The death toll in Spain’s Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67, the Spanish government said Saturday. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.

Morocco's Ministry of Interior has commented on the recent Ceuta mass crossing, stating that the recent irregular migration attempts

An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 migrants entered a small Spanish territory alongside Morocco on Thursday and Friday, according to Spanish authorities. Although at least 48,300 had returned to Morocco by Friday afternoon, the mass crossing prompted an immediate backlash from far-right politicians in Europe that seemed poised to linger.

Moroccan King Mohammed VI said his decision to give US President Donald Trump’s name to a $1 billion highway that crosses into the disputed Western Sahara expresses his “deep appreciation” of the American leader.

King Mohammed VI has said Morocco’s decision to name the Tiznit-Dakhla expressway after Donald Trump honors Rabat-Washington bilateral ties.

Moroccan Ambassador to Kuwait Ali Ibn Issa has affirmed that the Moroccan-Kuwaiti relationship is a model of deep-rooted Arab partnership,

Morocco has named the Tiznit-Dakhla expressway the 'President Donald J. Trump Highway', casting the move as a mark of relations with the United States stretching back 250 years, the state news agency MAP reported on August 1.

The recent migration crisis in occupied Ceuta has placed one of North Africa's oldest territorial disputes back in the international spotlight