https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed After police detected a group of around 200 migrants approaching the border fence in Ceuta, it has been closed to traffic and access between Spain and Morocco is now only permitted on foot. https://www.thelocal.es/20230414/ceuta-border-between-spain-and-morocco-closed-amid-migrant-crossing Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:22:52 +0200 ceuta-border-between-spain-and-morocco-closed-amid-migrant-crossing Days after up to 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Spain's Ceuta enclave, many hundreds are still here, mostly minors, posing a quandary for the tiny territory. https://www.thelocal.es/20210522/focus-spains-ceuta-enclave-in-a-quandary-about-its-lost-boy-migrants Sat, 22 May 2021 19:13:26 +0200 focus-spains-ceuta-enclave-in-a-quandary-about-its-lost-boy-migrants Seventy migrants made it over a Moroccan border fence to reach the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Friday, authorities said, after record numbers reached Spain's other North African territory earlier this week https://www.thelocal.es/20210522/seventy-migrants-cross-border-fence-into-spains-melilla-enclave Sat, 22 May 2021 13:01:57 +0200 seventy-migrants-cross-border-fence-into-spains-melilla-enclave Spain is making international headlines after a record number of migrants crossed over from Morocco into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday and Tuesday. These photos and videos showcase this unprecedented event in Spanish migration history. https://www.thelocal.es/20210518/in-images-6000-migrants-swim-across-to-spains-ceuta-in-record-crossing Tue, 18 May 2021 15:11:14 +0200 in-images-6000-migrants-swim-across-to-spains-ceuta-in-record-crossing A group of 155 migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Friday, Spanish authorities said. https://www.thelocal.es/20190830/155-migrants-force-entry-into-spains-ceuta-enclave Fri, 30 Aug 2019 18:25:46 +0200 155-migrants-force-entry-into-spains-ceuta-enclave Two masked gunmen on a motorbike fired shots on Monday at a mosque in the Spanish territory of Ceuta on the northern coast of Africa, local officials said. https://www.thelocal.es/20190624/shots-fired-at-mosque-in-spains-ceuta Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:04:38 +0200 shots-fired-at-mosque-in-spains-ceuta The leader of the Spanish far-right party Vox is following in the footsteps of Donald Trump with demands for a wall at the border to stop the flow of immigrants. https://www.thelocal.es/20190329/vox-wants-to-build-a-wall-to-stop-immigrants-coming-to-spain-and-they-want-morocco-to-pay-for-it Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:23:03 +0100 vox-wants-to-build-a-wall-to-stop-immigrants-coming-to-spain-and-they-want-morocco-to-pay-for-it Madrid and Rabat are in talks to repatriate thousands of Moroccan minors who arrived in Spain alone without their parents, a Spanish interior ministry spokesman said Friday. https://www.thelocal.es/20181005/spain-and-morocco-in-talks-to-repatriate-migrant-minors Fri, 05 Oct 2018 17:45:31 +0200 spain-and-morocco-in-talks-to-repatriate-migrant-minors Spain on Thursday sent back to Morocco 116 migrants who had forced their way into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, in a mass expulsion condemned by human rights activists. https://www.thelocal.es/20180824/migrants-who-stormed-morocco-spain-border-sent-back Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:10:26 +0200 migrants-who-stormed-morocco-spain-border-sent-back Some 600 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa reached Spain Thursday after storming a double barrier between Morocco and the Spanish territory of Ceuta, with some attacking security forces with quicklime, police said. https://www.thelocal.es/20180726/violence-as-migrants-storm-morocco-spain-border-fence Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:26:16 +0200 violence-as-migrants-storm-morocco-spain-border-fence Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the newly appointed Interior Minister in the government of Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has indicated his desire to remove the controversial razor wire designed to deter migrants from crossing illegally from Morocco into Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20180614/spains-new-interior-minister-just-promised-to-remove-razor-wire-at-melilla-and-ceuta-borders Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:09:29 +0200 spains-new-interior-minister-just-promised-to-remove-razor-wire-at-melilla-and-ceuta-borders At 14 years old, Ismail said he is "ready for anything" as he tries to board a boat for Europe and leave his Moroccan homeland behind. https://www.thelocal.es/20180515/young-migrants-put-european-hopes-in-spanish-enclave Tue, 15 May 2018 10:58:17 +0200 young-migrants-put-european-hopes-in-spanish-enclave It's a form of hard labour that has provoked an outcry -- Moroccan women bent double, overburdened by goods approaching or exceeding their own bodyweight. https://www.thelocal.es/20180418/trolleys-bring-relief-for-moroccan-mule-women-at-spanish-border Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:35:01 +0200 trolleys-bring-relief-for-moroccan-mule-women-at-spanish-border A Spanish court on Tuesday allowed an Ivory Coast man to walk free, with only a small fine to pay, after his son was found crammed into a suitcase at a border crossing. https://www.thelocal.es/20180221/father-of-suitcase-boy-walks-free-as-family-reunited Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:44:20 +0100 father-of-suitcase-boy-walks-free-as-family-reunited The heart-rending photo went round the world in 2015, showing an eight-year-old boy from Ivory Coast crammed into a suitcase that was found at a Spanish border crossing. https://www.thelocal.es/20180220/father-of-boy-smuggled-into-spain-in-suitcase-on-trial Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:17:28 +0100 father-of-boy-smuggled-into-spain-in-suitcase-on-trial One man died and several other people were injured during a stampede Monday on the border between Morocco and the Spanish overseas territory of Melilla, authorities and a rights group said. https://www.thelocal.es/20180122/several-injured-in-stampede-at-morocco-spain-border Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:54:24 +0100 several-injured-in-stampede-at-morocco-spain-border Two women carrying goods between Morocco and Spain's Ceuta enclave were killed on Monday in a stampede at the border between the two countries, a rights group and officials said. https://www.thelocal.es/20180115/two-moroccan-female-porters-die-in-border-stampede Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:33:41 +0100 two-moroccan-female-porters-die-in-border-stampede Along the border between Spain's North African enclave Ceuta and Morocco, thousands of women eke out a living lugging back-breaking loads of goods in an "organised trafficking" operation tolerated by officials. https://www.thelocal.es/20171006/morocco-mule-women-in-back-breaking-trade-from-spain-enclave Fri, 06 Oct 2017 13:26:50 +0200 morocco-mule-women-in-back-breaking-trade-from-spain-enclave Spain’s interior minister has announced plans to spend €12million fortifying border fences at its north African enclaves after a surge in migrant arrivals. https://www.thelocal.es/20170914/spain-to-spend-big-at-borders-tightening-defences-to-stop-migrants Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:26:40 +0200 spain-to-spend-big-at-borders-tightening-defences-to-stop-migrants The terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils in August brought the vulnerability of Spain to jihadi terrorism into sharp focus. https://www.thelocal.es/20170912/ceuta-and-melilla-the-spanish-enclaves-at-the-centre-of-the-fight-against-terrorism Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:36:49 +0200 ceuta-and-melilla-the-spanish-enclaves-at-the-centre-of-the-fight-against-terrorism