New polio outbreak adds to woes of Sudanese refugees
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Polio, which can paralyze small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur.
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Terrified Sudanese by the thousands are again straggling into refugee camps in the Darfur region, driven from their villages by fresh violence that illustrates the challenges of ending the conflict here.
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While many Sudanese displaced by three years of fighting in the Darfur region are living on handouts in refugee camps, the country as a whole is in the midst of an economic boom.
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Health workers began immunising thousands of Afghan children against polio Wednesday, using a push for peace to access areas where unrest has prevented immunisation and led to new cases of the disease.
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Refugees who have fled the brutal conflict in Sudan's Darfur province praised a United Nations call for foreign troops to quell the crisis there. Residents of a nearby village, meanwhile, blamed rebels for the violence and expressed suspicion about foreign involvement.
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Ethiopia has launched an emergency  polio immunization campaign, fearing an outbreak of the highly  infectious disease in neighboring Sudan could spread, the  Health Ministry said on Friday.
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Africa could soon face a major polio outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). For the first time in five years, Guinea and Mali have reported polio cases.
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Polio has reappeared in Guinea and Mali five years after the crippling disease was eradicated in the two West African countries and health experts said on Tuesday there was still a very real threat of a major epidemic spreading across the African continent
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Cases of polio have been found in Mali and Guinea, bringing to 12 the number of African countries recently reinfected by an ongoing polio epidemic in Nigeria.
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ARDAMATA CAMP, Sudan  - Four years after the Darfur conflict erupted, new refugees continue to pour into growing makeshift camps telling of murder, pillage and rape.
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DORTI CAMP, Sudan  - Angry and dismissive, Darfuris who fled their homes to the relative safety of overcrowded makeshift camps demand Khartoum hand over two war crimes suspects to an international court.
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Sudanese soldiers have taken up positions near refugee camps in the crisis-torn Darfur region sparking fears that tens of thousands of homeless people could be forcibly moved.
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The Darfur conflict in Sudan has unleashed a crisis on the scale of the African famines of the 1980s, the International Red Cross says.
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The U.N. health agency plans to vaccinate nearly 3 million children in the Horn of Africa this year against polio, a crippling disease that experts fear could spread rapidly along the region's volatile and porous borders.
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GENEVA The World Health Organization says at least 70-thousand people have died in refugee camps in Sudan since March. The new WHO death toll estimate is 20-thousand higher than one it released last month.
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NAIROBI As concern has continued to grow around the world at the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the western Darfur region of Sudan, the stream of high-profile visitors to Sudan over the past few months has been accompanied by increasingly angry language from
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KONDOBE, Sudan  - Three elderly Darfuri men hack away at a pile of logs, struggling to build a new home in Kondobe town more than a week after they fled their village to escape government attacks and militia looting.