Gambia's President Jammeh gets extra title of 'bridge builder'
The Gambia's long-serving President Yahya Jammeh has had the title
of Babili Mansa added to his name.
The Mandika-language phrase can be translated as "chief bridge
builder" or "conqueror of rivers".
A statement from the presidency said Mr Jammeh should now be
known as "His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ
Jammeh Babili Mansa".
He had taken the title once before, in 2014, only to drop it four months
later, the Point newspaper reports .
President Jammeh seized power in 1994 as a young army lieutenant
and has won four widely criticised multi-party elections since then
and faced down several coup attempts.
He told the BBC in 2011 that he would rule for "one billion years... if
Allah says so".
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