On the promenade overlooking the main tourist beach in the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Africa, a Sudanese teenager in a tattered T-shirt prays on his knees to Allah at three in the afternoon.
He arrived from neighbouring Morocco ten days ago, swimming miles to the beach, and now hopes for a free pass to Europe where, he says, he will work hard, make a new life, but never relinquish his Muslim faith.
After a six-year, 2,700-mile journey from his village, Abdelhadi Ali, a slim 18-year-old, is now in touching distance of the EU.
He, like 60,000 others from across Africa, broke
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