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Gambia lifts ban on parties, politicians

  BANJUL, July 22 (Reuters) - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh on Sunday
ordered the lifting of a ban on political parties and politicians from the
regime he toppled in a 1994 coup.

The end of the ban will allow them to challenge Jammeh in the presidential
election scheduled for October in the tiny West African country.

But after ordering the repeal of the restrictive Decree 89 on the seventh
anniversary of his coup, Jammeh warned his opponents against making trouble.

"Anyone who tries to undermine the security of the state will end up six feet
deep," he said in an address to thousands of people in Banjul.

Among the banned parties are the People's Progressive Party, which ruled the
former British colony from independence in 1965 until Jammeh's coup.

New opposition parties were formed before the 1996 presidential election
which Jammeh won.

Gambia is a sliver of land completely surrounded by Senegal. It survives on
tourism, groundnuts and fishing.

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