Lives on hold: How coronavirus has affected the women porters of Melilla
(WorldNews Africa)

Words: Sara Creta; Photographs: Marcelo Biglia. Melilla is one of two Spanish cities on Morocco`s northern coast. It`s also Europe`s most fortified border. It was 1972 when the first physical border separating Spain and Morocco was created. At the time, a cholera epidemic was taking place in the Moroccan territory near Melilla and the Spanish authorities, in order to prevent contamination in the enclave, erected a barbed wire fence along the border area. History is now repeating itself, but in reverse: due to coronavirus, Morocco has sealed the only land border between Africa and the European Union, with great uncertainty over whether it will ever reopen. Years and millions of euro...