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Spain: CEUTA

01 January 1996

Some of the refugees who had been living in Ceuta - generally through projects of different NGOs - are to go to the peninsula (mainland) but there is still another group living in very bad conditions in this Spanish enclave in north Africa. This group whose number, according to different sources, varies between 49 and 120 people, are in the youth camp at Calamocarro (Ceuta) and are exposed to bad weather and storms without proper clothing and sometimes even without food. In a communique they say that if there is not a rapid solution incidents like those of October 1995 could recur. Another 60 refugees are living without any resources or help in the no mans land between Morocco and the Spanish enclave. Those refugees from Ceuta who now are living on the Spanish mainland were given a one year residence permit but in most cases these had half expired before they finally were allowed to leave Ceuta. It is not known what will happen to them when the permits expire and they find themselves without work and with little possibility of renewing their permit. Kontrola Kontrolpean, Donostia, Euskadi; see Statewatch, vol 5 nos 3, 4, 5 & 6.