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Migrants queue at the border in Ceuta to return to Morocco

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Dozens of migrants queue at Spain's Ceuta border to return to Morocco after an unprecedented 8,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave earlier this week. Most of the arrivals are young men and teenagers, who swam to the beaches of Ceuta to find work and escape the grinding poverty, unemployment and hunger back home in Morocco which has been worsened by the Covid pandemic. IMAGES

Added on the 20/05/2021 20:57:43 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images

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