ANGOLAN doctors are refusing to work in four southern provinces hard-hit by violence in the nation’s 25-year civil war. The national public health service announced two months ago that it was taking applications from doctors to fill 60 vacant posts in Bie, Moxico, Kwando-Kubango and Kwanza-Norte provinces. “But no one has applied,” said the ministry’s human resources chief, Artur Chilulu on national radio. Angola’s civil war has raged almost non-stop since independence from Portugal in 1975. – AFP