Two former senior Spanish army officers, Admiral Juan Rodríguez Garat and Lieutenant General Francisco Gan Pampols, consider a Moroccan military attack on Ceuta and Melilla unlikely.
The Civil Guard arrested on Monday a Moroccan who was trying to enter the pre-boarding area of the port of Ceuta with 400 kilos of hashish hidden in a van.
The think tank Europa Ciudadana warns against the position of certain Spanish officials in favor of Morocco on the Spanish sovereignty of Ceuta and Melilla.
The Observatory of Ceuta and Melilla has sent a letter to the director of Google Spain to ask to reconsider the delineation of the borders of the two autonomous cities with Morocco, drawn in dotted lines as if these territories were disputed.
While Spain wants the rapid reopening of commercial customs in Melilla and the opening of a new customs office in Ceuta, Morocco, for its part, uses subterfuges to extend the deadlines and delay, or even prevent, the opening of these customs posts.
Samir Nesmy, in a vegetative state for eight years since he was hit by a vehicle on the Cuesta Parisiana on April 22, 2015, is finally leaving the Ceuta hospital with his mother, Saadia Hmaity, who has remained at his bedside all this time, for better care in Murcia.
Morocco and Spain normalized their diplomatic relations in April 2022 after Spain’s change of position on the Sahara. The two countries signed a joint declaration in Rabat containing the "new roadmap" of their relations. After a year of relative peace, new tensions are emerging, due to Morocco’s claims on Sebta and Melilla.
Google Maps doubts the Spanish nature of Ceuta and Melilla . On the satellite images of the global giant, the border between Spain and Morocco is drawn in dotted lines, as if the two countries were disputing the sovereignty of the two autonomous cities.
Morocco and Spain are studying the ways and means to ensure the repatriation, with "all legal guarantees", of the some 137 unaccompanied Moroccan minors still staying in the reception centers of Ceuta.
Spanish MEPs Maite Pagaza and Jordi Cañas (again!) have called on the European Union to react to Morocco’s statements on the Spanish sovereignty of Ceuta and Melilla . They call on the EU to revise the European partnership in the face of Morocco’s hostile acts.
A Moroccan man about 90 years old has been wandering the streets of Ceuta since May 25, in the hope of crossing the border to return to Morocco. Probably mentally ill, his situation does not seem to concern the authorities of the city or even on the Moroccan side.
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a diplomatic note to the Rabat embassy in Madrid to reproach Morocco for stating in a letter to the European Commission that Sebta and Melilla are "Moroccan" cities.