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Politics● Low15m ago · Nov 11, 2026, 9:38 AM

Forty years ago, the great strike of the Muslim inhabitants of Ceuta and Melilla

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Jeune Afrique · North Africa

The crisis of last July 31st reminded us: the two enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are a source of regular tensions between Rabat and Madrid. Forty years ago, the Muslim inhabitants of the enclaves chose to strike to express their dissatisfaction with a particularly derogatory Spanish law.

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