On the northern coast of Morocco, the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta form the European Union’s only land border on the African continent.
Moroccan army units intercepted on New Year’s Eve more than a thousand migrants in the north of the kingdom as they tried to reach the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, during various operations, a statement from the staff said.
A total of 1,110 migrants were intercepted overnight Sunday to Monday in the towns of Nandor, Mudik and Funaidak in operations by the army and law enforcement forces, according to a Royal Armed Forces statement carried by the official MAP news agency.
The army clarified that 175 of the migrants arrested in Nandor, a city neighboring Melilla, are nationals of the kingdom, Algeria, Tunisia and Yemen. He did not specify the nationalities of the remaining 935.
On the northern coast of Morocco, the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta form the European Union’s only land border on the African continent. Attempts by migrants to cross into European territory irregularly are often recorded there.
The migratory route to the Canary Islands is characterized by the other gateway to Europe in the Atlantic Ocean, especially from the Moroccan coast and from the disputed region of Western Sahara.
The Spanish archipelago experienced in 2023 the worst migration crisis since 2006. As of November 15, 32,436 migrants had arrived in the Canaries, a number increased by 118% compared to the corresponding period in 2022, according to the Ministry of the Interior in Madrid.
Source :Skai
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