Gambia’s president Adama Barrow has announced the country’s official
name will no longer contain the word “Islamic”, which had been added by
Jammeh in 2015.
name will no longer contain the word “Islamic”, which had been added by
Jammeh in 2015.
The new president said The Gambia, whose population is 90 percent
Muslim, with the rest Christian and animist, was a republic “not the
Islamic republic”.