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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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As the title says, what’s the least developed country you have visited? Mine is the The Gambia in West Africa, it’s in the bottom 15 least developed countries according to the UN Human Development Index, nearly all of which are in Africa. Regular power cuts, sometimes for a whole day, and water shortages, along with a high infant mortality rate, pretty brutal poverty and an over reliance on remittances from abroad, along with an ineffective and corrupt government who’s basically for all intents and purposes controlled by China. Still, it’s a lovely country to visit, and is actually a pretty safe country, and a good introduction to sub-Saharan Africa. Many expect sub-Saharan Africa to be a dangerously violent place, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. Yes some parts are, but it’s just a handful of countries that have had problems for a long time. I’ve been many times to The Gambia in the last decade, in the dry and rainy seasons, from the coastal areas to far inland to see the hippos and chimpanzees, and the biggest risk factor was probably the beaten up unroadworthy cars, and when I say unroadworthy, I mean really bad, many without even working brakes etc, and a poor standard of driving. |
