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Africa.
Indeed, in recent years, a mounting level of migration
from Africa to industrial countries of other continents has
been observed.
It consists mainly of skilled manpower which
many of the home countries can ill afford to lose.
The very departure of these people may doom the home economies to loss.
of jobs which had depended upon the existence of those skills.
This siphoning off of skills directly hindering the pace of
as does the development in Africa requires constant attention,
parallel phenomenon in Asia.
69. Common to many countries of the world during the decade of
this Study has been a prolonged liberation struggle the re-
sponse to which has been the cause of mass exodus. Particu- larly in southern Africa, minority régimes abrogated powers to
advance their Own interests at the expense of the
the majority,
guarding their privileges with violent methods which have made many victims.
Apart from exercising repressive tactics within
the boundaries of the countries they rule, they have gone far as to victimize a second time the innocent people who have fled their régimes by carrying out military attacks upon
refugee camps, several of which have been those assisted by
UNHCR.
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The various "push factors", analysed in the context of violations of human rights and elaborated to a degree above, should be viewed against the backdrop of other fundamental
problems which confront developing countries.
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