The Gambia
Republic of The Gambia
CAPITAL: Banjul (formerly Bathurst)
FLAG: The flag is a tricolor of red, blue, and green horizontal bands, separated by narrow white stripes.
ANTHEM: For The Gambia, ...
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Gambia, The
With a total area of 11,295 square kilometers (4,000 square miles), the Republic of The Gambia is the smallest country on the continent of Africa. It is bordered by Senegal on all sides ex...
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Gambia
POPULATION 1,455,842ISLAM 90 percentCHRISTIAN 9 percentAFRICAN INDIGENOUS BELIEFS 1 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Republic of the Gambia, located in western Africa, is shaped l...
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Area: 10,689 sq km (4,127 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 1,556,000Capital:
Banjul
Head of state and government:
President Col.
Yahya
Jammeh
With the Gambian opposition split,
Pres.
Yahya
Jammeh...
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Geneva (dpa) - A new meningitis vaccine has been developed that
could end the risk of major epidemics, that pose a real threat to
millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa, t...
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BANJUL, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The tiny West African country of
Gambia has discovered commercially-exploitable deposits of
uranium and other rare minerals, President Yahya Jammeh said on
Saturday. Jam...
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Area: 196,722 sq km (75,955 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 10,961,000Capital:
Dakar
Chief of state:
President
Abdoulaye
Wade
, assisted by
Prime Minister
Macky
Sall
On March 14, 2006, Senegales...
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Slain reggae star Lucky Dube was remembered at a memorial service by friends and family who railed against his senseless shooting death and his bandmates who entertained a dancing crowd outside by ...
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