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100 Africans attempt to scale border fence
Melilla :: Spain | 3 hours ago
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More than 100 people from Africa attempted to scale the border fence between Morocco and Spanish territory, officials said...Helicopters and lighting systems are used as surveillance measures, officials said. Last week, about 70 African people were
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Spain unveils Morocco baby-trade ring
Oujda :: Morocco | 13 days ago
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Morocco and the Spanish north African enclave of Melilla were sold to wealthy families in Spain during the 1970s and 1980s. Police have identified 28 cases where newborns were taken from their mothers and sold to families in mainland Spain who could
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Morocco: Violence Against Migrants
Casablanca :: Morocco | 22 days ago
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The renewed cooperation efforts between Morocco and Spain which, according to these countries, are focused on the fight against cross-border crime, illegal migration and drug trafficking. are having a serious impact on the physical and mental health
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Melilla opposition leader refuge in his house at 30 immigrants who jumped the fence
I have open, not wanting to hurt or intoxicated at the door of my house. " With a huge background noise Aberchán Mustafa, leader of Coalition for Melilla (CPM), the main opposition party in the autonomous city, loudly tells the
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11 die in boat capsize off Morocco
Nador :: Morocco | 1 month ago
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Europe have died after their boat capsized off the north coast of Morocco, medical sources and a human rights group says. Of the 34 people travelling in the boat, reached up by the Moroccan navy at midday on Tuesday, two children, three women and six
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MSF quits Morocco, protesting anti-migrant attacks
Casablanca :: Morocco | 2 months ago
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Would-be immigrants row in an inflatable boat off the Spanish coast. Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday it was closing its projects in Morocco in protest at the plight of African migrants allegedly abused by Spanish and Moroccan
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Migrants storm Spanish border fence in Melilla
Madrid :: Spain | 2 months ago
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Spanish authorities say more than 150 sub-Saharan migrants charged a barbed-wire border fence and tried to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco...About 50 migrants made it over the six-meter (20-foot) fence at 6 a.m. (0500 GMT; 1 a.m...A
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Jewish leader to Congress: Hate crime, violence increasing in Europe
Melilla :: Spain | 3 months ago
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This threat is in addition to, and at times more grave, than the attacks from neo-Nazi groups...As a result of the marked increases in anti-Semitic violence in European nations, much of it perpetrated by Muslims, Rabbi Andrew Baker, the American
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Vega spreads his wings at Lux
Melilla :: Spain | 4 months ago
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So Vega spent an unhappy year studying pre-med before his father finally relented. n But more than three decades later, Vega realizes his father had a point. n Now that I'm about to turn 50, it's just a crazy thing to become an artist, said Vega, who
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Spain: DNA tests for illegal immigrant children
Madrid :: Spain | 5 months ago
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Spain plans to take DNA samples from illegal immigrant children arriving in the country's North African enclave of Melilla to make sure the adults accompanying them are their parents. Authorities suspect many North African immigrants seeking Spanish
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