A sub-Saharan African nation has been declared malaria-free for the first time in 50 years.
Cape Verde was given the status by the World Health Organization (WHO) as it has not reported a single case of local transmission in three years.
Experts have described this as a major achievement.
Malaria is a huge killer on the continent. In 2022, 580,000 people in Africa died from the disease, amounting…