Tag: Ceuta

Spanish Queen’s Visit to Ceuta Would Stir up Rabat’s Anger

August 15, 2017

A diplomatic frost is silently developing between Rabat and Madrid, after Spanish media spoke of an upcoming visit by the Queen of Spain to the ... Read More

At Least 180 Illegal Migrants Storm into Ceuta

August 8, 2017

Over 180 illegal migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa broke into the six-meter fence surrounding the Spanish-occupied city in northern Morocco, Ceuta. Images broadcasted in the media ... Read More

Europol Seizes Weapons Bound for Occupied Ceuta, Melilla

July 1, 2017

The European Police Office (Europol) foiled in Rotterdam port an attempt at trafficking a considerable cargo of arms to terrorists in the Spanish-occupied cities of ... Read More

Ceuta and Melilla’s IS Fighters exceed 200

June 5, 2017

By the end of 2016, 204 Jihadists left the Spanish-occupied cities of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco to join the ranks of the Islamic ... Read More

Hundreds of Sub-Saharan Migrants Storm into Melilla

May 10, 2017

Nearly one hundred Sub-Saharan illegal migrants rampaged on Monday in the streets of the Spanish-occupied city of Melilla in northern Morocco celebrating their entry into ... Read More

Arab Parliamentary Union Calls on Spain to Return Ceuta, Melilla to Morocco

March 22, 2017

The Arab Parliamentary Union called on Spain to return the occupied enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in addition to the Mediterranean Chafarinas Islands to Morocco. ... Read More

Protecting EU Borders Costs Morocco €250 mln Annually

February 22, 2017

Spain seems like a forgotten EU border far away from the tragedies of the refugee crisis that ensued the Arab Spring and the influx of ... Read More

Hundreds of Sub-Saharans Storm Border Fence into Spanish Occupied Ceuta

February 17, 2017

Some 500 Sub-Saharan migrants stormed on Friday the border fence into the Spanish occupied enclave of Ceuta in northern Morocco triggering clashes with the Spanish ... Read More

Moroccan Authorities Thwart Illegal Immigration Attempt to Ceuta

January 2, 2017

Moroccan authorities thwarted an illegal immigration attempt by nearly 1000 Sub-Saharan nationals who tried to jump the six-meter barbed wire fence of the city of ... Read More

Spain’s King Felipe VI to Pay State Visit to Morocco

December 15, 2016

King Felipe VI of Spain will pay a state visit to Morocco, his second since he ascended to the throne in June 2014. Local Moroccan ... Read More