Hundreds of migrants enter Spain's north African territory Ceuta from Morocco

Hundreds of migrants have entered the Spanish north African exclave of Ceuta by sea in recent days, officials said Thursday, with local television images showing them swimming around the frontier and running into the town. Migration from Morocco into Spain's two north African territories, Ceuta and Melilla, has long been a politically sensitive issue between the two countries. The two Spanish territories represent the European Union's only ​land border ‌with Africa. "We are in a situation of total humanitarian and social emergency," said the president of the territory, Juan Jesus Vivas, in comments broadcast on Thursday by Spanish television. Read morePope defends migrants on symbolic visit to key immigration hub Lampedusa "In the past few days more than 1,500 migrants, both adults and minors, have come to Ceuta by sea," he said in other televised comments on Wednesday. "The reception centres are saturated – there is no more room for anyone in them and according to yesterday's figures the number of people entering is more than 200 a day." He added that ​facilities for unaccompanied minors were operating at 2,400 percent capacity. Officials could not immediately be reached on Thursd...