Gambia will no longer be called an Islamic republic - President Barrow

President Adama Barrow
President Adama Barrow |
Gambia was renamed Islamic Republic by former President Yahya Jammeh on December 11, 2015.

According to Aljazeera, the president made this known at his first news conference since returning to take office on Thursday, January 26.

Despite having a 90 percent Muslim population, with the rest Christian and animist, was a republic "not the Islamic republic," Said Barrow.

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 as the president West African country.

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