HOMOSEXUALITY MORE DEADLY THAN ALL NATURAL DISASTERS PUT TOGETHER-GAMBIAN PRESIDENT!

THE president of Gambia has said homosexuality ranks alongside obsession with power and greed as "more deadly than all natural disasters put together" in a shocking speech to the UN'

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly [AP]

Speaking to the UN's General Assembly, President Yahya Jammeh claimed homosexuality is one of the three "biggest threats to human existence".

"Those who promote homosexuality want to put an end to human existence," said Jammeh in a speech to world leaders in New York.

""It is becoming an epidemic and we Muslims and Africans will fight to end this behaviour."

The speech has already been heavily criticised for its shocking content [REUTERS]

"Homosexuality in all its forms and manifestations which, though very evil, antihuman as well as anti-Allah, is being promoted as a human right by some powers," said Jammeh, who has been in power since staging a coup in 1994.

Andre Banks, executive director of global gay rights group All Out, said the president's remarks were "paranoid and disturbing".

"In his list of the world's greatest threats, the President left one out - intolerance," Banks said in a statement.

The Gambian ruler has previously told gays and lesbians to leave the country or have their heads cut off.

Both male and female same-sex sexual activity is illegal in the tiny west African nation.

Dailystar reports.