Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Morocco

Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border

Spain’s prime minister is defending the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants last week as they tried to cross the shared border into the north African enclave of Melilla

The Independent UK

Long Lost Family fans in tears after mum's emotional reunion with child after 50 years

Davina McCall and the Long Lost Family team helped to reunite a woman who hadn't seen her daughter in 50 years after she was taken to Morocco aged just 18 months old

Daily Mirror

Morocco prosecutes 65 migrants involved in deadly Melilla incident

Moroccan authorities have begun prosecuting 65 migrants who joined Friday's mass attempt to cross into a Spanish enclave by storming a border post, leading to the death of at least 23 migrants, a judicial source said on Monday.

Reuters

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Russian-backed separatists say Morocco can speak with citizen sentenced to death alongside Britons

Brahim Saadoun was sentenced to death this month alongside British nationals Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner

The Independent UK

Father urges Morocco to intervene to save death-sentenced fighter in Donetsk

The father of a Moroccan man sentenced to death by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on mercenary charges urged his country on Monday to open a dialogue with pro-Russia Donetsk authorities to help release his son.

Reuters

AU calls for investigation into migrant deaths, violence on Morocco-Spain border

The African Union Commission chief has voiced his shock at the "violent and degrading" treatment of African migrants trying to cross from Morocco into Spanish territory after 23 people died, and has called for an investigation into the incident.

Radio France Internationale

AU expresses ‘deep shock’ over deaths at Spain-Morocco border

The deadly crossing was the first since Spain and Morocco mended relations earlier this year after a diplomatic spat.

Al Jazeera

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Spain turns to Africa, lobbies NATO, allies over Ukraine-driven migration

Spain is shifting its foreign policy towards Africa while lobbying the EU and NATO for support to address migration from the continent, aggravated by the Ukraine invasion, two senior government officials and two diplomatic sources told Reuters.

Reuters

Melilla border ‘stampede’ death toll rises to 37 as police accused of ‘aggressive violence’

More than 2,000 migrants stormed the area on Friday and around 500 managed to get into a border control area

The Independent UK

Calls for investigation over deaths in Moroccan-Spanish border crossing

NGOs say toll could be as high as 37 after hundreds of people break into border control area in attempt to reach Melilla enclave

The Guardian - UK

Timeline: Spain and Morocco's rocky diplomatic relations

The deaths of at least 18 migrants on Friday during a mass attempt to cross from Morocco into a Spanish enclave took place at a pivotal time for often rocky relations between the neighbouring countries.

Reuters

Melilla: At least 18 killed in ‘stampede’ as migrants try to cross into Spain from Morocco

At least 18 people have been killed as thousands of African migrants attempted to cross a guarded border fence into Spain.

Evening Standard

Groups in Spain and Morocco push for border deaths inquiry

Human rights organizations in Spain and Morocco have called on both countries to investigate the deaths of at least 18 Africans and injuries suffered by dozens more who attempted to scale the border fence that surrounds a Spanish enclave in North Africa

The Independent UK

Dozens of migrants piled together at Melilla border fence - video

Dozens of migrants were pictured lying by a Moroccan border fence, some bleeding and many apparently lifeless, in video showing the aftermath of an attempted mass crossing into a Spanish enclave on Friday in which at least 23 died.

Reuters

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Moroccan Beaches Classified According to Quality of Water, Sand

Morocco’s Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development Leila Benali said that 379 monitoring stations for the quality of water in the kingdom’s beaches, representing 88.14%, matched the microbiological quality standards. She told a press conference in Rabat on Friday that 51 stations (11.86%) were declared non-compliant for swimming in…

The Independent UK

18 dead in huge rush across border into Spanish enclave Melilla

Over 2,000 migrants stormed the border between the Moroccan city of Nador and Melilla

France 24

Spain calls deadly migrant rush an 'attack' on its territory

The Spanish prime minister on Saturday described a deadly migrant rush on the enclave of Melilla from Morocco as an attack on Spain's "territorial integrity", as human rights activists demanded an investigation.

WEKU

At least 18 migrants die in surge to cross Moroccan border fence into Spain's Melilla

A spokesperson for the Spanish government's office in Melilla said about 2,000 people tried to enter, but many were stopped by Spanish and Moroccan forces on either side of the border fence.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Morocco Says 18 Migrants Died During Mass Crossing into Melilla

Morocco said 18 migrants died trying to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla on Friday, after a violent two-hour skirmish between migrants and border officers that also led to scores of injuries. About 2,000 migrants stormed a high fence that seals off the enclave.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Five Migrants Die in Mass Attempt to Enter Spain’s Melilla

Five migrant were killed and dozens were injured when a huge crowd tried to cross from Morocco into Spain's Melilla enclave on Friday, the latest migrant tragedy at the doors of Europe. Some 2,000 migrants made approached Melilla at dawn over 500 managed to enter a border control area after…

The Independent UK

Morocco: 5 migrants dead in stampede in bid to enter Melilla

Moroccan authorities say five migrants were killed and scores of migrants and police officers were injured in a “stampede” of people trying to cross into the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla on Friday

Al Jazeera

Morocco: 18 migrants die in attempt to enter Spain’s Melilla

Deaths occurred during attempted mass crossing into Spanish North African enclave by some 2,000 migrants, officials say.

Reuters

Hundreds of migrants storm Spain's Melilla enclave

About 400 migrants on Friday stormed a high fence that seals off Spain's North African enclave of Melilla, of whom a large group managed to cross over from Morocco after a two-hour skirmish with border officers, Spanish authorities said.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Morocco: 6.3 Mln E-Commerce Transactions in Q1 2022

E-commerce websites and billers' websites affiliated to the Interbank Electronic Banking Center (CMI) have carried out 6.3 million online payment transactions via Moroccan and foreign bank cards, for a total amount of 2.3 billion dirhams ($230 million) during the first quarter of 2022. The e-commerce activity is up 34.4 percent…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Plans to Bring in 15,000 Workers from Morocco

Morocco and Israel are planning to fly in thousands of Moroccan workers to Tel Aviv to meet local demand. Up to 15,000 workers, including hundreds of engineers, are part of the plan. Chairman of the Construction and Wood Workers Union in Israel’s Histadrut labor federation, Yitzhak Moyal, said: “We are…

1 … 92 93 94 95

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

African Union Commission

14 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.