Berlin, Ramadan 17, 1438, June 12, 2017, SPA -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to host African leaders on Monday to talk about reducing poverty and conflicts ahead of a G20 summit in Hamburg next month, according to dpa. Merkel will talk to leaders of countries about an initiative to team up African nations committed to economic reforms with private investors who would bring business and jobs to the continent. Berlin is interested in alleviating poverty in African countries whose citizens have been among the hundreds of thousands to arrive in Germany as asylum seekers over the past two years. Germany - Europe's biggest economy - took in some 890,000 migrants last year. Many thousands came from African nations including Ethiopia, Eritrea and Ghana. --SPA 13:57 LOCAL TIME 10:57 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w426156