The president of Germany President Frank - Walter Steinmeier has affirmed an aggregate of 1 , 500 Gambians who arrived in Germany without proper documentation will face deportation , a joint news gathering in Banjul expressed on Friday .
Steinmeier said this amid his official visit toward the West African nation that rose up out of a strained political standoff early this year .
" There are more than 35 , 000 Gambian illegal migrants in Germany , out of whom 1 , 500 are undocumented and anticipating extradition''
Steinmeier said at a joint question and answer session with Gambian President Adama Barrow in Banjul .
Steinmeier said the two nations will expedite specialized specialists to work the issue, including giving vocational skills to Gambians .
" Europeans don't have answers to Africa ' s issues, the issues require African arrangements , '' he said .
Steinmeier landed in Banjul on Wednesday on a one - day visit.
He was the primary European head of state to visit Gambia since Barrow resume office subsequent to winning the country election .
It was a strained change with the crushed long - time pioneer Yahya Jammeh at first declining to come down .
Yahaya Jammeh left the nation just in January subsequent to neighboring Senegal sent troops to uphold the race result .
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