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Eighteen people a day died trying to reach Spain in 2023: a total of 6,618 migrant deaths

The figure almost triples the total for 2022, when 2,390 migrants lost their lives in the seas around the Spanish coasts

Israel-Palestine: the foreign ministers of the Mediterranean opt for the creation of two states

Mediterranean foreign ministers commit to the creation of two states to resolve the conflict

Why are more and more migrant boats arriving in the Canary Islands?

Tiny and remote El Hierro is now receiving the largest volume of migrant boats in the Canaries: what has changed?

Migration crisis: Canary Islands government demands help from Sánchez "as if it were in Catalonia"

The Canarian executive is concerned about the arrival of 1,200 sub-Saharan migrants in two days

A Catalan priest from the Piarist order sexually abused children in Senegal for years

The abuse continued from 1980 to 2005, and only now has the Escola Pia in Barcelona accepted the facts and given an apology

One year on from Melilla migrant tragedy, Amnesty demands justice from Spain and Morocco

Amnesty International raises the number of deaths to more than 100, four times more than the official version

Pedro Sánchez speaks on Morocco, but won't explain why he abandoned Western Sahara

Spanish PM appeared specifically to talk about Morocco but refused to delve into the mystery of Spain's foreign policy U-turn

Spain hands over Rambla attack terrorist to Morocco to complete jail term there

Spain has agreed to return Moroccan citizen Driss Oukabir to his birth country to serve 36-year jail sentence for terrorism

Joint declaration by Morocco and Spain treats Western Sahara as belonging to Rabat

Pedro Sánchez definitively abandons support for the Sahrawi independence claim recognized by the United Nations

Graphic videos of events at Melilla border could spell the end for minister Marlaska

Loud calls for Spanish interior minister's departure over deaths of up to 70 migrants on Spanish-Morrocan border in June

Ombudsman critical of Spanish role in Melilla migrant deaths: risk was "foreseeable"

Report on tragedy finds a failure to comply with Spanish and international legal guarantees of migrants' human rights

Pedro Sánchez, blunt with Morocco: "Ceuta and Melilla are Spain, full stop"

The Spanish prime minister responds to Morocco, which stated that "Melilla is a prison occupied by Spain"

Morocco, to the UN: "Melilla is a prison occupied by Spain"

"The kingdom of Morocco does not have land borders with Spain," the Rabat government writes to the UN Human Rights Council

Morocco sentences 13 migrants to two years' jail over Melilla border tragedy

A total of 60 migrants have already been sentenced, with courts expected to rule on 15 more in a few weeks

Spanish government spokesperson refuses to let Podemos minister answer on Melilla

PSOE minister Rodríguez answers all questions on the Melilla migrant deaths, even those addressed to Podemos' Irene Montero

Eighteen migrants killed trying to cross Morocco-Spain border into Melilla enclave

Reports say that some were crushed as hundreds tried to storm border fence of Spain's North African territory

"Deeply worried" EU appeals to Algeria to return to friendship treaty with Spain

Amidst the European energy crisis, an increase in tension between Spain and gas-rich Algeria is causing concern in Brussels

Algeria suspends friendship treaty in response to Spain's policy U-turn on Sahara

Algeria strikes back against Spain's "unjustifiable" support for Moroccan autonomy plan which effectively absorbs Sahara

Algeria, major exporter of gas to Spain, announces a review of all contracts

A reversal for Pedro Sánchez's foreign policy moves in the Maghreb, which could exacerbate rising energy prices

EU gives a wake-up call to Spain: a solution in the Sahara must involve the UN

United Nations call for "free determination of the people of Western Sahara" does not square with Morocco's plan

Spain gives way to Morocco and abandons the independence of Western Sahara

Spanish PM Sánchez has written to king Mohammed VI asserting that Saharan autonomy within Morocco is the best option

Pere Duran Farell, the Catalan who enabled Spain to avoid depending on Russian gas

Catalan businessman Pere Duran i Farell brought natural gas from Algeria to Spain

COVID | EU to halt flights from South Africa due to new Omicron variant

German warning to Spain: gas could get scarce

Spanish interior ministry denies ordering deportation of Moroccan minors

Spain's repatriation of 9 Moroccan minors stopped by court due to illegalities

UN rapporteur: "Serious concerns" over Spain's 'hot returns' of migrants in Ceuta