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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Environment
Simon Speakman Cordall

By sea, by land: Desperate refugees still transit Morocco to get to Europe

Children wait in a temporary shelter for unaccompanied minors in Ceuta, next to the border of Morocco and Spain, May 20, 2021 [Bernat Armangue/AP Photo]

The nearly 3,000 people who died in Morocco’s earthquake last month have refocused the world’s attention upon the kingdom, and a continuing exodus of people from across Africa passing through it to seek new lives in Europe.

Asylum seekers launching their journeys from Morocco, unlike those leaving from North African neighbours Tunisia and Libya, have a number of routes they can take to Europe.

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