President of Gambia Yahya Jammeh speaks during the United Nations 68th session of the General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia will drop English as an official language soon because it is a colonial relic, President Yahya Jammeh has said, without indicating which language the tiny West African country would use in its place.
Gambia's 1.9 million people speak several African languages including Mandingo, Fula and Wolof, the most widely spoken language of Senegal, its only direct neighbour. The country gained independence from Britain in 1965.
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