Journalist Tokunbo Ojo, once a resident of Nigeria, writes about his disgust at the treatment he experienced at the hands of US immigration officials at a Canadian border crossing.

The United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) has begun a major campaign to vaccinate thousands of women against tetanus in Mali in an attempt to halt the passing of the disease to newborn babies. Last year tetanus killed 30,000 women in developing countries across the world.

Voting ended on Sunday in the final round of Mali's parliamentary elections, with low turnout to decide most of the seats in the impoverished West African country's assembly.

TB is the single biggest killer in Ethiopia's Somali Region and clinics are few and far between. In the squalid conditions of the camps which dot the region, disease spreads like wildfire.

There has been a low turnout in the West African country of Mali for the first round of parliamentary elections. Correspondents say scepticism about the electoral process, after widespread allegations of corruption in the presidential elections, kept many voters at home.