Malaria Puts Sudan in State of Emergency
The Associated Press

Khartoum, Sudan - Sudan has declared a state of emergency in a part of 
its eastern region where 109 people died of malaria, the independent 
Alwan daily reported April 4. It was not clear when the epidemic began or 
when the state of emergency was declared. The government sent a fact-
finding commission to the state of Red Sea in eastern Sudan after there 
were reports that some 3,000 people had been infected with the disease, 
the paper said.