Young people are the focus of this year’s African Union and European Union summit taking place today in Ivory Coast.

German leader Angela Merkel and France’s President Emmanuel Macron are there - along with eighty other heads of state.

Investing in youth for a sustainable future - that’s the tagline as 60% of the population across Africa is under 25.

It’s the youngest continent in the world.

And it’s getting younger, not older, as the number of young people is expected to double in the next decade.

But many think the summit’s focus on young people is simply another way of saying, “the migrant crisis”.

Hundreds of thousands of Africans, mainly from West and East Africa, make the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean every year.

Some are escaping atrocities.

But many, like those from Ivory Coast, are economic migrants, simply aspiring to a better life - chasing the European dream, a dream that doesn’t exist.

It’s hoped presidents, prime ministers and policy makers from both continents, Africa and Europe, will address the root causes of migration.

The EU is expected to offer new investment and loan agreements - because if people’s situations in their home countries don’t change, the migrant crisis is only going to get worse.