A committee of the United States House of Representatives has formally described Ceuta and Melilla as Spanish-administered cities “located in Moroccan territory,” marking what appears to be the first ...

It is 10am on a Wednesday, but the long road to the border is deserted. Almost every shop along it is closed. The scene outside the asylum office is like the aftermath of a skirmish. It’s strewn with ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 18 May 2023 The tiny Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla sit on the northern shores of Morocco's Mediterranean coast. Together they form ...

Spanish police standing guard as a group of people gather atop the border fence between Morocco and Melilla in 2014. Photograph: Jesús Blasco de Avellaneda At least 37 people were killed in June 2022 ...

At least 20 migrants are reported to have drowned near the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the Moroccan coast. The death toll is likely to rise. The migrants are thought to have died while likely trying ...

Back in the autumn of 1998, a teacher from Melilla called Jose Palazon noticed something strange was happening each night to the dustbin in front of his house. He kept an eye out and discovered that, ...

The Spanish enclave of Melilla, one of Africa's main gateways to Europe, has had to deal with a new major influx of migrants every year. Despite the barbed wire and fence towering meters high ...

For years, Jews, Muslims and Christians have lived harmoniously in Melilla, a small Spanish city on the North African coast. But lately, anti-Jewish attacks here are threatening to kill what remains ...

In Morocco they call them the occupied "Sebtah and Melilah". The rest of the world knows them as the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa. They are the only piece of European ...

The tiny Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla sit on the northern shores of Morocco's Mediterranean coast. Together they form the European Union's only land borders with Africa. Ceuta and its larger ...