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Carnegie Europe
February 13, 2018
Melilla? Let me explain. In some places, the edges of the European Union are blurred. Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino are the small change from some of the more exotic episodes in Europe's history. They are not fully in the EU or fully out. Melilla, and nearby Ceuta, belong to the list. They areÃÂ ...
MENAFN.COM
February 10, 2018
(MENAFN - Morocco World News) Rabat – A year of investigations carried out by Guardia Civil de Melilla has led to the arrest of 4 members of a prostitution ring that exploited Moroccan women 'in conditions close to slavery.' Elements of the Guardia Civil de Melilla arrested and jailed four members of aÃÂ ...
Morocco World News
February 9, 2018
Rabat – A year of investigations carried out by Guardia Civil de Melilla has led to the arrest of 4 members of a prostitution ring that exploited Moroccan women “in conditions close to slavery.” Elements of the Guardia Civil de Melilla arrested and jailed four members of a prostitution ring that exploitedÃÂ ...
Euro Weekly News
February 9, 2018
FOUR people who allegedly forced women to become prostitutes in a system of “semi-slavery” have been arrested by the Guardia Civil. A fifth person is also under investigation. The Melilla-based gang made the Moroccan women, some of which were children, pay once they got pregnant to find SpanishÃÂ ...
Yabiladi in English
February 9, 2018
The government delegate in Melilla, Abdelmalik El Barkani, announced yesterday that 36 of the 39 migrants who arrived in the Chafarinas Islands, a group of three small islets located in the Alboran Sea off the coast of Morocco, and then transferred to Melilla, will be sent back to Morocco to prevent theÃÂ ...
Evangelical Focus
February 6, 2018
A Spanish passenger boat that went from Melilla to Almeria on Saturday afternoon, found the bodies floating in the sea just four miles from Melilla, near ... According to Helena Maleno, social worker of the NGO Caminando Fronteras (Walking frontiers), “the raft was on its way to Melilla with 47 migrants fromÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
February 4, 2018
At least 20 migrants are reported to have drowned near the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the Moroccan coast. ... to reach Spanish territory each year by embarking on dangerous sea crossings on the Mediterranean Sea, or by entering Melilla and Ceuta, Spain's African enclaves, either by land or sea.
Euro Weekly News
January 29, 2018
FERRIES scheduled to sail from Almeria to Melilla have been suspended today following bad weather. Around 800 passengers are expected to be affected by the cancellations services between Almeria's port and the Spanish enclave in Africa. The 9.30am ferry has been suspended altogether. The 5pmÃÂ ...
The Independent
January 28, 2018
Forget Norway-minus, or Canada-plus, or even Canada-plus-plus-plus. If the UK wants jobs, trade and living standards to prosper after Brexit, it should aim for Melilla-max. Without it, British business could topple over the dreaded cliff edge, not in 2021, but on 30 March 2019. Melilla? Let me explain.
Daily Sabah
January 22, 2018
Several people were injured, at least one seriously, during a stampede Monday on the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, authorities and a rights group said. At least three were injured on the Spanish side, including a man who was hospitalized in "a very serious condition", MelillaÃÂ ...
The Local Spain
January 15, 2018
Border police discovered four migrants hidden within one car after it sped through the border crossing into Spain from Morocco. The driver and a passenger drove at speed past police officers at the Beni-Enzar checkpoint before abandoning the car at a petrol station and running off. Officers examined theÃÂ ...
The New Arab
January 8, 2018
Migrants undertook a renewed attempt to storm the Morocco-Spain border at the tiny Spanish enclave of Melilla, despite ever-increasing preventative security measures implemented by Moroccan authorities against such attempts.
Yabiladi in English
January 6, 2018
An unaccompanied minor, protected by the autonomous city of Melilla, died in a health center where he was hosted since December the 26th, said EFE news agency. The teenager had just left the hospital where he had his leg amputated after a car collision. In a press release, the Ministry of Social AffairsÃÂ ...
Morocco World News
January 4, 2018
Rabat – The issue of unaccompanied minors seems to be an endless predicament for the authorities of the Spanish enclave of Melilla. According to the local government's estimates, around 3,000 minors live in nearby localities, waiting for an opportunity to access the city. According to the Spanish newsÃÂ ...
The Local Spain
December 11, 2017
Police in Spain discovered a 12-year old boy hidden inside the dashboard of a BMW car at a checkpoint at the border with Morocco in the north African enclave of Melilla. A Moroccan pensioner who was driving the car was arrested for trying to smuggle in the youth, who was curled up inside the tiny spaceÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
MADRID — The authorities in Spain and Morocco extended a search-and-rescue operation at sea on Sunday after recovering the bodies of at least 20 African migrants a day earlier off Melilla, a Spanish enclave in northern Africa. Most of the bodies, spotted on Saturday by a Spanish passenger boat thatÃÂ ...
The Local Spain
December 11, 2017
Police in Spain discovered a 12-year old boy hidden inside the dashboard of a BMW car at a checkpoint at the border with Morocco in the north African enclave of Melilla. A Moroccan pensioner who was driving the car was arrested for trying to smuggle in the youth, who was curled up inside the tiny spaceÃÂ ...
Vox
December 5, 2017
Right outside this obstacle, in the forests surrounding Melilla, you'll find makeshift camps, constructed from scraps of tarp and trash. They are home to sub-Saharan Africans, biding their time, preparing for the day they will attempt to jump this barrier and set foot on European soil, where they hope to find a better life andÃÂ ...
Qantara.de
November 27, 2017
The Melilla Office of Asylum and Refuge sits right next to the Spanish passport control. An asylum seeker coming from the Moroccan side would have to clear the border controlled by the North African country's police before having a chance to apply for asylum in Spain. But Moroccans don't let sub-SaharanÃÂ ...
The Conversation UK
September 11, 2017
Melilla and its smaller sister city of Ceuta have been part of Spanish territory since the 15th century and have been centre of diplomatic disputesÃÂ ...
Morocco World News
September 7, 2017
Rabat – While prostitution is illegal in the Spanish enclave of Melilla, approximately 1,000 women, almost entirely from Morocco, work as thereÃÂ ...
The North Africa Post
March 22, 2017
The Arab Parliamentary Union called on Spain to return the occupied enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in addition to the Mediterranean Chafarinas Islands to Morocco.
Eurasia Review
March 18, 2017
It goes without saying, of course, that the merchants on the Spanish side, and by extension, the cities of Melilla and Ceuta thrive from this inhuman commerce, without any regrets or feeling of compassion, in the least.
eHam.net
March 16, 2017
CEUTA AND MELILLA, EA9. Tom, DJ6TF, Sigi, DL7DF, Juergen, DL7UFN and Frank, DL7UFR are QRV as EA9/home calls from Melilla until March 22. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31 with two stations active simultaneously.
Aljazeera.com
March 13, 2017
In the entire previous year, around 1,000 people crossed the fences in Ceuta and fellow enclave city Melilla combined, according to the EU border agency Frontex.
NDTV
February 28, 2017
SPAIN-MOROCCO: The Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the North African coast, Africa's only land borders with Europe, are protected by high-tech border fences, each around 10 kilometres long.
UN News Centre
February 28, 2017
The report also showed that in the last part of 2016, more people reached the continent through the Western Mediterranean route, either by crossing the sea to Spain from Morocco and Algeria, or by entering the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta.
Linkiesta.it
February 24, 2017
A Melilla, per chi non lo sapesse, l'idea d'accoglienza barceloneta si scontra con tre muri: due da sei metri d'altezza, in mezzo un ulteriore ostacolo: dieci chilometri di filo spinato intrecciato che impedisce perfino di camminare a terra per evitare ...
Quartz
February 24, 2017
To stem migrant flows, the EU pays Morocco tens of millions of euros a year. The agreement has largely quelled the irregular incursions at the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. But tensions at the border have flared once again, with hundreds of ...
Morocco World News
February 23, 2017
In a brief press conference after a meeting with the European Security commissioner, Julian King, Zoido publically recognized the "hard work of Moroccan security forces for stopping massive immigration attempts to the borders of Ceuta and Melilla from ...
Zawya
February 21, 2017
Armed guards and razor wire lining the 12-km (7.5-mile) frontier around the town have long discouraged Africans fleeing poverty and conflict from seeing Melilla as a gateway to Europe, 180 km (110 miles) away across open water. But desperation has ...
Elsevier
February 21, 2017
Ceuta en Melilla zijn twee Spaanse exclaves in Marokko, die werken als een magneet op illegale migranten. De afgelopen dagen klommen circa duizend over de hekken. Maandag bestormden honderden migranten het hekwerk rond Ceuta. Zo'n 350ÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
February 15, 2017
Spain's walls are located on its Morocco border -- Melilla and Ceuta border fences designed to stop migrants from Africa, especially the northern regions.
BBC News
February 1, 2017
Amnesty International said last month that more than 2,000 people had entered Ceuta and Melilla in mass assaults on the enclaves' five-metre-high (16ft) fences, but hundreds had been expelled directly to the Moroccan police on the other side without anÃÂ ...
Business Standard
January 29, 2017
The country has two enclaves in north Africa - Ceuta and Melilla - surrounded by high barriers that are regularly stormed by migrants.
Ligaolahraga.com
January 29, 2017
Ligaolahraga - Hasil pertandingan bola pada kejuaraan Spain: Segunda Division B - Group 4 antara Melilla melawan La Hoya Lorca yang berlangsung pada hari Minggu, tanggal 29 Januari 2017 pukul 18:00 WIB, dengan hasil skor 1-1.
Ligaolahraga.com
January 28, 2017
Tuan rumah Melilla dipastikan akan mendapat perlawanan tangguh dari tamunya, Murcia yang datang dengan keyakinan tinggi untuk bisa memenangkan laga tandang mereka kali ini.
FreshPlaza
January 27, 2017
... Funds, which aims to support experimental development initiatives in the form of projects in cooperation between companies based in the regions of Andalusia, the Canary Islands, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura, Galicia, Murcia, Ceuta and Melilla.
Naharnet
January 26, 2017
Spain-Morocco: The Spanish-owned enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the North African coast are protected by high-tech border fences.
The Guardian
January 26, 2017
There is next to no transit by sea from west Africa through the Canary Islands, and only a limited number of people arriving in Spain via the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. A total of 2,162 Africans made it to Spain in the second quarter of 2016.
Pescara News (Registrazione)
January 26, 2017
Le parole di saluto e cordoglio del deputato SI Gianni Melilla appresa la notizia della scomparsa di Gianni Cordova, padre della LAAD. Ho conosciuto Gianni Cordova negli anni 70 alla CGIL, era un lavoratore bancario e militava nella Fisac Cgil. Era unÃÂ ...
Ligaolahraga.com
January 25, 2017
Tuan rumah Melilla dipastikan akan mendapat perlawanan tangguh dari tamunya, La Hoya Lorca yang datang dengan keyakinan tinggi untuk bisa memenangkan laga tandang mereka kali ini.
Middle East Online
January 23, 2017
The Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, bordering Morocco, have the European Union's only land frontiers with Africa.
New Europe
January 23, 2017
As reported by The Associated Press (AP), authorities said on January 21 that they had registered these entry efforts departing from Spain's North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, after a month-long police operation last year aimed to reduce the ...
Euro Weekly News
January 21, 2017
MORE than 500 people, many of them minors, have been caught in the last month trying to get into Spain as stowaways from the north African ports of Ceuta and Melilla. They were found hiding in both passenger and cargo ships and often in extremelyÃÂ ...
The Seattle Times
January 21, 2017
Authorities said Saturday they had registered these entry efforts departing from Spain's North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, after a monthlong police operation last year aimed to reduce the number of stowaway migrants setting foot on mainlandÃÂ ...
Agenzia Nova (Abbonamento)
January 19, 2017
Rabat, 20 gen 08:36 - (Agenzia Nova) - Gli agenti della dogana marocchina hanno fermato ieri tre migranti provenienti dai paesi dell'Africa sub-sahariana mentre tentavano di entrare illegalmente a Melilla, enclave spagnola in Nord Africa. I migranti ...
euronews
January 18, 2017
Every day, hundreds of women line up outside the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa. They are queuing for the right to carry bundles of goods, often weighing up to 100kg through the desert heat for as little as 10 euros a day.
Expatica Spain
January 17, 2017
The meeting brought together the presidents of Spain's 15 other semi-autonomous regions and the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. There have been five such gatherings in the past, the last one in 2012, but both Puigdemont and Urkullu favour direct ...
Agenpress
January 17, 2017
Il Governo, prosegue Gianni Melilla, come noi chiedevamo, ha ottenuto l'indicazione obbligatoria dell'origine per i prodotti lattiero caseari in Italia, con il via libera della Unione Europea. In questo modo saranno tutelati i produttori e i ...
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