The President of the Government of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, said on Tuesday that strengthening the border with Morocco will be one of his priorities until the next elections in May 2023.
Moroccans are the first on the list of legally established foreign workers in Spain, according to figures published by the Spanish Ministry of Labor, Migration and Social Security.
The government spokesperson, Isabel Rodriguez, reiterated on Monday that Spain has not "changed" its position on the Sahara and that it continues to call for a negotiated solution to the conflict within the UN framework, despite Pedro Sanchez’s support for the Moroccan autonomy plan.
A 37-year-old Moroccan man died on Monday and another, whose identity is unknown for now, was seriously injured following a collision between two trucks on the A7 motorway, near Almeria.
Many residents of Melilla leaving for Morocco complained on Sunday of the long waiting time at the border before entering the kingdom. At the same time, other citizens of the autonomous city felt that the influx was lower compared to other days.
In his speech delivered on the occasion of the revolution holiday, Mohammed VI addressed the Sahara issue, asking his "traditional partners" to clarify their position on this sensitive issue for the kingdom, an allusion to France and Mauritania.
The Spanish airline Hélity Copter Airlines is one of the few in the world to offer regular commercial helicopter flights in the Strait of Gibraltar. It plans to connect Moroccan cities with a new fleet of electric aircraft.
Of the more than 800 Spaniards incarcerated in foreign prisons, about a hundred are held in Morocco. Most of them, with no criminal record, are serving sentences for drug trafficking.
The Civil Guard found the lifeless bodies of two Moroccans on Sunday in Melilla, one floating in the sea and the other on a plot next to the border with Morocco.
The commentators of the Sevilla-Valladolid match on the DAZN platform spent time considering Anuar Tuhami as a "Moroccan player" and at no time as a footballer from Ceuta, which has outraged the internet users of the autonomous city.
Drug trafficking networks are showing ingenuity to continue to transport hashish from Morocco to Spain without risking getting caught. Their new find, having the drug unloaded by Moroccan migrants who make the journey on foot across fields and mountains.
A Moroccan accuses the Galicia health service of the death of his wife. He blames them for not sending an ambulance to his home to transport the still living woman to the hospital.