A Yemeni refugee at a makeshift refugee camp in northern Djibouti. PAimages/Mosa'ab Elshamy. All rights reserved.The issue of migrants from Africa attempting to make their way to Europe has been on the front pages of the continent’s various newspapers, and it’s no secret that, as summer brings warmer weather, the surge of migrants risking life and limb on the journey to a better life will again kick into high gear.
This is a problem that Europe cannot ignore, even less now than in previous years. But are Europe and the Commission living up to their clear moral responsibilities to these migrants?
The scope of the problem is gargantuan. There are more than eighteen million displaced persons and refugees in Africa, the highest this number has been in history. Eight armed conflicts have begun or intensified since 2010, resulting in a seventeen percent spike in the number of refugees and displaced persons in Sub-Saharan Africa, per UNHCR.
