The tensions between Morocco and Spain, opened with the reception in April of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front, in a hospital in Logroño, have now lasted for a hundred days. Spain is actively working to resume relations.
Hundreds of Moroccan migrants stormed the asylum office in Ceuta on the Tarajal border on Monday to complete the formalities for asylum applications.
Morocco has just built a new fence to strengthen security on the border with Ceuta, a little more than two months after the migration crisis in May.
Diplomatic negotiations are underway for the rapid restoration of relations between Spain and Morocco. The Spanish authorities are actively working on a complete review of cooperation with Rabat, particularly with regard to the thorny issue of Ceuta and Melilla.
Hassan (pseudonym), a 17-year-old Moroccan, is one of the 20 unaccompanied minor migrants from Ceuta transferred to Galicia. He arrived in Ceuta a little over six months ago, after swimming for 12 hours from Tetouan. He is worried about his future.
A 5-year-old girl from Ceuta died in a private clinic in Tangier as a result of the respiratory problems she had been suffering from since birth. She and her parents had been barred from boarding the plane that was to take them to Malaga because of the oxygen bottle that fed the respiratory device connected to the girl.
The King of Spain, Felipe VI, will be invited "to participate in the events marking the celebration of the Day of Autonomy of Ceuta on September 2 next". This is what the City Assembly has decided.
The Valencian Community will welcome 25 minors next week as part of the operation to distribute 200 Moroccan migrants among the nearly 8,000 who arrived en masse in Ceuta in May.
The lifeless body of Abdelghafour Benaboura, a 37-year-old Moroccan, was found at sea last Wednesday in Ceuta by Civil Guard agents. He was buried on Saturday in the Sidi Embarek cemetery.
The Civil Guard found the lifeless body of a young Moroccan on the San Amaro beach in Ceuta on Saturday. This is the third body discovered this week on the coast of the autonomous city, after those recovered on Wednesday and Friday.
The borders of Ceuta and Melilla with Morocco will remain closed until August 31, according to an order from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior published on Saturday in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
Spanish MEP Jordi Cañas is calling on the European Union (EU) to put pressure on Morocco to accelerate the return of more than 800 migrant minors who arrived en masse in Ceuta last May.