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Personnel killed in “period of tranquillity”

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    A supervisor for the polio vaccination campaign in Sudan was killed during a bombing raid in Parajok, Torit, eastern Equatoria on 22 October. Humanitarian sources told IRIN that the killing - which has just come to light - happened during the national immunisation campaign when the government and rebel factions agreed to a “period of tranquillity”. Mark Odera was a local volunteer and supervisor, working for the polio campaign carried out in Parajok under the World Health Organisation (WHO). According to the source, Odera was “delivering details of the results of the campaign” when he was killed. During the “period of tranquillity”, the Sudanese government continued to bomb southern Sudan, which UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy condemned as “a violation”.

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