Offstream
news

---

Changes

1. The Africa Regional Certification Commission declares Africa to be free of polio.
   2020-08-25 11:04:03 (First version)
2. The Africa Regional Certification Commission announce that they will declare Africa to be free of polio.
   2020-08-25 15:03:56 (Update)
3. The Africa Regional Certification Commission announces that they have declared Africa free of polio.
   (Current version)

---

Related

Two policemen are killed when gunmen open fire on them as they are escorting polio workers in Gomal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
2022-08-16

Pakistan reports its 10th case of polio this year after two more cases of the virus are reported in North Waziristan District.
2022-06-14

Pakistan launches a new anti-polio drive after a third case of the disease is reported in the country.
2022-05-23

Mozambique confirms its first polio case in 30 years in the northwestern province of Tete.
2022-05-18

Eight polio vaccination workers are killed by unknown gunmen in Kunduz and Takhar, leading to the suspension of the vaccination campaign in the two provinces. The campaign was launched nationwide in November 2021.
2022-02-24

Gunmen kill three female polio vaccination health workers in Jalalabad, Nangarhar.
2021-03-30

A bomb attack on a polio vaccination team in a village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province kills at least ten people.
2014-03-1

Nine women are shot to death in the Nigerian city of Kano. According to reports, all of them were involved in a polio vaccination policy and were most probably killed by the Islamist movement Boko Haram, which has previously threatened to target those involved in vaccinations.
2013-02-8

Gunmen kill six health workers engaged in a polio vaccination drive in Pakistan, highlighting resistance to a program opposed by the Taliban.
2012-12-18

Ghulam Nabi Azad, India's Minister of Health and Family Welfare, reports that the country has almost entirely eradicated polio through a vaccination program which immunises over 170 million children every year. No new polio cases have been reported in India for over nine months.
2011-10-24