Messages circulating in Morocco are calling for another mass crossing into Ceuta, Spain’s North African exclave, on Wednesday. Spain has activated preventive measures and Morocco has reinforced the frontier with security personnel, water cannon, military vehicles and extra road controls.

Perhaps nothing will happen. A similar online call for Sunday came to nothing. And Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares says the latest messages have not acquired the momentum on social media that preceded the extraordinary events of July 30 and 31. Forewarned may prove to be forearmed.

For the people of Ceuta the possibility of a second influx hangs over a city that is still suffering badly from the first

For the people of Ceuta the possibility of a second influx hangs over a city that is still suffering badly from the first

But for the people of Ceuta the possibility of a second influx hangs over a city that is still suffering badly from the first.

Nearly two months after tens of thousands crossed from Morocco, Madrid now estimates that between 9,000 and 10,000 migrants remain in Ceuta, roughly twice the figure it........

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