Image from February 17th 2017 of migrants celebrating outside the Center for Temporary Stay of Immigrants (CETI) after forcing their way through a fence between Morocco and Ceuta. More than 350 migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Monday, officials said, days after one of the largest rush of arrivals over the frontier in more than a decade. The young migrants forced their way through the high border fence into the Spanish North African territory, ecstatic to have finally crossed into a European Union state. Ceuta and Melilla, also a Spanish territory in North Africa, have the EU's only land borders with Africa, so are entry points for migrants who either climb the border fence, swim along the coast or hide in vehicles. The six-metre high fence also has rolls of barbed wire.The young migrants climbed over the high border fence into the Spanish North African territory, ecstatic to have finally crossed into a European Union state.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 20, 2017 08:29 UTC