It is quite sad—and frankly unacceptable—that in 2025, The Gambia’s Ministry of Justice and National Assembly still struggle to produce a progressive, principled, and modern criminal code.

A bill aimed at lifting the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) has been tabled in The Gambia's parliament by an independent lawmaker. It was outlawed in the mainly Muslim nation in 2015 when ...

At the time, The Gambia Supreme Islamic Council, the main body of Muslim clerics in the country, called for the ban to be scrapped. There are different views in Islam over the practice ...

About 1,400 years later, it is a majority religion across North Africa as well as in Chad, The Gambia, Senegal, Somalia and Sudan. For Muslims across the continent, Ramadan and the end-of-the ...

In his Tobaski message, the Amir said the real purpose and spirit of the celebration of Eidul Adha is obedience and ...

The bill is supported by religious conservatives, citing religious purity and cultural values, with Gambia's top Islamic body endorsing the practice as a virtue of Islam. Jaha Dukureh, who ...

Islam teaches God revealed their Scripture, the Qur’an, to Muhammad as a word-for-word dictation.All people are accountable to this one God. Humans’ good and bad deeds are recorded, to be ...

In 2015, The Gambia banned female genital mutilation ... His argument is that the procedure is part of being Muslim – a position that many scholars of Islam disagree with).

Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday rejected a bill that ... The vote followed months of heated debate in the largely Muslim nation of less than 3 million people.

07/17/2024 July 17, 2024 Where does Islam stand on girls who want to be models? In Gambia, a conservative country with a Muslim majority, a 10-year-old Adama Sillah is gracing the runway while ...

Vocal imams and some lawmakers in the overwhelmingly Muslim country led moves to repeal the ban, which had been initiated in 2015 by Gambia’s autocratic former president, Yahya Jammeh.