Spain is resuming flights to repatriate Moroccan migrants who arrived by boat in the Canary Islands, suspended for nearly a year. The first flight will leave Gran Canaria airport for Laâyoune with about twenty migrants on Tuesday.
The fact that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) considers the Canary Islands waters as part of the Moroccan fishing zone has "no effect on Spanish sovereignty" over them, the Spanish government has assured.
Britons find themselves stranded in Marrakech due to a storm that hit the Canary Islands and blocked all air traffic.
Spanish air traffic controllers coordinated with their Moroccan counterparts on Tuesday to give priority to a flight transporting an organ for a transplant to the Canary Islands.
Saad Kataloni, 19, and Bouaza Ben Anaya are two Moroccans who have tried to immigrate to Spain at the risk of their lives. Today, they are convinced that this is not the best option in the face of the unemployment raging in Morocco.
Morocco will build in the coming months a dozen fish farms off the Canary Islands, which will be added to the three others already installed in the Chafarinas Islands, near Melilla. Spain considers this attitude of the kingdom as a provocation.
Zakaria, a young Moroccan living in the Basque Country, has lost several members of his family at sea. His brother, sister, brother-in-law and young niece are among the 31 victims of the shipwrecked boat that was found in Cape Verde with three bodies on board.
Binter is resuming flights connecting the Canary Islands to Marrakech airport from December 5, after several months of suspension due to the health crisis.
Moroccan police expelled a forensic medical delegation that arrived in the city of Boujdour from Gran Canaria on Saturday from Laâyoune airport.
While information indicates a risk of a mega-tsunami in Morocco, after the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, on Sunday, September 19, Nacer Jabour, head of division at the National Institute of Geophysics (ING), reassures.
After a brief lull, illegal immigration to the Canary Islands would have resumed with a vengeance. More and more young Moroccans are once again taking this route to reach Spain.
The president of the Canary Islands Popular Party (PP), Australia Navarro, has asked President Ángel Víctor Torres to demand the application of the agreement signed in 2007 by Morocco and Spain to facilitate the return of minors.