UK's Johnson says Gambia to rejoin Commonwealth 'as soon as possible'

By Lamin Jahateh BANJUL (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that Gambia, which is seeking to emerge from more than two decades of authoritarian rule, would be readmitted "as fast as possible" to the Commonwealth, a body whose African members he once maligned. Longtime leader Yahya Jammeh, who had ruled since seizing power in 1994, fled Gambia last month after regional militaries launched an operation to remove him. In 2013, the mercurial former coup leader pulled