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Kano Pillars para-soccer team player advances with the ball during a training session in Kano, northwestern Nigeria, on April 22, 2017. The World Health Organization said 116 million children are to receive polio vaccines in 13 countries in west and central Africa as part of efforts to eradicate the disease on the continent. "The synchronised vaccination campaign, one of the largest of its kind ever implemented in Africa, is part of urgent measures to permanently stop polio on the continent," the WHO said. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI