One month after the devastating earthquake that struck Morocco on September 8, NGOs and volunteers from Ceuta and Melilla have failed to deliver the humanitarian aid they collected to the kingdom. The authorities of Tetouan and Nador, Moroccan cities bordering the two autonomous cities, have asked them to wait.
A man of Algerian origin was arrested in Ceuta as he was trying to reach Morocco by swimming. He would be involved in a homicide case in France.
An attempt to traffic nearly 40 kilos of drugs was thwarted on Friday morning by customs and police elements at the border post of Ceuta , in northern Morocco.
Retired Admiral Juan Rodríguez Garat rules out any possibility of Morocco annexing Ceuta and Melilla, stressing that the two autonomous cities are Spanish and that the Spanish army is not concerned about this issue.
The Spanish government canceled on Friday the departure of several animals from Ceuta to France, demanding that they first be examined by veterinarians on the peninsula. A rule that was only applied to animals from Morocco where rabies is still raging.
Moroccans residing in Belgium , who were arrested last summer in Ceuta for drug trafficking, have just been heavily sentenced by the Spanish justice system.
Moroccan customs, assisted by the police, arrested this week a Moroccan from Belgium for drug trafficking. Several dozen kilos of drugs were found in his car, at Bab Sebta.
Abdelilah is one of the Moroccan workers who go to Ceuta daily to earn a living. Originally from Fnideq, this mason died in the autonomous city following an illness. His body was repatriated to Morocco on Wednesday.
Morocco closed on Tuesday, September 5, the waiting area opened on August 23 at the Ceuta border to facilitate the return of Moroccans from Europe as part of the Marhaba Operation, causing a traffic jam.
A French national was arrested on Sunday by customs officers at the port of Bab Sebta. The man was trying to bring a large sum of undeclared money into Morocco.
Spain deployed on Saturday the frigates Reina Sofía (F-84) and Canarias (F-86) to Melilla. This deterrent action comes in the wake of the controversy sparked by the publication by the Moroccan embassy in Madrid of a map of the kingdom integrating Ceuta and Melilla.
While the southern border of Spain is often seen as a symbol of the difficulties faced by migrants, many others face an equally difficult obstacle: bureaucracy. To obtain a residence permit, one often has to wait for years, except in rare cases where the state accelerates the procedure for humanitarian reasons.