Turning to the migrant surge on the Spain-Morocco border. Coming from Morocco’s coastal town, its mountainous east or even farther away from other places in Africa, desperate teenagers and jobless men actually made it into the city of Ceuta, but around half of them were expelled from Spain by Spanish troops, putting additional strain on the Moroccan town of Fnideq.
Many of the migrants realised the grass is not always greener on the other side, as the extraordinary surge of migrants coming from Morocco has prompted Spanish troops to force over half of the migrants back to Morocco.
The pandemic and some other factors have prompted Africans to flee the impoverished countries in Africa, but most of them are from Morocco, generally seen as one of the continent’s economic engines.
Amid tighter security in Spain in recent years, some would-be migrants have abandoned the effort, but some others are still determined to find a way around the security checkpoints or battle bad weather at sea.
This week, many of them saw an opportunity as tensions between Morocco and Spain are rumoured to have worsened.
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