Melilla Border Fence Press Articles

New Internationalist - Walls

November 1, 2006 -- The Berlin Wall made the news every day. From dawn to dusk we read about it, heard about it, and saw It: The Wall of Shame, the Wall of Infamy, the...

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Mail on Sunday (London, England), The - BARRICADE OF BLOOD; It's six miles of vicious, 20ft high razor wire - and it's the deadly backdrop to an unspeakable daily drama. Desperate migrants storm it in their hundreds in search of a new life in Britain - and many pay a grisly price

October 30, 2005 --

Byline: MARTIN DEESON

Seven hundred desperate young Africans crash into the 20ft high border fence like a giant human wave. It is...

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AFP - Hundreds of destitute immigrants trapped in Moroccan desert

October 8, 2005 -- EL AOUINA-SOUATAR, Morocco (AFP) — Hundreds of Africans were stranded in dire conditions in the Moroccan desert, saying they were dumped there...

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AFP - Annan demands action as aid group says immigrants marooned in desert

October 7, 2005 -- MADRID (AFP) — A leading aid group decried the apparent abandoning of some 500 immigrants in the Moroccan desert after trying to reach Spanish...

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Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Spain to start expelling illegal African migrants

October 6, 2005 -- MELILLA, Spain -- Hundreds of destitute Africans rushed Morocco's border with this Spanish enclave Wednesday, scrambling up a razor- wire fence...

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Daily Mail (London, England), The - Migrants storm enclave

October 4, 2005 --

HUNDREDS of illegal immigrants have forced their way into a tiny Spanish enclave in North Africa after stoning police and pulling down a 20ft...

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Xinhua News Agency - CEIS - Sub-Saharan immigrants force entry into Spanish enclave

October 4, 2005 --

Sub-Saharan immigrants force entry into Spanish enclave

MADRID, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- About 650 sub-Saharan poor tried to cross...

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