Tag: Morocco
Morocco moves to vaccinate prison inmates 45 and up
SALE, Morocco — About 300 inmates in a prison near the Moroccan capital have been vaccinated against COVID-19, among the latest prisoners to benefit...
Aide: Western Sahara movement leader to testify in Spain
MADRID — The leader of the Western Sahara independence movement at the heart of a diplomatic spat between Spain and Morocco will appear before...
Spain offers to speak for Morocco at EU amid migration spat
MADRID — Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Monday that Spain is an ally of Morocco, and Madrid will defend both countries' common interests at...
Food, shelter, beatings: Border city divided over migrants
CEUTA, Spain — Residents of Spain's multi-ethnic city of Ceuta are used to being in the news every time the fragile alliance between Spain...
Migrant surge on Spain-Morocco border brings more suffering
FNIDEQ, Morocco — They are desperate teenagers and jobless men. They come from Morocco’s coastal towns, its mountainous east or even farther away —...
Spain returns over 6,600 migrants to Morocco in border spat
CEUTA, Spain — Over 6,600 of the more than 8,000 migrants who swam or jumped over border fences into one of Spain's North African...
Premature nonuplets born in Morocco are stable but fragile
CASABLANCA, Morocco — Nine premature newborns that a 25-year-old Malian woman gave birth to are being closely monitored in a Moroccan clinic, with medical...
Spain: Stream of migrants stops as Morocco beefs up security
CEUTA, Spain — Authorities in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave at the center of a humanitarian crisis and a diplomatic dispute between Morocco and Spain,...
Spain’s migrant drama highlights EU outsourcing policy flaws
BRUSSELS — The sight of hundreds of migrants swimming or climbing fences separating the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from the rest of Africa this...
An ailing Sahrawi leader shakes Spain and Morocco’s alliance
LOGRONO, Spain — The mysterious COVID-19 patient arrived at an airport in northern Spain in a private jet. An ambulance ferried the 71-year-old man...