On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, BBC Mundo looks at barriers which are still standing - or have gone up since - around the world. At the end of the 20th Century, Spain decided ...

Like Melilla, Ceuta was founded in Morocco centuries ago ... Back home, critics spoke of "walls of shame". Ever since the cities have sealed themselves off more securely, refugees have instead ...

But few places felt it like Ceuta and Melilla, the two Spanish cities in North Africa that face the Mediterranean to one side and Morocco to the other, beyond a six-metre border wall. Prior to ...

the first two – at Ceuta (in 1993) and at Melilla (in 1996) – of sixteen walls that fence off Europe’s borders today. A six-metre fortified fence funded by the EU, like others put forward in ...

“Vox leader Santiago Abascal has channeled Trump by calling for an 'insurmountable wall' along Ceuta and Melilla’s borders and arguing that Morocco should be made to pay for it.” In an ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 18 May 2023 The tiny Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla sit on the northern shores of Morocco's Mediterranean coast. Together they ...

To cross, legally, takes only a few minutes – but the wall between these territories ... crossed the borders of the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla every day, according to Spanish police.

The small Spanish enclave of Melilla and the enclave of Ceuta are the only European land borders in Africa. Melilla first fell under Spanish rule in 1497 and Ceuta in 1668 after Portugal gave it ...

She thanked Moroccan authorities for their “loyal cooperation.” Ceuta and Melilla — two tiny Spanish territories in North Africa bordering the Mediterranean — have long been targeted by ...

The tiny Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla sit on the northern shores of Morocco's Mediterranean coast. Together they form the European Union's only land borders with Africa. Ceuta and its ...