In Morocco, young people dreaming of reaching Ceuta face a dead end: 'I feel like I'm standing still while my daughter grows up'

Morocco's youth, increasingly educated and connected, face precarious conditions, low wages and a cost of living that makes independence unattainable. Young people interviewed by Le Monde in the north of the country described a shared sense of hopelessness, which, at the end of July, drove many of them to attempt to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.