A boat carrying about thirty people, candidates for illegal immigration, has just capsized on its way to the Canary Islands. 6 people died, including a baby, his mother, and another woman. There are also several injured.
A survey conducted by BBC News Arabic and Arab Barometer, a research network based at Princeton University in the United States, of 25,000 people from 11 countries in the MENA (Middle East/North Africa) region reveals that nearly one Moroccan in two (43%) is considering emigrating.
Erected with barbed wire and deployed over 8.2km, following agreements negotiated with the European Union, providing for the granting of 140 million euros to the Kingdom, the new border barrier aims to ensure tighter control at the borders between Spain and Morocco.
According to a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), 49 migrants of sub-Saharan origin left the Moroccan coast by boat, bound for Spain. Missing since Tuesday, the boat was spotted in the Alboran Sea by the Spanish maritime rescue services on Wednesday, June 19, 2019.
Dunja Mijatović, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, has called on the 47 member states of the International Organization to establish a humanitarian visa for migrants and refugees who have crossed the Mediterranean.
The Northern Observatory for Human Rights has just condemned the detention by the Moroccan authorities of several sub-Saharan migrants in a dilapidated building that threatens to collapse.
Moroccans are not treated the same way as other undocumented immigrants in the Detention Centers for Foreigners (CIE) in Spain. This is revealed by the annual report published by the Jesuit Service for Migrants-Spain (Sjme).
A prison sentence, accompanied by a ban on residence, was handed down on Monday, June 3, 2019 against an imam and his accomplice, both living in Rouen.
75 migrants who left Libya have been rescued by an Egyptian ship which, lacking food and for health reasons of the migrants, has just asked the Tunisian authorities to allow it to dock. A Moroccan is part of the group.
On June 3rd, three Moroccans attempted to reach Europe, specifically Spain, by crossing the Mediterranean in a kayak. But they were intercepted by the Spanish maritime rescue.
An operation carried out by the Spanish Civil Guard has made it possible to dismantle four organized groups dedicated to the detention and transfer of migrant children from Morocco to the Spanish coast.
The prefectural service of the judicial police of Tangier launched a judicial investigation last Thursday, as part of the alleged involvement of a senior police officer, working at the port of Tanger Med , in facilitating an illegal immigration operation.