
Gambia's President, Yahya Jammeh,
has 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.
The tiny sliver of a country, named after the
river from which British ships once allegedly
fired cannonballs to fix its borders, joins the
ranks of other Islamic Republics such as Iran and Afghanistan.
And they would end up being like Iran and Syria, countries with worry


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