Africa: Job creation in Africa vital to stop crisis on Morocco-Spain border – UN official

Voicing concern over the situation of migrants trying to cross from Morocco into Spain’s enclaves on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a senior United Nations official in West Africa warned that what is happening there now with African youth is nothing compared with what might occur within a few years. Tens of millions of youths in West Africa lack proper employment, and their realization that their prospects are so limited in their home countries is driving ever more of them to undertake the desperate measures necessary to emigrate clandestinely to Europe or North America.