UN Says Polio Vaccination Efforts Fail in Sudan

United Nations officials say their efforts to vaccinate children against polio in Sudan have failed because they could not safely get into the southern part of the country. An official with the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, John Ging, told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York Monday that the Sudanese government and southern rebels could not reach an agreement to provide them with safe access. "Once again, we don't have any access at all, and on...

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