government has issued a directive requiring all female employees to wear Hijab at work
Gambia’s government has issued a directive requiring all female employees to wear Hijab at work.
The new rule was announced in a memo circulated to all ministries and departments, according to reports.
It came a month after President YahyaJammeh declared the Muslim-majority country an Islamic republic.
Gambia has a population of 1.8 million people and 95 percent are Muslim. The tiny West African nation, which borders Muslim majority Senegal, is now the second Islamic republic in Africa, after Mauritania.
