New UN migration chief to visit Africa on first official trip

The new head of the UN's migration agency will visit Africa on her first official trip from Sunday to highlight the scale of migration happening around the continent.
Amy Pope, the first woman elected to lead the International Organization for Migration, will then head to Brussels as the 27-member EU bloc deals with a recent influx of migrant arrivals in Italy.
The American, who took office on October 1, will visit the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, before meeting Ethiopian officials.
She will then travel to Kenya and Djibouti.
"When we talk about migration in terms of the African continent, it's recognising that over 80 percent of the migration takes place in Africa," Pope said at a press briefing in Geneva, at a time when attention is particularly focused on migrants trying to reach Europe.