In this regard, she added, the ECA highly appreciates the partnership with the African Union Commission and the African Development Bank in the HLPM. These are economic drivers of migration; population dynamics; migration governance and cooperation; leveraging financial and human resources of migration, human rights and migration data and research. Ms. Songwe said facts make it clear that African migration is not necessarily different in its magnitude from migration in and from other world regions. In West Africa there are 4.7 million intra African migrants and 1.2 million migrants to Europe and America. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

Source: The North Africa Journal January 18, 2018 12:00 UTC