AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-20488214_ITM" title="Facts and information about African polio vaccination drive ends without reaching heart of outbreak.">African polio vaccination drive ends without reaching heart of outbreak.</a>

Close Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from Europe Intelligence Wire are available.

Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds

African polio vaccination drive ends without reaching heart of outbreak.

Europe Intelligence Wire

| February 26, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Agence France Presse)

The United Nations wound up the first round of its drive to protect 63 million African children from polio, after Muslim suspicion prevented it from tackling the world's most dangerous outbreak of the crippling virus.

Teams from the World Health Organisation, the UN children's fund UNICEF and local health agencies have spent four days distributing oral polio vaccine to infants in ten west and central African countries in a bid to eradicate the disease by the end of the year.

But opposition from the population in northern Nigeria -- where radical Muslims alleged that the vaccine has been laced with hormones designed to…

View articles courtesy of your local library

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more


Nigeria: Kano State governor defends rejection of polio vaccines.: News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 9, 2004 700+ words
...International Reports) Again, the Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau...not new. It is not peculiar to Kano State or to Nigeria alone. In Europe, it is a daily...Shekarau said peace has returned to Kano, adding that his government will...


Nigeria: Kano youths chant slogans in support of defeated opposition candidate.: News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire May 21, 2003 700+ words
...restrictions at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA...presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) Maj-Gen...pro-Buhari slogans such as "Nigeria sai Buhari (Nigeria for Buhari)," Obasanjo yayi...


NIGERIA: KANO STATE BANS SALE AND PRODUCTION OF ALCOHOL.: News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire May 11, 2004 700+ words
...InfoProd) According to IINA, the authorities of the Muslim dominated Kano State of Nigeria have imposed a ban on brewing and sale of alcohol by Christians in...steps to implement the Islamic Sharia' in this Northern state of Nigeria.


NIGERIA: HAUSA FILMMAKERS WRESTLE WITH CENSORS IN KANO STATE.: News wire article from: Interpress Service September 12, 2008 700+ words
By Amina Koki Gizo KANO, Nigeria, Sep. 12, 2008 (IPS/GIN...Kano. The censorship board in Nigeria's northern Kano State was instituted in 2001...suppressing Hausa filmmaking in Kano, Northern Nigeria's largest city. The exact...


Nigeria: Police in Kano told to release activists arrested over Bush protest.: News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 15, 2003 700+ words
...International Reports) July The Kano State police command has...against Bush's visit to Nigeria on Friday [11 July...Gambo, who visited the Kano Trust office disclosed...various institutions in Kano State and that they had...over Bush's visit to Nigeria. He said: "Four of...


NIGERIA: KANO EMIR PRAISES ENHANCEMENT OF QUR'AN EEDUCATION.: News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire September 3, 2003 700+ words
(From InfoProd) According to IINA, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero has commended the state government's initiative in upgrading Qur'an education in the state. He was speaking...


Nigeria: Kano-based radio station fined and "partially" shut down.: Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports March 29, 2006 700+ words
(From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Nigerian newspaper Daily Trust on 29 March The Kano-based independent radio station, Freedom Radio, has been partially shut down by the National Broadcasting Commission [NBC...


Nigeria: Fire guts Kano State central bank's office.: News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire May 14, 2004 700+ words
...mysterious fire has gutted the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) building in Kano [northern Nigeria] yesterday. Sources told Daily Trust that...fire was brought under control by men of the Kano State fire service. When contacted the police...


Nigeria: Parties in Kano differ over creation of additional councils.: News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire May 19, 2003 700+ words
...There seems to be love lost between the Kano chapters of the PDP [People's Democratic Party] and the ANPP [All Nigeria People's Party] as the two parties...milestone in the development of our beloved Kano State, there exists a consensus on the...


Nigeria: Yoruba body deplores Kano violence; calls for national conference.: News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire May 13, 2004 700+ words
...national conference in Nigeria. Awoniyi in Ilorin...peace." Deploring the Kano mayhem, the Afenifere...conference (SNC) in Nigeria. Describing the conference...to convene it had cost Nigeria many lives. During his...the group said that the Kano riot was another reason...

For more facts and information, see all results

The AccessMyLibrary advertising network includes: