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WHO decries growing toll of road fatalities in Africa amid urbanization

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NAIROBI, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Africa has become an epicenter of deaths arising from road accidents, exerting strain on the continent's public health infrastructure, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report launched Tuesday.

Despite accounting for 15 percent of the global population and 3 percent of vehicles, the African region recorded one-fifth of all road accident deaths in the world, says the 2023