“Certification is granted when a country proves that the transmission chain is interrupted for at least the previous three consecutive years.”
Egypt started in the 1920s by banning rice and crops near homes to keep people away from mosquitoes. It took nearly a century to get the WHO certificate. Malaria still kills at least 600,000 people a year, nearly all of them in Africa. Egypt is only the third country in its WHO region to make it, behind the UAE and Morocco.