The Deputy Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations, Michael Kiboino, said that “what happened to the migrants trying to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla is a blatant violation” of a Human Rights Council resolution. Speaking to journalists in New York on Wednesday, Kiboino added that this incident “is part of a worrying trend in recent years in which people of African descent traveling to Europe via the Mediterranean suffer extreme violations of their human rights.”