First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco’s Interior Ministry said it has detained several people suspected of inciting illegal mass border crossings into the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, following the circulation of social media posts calling for such attempts around August 15. In a statement by its spokesperson, the ministry said it had monitored messages of unknown origin on […]
María Antonia Trujillo, former Spanish housing minister, urged her country to review its position on the two enclaves in northern Morocco Ceuta and Melilla whom she described as “relics” of colonialism and an “offense to Morocco’s territorial integrity.” Speaking at a seminar held by University Abdelmalek Essaadi in Tetuan, Trujillo said her country should reconsider […]
The recent remarks made by Head of the Government Saad Eddine El Othmani who said that Ceuta and Melilla, the two Spanish-occupied cities, are next in Morocco’s process to retrieve its territorial integrity, have triggered a reaction on the part of the Spanish Government that is deemed by analysts as inappropriate. El Otmani told […]