Category: Sports

Paris – Moroccan Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch attended, on Thursday, the summit for Sport and Sustainable Development in Paris. This event is being held on the sidelines of the Olympic Games opening ceremony, where Akhannouch represents His Maje…

Paris – Former Moroccan Olympic Champion Nawal El Moutawakel was elected vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday during the second day of the Committee’s 142nd session in Paris.

Moutawakel was elected IOC vice-preside…

Saint-Etienne – Morocco beat Argentina 2-1 at Saint-Etienne’s Geoffroy-Guichard stadium on Wednesday, marking the first day of Group B action in the men’s Olympic soccer tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The match was interrupted after Argen…

Paris – On its journey to the Games’ opening ceremony on July 26, the Olympic torch made a stopover on Monday at the Moroccan stand in the “Africa Station” fan zone, set up not far from the Olympic Village on Île-Saint-Denis in the Paris region.

The …

Ouagadougou: The customary chiefs of the canton of Lallé brought the sum of 2,765,000 FCFA to Koudougou on Thursday as a contribution to the peace effort.

According to the representative of the head of Lallé canton, Kologo Naaba, this contribution is…

Ouagadougou: The action of the American cybersecurity group CrowdStrike, implicated in the global IT outage, fell by almost 17% on Friday around 10:00 GMT in electronic trading preceding the opening of the New York Stock Exchange. A computer outage pa…

Rabat – Morocco’s national football team ranked 14th in the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday.

The Atlas Lions, who lost two spots, remain the best squad in Africa with 1669.44 points, ahead of Senegal, which ranks 19th (1623.34 points).

Mor…

Marrakech – Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit chaired, on Wednesday in Marrakech, an extended meeting dedicated to examining the state of progress of the city’s preparations for the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

This meeting, attended by Royal Moroccan Foot…

Addis Ababa: Chief of General Staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), Field Marshal Berhanu Jula conferred today with international soccer stars Luis Nani and Nigerian Nwankwo Kanu.

The former Manchester United winger and Portuguese na…

Rabat – Morocco finished at the top of the medal count in the Under-23 Arab Athletics Championships, held on July 5-9 in the Egyptian city of Ismailia.

Morocco, which won this competition for the second consecutive time, with 32 medals, including 16 …

London – Morocco’s Reda Bennani claimed an impressive victory in the first round of the Wimbledon junior tournament on Monday in London, beating local favourite Oliver Bonding 6-4 6-7(4) 7-6(6).

The 17-year-old became the first Moroccan to win a matc…

Interior Minister, Abdelouafi Laftit, chaired, here Thursday, an extended meeting dedicated to examining the state of progress of the city’s preparations for the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

This meeting, attended by Royal Moroccan Football Federation’s (FRM…