The statement made by African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in Valetta, Malta, on 11 November should not have gone unnoticed by the millions of migrants and would-be migrants in Africa.
Speaking at the Euro-African summit on migration, Dlamini-Zuma said that Europe is partly to blame for the current migration crisis 'because some countries in Europe have taken a fortress approach'. Migration in search of safety or a better life is as old as humanity itself, she said, so 'there is no part of the world that can be a fortress,' she said. 'We should be open to legal migration.'
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