In Spain’s Ceuta, hundreds of migrants stage protest and demand asylum – Sun, 16 Aug 2026 PST

MADRID – Hundreds of migrants who recently entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta staged a protest on a popular urban beach on Sunday, urging Spanish authorities to grant them asylum instead of sending them back to Morocco. They were among the estimated 5,000 to 8,000 who remain in Ceuta after ​the mass border crossing two weeks ago that saw over 72,000 people surge into the tiny territory of about 80,000. The vast majority returned voluntarily in the following days.