Africa has been declared free from wild polio by the independent body ... More than two million people have been displaced by the fighting. Frontline workers, 95% of whom were women, managed ...

Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs are left globally, mainly in South Africa, down from 42,500 in 1991, and they could become ...

Wild polio remains endemic in only two countries in the world - Afghanistan and Pakistan. BBC AFRICA LIVE ... mutate and spread in areas where few people are vaccinated. There have been outbreaks ...