The number of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa attempting to cross into Europe through Morocco’s northern coast has dropped significantly over the past week amid heavy rainfall and rough sea conditions, according to security sources.
Hespress AR data indicates that daily arrests in the forested areas stretching from Tangier to Ksar Sghir and Fnideq have fallen to around 20 people. Just weeks earlier, authorities were detaining several dozen migrants per day in the same zones.
Well informed sources say the decline is closely linked to unstable weather and agitation in the Mediterranean Sea, which have made attempted crossings more dangerous and bolstered the impact of Morocco’s intensified monitoring efforts.
Coordinated security operations involving the Royal Gendarmerie, local authorities, national police and auxiliary forces continue across the region. Migrants, both sub-Saharan Africans and Moroccans, are detained daily before being transferred to processing centers and later relocated to other regions in the south and east of the country.
The retreat in migrant movement follows a volatile October marked by online calls urging mass attempts to breach the border fence around Spain’s enclave of Ceuta. Moroccan authorities successfully thwarted those mobilizations.
According to figures cited by Hespress from officials in northern provinces, roughly 5,000 migrants were arrested last month in cities, forests and areas surrounding the Ceuta border fence.
The same sources reported that about 3,000 of those detained were Moroccan youths and minors from various regions who responded to the online incitement campaigns. Another 2,000 were migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, who were subsequently transported by bus to eastern and southern parts of the country.
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