Gambia's Yahya Jammeh ready for 'billion-year' rule

The Gambia's president, Yahya Jammeh, has told the BBC that he will rule for "one billion years", if God wills.

He said critics who accused him of winning last month's elections through intimidation and fraud could "go to hell".

The West African regional body Ecowas said the electorate had been "cowed by repression". Jammeh, who took power in a coup in 1994, was re-elected with 72% of the figures, official figures show.

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