{"id":347410,"date":"2018-02-09T01:21:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/africa-expert-warns-western-aid-may-have-contributed-to-next-migrant-crisis\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T01:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:21:36","slug":"africa-expert-warns-western-aid-may-have-contributed-to-next-migrant-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/africa-expert-warns-western-aid-may-have-contributed-to-next-migrant-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Expert Warns Western Aid May Have Contributed to Next Migrant Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Africa specialist Stephen Smith has warned that the next migrant crisis is on the horizon as Africa\u2019s population continues to boom and that Western aid, particularly education, may contribute to Africans seeking a better life in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Smith, the author of the new book <em>La ru\u00e9e vers l\u2019Europe<\/em>, or <em>The Rush To Europe<\/em>, warned that the exploding demographics of Africa will have direct consequences for Europe. According to Smith, in the coming decades, young Africans will likely migrate to Europe as the slowly developing economies of their home nations cannot provide them jobs, Europe1 reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s this pyramid of age that makes 40 per cent of the population less than 15 years old,\u201d Smith said and added, \u201cThe migratory pressure can only increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith also noted the common misconception that those who come to Europe are from poor economic backgrounds saying middle-class migrants \u201care the ones who come out of the water, who have a view of the world, who know where to go, who are on Facebook, who have a mobile phone and the 2,000 or 3,000 euros needed to embark on the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Western development aid might also contribute to the next migrant crisis, according to Smith. \u201cIt\u2019s a terrible paradox,\u201d he said adding, \u201cDevelopment aid, we\u2019ve been trying it for almost 60 years. Are there any successes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting a U.S. President Trump-style border wall, Smith said, \u201cWhen you see the magnitude of the challenge, we currently have 200,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/africa-expert-warns-western-aid-may-have-contributed-to-next-migrant-crisis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa specialist Stephen Smith has warned that the next migrant crisis is on the horizon as Africa\u2019s population continues to boom and that Western aid, particularly education, may contribute to Africans seeking a better life in Europe. Mr. Smith, the author of the new book La ru\u00e9e vers l\u2019Europe, or The Rush To Europe, warned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}