“I want to study, play football, do a lot of things,” he says, speaking in a mixture of Dariya, the Moroccan version of Arabic, and broken Spanish. ”He is one of many Moroccan teenage boys who are living in Ceuta in the hope of covertly making the one-hour sea crossing to the peninsula. Mohamed (left) and Ayman in Ceuta’s port area where each day they attempt to stow away on vehicles heading for the Spanish mainland. Imad, a young Moroccan migrant, at a football training session organised by the local authorities in Ceuta. African migrants wait to board a ferry towards Algeciras, the Spanish mainland, in Ceuta, Spain.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 30, 2019 06:00 UTC