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December 18, 2019
The Moroccan Police has foiled an illegal immigrationattempt in the north-eastern city of Nador and arrested 25 Sub-Saharan Africanmigrants.
The Police, in a statement said during an operation, aperson suspected of organising illegal immigration wanted by Police was alsoarrested. It added that the search also led to the seizure of vests and innertubes intended to be used in illegal immigration.
On Monday, seven sub-Saharan African migrants drowned aftera boat accident off Morocco’s coast, and 70 others were rescued by a coastguard of the Moroccan Royal Navy.
Morocco has become a hub for African migrants seeking toreach Europe. Thousands of migrants try to flee poverty and unrest in Africaeach year through Morocco to Europe, either by land or by sea.
A report by the Spanish Interior Ministry on illegal immigration in 2019 said a total of nineteen-thousand-six-hundred-and-four migrants had illegally reached the Spanish coasts as of October 14th, against forty-three-thousand-four-hundred-and-sixty-seven migrants during the same period in 2018  which witnessed a drop of fifty-four-point-nine percent.