The 23 migrants who died in June during a mass breach of the border at the Spanish enclave of Melilla likely suffocated, according to Morocco's state-funded National Council on Human Rights (CNDH). A doctor who examined the bodies further specified they had most likely died of "mechanical asphyxiation."
A large group of migrants tried to storm the border separating Spain's Melilla enclave from Morocco on Friday. Moroccan authorities have reportedly arrested a thousand sub-Saharan Africans over the incident in which dozens were injured.
About 850 migrants have managed to cross the high border fence separating Melilla from Morocco over the past two days. Thousands of people from sub-Sahara Africa attempted to scale the fence on Wednesday and Thursday.
Fifteen-year-old Younes from Morocco embarked upon an unusual journey to escape poverty. He swam over three hours to reach the Spanish enclave of Melilla, only to have his dreams shattered. This is the story of Younes – the boy who risked his life, and his hopes, in the Mediterranean.
Spanish border guards have stopped 350 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa from entering the enclave of Melilla from neighboring Morocco. Many sub-Saharan Africans choose Melilla and nearby Ceuta as a gateway into Europe.
The European Parliament recently adopted a resolution in which it rejected "Morocco's use of border control and migration, and unaccompanied minors in particular, as political pressure against a member state of the EU [namely Spain]."
Morocco is to facilitate the re-entry of stranded unaccompanied minors who recently entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, after thousands crossed the border in May.
In the second major attempt this year, some 60 migrants have crossed the border fence separating the Spanish overseas enclave of Melilla from Morocco. Melilla and nearby Ceuta are chosen by many sub-Saharan Africans as a gateway into Europe.
Four migrants have perished in the attempt to reach Melilla, one of two tiny Spanish autonomous cities on Morocco's Mediterranean coast, via a sewer tunnel.
Migrants and refugees at two centers in the Spanish enclave of Melilla are in danger due to overcrowding, according to the UN refugee agency, the UN migration agency and Amnesty International. Amnesty is calling for migrants to be transferred to "more dignified accommodations."
52 migrants in a van tried to forcefully cross the border separating the Spanish overseas enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. The autonomous Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla on Morocco's northern coast have the EU's only land borders with Africa.
More than 150 migrants crossed the border fence separating the Spanish overseas enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Friday. It was the biggest attempt to cross the heavily guarded barrier in a year.