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Polisario says it pounded Morocco defensive wall in Western Sahara On 19 November 2020, the pro-independence Polisario Front said it launched "massive attacks" against a Moroccan defensive wall that cuts through the disputed Western Sahara. The territory is at the...

Spanish authorities want to resume migrant deportations Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska on Friday called for deportations of migrants – suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic -- to resume, after meeting his counterpart in Morocco. Arrivals of...

Spain's Constitutional Court on Thursday backed the rapid deportation of migrants who illegally enter the country's north African enclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, a practice criticised by rights groups. The court said in a statement that it had validated almost all of a...

Spain's defence minister admitted Friday the government needed to look critically at its approach to the migrant crisis at an overwhelmed Canary Islands port after conditions there became "unsuitable for humans". The situation at Arguineguin port on Gran Canaria, the...