Senegal’s President Macky Sall has voiced his concers over the insufficiency of the European fund to tackle African migration.
Sall, who is the current head of the West African regional group ECOWAS, told journalists on the side-lines of the crisis talks between African leaders and their European counterparts that the money pledged is not enough for the whole of Africa.
The fund was one of several measures agreed upon by European and African leaders, to reduce the worrying flow of people from Africa into Europe.
The Senegalese president is reported to have told journalists later that he is pleased with the fund, but he would like to see it more generously financed.
The Somalian Prime Minister Omar Abdirashidali Sharmatke is reported to have said, “What Africa needs today is not charity, but investment.”
The Europe-Africa meeting was planned after around 800 migrants died when their boat sank off Libya in April.
