Gambia's president Adama Barrow removes "Islamic" from country's official name

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Gambia's president Adama Barrow removes "Islamic" from country's official name

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.

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".