Algeria Repatriates 36 Moroccan Migrants Through Temporarily Opened Border

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Algeria Repatriates 36 Moroccan Migrants Through Temporarily Opened Border

The land border post of Zouj Bghal between Morocco and Algeria has been exceptionally opened, in order to allow the repatriation of several young Moroccans who were candidates for irregular migration and were detained in Algerian prisons.

The Algerian authorities handed over on Monday to their Moroccan counterparts 36 young Moroccans who were candidates for irregular migration through the border post of Zouj Bghal, in Oujda and that of Colonel Lotfi in Maghnia, which were opened exceptionally, reports the association Aid to Migrants in Vulnerable Situations (AEMSV) in a press release. These repatriated Moroccan migrants are from the cities of Fez, Oujda, Berkane, Taza, Meknes, Salé, Taounate, Tangier, Ouezzane, Beni Mellal, Ksar El Kebir, Beni Mathar, and Demnate and had served their sentences in various Alg