In the early 2000s, after Spain shut down the migration route through its enclaves on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast, Melilla and Ceuta, desperate refugees and migrants began targeting Spain’s Canary Islands, off the West Coast of Africa, using Mauritania as their new launching point. Spain responded by boosting naval patrols off the coast and building a […]
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