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Bill Gates ventures into unknown

The freckled man with the rectangular glasses instantly recognisable to much of the world stood in the West African heat, staring at data that had nothing to do with selling software. But it was exactly where Bill Gates said he wanted to be, at a tin-roof clinic in a village in Ghana.

Gates says world must push to finally eradicate polio

Bill Gates said Tuesday that the world must commit to wiping out the remaining cases of polio and finally eradicate the disease despite squeezed aid budgets and violence plaguing vaccination efforts. Gates, speaking in an interview with AFP during a visit to Ghana, fended off criticism.