UN Alarmed at Polio Threat in Sudan Border Region
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 11, 2013 at 5:50 PM ET
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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council is expressing alarm at the
imminent threat of the spread of polio through Sudan's violence-wracked
South Kordofan and Blue Nile states and the continuing outbreak of polio
in the Horn of Africa.
The U.N. humanitarian office has reported that the threat affects more
than 165,000 children in the two Sudanese states "due to a lack of
immunization in the border area in more than two years," the Security
Council said in a statement Friday.
The SPLM-North, a rebel group backed by South Sudan, has been fighting
government forces in South Kordofan and Blue Nile.
The Security Council called on Sudan's government and the SPLM-North "to
urgently overcome differences" over technical plans so that a two-week
polio vaccination campaign can begin on schedule on Nov. 5.
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