Serekunda

Serekunda is at the centre of The Gambia’s largest urban concentration, where dense residential and commercial development has expanded across the Greater Banjul Area. Growth has reduced open land and increased the pressure on drainage, roads, waste systems and other basic infrastructure, particularly in neighbourhoods exposed to pluvial flooding.

Recent flood-risk analysis identifies the Serekunda area among the metropolitan zones with high exposure, reinforcing the need to combine green and conventional storm-water infrastructure with stronger urban planning. National climate policy similarly calls for resilient transport and better management of future urban expansion. For Serekunda, these priorities converge around the everyday street network: drainage, mobility and development control need to work together if the city is to accommodate density without increasing flood risk and service deficits.