Fears for migrants

A medical charity says it fears for a group of Africans who disappeared from a camp where they were being held by Moroccan authorities.

Medecins Sans Frontieres said it feared the migrants, who had tried to storm a fence marking Spanish enclaves in North Africa, had been led to a desert area.

MSF earlier had reported it had found hundreds of migrants in the Moroccan desert who said they had been taken there by Moroccan forces and then abandoned.

Morocco, whose stated policy is to dump arrested migrants over the Algerian border, has said it wishes to safeguard the human rights of all, but has stepped up efforts to remove them from its soil.