A court in Morocco has increased the sentences of eight migrants convicted over a tragic incident on the border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla last June. The men face up to four years in prison for crimes including illegal entry into Morocco.
A Moroccan man who tried to smuggle 15 men out of Britain and back to Spain has been jailed for people smuggling, according to a British newspaper.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has met up with his Moroccan counterpart in Rabat to reset his country's "strategic partnership" with regard to migration and economic partnership. The Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla were also major topics of discussion.
A group of 22 migrants who fled a plane in 2021 after it made an unscheduled landing on the island of Mallorca have been provisionally released after spending 14 months in pre-trial detention.
Migrants in Casablanca have clashed with police during an attempt to remove them from a makeshift camp. Witnesses claim that authorities "often attack" sub-Saharan migrants "to get rid of them".
A Moroccan court has increased the sentences of 13 migrants to three years over last year's deadly crossing attempt into the Spanish enclave of Melilla, their lawyer has said. At least 23 migrants died in the stampede.
Police in Spain have arrested 43 people accused of exploiting irregular migrants for cheap labor in the Malaga province. The criminal gang reportedly had some of the workers living under inhumane conditions in properties that belonged to the organization.
The bodies of 13 Moroccans have been recovered after their boat sank off the country's southern coast. They were reportedly attempting to reach Spain's Canary Islands. In a separate development, some migrants from Morocco reportedly made it into the Spanish territory of Melilla over New Year’s Eve.
The human rights organization Amnesty International has accused the governments of Spain and Morocco of using "unlawful and lethal force" at the border between Melilla and Morocco in June this year. Amnesty holds them responsible for the deaths of at least 37 people and 77 missing.
A boat reportedly carrying 149 migrants arrived on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Thursday. It was the second one to arrive that day. More than 1,200 people are now in the reception hotspot on the island.
After a commercial flight from Morocco to Turkey made an emergency landing in Barcelona yesterday, 28 of the passengers fled across the tarmac in an apparent attempt to get into the country using irregular means.
More than 50,000 people have died on global migration routes since 2014, according to the latest numbers released by the United Nations.