Countries that endorsed the initiative include Turkey, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Bahrain, Brunei, Chad, Gambia, Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Oman, ...

On pages 11 and 12, the historian explains solid cases where stonewalling by colonial authorities made many Gambian Muslims ...

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 ...

From 2010 to 2020, the number of Muslims increased by 347 million people to 2.0 billion people. Christians grew by 122 million to 2.3 billion. Buddhists are the only group in our analysis that shrank ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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).

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.