130 DIE FROM MEASLES, MENINGITIS IN NIGERIA

AROUND 100 children have died of measles and 30 people have died of meningitis in separate outbreaks in northwestern Nigeria in the past two weeks. Local medical officials said around 600 children living in Sokoto State had caught the measles and around 100 had died. Around 30 people had died of cerebro-spinal meningitis in an outbreak in the town of Tureta, also in Sokoto State. – AFP