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Monday, 14 December 2015

Gambia president declares country an Islamic republic

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.   REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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.