| Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh, President of the Republic of the Gambia, addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York September 25, 2014. |
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh on 11th December 2015 declared the formerly secular country an Islamic republic in a move he said was designed to distance the West African state further from its colonial past.
