مواعيد عرض مسلسل دموع لولية بطولة نوميديا لزول رمضان 2024 والقنوات الناقلة له الحلقة السابعة

Spain supports Morocco and angers Algeria over Western Sahara

The Spanish Prime Minister praised Morocco as a "core ally" amid a political downturn over many concessions.

Spain's immigration cooperation with Morocco has led to a significant reduction in arrivals in the Canary Islands.

However, the cycle of mortality and distress continues on the Atlantic and Boran Sea routes (western Mediterranean).

Pedro Sánchez position with Morocco

The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, recently defined Morocco as "an essential ally of our security and of organized migration in our country and on the European continent."

According to Sanchez, "The numbers speak for themselves: the Atlantic road [to the Canary Islands] is the only one in Europe."

The number of "illegal" migrants is decreasing in the context of the general increase in illegal migration to the European continent. "

The Spanish prime minister cited figures for the first quarter of 2023 showing a 63 per cent drop in arrivals to the Canary Islands compared to an increase in arrivals to Greece and Italy.

during the same period by 95 per cent and 300 per cent, respectively. As of April 15, 2,376 migrants have been able to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

They arrived in the Canary Islands, while 6,359 people arrived on this route in the same period in 2022.

Morocco and Spain relations

Spain's relations with Morocco improved after years of diplomatic tension in March 2022 after Spain adopted Rabat's position on Western Sahara.

However, Spanish concessions have experienced some decline including from their ranks. She described the Minister of Labour, Yolanda Díaz, who announced her candidacy for prime minister in the general elections scheduled for the end of the year.

Morocco is a "dictatorship" and has stated that "without any doubt" it will overturn the Sanchez agreement. with Morocco in the Sahara if it comes to power.

"I succeeded in stopping migration from Morocco by selling Sahara and selling Saharan rights," said Basque Nationalist Party MP Aitor Esteban.

 Hyun Rights Watch Report

In the Human Rights Watch (HRW) World Report 2022, HRW wrote, "Moroccan authorities systematically prevent groupings in support of Saharawi self-determination and hinder the work of some local human rights NGOs.

including by preventing their legal registration, sometimes striking activists and journalists in their custody and on the streets, raiding their homes and damaging or confiscating their property ".

Differences between Spain and Morocco

Disagreements over Spain cooperation with Morocco culminated with the Melilla massacre in June 2022.

The subsequent failure of the authorities on both sides to conduct a thorough investigation as well as an intense crackdown on migrants, including survivors of the massacre in the North African nation.

Since the Melilla tragedy, the city of Nazour on the Moroccan side of the border has become a hostile place for people seeking access to Europe with authorities racially profiling, increasing controls and police raids.

According to the Moroccan Society for Human Rights in Nazour, 80 migrants were arrested and five wounded in a recent "violent raid".

Migrants arrested by the police are detained or forcibly deported away from the border.

"They locked me up for two nights and took me away from the border," explains Ali, an 18-year-old Sudanese survivor, who was forcibly transported more than 700 kilometres south of Nazour.

Osman, who is also a survivor of Melilla from Sudan, said: "We are refugees, if they find us at the border they need to help us, but instead of helping us and opening the border, they beat us, hated us, belittled us, violated us, didn't want us."

Meanwhile, the conflict between belligerents and generals in Sudan has fled more than 100,000 of the country with UNHCR warning that violence could lead to more than 800,000 refugees.

Expulsion of migrants from Spain to Morocco

On 2 May, the collective Caminando Fronteras stated: "In the past five years, 11,522 people have died on immigration routes to Spain, the families of the victims abandoned in their grief."

In the context of the "gap between the number of migrants leaving the coast of Africa and arriving in the Canary Islands" member ECRE, the Missing Migrants Project Team of the Spanish Red Cross is working to identify missing persons.

The number of cases has reached 8,000 since 2018. In partnership with software developers, the Red Cross is implementing applications and platforms to facilitate their work.

Jose Pablo Baribard, forensic anthropologist at the International Committee of the Red Cross explains "if a boat arrives on the Canary coast.

Survivors reported that a migrant named Khaled was with them and fell into the water, while a Moroccan family contacted us and said that her son Khaled left on a migrant boat on the same day.

And they didn't hear any news about it, we enter this information on the SCAN tool that analyzes and visually displays the relationship between the information, so that we see that different parties talk about the same person.

Migration from Morocco to Spain

Meanwhile, the cycle of death and distress continues on the Atlantic and Boran Sea routes. On May 3, Alarm Phone reported: "2 and 26 missing people were killed in the Atlantic Ocean.

The body of Ezzedine and a 5-year-old girl were washed on Ben Suleiman Beach. They left the rock, Morocco, trying to reach Cadiz with 26 other people still missing.

RCC Rabat does not provide us with any information ". On 19 April, Caminando Fronteras confirmed that 19 migrants had been killed after their boat sank while trying to reach the Canary Islands.

The organization's spokeswoman Helena Malino said: "Tragedy. 19 people, including seven women and a child, were confirmed killed in a boat that sank this morning on Canary Road. delays in rescue operations continue to leave victims ".

The NGO Hotline reported several boats in distress en route to Spain. On 26 April, the organisations reported that eight people were missing in the Alboran Sea.

He said: "It has been five days since I heard the families of the eight missing, after leaving Algeria, trying to reach Europe.

We will continue to support families in their search for loved ones and in the struggle for freedom of movement ". Six days after his loss, SALVAMENTO MARÍTIMO confirmed the rescue of the eight people on May 2.

Alarm Phone stated: "I 17 someone in the Alboran Sea! The alarm phone was alerted by relatives to a boat that departed from Oran, Algeria, on 26 April with 17 people on board.

Salvamento Maritimo has been informed - we urge them to continue their research ". On April 19, the Spanish authorities rescued 344 North African and sub-Saharan migrants from six different boats reported.

Survivors' lodge in the Canary Islands. Furthermore, Salvamento Maritime and La Guardia Seville rescues were reported, including on April 21 (18 people), April 25 (26 people), April 26 (19 people) and May 2 (8 people).