{"id":66978,"date":"2026-08-07T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/66978\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:23:07","slug":"morocco-ready-to-cooperate-on-return-of-minors-from-spain-state-media-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/66978\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco Ready to Cooperate on Return of Minors From Spain, State Media Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RABAT, Aug \u20606 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060Morocco is ready \u2060to cooperate with Spain and \u200bother European partners on the return of \u200cunaccompanied minors who were \u200camong tens of thousands of \u2060migrants \u2060who crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta,\u00a0 \u200bstate news agency MAP reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Morocco has committed, in line with high royal \u200binstructions issued to the interior and foreign \u2060affairs \u2060ministries, to work towards \u2060identifying \u200bunaccompanied minors with a view to their return \u200bto their \u2060homeland,&#8221; MAP, which reflects official positions, said citing a diplomatic source.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spanish authorities say 72,000 migrants crossed during the \u2060influx last week, while Moroccan authorities said about 40,000 \u2060people were involved.<\/p>\n<p>At least 1,100 unaccompanied minors remain in Ceuta, some of whom arrived during last week&#8217;s large-scale crossing while others were already in the enclave, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the migrants \u2060who entered Ceuta\u00a0 have since returned to Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike adults, minors cannot be immediately returned under existing procedures.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ahmed \u200bEl Jechtimi; Editing by Chris \u200bReese and Sanjeev Miglani)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Photos You Should See: August 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/august-04-pyss-z02.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - Members of the Spanish Army's 'Regulares' infantry forces watch a group of migrants near the border post of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on August 2, 2026. At least 72 people died during last week's mass influx of migrants into Spain's Ceuta enclave, when tens of thousands of people mostly swam around the border post from Morocco, local officials said today. Most of the estimated 60,000 people who rushed into Spain's north African territory have returned to Morocco since the territory's largest mass migrant crossing. (Photo by Henry NICHOLLS \/ AFP via Getty Images)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RABAT, Aug \u20606 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060Morocco is ready \u2060to cooperate with Spain and \u200bother European partners on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6211,2128,66,333,2264,1928,17,394],"class_list":["post-66978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-africa","tag-collections-world","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-morocco","tag-reuters","tag-spain","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}