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| Gambian President, Yayha Jammeh |
A statement broadcast on state radio from the Gambian
presidency announced that from February 1, official government working hours
will be from Monday to Thursday, from 8am to 6pm.
"Fridays will henceforth become rest and
prayer days alongside Saturdays and Sundays," the statement said.
"Schools, banks and all affected institutions
are free to work on Saturdays to compensate for the Fridays," it added.
The presidency also said that this new arrangement
"will allow Gambians to devote more time to prayers, social activities and
agriculture - Going back to the land and grow what we eat and eat what we grow
for a healthy and wealthy nation."
The sliver of a country wedged into Senegal which
surrounds it on all sides except for a palm-fringed coastline on the Atlantic
coast has a population of about 1.8 million and is the smallest country on the
African mainland.
Though essentially a secular state, Gambia is 90
percent Sunni Muslim.
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