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Extensible Markup Language  |  1995-06-13  |  3KB  |  19 lines
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  14.         <text><span class="style42"></span><span class="style12">GAMBIA</span><span class="style14"></span><span class="style42">Official name:</span><span class="style13"> The Republic of the Gambia</span><span class="style42">Member of: </span><span class="style13">UN, OAU, Commonwealth, ECOWAS</span><span class="style42">Area: </span><span class="style13">10689 km2 (4127 sq mi)</span><span class="style42">Population: </span><span class="style13">1033000 (1993 est)</span><span class="style42">Capital: </span><span class="style13">Banjul 171000 (city 44000; 1986 est)</span><span class="style42">Language: </span><span class="style13">English (official)</span><span class="style42">Religions: </span><span class="style13">Sunni Islam (90%), various Protestant Churches (9%)</span><span class="style42">GOVERNMENT</span><span class="style13">The constitution provides for a President and 36 of the 50 members of the House of Representatives to be elected by universal adult suffrage every five years; the remaining members are appointed. The President appoints a Vice-President ΓÇô to lead the government in the House ΓÇô and a Cabinet of Ministers. The constitution was suspended following a military coup in 1994.</span><span class="style42">GEOGRAPHY</span><span class="style13">The Gambia is a narrow low-lying country on either bank of the River Gambia. </span><span class="style42">Climate: </span><span class="style13">The climate is tropical, with a dry season from November to May.</span><span class="style42">ECONOMY</span><span class="style13">The economy is largely based on the cultivation of groundnuts and tourism ΓÇô the latter was the major foreign-currency earner but has declined since the 1994 coup. </span><span class="style42">Currency: </span><span class="style13">Dalasi.</span><span class="style42">HISTORY</span><span class="style13">Once part of the Mali empire, the area became involved in the slave trade following the arrival of the Portuguese in the mid-15th century. British traders later supplanted the Portuguese, and a British colony was established in 1843. The Gambia achieved independence in 1965 under Sir Dawda K. Jawara. In 1981 an attempted coup against his rule encouraged efforts to merge with the neighboring French-speaking country of Senegal, but the confederation was dissolved in 1989. After independence the country remained a democracy until the military took power in 1994.</span></text>
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