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Since 2015, Dr. Safdar has overseen virtually every aspect of Pakistan’s battle against polio. In his office in Islamabad, the capital, he sits among a war room’s assortment of maps and weekly reports from across the country. Local bureaucracies, the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Unicef — all report to and…

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The Bangladeshi authorities are already preparing the transfer of around 100,000 of the 750,000 Rohingya refugees who fled the genocide in Burma to the island of Bhasan Char in the middle of the Bay of Bengal and around 40 kilometers from the coast. More than 300 Rohingya have already settled in the infrastructure built on…