Spain's PM visits West Africa aiming to stem migration surge

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Spain's PM visits West Africa aiming to stem migration surge


Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez starts his second visit this year to West Africa on Tuesday, aiming to curb migration to the Canary Islands and to counter the Russian presence in the Sahel region. The West African migration route has seen a 154% surge this year, with 21,620 people crossing to the Canary Islands in the first seven months,…

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  1. The problem is due to the western aligned puppet African leaders being ridiculously selfish. Europes relationship with Africa has been exceptionally eclxplotative . Economic dependency, trade imbalance, cultural suppression, artificial borders, illegal resources extraction, forced labor, political assassinations, and land dispossession is largely generated the presence of Europe and the U.S.
    on African territory.

  2. When thousands and thousands of Africans have fled the continent to Lampedusa and so on. When even within Africa, this so-called Sub-Saharan Africa, we are facing these issues of Africans who can’t hope and find purpose for their lives in their countries, the idea that Europe need African migrants to cover this and that is the way of making things worse. Africa need to shape environments where people can live in freedom with hope and with opportunities for a life of fulfilment. This is why a 60-year-old dynastic tyranny of West Africa shouldn’t be the chief negotiator for countries of Africa in the framework of their cooperation with the European Union and this why African political leaders should focus on the continent, the well-being and freedom of peoples instead of saying Africa need permanent seats here and there at the international sphere.

  3. All the money they spend to get to European countries they could Build their own country, because some things are Worth more than money, clean food, water with no poison, fresh air, and better people, better weather