**Watch 2013 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles Video - No cell phones, GPS, even binoculars, navigating Sahara for 9 days **Pro Surfer Bethany Hamilton from Hawaii & Pro Rally Star Chrissie Beavis from CA Team Up As 1st-Timers, Place 8th** Motor Trend’s Truck Trend, by Sue Mead (Sahara desert, southern Morocco, April 26, 2013) — Bethany Hamilton, […]
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CAF Cup: FAR Rabat wins 2-1 as Tanzania ice cream club melts in Morocco cauldron – AFP
**Watch Video of Scoring Highlights** Global Post, Agence France-Presse (Rabat, Morocco, May 5, 2013) — Tanzanian ice cream company club Azam had two players red carded and missed a penalty as they crashed out of the CAF Confederation Cup this weekend. Azam lost a fiery last-16 second leg 2-1 at FAR Rabat of Morocco to […]
Ivory Coast defeats Nigeria to win African U-17 title; Tunisia, Morocco finish 3rd, 4th – BBC
**All four teams—Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Tunisia and Morocco—qualify for Under-17 World Cup in UAE Oct 17-Nov 8** BBC (Marrakech, Morocco, April 28, 2013) — Ivory Coast won the African U-17 Championship for the first time in their history after a 5-4 penalties win over Nigeria in the final in Marrakech. The Baby […]
Nigeria & Ivory Coast reach African U-17 semifinals, join Morocco & Tunisia – BBC
BBC (April 20, 2013) — Nigeria and Ivory Coast have joined the hosts Morocco and Tunisia in the semifinals of the 2013 African U-17 Championship. Nigeria booked their place in the last four with an emphatic 7-nil victory over Congo. Ivory Coast progressed with a 0-0 draw against Ghana who go out. All four […]
Morocco Ties Tunisia 1-1, Wins Group A CAN U17 Championship; Next: Faces Ivory Coast Apr 23
*Watch scoring highlights: Morocco vs. Gabon, Botswana, & Tunisia* FUTAA, CAF Online, Afiquejet (Casablanca, Morocco, April 20, 2013) — Northern African rivals Morocco and Tunisia ended their last Group A game with a 1-1 draw that left Morocco on top after the first round of the 10th CAN U-17 Championships on Friday, April 19, 2013. […]
Morocco tops Gabon 4-1 on nine-goal opening day of CAF U-17 finals in Casablanca – CAF
**Tunisia prevails over Botswana 3-1 in second match of day** CAF Online/Confederation of African Football (Casablanca, Morocco, April 14, 2013) — The opening day of the 10th CAF U-17 Championship finals taking place in Morocco produced nine goals from the double header matches played at Mohammed V stadium in Casablanca. Tournament host Morocco scored four goals […]
Moroccan man, U.S. woman win “toughest race on Earth” in Moroccan Sahara – CNN/VIDEO
Click here to watch the race and winners finish **Mohamad Ahansal & Meghan Hicks win this year’s Marathon des Sables, epic race in southern Morocco that takes 1,000 runners over 220 kilometers of Sahara desert in six stages** CNN, by Teo Kermeliotis (Moroccan Sahara, April 13, 2013) — The cries of pain turn into cheers of […]
Rising Women’s Golf Rookie, Maha Haddioui, carries home hopes in Morocco-SuperSport
**US college-educated Haddioui (Florida’s Lynn University) is the first Moroccan player to have full access to play on Ladies European Tour** SuperSport (March 27, 2013) — Ladies European Tour rookie Maha Haddioui says that she feels well prepared to carry the home nation’s hopes at the Lalla Meryem Cup at Golf de l’Océan in Morocco […]
Kite-boarding season takes off in desert sands of Dakhla, Morocco – Surfer Today
**2013 PKRA World Tour kicks off in Dakhla, Morocco. Best freestyle, course, wave & slalom kiteboarders are ready for wind action.** Surfer Today (Dakhla, Morocco, Monday, March 18, 2013) — The new kiteboarding season is up for grabs. The PKRA Morocco opens the kite circus at the perfect right-hand point break of Dakhla, a narrow […]
Morocco prevails over Mali, 2-1, in friendly warmup for 2014 World Cup qualifiers
**Click here for video of Morocco v. Mali scoring highlights** Futaa.com, MTNFootball (Marrakech, Morocco, March 7, 2013) — Morocco cruised to a 2-1 win over Mali in a friendly played at the Mohammed V Stadium in Marrakech on Wednesday 6 March 2013. The warm up contest saw Morocco, who didn’t make it […]
