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...
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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...
Madrid prepares to host NATO summit, seeking focus on southern security
Although the Russian war in Ukraine is set to dominate the forthcoming NATO summit in Madrid from Tuesday to Thursday, Spain will be lobbying the Western alliance...
Calls for investigation after death toll rises to 37 at Melilla border fence
Updated on Sunday 26 June at 12h. The number of people who were killed after they tried to scale a border fence between Morocco and...
