Doctors’ brain drain saps $2b from Africa – report

A new report on good governance released by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation has revealed that Africa loses about $2 billion a year due to doctors and health practitioners leaving the continent.Only three countries in Africa, namely Libya, Mauritius and Tunisia, have at least one doctor per thousand people, says the document entitled ‘Ibrahim Forum Report 2018: The Public Service in Africa’ seen by APA on Sunday. The report presented on Sunday in the Rwandan capital Kigali on the sidelines of the ‘Mo Ibrahim Governance Weekend’, indicates that in sub-Saharan Africa…

EU Mission to Observe Tunisia’s First Municipal Elections since 2011 Uprising

The European Union has sent a delegation of electoral observers to Tunisia’s upcoming municipal elections, the first of their kind in over seven years following the mass popular uprising that ousted the North African country’s authoritarian president. The unique nature of these elections has brought them under the watchful eye of Fabio Massimo Castaldo, head of the EU election observation mission (EUEOM) in Tunisia, who sat down with EFE for an exclusive interview Sunday, a week before voting is to get underway in the historic ballot. “It’s a unique mission…