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French President Emmanuel Macron called on Africa and Europe to build "win-win solutions", particularly on the issue of migrants, Wednesday addressing 300 young entrepreneurs, key moment of the second day of his visit to Nigeria
Affirming that both continents had "a common destiny", Mr. Macron elaborated on his vision of the "migrant crisis" which is shaking the European Union and which will have to be resolved "along the way. term "in Africa."
"We must resist short-term emotions (…) and work with African governments," Emmanuel Macron, who was speaking at a large hotel in Lagos, said in English [19659002] "The sustainable answer is to build a better future" in African countries, such as Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire or Nigeria, where young people leave "lack of economic opportunities and prospects".
"There is an answer, it is partly safe and political, we are wearing it better protecting our collective borders, helping transit countries to better protect their borders," he told reporters.
The president reaffirmed the need to master demography in Africa: "When you are a poor country where you leave the population running, you have seven or eight children per woman, you never get out of poverty", a- he said in an interview with Radio France Internationale and France 24.
"Because even when you have a growth rate of 5 or 6% you can never get out, especially as the concentration of wealth is not doing well ", according to the head of the French state, who said to badume this position, despite the criticism it can generate on the continent.
Responding standing, microphone in hand, to the questions of young active, Emmanuel Macron reproduced one of his favorite exercises abroad, tested in Ouagadougou and reproduced in New Delhi, Washington and Aachen
In the morning, he inaugurated the French Alliance of Lagos, housed in a renovated colonial villa and made available by Mike Adenuga, a Nigerian billionaire who made his fortune in oil, telecommunications and services. [19659002] The network of Alliances françaises, which includes 832 schools for more than 500,000 students, "makes it possible to thrill French culture all over the world," greeted the president.
Emmanuel Macron also spoke with the writer Nigerian Wole Soyinka, including communal conflicts in his country, the jihadist group Boko Haram and cultural exchanges between Africa and Europe
The president ended this short African tour by a meeting with young basketball players for the signature of a contract between the French Development Agency (AFD) and the American Basketball Federation (NBA) to develop sports infrastructures in Africa.
The two infrastructures will invest six million dollars each to allow five million young people to play basketball in six countries for the next five years, said Amadou Gallo Fall, NBA Director General for Africa. 19659002] This initiative follows the launch in February at the Elysee Palace, on the occasion of the visit of the new president of Liberia, former footballer George Weah, of a platform for the transformation of Africa through sport.
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