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Cape Verde is the third African country to eliminate malaria

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Cape Verde has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organisation.

The archipelago to the west of Senegal consists of 10 islands, and has a population of over 500,000 people. It is the third country in Africa to be declared malaria-free, after Mauritius (in 1973) and Algeria (in 2019).

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