Morocco arrests 111 migrants headed for Spain’s Ceuta in security crackdown

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A source ‌in Morocco’s Interior Ministry told Reuters those detained included 109 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and two Moroccan citizens arrested in or around Fnideq, the Moroccan city opposite Ceuta.

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