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the humanitarian crisis in Syria (see Annex). In its work on peace and health, IPI will also draw on its experience in conflict-ridden regions like West Africa. II. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Polio Eradication 1. Context: The effort to eradicate polio globally and permanently has come down to the ability to en

rnational terrorist movements may pose a further threat to the global polio eradication campaign. In particular, the Sahel countries of Mali, Niger, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso may become vulnerable to similar campaigns, as the influence of Al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which shares institution

ential delay gives different parties, including ECOWAS mediator President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, Algeria and the UN through its Office for West Africa, time to attempt mediation efforts. Contacts with Ansar Dine, one of the Islamist groups in northern Mali, and with the secular Tuareg rebellion Na

nd Burkina Faso, as well as other West African countries and some non-African states. Core countries from the Sahel-Sahara region—including Algeria, Mauritania, Chad, Libya, and Morocco—also attended the Abuja summit. Algeria, Egypt, and Mauritania continued to express reservations about a military interve

ll town of Ansongo, just downriver from the provincial capital, Gao, which is under the rule of a group called the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or Mujao, splintered off from Al Qaeda. It was confirmed by a Mujao spokesman in Gao in a telephone interview, and by the Malian government in a s

enter of broad-minded Islamic teaching for centuries. In the wake of the Islamist takeover, more than 90,000 Malian refugees have fled to camps in Mauritania's remote eastern edge. Some of the Tuareg rebel leaders have taken refuge in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital. In interviews, several said that d

io in Canwrixiir MIN, 26 hian:h 2011 http:/Avww.iiinnews.orgreporiaspx?Repon11)-99141 6 WHO Global Alert and Respome. "Poliomyelitis in Nigeria and West Africa," January 6, 2009. htlen/Avww.who.inricseskin'2009 0l 0RrenIndexhInd. 5 EFTA00586334 Confidcntial — Not for distribution or circulation Barrier

ed in scope and capability, and its membership is believed to have diversified, with anecdotal evidence suggesting that foreign fighters from Chad, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia and Sudan may be in Boko Haram's ranks." In recent years, northern Nigeria has also seen the formation of splinter groups emerging f