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EXPLAINER: Spain's migrant crisis in North Africa

by Karl Ritter
| May 21, 2021 12:03 AM

About 8,000 people have streamed into the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco in the past two days in an unprecedented influx, most of them swimming around breakwaters and across the border to reach the Spanish enclave in North Africa.

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