By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Monde
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has judged Morocco’s border controls to have failed after more than 70,000 migrants arrived in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. Madrid asked Rabat for answers on Tuesday about the late-July arrivals, according to Le Monde.
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More than 70,000 migrants arrive from Morocco in the Spanish enclave, as camps are evacuated amid tensions between Rabat and Madrid and Felipe VI visits.
21 OctIn Ceuta, Felipe VI reaffirms Spanish sovereignty over the enclave
15 OctEight NGOs denounce migrant returns from Ceuta to Morocco14 OctFelipe VI says Ceuta and Melilla remain SpanishMoroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov spoke by telephone about the expected Security Council vote on the Sahara. Rabat is seeking to clarify Moscow’s position as a permanent UN member, according to LeBrief.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Lebrief ·
Between 16 August and 15 October, 4,162 migrants reached the Canary Islands by sea, while the average daily rate rose from 21 to 68. Twenty-five of the 49 boats arriving since 14 September, carrying 1,561 migrants, departed from Moroccan ports, according to Spanish Interior Ministry data reported by Yabiladi.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Yabiladi ·
At half-time in the second leg of the second preliminary round of the CAF Confederation Cup, Raja Casablanca and El-Kanemi Warriors are 0-0. The result would provisionally qualify the Moroccan club for the group stage, after a 2-2 draw in the first leg in Nigeria, according to Africatopsports.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Africatopsports ·
Congolese Regional Integration Minister Floribert Anzuluni Isiloketshi called on the COMESA summit in Harare to make the withdrawal of Rwandan troops from eastern DR Congo a priority. Kinshasa links insecurity, forced displacement and the plundering of resources to the obstruction of regional integration, according to Beto.
🇨🇩 DR Congo · Source: Beto ·
Confederation Cup: Raja win 2-0 and qualifyRaja Casablanca beat El-Kanemi Warriors 2-0 and qualified for the group stage of the Confederation Cup. Barkok and Huja scored late in the match, allowing the Moroccan club to win 4-2 on aggregate, according to Lebrief.
Egypt intensifies crackdown on independent pressEgyptian authorities detained the six journalists from Matsadaash, referred Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, for trial and summoned Rasha Azab. The procedures illustrate an intensification of the crackdown on independent media, with journalists reporting allegations of torture, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.The week in Africa
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