Spain, Morocco sign 20 agreements on migration, investment, energy & education
The governments of Spain and Morocco have signed around 20 agreements to boost Spanish investments in everything from renewable energy to education, as well as doubling
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2,390 deaths on migrant routes to Spain during 2022, according to NGO
A Spanish non-profit organisation said on Wednesday that the number of migrants who died or were reported missing while trying to reach Spain was 2,390
Amnesty slams Spain & Morocco for ‘multiple human rights violations, a cover-up & racism’
Amnesty International said on Tuesday that a failure by Morocco and Spain to properly investigate the deaths of 37 migrants at the border of Spanish
Migrant paraglides over Melilla border to Spain
Spanish authorities are looking for a person who paraglided over the border fence from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Thursday, in what appeared to
Spanish government under fire after BBC report on migrant deaths at border
Spain’s left-leaning coalition government has come under fire after the BBC broadcast a damning report into mass migrants attempting to enter Spain’s Melilla enclave from
Spain’s Ombudsman says country violated rights returning 500 migrants to Morocco
The Spanish authorities failed to uphold domestic and international law in returning to Morocco nearly 500 migrants following a mass border crossing in which at
Spanish and Moroccan police dismantle suspected jihadist cell, with 11 arrests
Moroccan and Spanish police have dismantled a jihadist cell suspected of links to the Islamic State group, officials confirmed this week. The operation led to
13 migrants sent to prison in Morocco for 30 months following Spain crossing attempt
A court in Morocco has sentenced 13 migrants, mostly from Sudan, to 30 months in prison over a mass attempt to scale the border fence
Spain will ‘totally collaborate’ with Melilla migrant death investigations
Madrid will offer ‘total collaboration’ with the Spanish and Moroccan investigations into the deaths of at least 23 migrants during a mass attempt to enter
African Union Commission urges probe into deaths at Spain-Morocco border
The African Union Commission president, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has voiced his shock at the ‘violent and degrading’ treatment of African migrants trying to cross from Morocco into
