AFP / Yahoo News: Trade and tension at Europe's troubled African borders [In other words: White Man's Burden Continues. When the Open-Borders Overlords of even a nation that was once occupied by Muslims for over 700 years cannot see the handwriting on the wall of dispossession and death, they are obviously unteachable (or evil). ---tma]

Trade and tension at Europe's troubled African borders

Melilla (Spain) (AFP) - Hassan Ibrahim, both physically and mentally disabled, staggers on his weakened legs as he pushes two huge packs of contraband goods loaded on a wheelchair.

He is one of thousands of Moroccans toiling for a living in the Spanish territories of Ceuta and Melilla -- two tiny specks of Europe at the northern tip of Africa which have the only two land borders between the two continents.

When he gets his load across the border from Ceuta to Morocco, Ibrahim will earn 30 euros ($37) for his labour.

Tolerance of this cross-border trade makes Ceuta and Melilla magnets for those on the Moroccan side of the fence, who jostle in tense queues for their turn to enter.

But the borders are a headache for Spanish police, whose duties range from chasing queue-jumpers with their batons to catching drug-traffickers and suspected terrorists. ...

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