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Meningitis claims 263 lives

[Cote d'Ivoire] Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and UN chief Kofi Annan in a rare tete-a-tete during the July 2004 accra summit. UN/Sekinde Debebe
Une rencontre l'année dernière entre le secrétaire général de l'ONU, Kofi Annan, et le président ivoirien Laurent Gbagbo
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    A total of 2,324 meningitis cases and 263 deaths have been reported in Sudan as of 10 March, UNICEF said yesterday (Thursday). In an update received by IRIN, UNICEF said a national coordination committee had been set up to help respond to the outbreak. Members included IFRC, MSF, UNICEF, WHO, the Sudan Red Crescent and government agencies. UNICEF was seeking funds to purchase vaccine doses to cover a target population of some 900,000 people in Al Gezira State and in displaced camps at Ed Dein, El Geneina, Kadugli, Khartoum and White Nile, the report said. The outbreak started in North Darfur in December and has spread to 14 other states, including Western Bahr al-Ghazal in the south, it added.

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