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Fighting the African Brain Drain

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According to the International Organisation for Migration every single year 20,000 professionals leave the continent for jobs in the Western world. It's a trend that the United Nations believes is the one of the single greatest obstacles to Africa's development. But one engineer school in Burkina Faso is defying the trends...

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By Emmanuelle SODJI / Yuka ROYER
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