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Adama Barrow Removes Islamic From Gambia's Name by amzee(m): 4:53pm On Jan 29, 2017 |
- President Adama Barrow said The Gambia
will no longer be called an Islamic republic
- The country was renamed Islamic Republic
of The Gambia by former President Yahya
Jammeh on December 11, 2015
- 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
President Adama Barrow said The Gambia
will no longer be called an Islamic republic.
The new Gambia President Adama Barrow
has removed the ‘Islamic’ title from the
country’s name.
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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As at the time of making the change
declaration, Jammeh said it was designed
to distance the country further from its
colonial past.
According to Barrow, 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.
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advised to stay away from state house for
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Recall that Yahya Jammeh, who was
defeated by Adama Barrow in the
December 1, 2016 presidential poll, finally
left the country in the evening of Saturday,
January 21, 2017 after 22 years of holding
sway as the president of the tiny West
African country.
Barrow on the other hand finally returned
to Gambia from Senegal to take over the
ruling the state by 4p.m. on Thursday,
January 26. |
Re: Adama Barrow Removes Islamic From Gambia's Name by Joephat(m): 4:56pm On Jan 29, 2017 |
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