The urgency of Abdirizak Ahmed's efforts to fight a measles outbreak in Ethiopia hit home last month when two of the aid worker's colleagues lost children to the disease, which is making a comeback from Africa to India and Britain.
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COVID-19 disrupted routine vaccinations against measles globally in 2020 and 2021, leaving millions of children - mostly in poorer countries - unprotected against one of the world s most contagious diseases, which can cause blindness, pneumonia and death.
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Mohammed Hassan Gureh has made up his mind: he’s going to sell the last of his goats and leave his village to find a new life. Like many herders in the east of Ethiopia, he has been forced to give up his nomadic existence after seeing his livestock decimated by drought. The 32-year-old says he can no longer bear seeing his animals die.