The European Union’s financial watchdog says the bloc is failing to draw lessons about how to discourage unauthorized migration into Europe from Africa

Illegal immigration from Africa has not slowed despite the European Union spending billions of euros to tackle the root causes of migration, the bloc’s financial watchdog has warned.

Auditors say that the EU's five billion euro Africa fund was "spread too thinly," to address migration, that job creation was overstated and human righs risks were not properly addressed