Benin

On February 22, President Mathieu Kerekou joined his Nigerian counterpart, President Olusegun Obasanjo, to launch a new polio immunisation campaign. The two presidents administered the polio vaccine to a number of children at a ceremony in the town of Seme, the main crossing point between Benin and Nigeria. Polio resurfaced in 12 previously polio-free countries across the region last year after large numbers of Muslims in northern Nigeria boycotted the vaccine following claims that the immunisation drive was a Western plot to infect Muslims with the AIDS virus. The new campaign, which is backed by the World Health Organisation and

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