The Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, yesterday made a passionate appeal to African governments to respect human dignity by creating avenues for their people to get jobs to do.
He said by so doing the youth would stay in their respective countries with their dignity intact and contribute to the development of their countries instead of risking their lives by using unorthodox routes to travel to Europe for economic reasons.
According to the Italian Prime Minister, because of high rate of unemployment in Africa, many youth risk their lives by travelling through the Sahara Desert and cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy and other parts of Europe to seek greener pastures, with all the uncertainties staring them in their faces.
Mr Matteo Renzi, who was addressing Ghana’s Parliament before returning to his base, said that in Italy where many African migrants end up or transit to other parts of Europe, their heritage is high respect for human dignity and that is the reason why with all the economic and security implications his government had been accommodating and granting asylum to these African migrants.
“You must create jobs and implement policies that will attract investments to stop these migrations,” he charged, stressing that Italy is ready to partner African countries that have open democracies and vibrant economies for shared growth.
source: ghanaweb
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