Migrant crisis: No EU-Africa grand bargain

Tony O. Elumelu with the 1,000 entrepreneurs representing 51 African countries from the 2015 class of the $100 million Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme during the entrepreneurship boot camp in Ota, Nigeria in July.

Tony O. Elumelu is chairman of Heirs Holdings and founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation

‘Africapitalism’ is the key to creating more economic opportunities in Africa

Images of refugees attempting to reach Europe through any and all possible means have dominated global...

European leaders hold an emergency summit on how to deal with the large numbers of migrants risking a journey across the Mediterranean.

Life on the migrants' island of hope

The Italian navy believes it has found a boat that sank in the Mediterranean in April, killing at least 800 migrants.

EU ministers approve plans to establish a naval force to combat people-smugglers operating from Libya.

EU leaders will push their wary African counterparts to help tackle the migration crisis at a summit in Malta this week, offering them billions of euros in aid in exchange for cooperation.

France's migrant 'cemetery' in the Indian Ocean

Early this August, the first ‘Black’ US President in History, Barack Obama, saw it fit to summon top African leaders to his backyard, so to speak. The general idea was to jointly thrash out issues that bedevil African countries and, together (in a US/Africa development partnership of sorts) to chart a mutually (?) beneficial way forward in social, economic and political terms.

West African migrant children trapped in Sicily