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, ...

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 ...

The countries involved in the initiative are Türkiye, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Bahrain, Brunei, Chad, Gambia, Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Oman, ...

Twenty-one Arab and Muslim countries have issued a joint statement condemning Israel’s airstrikes on Iran and calling for regional de-escalation, nuclear disarmament and respect for international law.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.