{"id":179406,"date":"2016-01-05T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=179406"},"modified":"2016-01-05T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:13:55","slug":"gambia-bans-women-from-exposing-their-hair-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=179406","title":{"rendered":"Gambia bans women from exposing their hair at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently registered Islamic nation, Gambia, has prohibited its female workers from leaving their hair uncovered while at work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Women should use a &#8220;head tie and neatly wrap their hair&#8221;, a memo from authorities said, without giving reasons for the ban.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The memo, dated 4 January and published in the country&#8217;s local media said that an &#8220;executive directive has been issued that all female staff within the government ministries, departments and agencies are no longer allowed to expose their hair during official working hours&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;All are strictly advised to adhere to this new directive,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 90% of Gambians are Muslim and many Muslim scholars believe that Islam requires Muslim women to cover their hair in public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the requirement is not strictly adhered to in The Gambia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First Lady Zineb Yahya Jammeh has previously appeared in public with her hair uncovered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Nigeriabulletin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently registered Islamic nation, Gambia, has prohibited its female workers from leaving their hair uncovered while at work. Women should use a &#8220;head tie and neatly wrap their hair&#8221;, a memo from authorities said, without giving reasons for the ban. The memo, dated 4 January and published in the country&#8217;s local media said that an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}