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Moroccan boy who swam to Spain “preferred to die”.

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…

Spain accuses Morocco of “aggression” and

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…

Over a thousand deserted minor migrants

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.…

In pictures: Migrant flow in Spain’s African

About 8,000 immigrants, an unprecedented influx at a time of high tension between Spain and Morocco, slipped into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in northern Africa in two days, Spanish authorities said. They reached the enclave by swimming or by walking at low tide from beaches a few kilometers south, some with inflatable swimming rings and inflatable boats. Moroccan migrants climb a…

why this sudden and big arrival of

Greater than 8,000 Moroccans have crossed the border into Europe since Monday to reach in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave within the north of the nation. Spain, which gave these figures on Tuesday, claims to have returned half of them to Morocco and declares that new police reinforcements shall be despatched on the spot. This large inflow of immigrants comes in opposition to the backdrop of a serious diplomatic disaster between the 2 nations.…

A thousand migrants arrive within the enclave

A thousand migrants, together with 300 minors, managed to succeed in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighboring Morocco on Monday (Might 17), arriving by swimming or on foot when the tide allowed, the Spanish authorities mentioned, citing a "document" for This will not be the primary time that about 100 migrants have tried to be a part of the European Union.…

the our bodies of the three Westerners who had been killed in a

In Burkina Faso, the stays of the three Westerners on Monday within the assault on their convoys left at night time from Thursday to Friday to Spain. The 2 journalists and director Rory Younger had been kidnapped and located useless a couple of hours later in a forest space in Pama, within the japanese area, in accordance with a press release from the Burkinabè authorities.…

3 European journalists killed in terrorist attack in

Three European journalists, two Spaniards and an Irishman, were killed in the West African nation of Burkina Faso after their anti-poaching patrol was transferred. "It is very unfortunate, but the three Westerners were executed by terrorists," said a senior security source in the West African nation. He did not specify who was behind Monday's attack on the group, which included soldiers, rangers and foreign journalists, in the eastern region of Fada N'Gourma-Pama. At least three people were injured and one Burkinabe…

Hospitalization of Brahim Ghali, Head of Polisario

Spain aroused Morocco's anger at allowing entry and then hospitalization for the leader of the Saharawi separatists from the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali. On Saturday, Morocco called the Spanish ambassador to Rabat to ask for explanations. Madrid assured that this decision should not affect the good relations between Morocco and Spain.…