Approximately 40,000–60,000 migrants breached the border between Morocco and Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, on July 30, 2026, resulting in at least 72 deaths by August 2, with most victims drowning in the sea crossing. Morocco's Interior Ministry blamed social media and human traffickers for amplifying the crisis.
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Thousands of migrants have streamed across Morocco's border with the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta.
Thousands crossed into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, prompting local authorities to request a national emergency and military support.
Thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco on Thursday, prompting local officials to call on Spain to declare a national emergency and send the army to restore the frontier. Spain’s interior ministry said it would guarantee the safety of citizens and the integrity of the nation’s border, but that the government could not declare a national emergency over m
Thousands of migrants entered Ceuta by sea and through a breached fence, prompting emergency calls as local businesses shut amid fears of unrest.
At least 18 people drown as migrants try to swim to Spanish territory amid scenes of chaos at the border.
Thousands of people continued pouring into Ceuta from Morocco during the night, after Spanish police lost control of the border. The head of the city government estimated that 60,000 people had entered.
Spain's government said that an estimated 48,300 migrants were back in Morocco on Friday evening. Italy has temporarily suspended its Schengen free-travel pact with Spain. DW has more.
Spain's Pedro Sanchez criticised a sudden arrival of around 40,000 migrants from Morocco to the north African enclave Ceuta as "an attack, a violation" of Spain's national territory. The prime minister blamed the influx of immigrants on criminal networks manipulating a recent court ruling that immediate returns of migrants crossing the border illegally did not apply to those arriving by sea. FRANC
Spain said on Friday it had largely reversed a surge of migrants into its North African enclave of Ceuta, with 48,000 of the people who crossed from Morocco by land and sea already returning voluntarily.
Some 60,000 migrants have entered Spain’s Ceuta from Morocco in the past 24 hours, Ceuta’s president says. Spain's interior ministry estimated 50,000 had entered since Thursday but added half had already made their way back to Morocco by Friday. At…
Spain's North African territory of Ceuta from Morocco, though more than 25,000 have returned voluntarily, officials said.
[Vanguard] Thousands of migrants crossed overnight from Morocco into Spain's north Africa's Ceuta enclave, a police source said on Friday, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was set to arrive to manage the latest migrant crisis on the border.
Some 60,000 migrants entered Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in the space of 24 hours, between Thursday and Friday, leaving at least 34 dead and prompting France to tighten controls along its border with Spain.
Spain said most had returned to Morocco by Friday evening, as Italy suspended its Schengen agreement on free movement with Madrid.
Pedro Sánchez decries ‘violation of territorial integrity’ as other EU countries criticise Madrid over incident At least 57 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after as many as 50,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco in what Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, called “a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity”. The huge influx, which took place over
Italy ordered the reintroduction of border checks at its ports and airports with Spain on Friday, and France announced it would increase fivefold the officers deployed at its land border from Saturday, after tens of thousands of people entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta irregularly from Morocco.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was set to arrive in Ceuta, a Spanish territory in Africa, amid an escalating crisis for his pro-immigration government.
Spain's Ministry of the Interior said about 50,000 people entered the Spanish enclave since Thursday morning, with an estimated 48,300 back in Morocco by 6 p.m. Friday.
The crossing of 60,000 migrants into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco is featured prominently across Saturday's papers.
According to the president of Ceuta, 60,000 migrants have flooded the small Spanish territory from Morocco since Thursday. Most voluntarily left the territory amid shortages of food, water and shelter, but thousands remained. Spain's prime minister called it an attack. Aiden Stretch reports from Ceuta, Spain.
On Thursday, tens of thousands of Moroccans broke into Ceuta, a Spanish territory that neighbors Morocco. By Friday evening, most of them had left, hungry and disappointed.
Almost all of the tens of thousands of migrants who entered Spain's enclave of Ceuta in North Africa had left by Saturday, officials sa
FNIDEQ, Morocco/CEUTA, Spain, Aug 1 - Migrants who swam or jumped over fences to rush into Spain's African enclave of Ceuta this week were returning home on Saturday, with many saying hunger, exhaustion and hostility from locals had crushed their hopes of a new life in Europe.
Our Madrid bureau chief, Jason Horowitz, visits the coastal town of Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa where there has been an unprecedented influx of migrants crossing the border from Morocco.
Tens of thousands of migrants crossed into Ceuta from Morocco on July 29, triggering alarm in Europe.
Most of those who came to the territory, a Spanish exclave in Africa, have returned across the border to Morocco. At least 67 people died trying to enter, the authorities said.
Officials in Spain were ramping up security on Saturday after tens of thousands of migrants crossed into an enclave on the border with Morocco. NBC News’ Matt Bradley reports.
Most of the migrants who rushed into Spain’s North African territory have returned to Morocco.
Ceuta was returning to normal over the weekend after an unprecedented migrant surge that saw up to 60,000 people enter the tiny Spanish exclave from Morocco in just two days. But with at least 72 migrants dead and most arrivals having already returned to Morocco, residents were still grappling with the humanitarian, political and social fallout.
People among the more than 50,000 who entered Spanish enclave this week describe the journey and their prospects Four days ago, Youssef El Abbas saw an opportunity to reclaim the life he had lost seven years earlier. News was circulating that about 400 people had swum from Morocco to the neighbouring Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north African coast, approximately 12 miles (19km) across the stra
Nearly all of the more than 50,000 migrants who breached the border this week have returned to Morocco, according to Spanish officials. At least 72 people died in the border rush. DW has more.
The death toll from Thursday’s mass rush into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco reached at least 72 on Sunday as five more bodies were found along Ceuta’s coast, officials said. More than 50,000 people crossed into Ceuta by land and sea in an unprecedented surge that began on Thursday at one of the European Union’s only two land borders with Africa, prompting alarm across the bl
Morocco's Interior Ministry says at least 11 people died, most by drowning, while trying to cross the border into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in a rush of about 40,000 people blamed by the government on social media misinformation and human trafficking networks.