The leader of Spain's conservative opposition, who tops most polls, began campaigning for November's snap election in Ceuta on Wednesday vowing to prioritise the city mired in a migration crisis.
The unending migration crisis in Spain's north African territory of Ceuta is inflicting potentially terminal damage on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez ahead of next year's general election, analysts say.
The Spanish government on Tuesday declassified intelligence reports about July's migrant surge into Ceuta in a bid to quell doubts about what it knew beforehand and Morocco's potential role.
Moroccan media have criticised a Spanish police report that accused Morocco's security forces of failures as tens of thousands of migrants crossed into the Spanish territory of Ceuta.
A month after the widely reported Ceuta mass crossing, a question that many in Spain and abroad have is why there are still thousands of migrants camping out on the streets and beaches of the Spanish enclave. When will the crisis be resolved?
A majority of EU countries called on Saturday for emergency talks on the sudden inflow of tens of thousands of migrants into Spain's enclave of Ceuta in North Africa.
More than 48,000 migrants have now returned to Morocco from Spain's Ceuta as the Spanish government assures that the integrity of the Schengen area is 'absolutely guaranteed'.
After police detected a group of around 200 migrants approaching the border fence in Ceuta, it has been closed to traffic and access between Spain and Morocco is now only permitted on foot.
Days after up to 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Spain's Ceuta enclave, many hundreds are still
here, mostly minors, posing a quandary for the tiny territory.
Seventy migrants made it over a Moroccan border fence to reach the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Friday, authorities said, after record numbers reached Spain's other North African territory earlier this week
Spain is making international headlines after a record number of migrants crossed over from Morocco into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday and Tuesday. These photos and videos showcase this unprecedented event in Spanish migration history.
Two masked gunmen on a motorbike fired shots on Monday at a mosque in the Spanish territory of Ceuta on the northern coast of Africa, local officials said.
The leader of the Spanish far-right party Vox is following in the footsteps of Donald Trump with demands for a wall at the border to stop the flow of immigrants.
Madrid and Rabat are in talks to repatriate thousands of Moroccan minors who arrived in Spain alone without their parents, a Spanish interior ministry spokesman said Friday.
Spain on Thursday sent back to Morocco 116 migrants who had forced their way into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, in a mass expulsion condemned by human rights activists.
Some 600 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa reached Spain Thursday after storming a double barrier between Morocco and the Spanish territory of Ceuta, with some attacking security forces with quicklime, police said.
Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the newly appointed Interior Minister in the government of Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has indicated his desire to remove the controversial razor wire designed to deter migrants from crossing illegally from Morocco into Spain.
It's a form of hard labour that has provoked an outcry -- Moroccan women bent double, overburdened by goods approaching or exceeding their own bodyweight.
A Spanish court on Tuesday allowed an Ivory Coast man to walk free, with only a small fine to pay, after his son was found crammed into a suitcase at a border crossing.
The heart-rending photo went round the world in 2015, showing an eight-year-old boy from Ivory Coast crammed into a suitcase that was found at a Spanish border crossing.
One man died and several other people were injured during a stampede Monday on the border between Morocco and the Spanish overseas territory of Melilla, authorities and a rights group said.
Two women carrying goods between Morocco and Spain's Ceuta enclave were killed on Monday in a stampede at the border between the two countries, a rights group and officials said.
Along the border between Spain's North African enclave Ceuta and Morocco, thousands of women eke out a living lugging back-breaking loads of goods in an "organised trafficking" operation tolerated by officials.
