Millions of graduates quit Sub-Saharan Africa

The number of highly educated people leaving Sub-Saharan Africa to work abroad nearly doubled in a decade, a study reveals.
The research, commissioned by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), found that about a million Sub-Saharan Africans with a degree migrated to another, usually better off, country outside the region in 2010/11. This is a 92 per cent rise from 2000/01, bearing in mind that migration trends over the past four years are not included in this data. More...