South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged African nations to tackle the root causes of migration, warning that unmanaged migration threatens sovereignty and security. Addressing the Pan-African Parliament, he called for stronger economic opportunities, local value addition, and a greater global role for Africa amid renewed debates over immigration and xenophobia.

According to him, migration has become a major issue across the continent, with many African countries grappling with both internal and cross-border movements of people.

South Africa has urged the African Union (AU) to avoid turning upcoming continental discussions on migration into a platform for blaming individual countries, arguing instead that…