Spanish troops were sent to El Tarajal beach, near the Spanish-Moroccan Spain has deployed troops after record numbers of migrants entered its north African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.

In May Spanish troops were deployed when thousands of migrants entered Ceuta, a Spanish North African enclave. At least 6,000 migrants have reached Spain's Ceuta enclave from neighbouring Morocco ...

Spain received more than 46,000 migrants in 2024. This, despite the dangers and tougher border controls at the fence-line ...

In 'Wild Fictions', Amitav Ghosh writes on subjects that have fascinated him for 25 years—from literature and language to ...

Melilla and Ceuta, Spain's other tiny North African enclave, have the European Union's only land borders with Africa, making them a magnet for migrants. Some 2,000 migrants made their way to the ...

Total of 10,547 migrants died trying to reach Spain by boat last year, according to monitoring group Caminando Fronteras ...

Serious violations of migrants' rights result. For example, the authorities in Ceuta address the migrant problem by quickly processing migrants' expulsion documents so that they can be transferred ...

A significant spike was also observed in migrants crossing the land border into Ceuta, Spain’s North African enclave, where more than 2,500 people crossed — more than double the number in 2023.

The United Kingdom has started to build a wall on French territory, on the Calais harbour, to keep migrants from setting to sea illegally. Migrants entering Spain through Ceuta and Melilla over the ...