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Detailed explanation-1: -Africa is free from wild poliovirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on 25 August - leaving just two countries where the virus remains endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Detailed explanation-2: -Africa has been declared free from wild polio by the independent body, the Africa Regional Certification Commission.
Detailed explanation-3: -The African region was declared and certified as free of indigenous wild polio in August 2020 after eliminating all forms of wild poliovirus.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wild polio returns to Africa: How the GPEI is helping stop an outbreak from becoming an inferno. In February 2022, a year and a half after the continent was declared indigenous wild poliovirus-free, the virus resurfaced in south-eastern Africa.
Detailed explanation-5: -The WHO Regional Director for Africa appointed the 16-member Africa Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication in 1998 with the mandate to oversee the certification process and act as the only body to certify the African Region to have eradicated the wild poliovirus.