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Samba re-elected WHO-Africa director

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    African health ministers have re-elected Dr Ebrahim Samba as World Health Organisation (WHO) regional director for Africa, WHO announced in a communique on Wednesday.

    His election came at the 49th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa in Windhoek, Namibia. The meeting started on 30 August and ends on 3 September. It will have to be ratified by the WHO board of directors in January 2000.

    Samba became WHO's Africa regional director in 1995 after heading its programme for the eradication of river blindness for 14 years.

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