Gambian President, Yahaya Jammeh has in a video interview, said that he would rule Gambia for one billion years if he has to do so and that his fate is in the hands of Allah.

The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh will be treated like a "rebel leader" if he refuses to give up power when his term ends on 19 January, a spokesman for the coalition which defeated him in elections on 1 December has said.