Sudan / Brain Drain / 75,361 left the country looking for better future between 2008-2012

Again it is brain drain, though this time with an alarming pace. In just five years between 2008-2012 a total of 75,361, or more than six fold increase during the period under review, left the country looking for better future mainly in the Gulf states and in particular in Saudi Arabia.

A breakdown of the figures shows that more than one thousand of those who left are university lecturers and more than five thousands are physicians. That is really alarming.

This phenomenon is not something new to Sudan. It has seen such movements since times immemorial peaking during the 1970s with the advent of the oil boom in the Gulf countries that were looking for foreign labor to feed their expanding markets that lack skilled labor. This time the trend took place in Sudan amid new developments. Since the beginning of the last decade, the country was experiencing some kind of a mini oil boom that coupled with a relative peace following the conclusion of the CPA, though Darfur conflict raged by then. But despite that Sudan was able to attract some foreign labor from the highly specialized expertise in the oil industry to soft labor from nearby African neighbors. Many Sudanese working or visiting Gulf countries were faced with questions like how come they have left their countries while others trying to go to it…

Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor from

via Sudan Vision Daily -Article Details.