"Former British prime minister Tony Blair on Saturday called for concerted efforts to combat malaria in Nigeria which accounts for a quarter of the [nearly] one million malaria deaths annually in Africa," Agence France-Presse writes (2/20). Blair is scheduled to visit Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone on a three-country trip to Africa, VOA News writes (Ssali, 2/20). At a workshop to train Christian and Muslim leaders in fighting malaria, Blair said, "Malaria has no barrier and does not discriminate...

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