At 25 years old, Fátima has made twenty attempts to swim from Fnideq (Castillejos, northern Morocco) to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. “I don’t care about the risk, I will return,” she says. Like her, hundreds of young people are taking to the sea without Moroccan security preventing it in the largest migration crisis since 2021, about which Rabat maintains a striking silence.
Pedro Sánchez has guaranteed that he will mobilize “all necessary resources” to provide an “immediate response” to the new migratory crisis unleashed in Ceuta, as demanded by the president of the autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, and the first consequence is that the Government announced this afternoon that it will deploy the Army to face the serious situation, after a flood of thousands of people crossed the border from Morocco into Spain.
The new migration crisis unleashed in Ceuta, for which the president of this autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, raised the alarm this Thursday, has immediately turned many eyes towards the authorities of Morocco, after Pedro Sánchez restored political and commercial relations with Algeria last week with his visit to President Abdelmayid Tebun, which marked the end of the 2022 diplomatic clash following the Spanish leader’s shift on the Western Sahara issue.
Thousands of young Moroccans are heading this Thursday to the border between Castillejos, in Morocco, and Ceuta to try to cross the fence that separates the two cities, as confirmed by EFE.
El Niño is a meteorological phenomenon capable of causing the most powerful natural climate variability on the planet. It produces an abnormal warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean and can have extreme and unpredictable consequences. This phenomenon, which has been anticipated since 1997, generates climate disruptions especially during the second year from its onset. The last episode was recorded between the years 2023 and 2024.
Manuel Jesús Fernández Serrano, artistically known as Manolo Solo, passed away this Thursday at the age of 62, according to a statement from the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.
A 58-year-old man has been arrested as the alleged perpetrator of three forest fires in the l’Anoia region. The operation, carried out by the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Rural Agents Corps, took place last Monday, when the accused was able to be detained.
Two men, aged 51 and 42, have been arrested as suspected perpetrators of the fire that started on July 22 in the town of Almorox, Toledo, and later spread to the Madrid municipality of Villa del Prado.
The PP asks the Government to act in the face of the avalanche of immigrant arrivals in Ceuta. The secretary general of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has stated that what is happening in Ceuta is a “full-blown migratory crisis” because “200 people are arriving daily over the past few weeks” and, according to the popular leader, it is “evident that the Government must act in the face of this migratory collapse.”
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Thursday that the fires affecting the provinces of Ávila and Madrid, which have devastated more than 75,000 hectares, are lowered to level 2, thus ending the national interest emergency.
