From Reuters:
"Gambia rejoins Commonwealth as it seeks to rebuild world standing"
"Gambia rejoins Commonwealth as it seeks to rebuild world standing"
Gambia has rejoined the Commonwealth, the tiny West African former British colony's foreign ministry said on Thursday, five years after its now exiled former authoritarian leader withdrew his country, calling it a "neo-colonial institution". During his 23-year rule, Yahya Jammeh, who fled Gambia a year ago after regional militaries launched an operation to remove him, repeatedly clashed with British authorities over criticisms of his government's human rights record. He withdrew Gambia from the grouping, which includes Britain and most of its former colonies, in 2013.
^ As a Commonwealth citizen myself I am curious to see what role, if any, the Commonwealth will have once the UK leaves the EU. ^
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