Six heads of states and governments are in attendance for the 15th Organisation of Islamic Corporation summit in Banjul.

They included the presidents of Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea Bissau, Djibouti, Sierra Leone and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Other member-states are represented by their foreign affair ministers.

High profile leaders such as Turkey’s president Recep Tayyib Erdogan, Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are all represented by their foreign ministers.

Meanwhile, Syria and Afghanistan, two states suspended from the OIC, are not invited to the summit.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which was founded in 1969, has 57 members with 48 countries being Muslim majority countries.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba