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As the diplomatic crisis continues between Morocco and Spain, the leader of the Polisario Front, the independent Sarhaoui Brahim Ghali, ill with Covid-19 and cancer, will be heard this Tuesday, June 1, by the judge of the 'National Audience Santiago Pedraz. He will be linked to two complaints against him in Spain. The character is at the heart of the dispute between Rabat and Madrid.…

Hundreds of people gathered in a square in Ceuta to protest the presence of the president of the far-right Vox party, Santiago Abascal, who wanted to hold a demonstration. It was banned due to the risk of unrest, while a week ago between 8,000 and 10,000 people came from Morocco in the Spanish enclave. With our special…

In Ceuta, three people have died since the migration crisis started a week ago. A young man, who drowned on Monday 17 May while trying to swim to the Spanish enclave, was buried on Saturday 22 May. The other two were buried on Sunday, May 23. With our special correspondent in Ceuta, Magali LagrangeThe Muslim cemetery, near the…

Since the beginning of the week, the authorities in Ceuta estimate that between 8 and 10,000 people have entered the Spanish enclave from Morocco, in the middle of a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. Among these migrants, there are very many minors. Residents are mobilizing to provide news about the latter to their families.…

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In Ceuta, local authorities estimate between 8 and 10,000 migrants who have arrived in the Spanish enclave since the beginning of the week. And at 7,000, the number left voluntarily or returned to Morocco. Among those who remain in Ceuta (many of whom are minors), some live in centers where they sleep, are fed and receive basic hygiene products. Others are still on the streets of the city. Residents…

That is the biggest inflow of migrants Ceuta has ever recognized, a Spanish enclave inherited from colonization, in northern Morocco. Earlier this week, 8,000 individuals, largely Moroccans, secretly crossed the border into this small European territory on African soil. This migration disaster stems from a diplomatic quarrel…

A Moroccan boy who swam to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta after Rabat relaxed his borders told a Spanish soldier that he would rather die than return home. "He did not want to return, he had no family in Morocco, he did not care if he died of a cold. He preferred to die ... than to return to Morocco," said Rachid Mohamed al-Sa Messaoui. The boy attracted international media attention when he floated in a dark T-shirt with plastic bottles under his clothes and clung to his arms and cried when he…

The Spanish authorities resumed its tone on Thursday, Could 20, in opposition to Morocco, accused of "aggression" and "extortion" by Margarita Robles, the Spanish protection minister, following the arrival of greater than 8,000 migrants since Could 17 within the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The inflow of those migrants from close…

Following the transferring avalanche within the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, positioned in northern Morocco, Spain is making an attempt to regain management of the state of affairs. The socialist authorities introduced on Wednesday that 5,600 migrants have been returned to the border. There are nonetheless about 1,500 unaccompanied kids strolling the streets of Ceuta.…