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A United Nations official today hailed the graduation of Cape Verde from the category of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) while cautioning that the State’s success should not lull the UN or other development partners into thinking that its problems have ended.

In a pilot project for later expansion to the rest of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, two United Nations agencies today launched a dual attack on youth unemployment and land degradation in Cape Verde aimed at protecting the West African island state’s fragile environment through volunteer action.