do not prop up dictatorships? ur saying northern african states patrol the dessert border and sea because they want to? libya contains refugees caught trying to flee in prison camps just because they want to? especially mali when meanwhile they have terrorists inland to worry about. marroco for example gets even better trade agreement based on them beating down refugees at their direct border to spain.

"A new proposal mooted last week involves using EU funds to promote private investment of up to €60bn in countries where many migrants come from – Ethiopia, Niger, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal, as well as Jordan and Lebanon. " -[2016 theguardian]
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/16/bodies-migrants-found-niger-desert-people-smugglers-algeria)

algeria is tho being brutal
"Unlike Niger, Algeria takes none of the EU money intended to help with the migration and refugee crisis, although it did receive $111.3m in aid from Europe between 2014 and 2017." 2018 aljazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/walk-die-algeria-abandons-13000-refugees-sahara-180625064043040.html