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Zimbabwe may block nurses from leaving

Zimbabwe鈥檚 vice president has said the government could make it illegal for foreign countries to recruit its healthcare workers.

Zimbabwe鈥檚 vice president has said the government could make it illegal for foreign countries to recruit its healthcare workers. 4,000 nurses and doctors left the country last year, with many citing poor pay and working conditions as the main factors.

Plus, Ghana鈥檚 government deploys hundreds of soldiers and police to Bawku near the Burkinab猫 border, after an immigration official was killed and two others were wounded in an attack by armed men.

And Nigerian singer Deborah Paul-Enenche talks to us about what it鈥檚 like being a young artist in the gospel music scene.

(Photo: Nurses and doctors protest in Harare over low pay, June 2022; Credit: Getty Images)

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Thu 6 Apr 2023 19:06GMT

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