Gambians will vote for a new president in December.
There is renewed interest in the election, four years after former leader Yahya Jammeh left power.
But the deadline to register to vote was Sunday – and it left many Gambians living abroad racing to get home.
Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from Banjul.
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