President ‘cures Aids patients’

Gambian president Yahya Jammeh has claimed that dozens of HIV and Aids patients in the tiny West African state have been cured using his secret concoction of boiled herbs.

Mr Jammeh first announced he had found a natural remedy to cure Aids in 2007, stirring anger among Western medical experts, who claimed he was giving false hope to the sick.

Speaking on state television on Sunday evening, Mr Jammeh announced that 68 patients had been cured.

“Just as the Prophet Mohammed prevailed and established Islam … I also prevailed to cure HIV/Aids,” he said.