The recent death of three Moroccan women in a stampede at the Ceuta border crossing, has cast light on an unsustainable situation in the Spanish-occupied city in northern Morocco. From smuggling to illegal immigration and extremism, the northern city -called Sebta by Moroccans- has become a tinder box waiting to explode with the issue of sovereignty at the heart of a silently brewing diplomatic dispute between Rabat and Madrid. Moroccan MPs have voiced their demands for a state intervention to put an end to the humiliation of Moroccan women involved in smuggling goods at the Ceuta border crossing. The Ceuta border crossing, known as Tarajal, is daily crossed by some 30,000 Moroccans on feet or vehicles. The stampedes that took place in the border crossing with thousands of women lining up in unshaded alley have cost lives.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 31, 2018 23:37 UTC