CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta has awakened to a humanitarian crisis after thousands of migrants who crossed over from Morocco spent the night sleeping where they could find shelter. Social services for the small city perched on an outcropping in the Mediterranean buckled under the strain after more than 8,000 people crossed into Spanish territory by either scaling a double-wide border fence or swimming around a breakwater to reach a beach. Spain’s foreign minister said publicly for the first time Wednesday that Spain believes Morocco loosened its border control to retaliate for Spain having given medical assistance to the head of the Western Sahara liberation movement.
