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Morocco offers to accept failed asylum seekers
The government of Morocco says it has agreed to accept its citizens who have failed to be admitted as refugees in European countries such as Norway, Sweden and Germany especially.
A statement by Morocco’s Royal Palace reveals that King Mohammed VI has been in correspondence with German chancellor Angela Merkel over the issue of repatriating Morocco nationals who failed to be admitted as refugees by the European country.
Read also: 80,000 migrants face expulsion from Sweden
Statistics reveal that just under 4% of Morocco nationals who applied for asylum in Germany last year were found eligible for protection prompting both countries to review the cases of those illegally staying in Germany with a view to repatriating them back home to Morocco without delay.
Some days ago, the Swedish interior minister Anders Ygemen has revealed that as many as 80,000 failed asylum-seekers face expulsion from the Scandinavian country.
The Scandinavian country is the latest to witness heightened tension over the influx of migrants and the potential threat they pose especially following the arrest of a 15-year-old asylum seeker in Molndal, near Gothenburg, after he attacked and stabbed a 22-year-old asylum centre employee to death.
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