Sunday, 29 January 2017

Adama Barrow removes Islamic from Gambia's name






President Adama Barrow said The Gambia will no longer be called an Islamic republic
The Gambia, despite having a 90 percent Muslim population, with the rest Christian and animist, was a republic "not the Islamic republic," according to Barrow
According to Aljazeera, the president made this known at his first news conference since returning to take office on Thursday, January 26.
The country was renamed Islamic Republic of The Gambia by former President Yahya Jammeh on 11 December 2015.

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