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Food processing is an important activity, and tourism is growing.
In the 1990s Ceuta became a way station for many sub-Saharan Africans fleeing civil wars or other strife in their homelands and attempting to emigrate to Europe. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore .