06/07/2020
Lives on hold: How coronavirus has affected the women porters of Melilla
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...
