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Cabo Verde opens health emergency training for five African countries

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10 Nov 2026, 11:35 am IST1 min read

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A course for emergency response instructors opened in Praia, Cabo Verde, on November 9 with 34 participants from five Portuguese-speaking African countries. The World Health Organization said the group includes participants from Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe. The course runs through November 20. [evidence-1]

The sessions are conducted in Portuguese. Participants are learning to lead emergency responses, work with humanitarian partners and run public health emergency operations centres. They are expected to train additional responders in their own countries after the course. [evidence-1]

The training is part of a joint effort by WHO and Africa CDC to build national teams that can deploy quickly in a health emergency. The initiative aims to build a roster of more than 50 government-nominated responders in each country. [evidence-1] [evidence-2]

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Credit: WHO Regional Office for Africa and Africa CDC

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