The Spanish Government, through the Ministry of the Interior, has announced its intention to remove the barbed wire called "concertina" from the border fences between Ceuta and Melilla with Morocco. This project could be carried out before the end of September 2019.
Due to the works at the Tarajal pass, the transit of all types of goods from Ceuta to Morocco by vehicles belonging to the "atypical trade" agreed by the authorities of the Kingdom will be suspended and for an indefinite period. Cross-border trade between Morocco and the autonomous city of Ceuta will not resume in September 2019, as the two parties had previously agreed.
An MRE failed in his attempt to illegally bring his Moroccan brother-in-law across the crossing to Malaga. He was arrested at the port of Melilla.
Smuggling at the level of the two Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla is not to the liking of Morocco. To this end, it has been attacking the illicit trade in recent months and has, at the same time, suspended legal trade with Spain, thus engaging in a tug-of-war with this ally country. Is this a way to push Madrid to renounce its sovereignty over these territories?
Thousands of Melillenses are going to Morocco for the Eid al-Adha feast, due to the shortage of sheep to sacrifice in Melilla.
A 39-year-old woman of Moroccan origin was arrested by the police in Melilla, after abandoning her two children near the headquarters of the local police. They, aged 6 and 11, were admitted to a reception center as Unaccompanied Foreign Minors (MENA).
Hidden in the double bottom of a car, a 19-year-old sub-Saharan migrant who was attempting the adventure of illegal immigration to Spain was discovered by the "Guardia civil" during the inspection of a vehicle at the border between Melilla and Morocco on Tuesday, July 26, 2019.
The naturalization operation of Moroccan officials is starting to take on an alarming dimension in northern Morocco. Several candidates are running in municipal elections in order to benefit from Spanish nationality. The Minister of the Interior has decided to open an investigation on this subject.
The authorities of Melilla have made available to undocumented minors three detention centers, at the level of the city. The children are forced to live in deplorable and inhumane sanitary conditions. Most of them often find themselves on the paths of the city, where sexual violence is legion.
Sub-Saharan Africans seem to be facing a major dilemma in Morocco: to attempt the crossing to Spanish lands, with the risk of being turned back by the Moroccan authorities, or to integrate into society, by accepting underpaid and often devaluing informal jobs.
The Local Police of Melilla have arrested a man of Moroccan origin, accused of violence he has exerted on his partner. He also tried to strangle her in front of their 2-year-old daughter.
Moroccan families in Nador have been summoned by the authorities of the Spanish enclave, Melilla, to urgently report to the Comarcal Hospital management to pay the fees related to gynecological care.