BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is poised to win a fourth term in elections this week in the West African country, popular with tourists for its tropical beaches but notorious for its human rights abuses and muzzled press.
Jammeh, who once claimed to have a herbal cure for AIDS and who believes in witchcraft, will face two challengers in the November 24 vote, in which Gambians will drop marbles into drums, instead of marking ballots, a survival from colonial days.
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