“We urge the people of Somalia to be vaccinated. The doctors tell us that polio can kill and it’s harmful to both adults and children.”
Recently, international partners promised $5.5 billion for a five-year plan to end polio once and for all. Dr. John Sever is hopeful.
“We’re getting closer, that’s the encouraging part."
He says the polio partners know what to do and still hope to end the health threat from polio by 2015.
I’m Jim Tedder.
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Kidepo National Park
This year broadcaster CNN rated Kidepo National Park as the third best park in Africa. On its website, CNN strongly praised the park for its wildlife and natural beauty. CNN noted another reason that Kidepo is great. It said the park has had few visitors.
Uganda's Kidepo National Park was inaccessible to tourists for decades. (Hilary Heuler for VOA)
For years, conflict and insecurity made Kidepo almost impossible to visit. Even now, costly flights and poor roads stop all but the bravest visitors. Recently, Ugandan officials announced steps to open up the park to the wider world.
Kidepo National Park is mostly savannah, or grasslands. The park is far from any city.
It lies just north of Karamoja, an area long considered lawless and violent. To the west is the land terrorized for years by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. The area kept Kidepo mostly cut off from the Ugandan capital, Kampala. But a longtime tour guide, Amos Wekesa, says he used to take people there all the same.
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