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FILE - Morocco's Halima Hachlaf reacts after winning the women's 800 meters event during the IAAF Diamond League Golden Gala athletics meeting at Rome's Olympic stadium, June 10, 2010. Moroccan 800-meter runner Halima Hachlaf has been banned for six years for the second doping conviction of her career, it was announced Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Hachlaf tested positive for a synthetic steroid hormone at a race in Rabat in January. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, file)
Former Olympian Hachlaf banned 6 years for 2nd doping case

Nov. 30, 2021 10:54 AM EST

Brackcides Khadambi, of Kenya, returns a shot during a women's beach volleyball match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 26, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Beach volleyball bosses hope for spike in participation

By Jimmy Golen Jul. 30, 2021 04:50 AM EDT

Women wash clothes at the house of Guinean wrestler Fatoumata Yarie Camara in Conakry, Guinea, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. A West African wrestler's dream of competing in the Olympics has come down to a plane ticket. Fatoumata Yarie Camara is the only Guinean athlete to qualify for these Games. She was ready for Tokyo, but confusion over travel reigned for weeks. The 25-year-old and her family can't afford it. Guinean officials promised a ticket, but at the last minute announced a withdrawal from the Olympics over COVID-19 concerns. Under international pressure, Guinea reversed its decision. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)
Denied ticket over COVID, Guinean Olympian clings to dream

By Gerald Imray, Boubacar Diallo And Trisha Thomas Jul. 29, 2021 02:34 AM EDT

U.S and Moroccan special forces take part in drill as part of the African Lion military exercise, in Tafraout base, near Agadir, Morocco, Monday, June 14, 2021. With more than 7,000 participants from nine nations and NATO, African Lion is U.S. Africa Command's largest exercise. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Major U.S.-led war games wind up in northwestern Africa

By Mosa'ab Elshamy Jun. 18, 2021 10:41 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb.26, 2021 file photo, Brahim Ghali, head of the Sahrawi Democratic Arab Republic and the Polisario Front, poses in the refugees camp of Tindouf, southern Algeria. Brahim Ghali was released from a hospital in northern Spain following more than six weeks of treatment after contracting COVID-19, according to a brief statement sent to the Associated Press by the self-declared Sahrawi Democratic Arab Republic. Ghali has long fought to break the Western Sahara away from Moroccan rule. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum, File)
Western Sahara independence chief leaves Spain for Algeria

Jun. 02, 2021 03:16 AM EDT

Inmates wait for their turn receive the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, in the Arjat prison on the outskirts of Rabat, Morocco, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. About 300 inmates in a prison near the Moroccan capital have been vaccinated against COVID-19, among the latest prisoners to benefit from a vaccination campaign authorities say is a pioneering bid to protect a population considered especially vulnerable. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Morocco moves to vaccinate prison inmates 45 and up

Hassan Alaoui May. 27, 2021 01:13 PM EDT

Local resident Aisha Ali Mohammed, 75, sorts through donated clothes to be later distributed among migrants, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Residents of Spain’s multiethnic city of Ceuta are used to being in the news every time the fragile alliance between Madrid and Rabat shakes up.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Food, shelter, beatings: Border city divided over migrants

By Renata Brito And Bernat Armangué May. 22, 2021 06:29 AM EDT

Badreddine, left, 22, Salah, center, 22 and Hosam, 24, pose for a photo as they wait for a chance to cross to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from the northern town of Fnideq, Morocco, Thursday, May 20, 2021. An extraordinary surge of migrants seeking to leave Morocco for Spain this week has left the border town suffering under the strain. “We will keep trying. We will find one way or another, even if the ocean turns into ice!” said 27-year-old Badreddine. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Migrant surge on Spain-Morocco border brings more suffering

By Mosa'ab Elshamy May. 21, 2021 02:21 AM EDT

FILE - In this file image made from video on Feb. 27, 2021, Brahim Ghali, leader of the pro-independence Polisario Front speaks to a crowd in Tindouf, Algeria. Ghali, the leader of an Algeria-backed movement fighting for the independence of Western Sahara, was admitted to a hospital in northern Spain last month. His presence under a disguised identity didn’t go unnoticed to the government in Morocco, the country that annexed the northwestern African territory nearly half a century ago. (AP Photo, file)
An ailing Sahrawi leader shakes Spain and Morocco's alliance

By Aritz Parra May. 20, 2021 12:11 PM EDT

The body of a young man covered with an emergency blanket after being recovered by Spanish police from waters near the border between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Thousands of migrants jumped or swam around a border fence to reach European soil this week after Morocco loosened its border patrols. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Spain, Morocco turn focus to young migrants stuck at border

By Mosa'ab Elshamy And Renata Brito May. 20, 2021 07:00 AM EDT

A Spanish civil guard wait for migrants to arrive at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, near the border of Morocco and Spain, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Spanish officials are acknowledging for the first time that the unprecedented migrant crisis has been triggered by an angry Rabat at Madrid's decision to provide medical treatment to the militant boss of the Polisario Front. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Uncertainty greets weary migrants in Spain's African enclave

By Renata Brito, Bernat Armangué, Houda Benalla And Joseph Wilson May. 19, 2021 09:54 AM EDT

Spanish Army soldiers clash with migrants near the border of Morocco and Spain, at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Ceuta, a Spanish city of 85,000 in northern Africa, faces a humanitarian crisis after thousands of Moroccans took advantage of relaxed border control in their country to swim or paddle in inflatable boats into European soil. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Spain, Morocco square off after 8,000 migrants arrive by sea

By Renata Brito And Aritz Parra May. 18, 2021 11:46 AM EDT

Spanish Guardia Civil officer try to stop people from Morocco entering into the Spanish territory at the border of Morocco and Spain, at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Monday, May 17, 2021. Authorities in Spain say that around 1,000 Moroccan migrants have crossed into Spanish territory (Antonio Sempere/Europa Press via AP)
Around 3,000 Moroccan migrants cross into Spanish territory

By Aritz Parra And Mosa'ab Elshamy May. 17, 2021 01:46 PM EDT

Morocco scolds Spain over virus help for independence leader

Apr. 25, 2021 10:09 AM EDT
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s Foreign Affairs Ministry summoned the Spanish ambassador Sunday to convey the government’s “regret” over Spain’s decision to...

In this image made from video, Brahim Ghali, leader of the pro-independence Polisario Front speaks to a crowd in Tindouf, Algeria, Feb. 27, 2021. The leader of the Polisario Front that leads the struggle for the self-declared Western Sahara republic has been brought to Spain to receive medical treatment, it was announced Thursday, April 22. Brahim Ghali, who is 73, leads the Algeria-backed pro-independence group representing the local Sahrawi population that has fought Moroccan forces for control of the territory in western Africa. Ghali was taken to Spain “for strictly humanitarian reasons," the foreign ministry said. (AP Photo)
Sahara's Polisario Front chief gets COVID treatment in Spain

By Aritz Parra Apr. 22, 2021 05:15 PM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 file photo, IAAF President British Lord Sebastian Coe at the award ceremony during the Weltklasse IAAF Diamond League international athletics meeting in the stadium Letzigrund in Zurich, Switzerland. The Diamond League will hold its season opener in Britain for the first time with Gateshead replacing Rabat as the 2021 campaign’s first host city, it was announced Friday, April 16, 2021. Diamond League chairman Sebastian Coe says it’s an “incredibly important year” with track-and-field athletes preparing for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics as well as next year’s World Athletics Championships in Oregon. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP, file)
Gateshead replaces Rabat for Diamond League season opener

Apr. 16, 2021 07:26 AM EDT

Workmen in Casablanca, Morocco, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Moroccan authorities have announced the discovery of a new local variant of the coronavirus and extended an overnight curfew as infections rise again. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)
Morocco imposes Ramadan curfew, despite vaccine success

By Tarik El Barakah Apr. 07, 2021 01:32 PM EDT

African Cup qualifier canceled over disputed COVID-19 tests

By Gerald Imray Mar. 30, 2021 07:32 PM EDT
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Benin refused to play a decisive African Cup of Nations qualifying game in Sierra Leone on Tuesday after disputing that five of...

A migrant rests in Las Raices camp in San Cristobal de la Laguna, in the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Several thousand migrants have arrived on the Spanish archipelago in the first months of 2021. Due to the terrible living conditions and the poor quality of food and water at the Las Raices camp, some migrants have decided to leave the camp and sleep in shacks in a nearby forest instead. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)
Migrants stuck in Spain's Canary Islands say camps are unfit

By Joan Giralt And Renata Brito Mar. 25, 2021 04:26 AM EDT

A protester helps a woman as security forces disperse a demonstration staged by teachers demanding improved job conditions, in Rabat, Morocco, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Police break up Moroccan teachers' protest for fixed jobs

Mar. 16, 2021 05:31 PM EDT