FNIDEQ, Morocco — It started with Instagram posts that suggested Spain’s border with Morocco was opening up. Then came Facebook users tracking coas...

Social media videos, economic hardship and hopes for a better future have driven thousands of migrants to attempt crossing into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta in the…

Tens of thousands of Moroccans broke into Ceuta, a Spanish territory that neighbours Morocco. By the following evening, most of them had left, hungry and disappointed.