AU expresses ‘deep shock’ over deaths at Spain-Morocco border

Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairman of the African Union Commission addresses attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York, October 1, 2015 in his capacity then as Chadian foreign minister [File: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]

The African Union chief has expressed “deep shock” over the death of nearly two dozen people while trying to break through a border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla and called for an immediate investigation into the matter.

Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairman of the African Union Commission said on Monday that he was shocked at the “degrading treatment of African migrants”.