camara |first=Pascal Mamudou |chapter=The Gambia |date=2024 |title=Management of Sport Organizations at the Crossroad of Responsibility and Sustainability |series=Sports Economics, Management and Policy |volume=25 |page=176 |editor-last=Hallmann |editor-first=Kirstin |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-52489-9_15 |access-date=28 August 2024 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer Nature Switzerland |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-52489-9_15 |isbn=978-3-031-52488-2 |editor2-last=Heikkinen |editor2-first=Suvi |editor3-last=Vehmas |editor3-first=Hanna |archive-date=10 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241010043913/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-52489-9_15 |url-status=live }}

Sister cities

Kanifing is twinned with:{{cite web |title=Twinning |url=http://kanifing.gm/twinning-3/ |publisher=Kanifing Municipal Council |access-date=8 January 2023 |archive-date=10 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241010043917/http://kanifing.gm/twinning-3/ |url-status=live }}

  • {{flagicon|US}} Madison, Wisconsin, United States
  • {{flagicon|US}} Memphis, Tennessee, United States{{cite web |last=Branston |first=John |title=Memphis' Sister Cities |website=Memphis Flyer |url=https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis-sister-cities |date=10 July 2006 |access-date=9 October 2024 |archive-date=7 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007122436/https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis-sister-cities |url-status=live }}
  • {{flagicon|Senegal}} {{ill|Mbao|fr}}, Senegal

Madison has provided funding for Kanifing's garbage trucks and its public library.{{Cite news |last=Garton |first=Nicholas |date=24 October 2019 |title=Madison to help build first public library in Gambian sister city Kanifing |url=https://captimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/madison-to-help-build-first-public-library-in-gambian-sister-city-kanifing/article_0313444f-08a1-5701-a17a-a4a0906d5361.html |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=The Capital Times |archive-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828220949/https://captimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/madison-to-help-build-first-public-library-in-gambian-sister-city-kanifing/article_0313444f-08a1-5701-a17a-a4a0906d5361.html |url-status=live }}

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