Migrants wait to board coaches as the Moroccan authorities transfer some back to their hometowns after they left Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta following an attempt to cross at the Morocco-Spain border, at Fnideq in northern Morocco on August 1, 2026. More than 48,000 migrants have returned to Morocco from Spain's Ceuta after tens of thousands crossed the frontier into its north African enclave in recent days, Spain's interior ministry said on July 31. Hundreds of people converged on Morocco's northern town of Fnideq on July 30 evening, following rumours that the border with Spain's Ceuta had opened, according to an AFP journalist. (Photo by Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP via Getty Images)