German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Senegal late Wednesday on a three-nation West African visit focusing on economic development and migration. Migrant arrivals in Europe across the Mediterranean from Africa and Turkey are at their lowest level in five years, but the issue remains sensitive. Some in Europe hope that investing more in West Africa will help keep people in a region plagued with unemployment, dodgy infrastructure, rising extremism and now the effects of climate change from leaving. A day before leaving for Africa, the German leader hosted U2 frontman Bono for a discussion on Africa and its "development opportunities," the Chancellery said in an Instagram post . Nigeria is West Africa's regional power, Africa's most populous country and one of the continent's top oil producers.

Source: Ethiopian News August 29, 2018 20:37 UTC