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).
This brings the number of malaria-free countries to 43 worldwide. Achieving malaria-free…