12/11/2015 02:16 PM

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PLEDGE: Home Secretary Theresa May

BRITAIN’S HOME Secretary has said the UK will be pledge additional aid to Africa in hopes of addressing the high levels of migration experienced this year.

Theresa May, who along with other EU leaders gathered in Malta, is pledging cash in exchange for help to stem the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean.

May said: “We want to work with African countries, the countries of origin, to ensure people don’t feel the need to make this journey to Europe.

“In the UK we are putting £200 million extra aid into Africa to help ensure we provide the circumstances there that ensure that people don’t make this journey.”

Describing the journey as ‘dangerous’, May is said to have shown concern over the number of migrants who risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean.

According to the International Organization for Migration, nearly 800,000 migrants have reached Europe by sea this year, just under a quarter of them from Africa.

The EU predicts that three million more could arrive by 2017.

May’s address comes after the British government was accused of refusing to welcome a fair share of the hundreds of thousands of migrants now in the EU.

The government is said to have allocated more than £1 billion for refugee camps in nations neighbouring Syria, and offering safe haven to 20,000 vulnerable people by 2020.

Stefan Löfven, Premier of Sweden, which has accepted 160,000 refugees this year, said: “All countries have to step up and show we can do this together.”

Also emerging from the summit is an approved £1.27 billion Emergency Trust Fund for Africa that has been agreed by EU leaders in return for African initiatives assistance in reducing migration.

Source:http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/theresa-may-aid-africa-will-control-migrant-movement