Migrants struggle on North African peak, eye Spain
MOUNT GOUROUGOU, Morocco (AP) — After traveling thousands of miles from sub-Saharan Africa, destitute migrants who dream of making it to Europe are scraping out a tenuous existence on the rocky slopes of Mount Gourougou, a 900-meter (2,962-foot) peak with spectacular views of their destination — Spain's tiny North African enclave of Melilla.
The migrants live in makeshift tent camps scattered around the mountain while waiting for the best time to storm the barbed-wire border fences surrounding Melilla en mass in an attempt to overwhelm authorities. ...
If the authorities were serious, they would not allow themselves to be overwhelmed.