Zuma angers his countries AIDS campaigners

Hardly the behaviour of a head of state but South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has fathered his 20th child and although recently married for a fifth time, the baby is by a woman who is not one of his current wives.

The revelation has angered South Africa's Aid's campaigners who according to First Post

The Sunday Times of South Africa reported that Zuma's latest child is a baby girl called Thandekile Matina Zuma who was born in October. The newspaper claimed that the President had had unprotected sex with the daughter of Irvin Khoza, the chairman of the World Cup Organising Committee and one of the most powerful men in South African football. The baby's mother Sonono Khoza is a 39-year-old banking executive.

Witches in Gambia

The Independent carries a story this morning that there is a search for witches going on in the African state of Gambia.

The paper reports that

A state-sponsored witch-hunt has begun in Gambia where as many as 1,000 people have been kidnapped from their villages and taken to "secret detention centres" then stripped, beaten and poisoned.

adding that

the campaign is the latest manifestation of the increasingly brutal and bizarre rule of President Yahya Jammeh, who has claimed he can cure people of Aids. Now the President is thought to believe he is under attack from witches.

The report comes from Amnesty International but has been quickly denied by the authorities.

President Jammeh took power in a coup 13 years ago, and claims to have outstripped the scientists and discovered a cure for HIV/AIDS. His secret concoction of seven herbs can annihilate the virus, he says, within three days.