Their continent-wide survey also found that young and educated people were more likely than others to want to leave their home country. For those who do leave, it is not to Europe or North America that most go to, but another African country. Here are five key things we have learnt from the report. People in southern African indicate the strongest preference for staying in the region (58%) while this feeling was weakest in North Africa (8%). But citizens of African countries still need a visa to travel to more than half of the continent's 54 countries, protecting borders drawn up by European colonisers more than a century ago.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 26, 2019 16:18 UTC