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Gambia to celebrate 51st independence anniversary

Xinhua, February 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

Gambia is set to celebrate the country's 51st independence anniversary on Thursday.

The celebration will take place at Buffer Zone in the middle of Serekunda in the country's commercial town of the Greater Banjul area, 7 km away from the capital Banjul.

School children will hold a march pass with cultural display by various cultural troops in the West African nation.

Gambia breaks the colonial yoke from Britain on Feb. 18, 1965 and became republic in 1973.

Sports and other activities will take place after the march pass in the evening.

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will not celebrate the break of the colonial bondage amid political difference with former colonial master of Britain.

He has unilaterally withdrawn his country out of the Commonwealth, becoming the first African leader to leave the English-speaking organization after President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe in 2003. Endit