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Melilla’s Border Stories

31/10/2013

BBC World Service - Assignment, Melilla’s Border Stories

Migrants wait for months to scale the fence at Melilla, Europe’s border with Africa

Melilla is one of Europe’s most southerly borders with Africa. Linda Pressly speaks to the migrants hoping to cross and the 'mule' women who carry merchandise across the border.

Melilla is a Spanish enclave on the north coast of Africa - one of Europe’s most southerly land borders with the continent.  It is a town under intense pressure from migration as those seeking a different life within the European Union mass on its border with Morocco.  

Linda Pressly meets the migrants who wait for months, camped on a Moroccan mountain, for an opportunity to scale the six metre high fence and enter Melilla. But the Spanish territory is also a regional trading hub. Linda also meets the 'mule’ women of Melilla - the women who transport heavy loads of merchandise across the border.

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