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Since the year 2000 life expectancy in Africa has risen by almost ten years. It has been rising almost twice as fast as the rest of the world and now the average person on the continent can expect to live to 60 years of age. So what is behind this dramatic improvement? Newsday's Bola Mosuro spoke to Dr Ties Boerma from the World Health Organisation. (Photo: A young boy and an elderly woman in South Sudan. Credit: Charles Lomodong/AFP/Getty Images)