It's not yet a month since President Yahya Jammeh declared
Gambia an Islamic Republic - ostensibly in a bid to break away from its
colonial past - but the implications of that announcement are only
coming into play. The president maintained that other faiths retained
their freedoms regardless but all female civil servants are now required
to cover their hair.
No reasons were given for the introduction of the new rule, which was announced in a memo that was leaked to local opposition newspapers.
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