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Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been infected with the coronavirus and is now in isolation, according to reports in Iran's state-controlled press outlets. Velayati is one of many top Iranian officials to contract the virus since it began spreading across Iran. Several Iranian officials have already died as a result of the illness.

President Dr Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, the Gambian leader continues to receieve more felicitation, following his break through in the discovery and treament of Hiv/Aids and asthma in The Gambia. In a letter to the Gambian leader, Amat Tijan Jallow of Bollywood Ke Dosto Association, Latrikunda, said "Allow me to use this media to thank His Excellency the President of The Gambia, Dr Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, on behalf of the above named association for his tremendous treatment of the Gambian people from HIV/Aids without any payment. Your Excellency, it is with pride that we congratulate you for being the first person...

Jammeh has so far refused to disclose details of his herbal concoction, saying only that the treatment uses seven plants - "three of which are not from Gambia." The treatment begins with the president applying the green paste, stored inside a deli-style plastic container. Next is a gray-colored solution, which he splashes on the patient's skin. It is stored inside an old Evian bottle, as is the yellowish, tea-like brew which patients are asked to drink. The therapy is administered numerous times over the course of several weeks. After treating the original nine, Jammeh emerged from his black-tinted treatment chamber,...

Speech of President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia to the Gambian Congress, January 18, 2007 “I call you to this meeting and maybe you will wonder why I called you including the two Ambassadors from Cuba and Taiwan. I called the two Ambassadors and of course Rose Clair Charles because you have a direct link with the health delivery system of this country. You know that Cuba is a key partner in our health sector and Taiwan is the force behind the Medical Team in The Gambia. This is a follow up to what I said on GRTS that I will...